‘Meetings have been a breath of fresh air’

Adam Nichol, Liverpool Socialist Party

I have now spent just over half my life with austerity as government policy, so I have been interested in politics from an early age as it was made evident to me just how much it can impact everyday life.

It means 15 years of my life made harder by a fraudulent economic policy that doesn’t even make logical sense.

300,000 people are estimated to have died in relation to this policy, starving to death in their own homes, in one of the richest economies in the world.

Conservative, Lib Dems and Labour have all upheld this, and I do not believe that Reform or the Green Party would be any different. Only a serious change in the way we approach politics is going to work. Anything less than that will unfortunately just result in more of the same.

Going to Socialist Party meetings has been a breath of fresh air for me. I found myself surrounded by people I could imagine talking to in the street. And that’s because they are. Normal people in our society that have the same jobs and the same struggles as the rest of us. These are the people that should represent the nation, the working class.