9 June

Fantastic performance. All true, all urgent messages. There’s a but for me though - too often the progressive side of politics thinks a noble speech will bring about change. It loves noble speeches. To change you need to fight, strategically. The easiest way to do that? You know my answer. Join a union. If everyone sympathetic to these sorts of messages joined a union today, the country would change tomorrow. Why unions? Because they’re the industrial arm of progressive politics. Why do ultra-conservatives keep winning all the elections? Because people don’t join unions, and so they have no muscle in the fight.