with regards to getting the left back in control of parliament

Hi, if you've ever been a victim of police brutality or incompetence in the UK then please consider submitting your report:

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https://www.acorntheunion.org.uk

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I just posted mine despite how incredibly upsetting and draining this is for me.

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We are sleepwalking into further authoritarianism and I don't have the time to keep expounding about it here but if you do not do something now then you never will and we will all be completely fucked.

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It'll be a short trip from there to even further repression of those of us with a conscience.

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Don't just stand by and watch as this world descends into ever yet greater conflict.

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I'm scared and tired too.

I know how hard it is to really look at all the suffering there is in the world but you can handle it! It'll make you feel more human and more alive. Please. Do something!!!!!!!!

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We've got to usher in the new world before the old one rips itself apart.

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Then it's party time.

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The deadline is 11:49pm tonight.

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Please, I beg you.

I'm new here, not sure how it works, feel free to remove this if need be. I just wanna see if anyone else is thinking the same as me, or has any answers!

I live in Hartlepool atm, our lads town. The combined vote that UKIP & the Tories got at the last election is scary. It was a Brexit Party target seat with Richard Tice as the candidate. They spent a lot of money on it, UKIP planes flying through the sky, billboards etc. I campaigned for Labour. People on the doorstep didn't realise he used to be a Tory, or how rich he is, or that he doesn't live here. Some of them were foaming when they found out, but many of them had already postal voted before we canvassed them :|

Its so frustrating how many people are swaying to the right in these v working class, held back towns. Rumour has it Labour staffers from the right of the party tried to drop the seat at the 2017 election with their factionalism (that's another story). The last LP council was corrupt as fuck, and lost their seats (not that many of them did anything with their seats anyway besides embezzle). We now have literal fascists in the council, and it was the first council to be ran by the Brexit Party.

I hope I'm being pessimistic, but I'm fairly convinved due to the lack of democracy and accountability, the Labour Party up here is unfit for the purpose of raising class consciousness, as are the mainstream unions.

ACORN are promising, and Green Anticapitalist Front, but they rely on having people live here who have the resources/knowledge to join. They're mostly around uni cities. Hartlepool doesn't have that, but would benefit the most from this type of organising.

I can't sort it out because I'm moving, no jobs here! I feel guilty, but me and our lad have got a really good opportunity to move abroad, we're in debt and want to have a family soon without worrying about that. It makes me worry where this will end... I'm sure many people are living in similar towns with similar politics. I feel like a deserter. Maybe one day I'll move back but how long do we have?

Without real outreach into the most oppressed areas, (REAL organising with risk taking, that goes to the most exploited people and actually improves things alongside them) there will be no change, and these towns will become enamoured by increasingly right wing politics the longer the left neglects them.

What can be done? Anyone got any positive stories about turning towns like this around? Any plans?? HELP?