Business as usual – fighting over scraps from the table
Published: 29 April, 2010
• ALL that happens at election time is that we vote for councillors to watch a scrutiny committee that watches a cabinet, that watches its executive members watch the permanent officials go to Whitehall to ask the civil servants to ask their minister to ask the people who actually own the country if we can have a little money (so long as it doesn’t harm their profits)?
Business as usual means fighting over these scraps from the table.
Democracy won’t mean much until we can actually run our own community, and that won’t be possible until we collectively own and control the wealth of the world.
That’s why the Socialist Party is putting me up as candidate in this election. We’re not making any promises. In fact the opposite, if you agree with us in wanting common and democratic ownership of the world’s wealth and an end to buying and selling by voting for us you’ll be promising to organise and campaign for that yourselves.
BILL MARTIN
Socialist Party candidate for Kentish Town