https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_alliance_(UK)
What if all parties joined together to defeat the Tories?#BlackLivesMatter— David Williams (@davidredbutton) June 15, 2020
Labour, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens, Workers Party of GB and any I've missed out,
instead of fighting each other, join together for a Progressive 🌈 Alliance.
Well everybody is at it so why not I or should that be me? Don't worry, I wont be asking you to join anything or to send any money. After I googled progressive rainbow alliance this morning after tweeting about it last night, I saw that my hero Jeremy Corbyn had rejected the idea of an alliance with other parties for the 2017 General election before he got stabbed in the back by his own people.
The idea has been around awhile. A coalition of political parties to take on the Conservatives with a chance of winning. I've written about it on here before. I must feel strongly about the idea and prospect because I've written about it here as well.
Corbyn has gone, along with a swathe of the membership to the Workers' Party GB. I have a problem with the descriptors Great Britain & United Kingdom. They do not describe these islands upon which we live.
What I am asking you to do in this blog post is to cut up your tribal membership card and commit to a Progressive Alliance because you know, the shrewd political commentator that you are, that there is no future to the Tory/Labour hegemony in British Politics.
Nationalism both Scottish and Welsh, whilst it has its obvious appeal, a lifting of the Westminster yoke of oppression, has the danger of repeating the failures of centralised government on a micro level.
We are all citizens of the world and we were all affected by the murder of George Floyd in America. It is time for radical, progressive, socialist, green, black lives matter politics to challenge the Conservatism of Boris Johnson and the Labour of Blairism which will creep back under Starmer unless we are alert.
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