David, Liverpool Socialist Party
The main reason I joined the Socialist Party was hope. Hope not only for myself, but for my two-year-old son, and his generation.
The new Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves bemoans, like all her predecessors, the financial state of the nation inherited from the previous regime. This has led me to deduce that those in power, whether Tory or Labour, only serve the elites, and not their constituents.
I witnessed the Thatcher years in my youth, the Blairite age as a young adult, succeeded by 14 years of Tory cutbacks and retrograde austerity. We are at the dawn of a new political era.
40-plus years of neoliberal capitalist economics is not sustainable. Its intrinsic nature demands profit on profit, and regards workers and people as regrettable inconveniences.
When young people are incapable of getting on the property ladder, even the rent ladder, the system is rotten. When people are working 40 hours per week, and have to rely on food banks, the system is not fit for purpose.
It’s looking increasingly likely, even at this early stage, that the new Labour government will continue with Tory austerity, NHS privatisation, spending billions on nuclear weapons, and selling arms to Israel.
All of these are reasons to necessitate a new approach, one which helps the multitude, rather than the elites, and I see the Socialist Party as the group to strive towards this, and a better tomorrow.
