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i have supported Labour at every election since turning 18, just the 26 years.

Marched in Cannock town centre against the poll tax and miners strike and as I've said before, sent pocket money as a child, to the African National Congress to support the fight assist apartheid, while the British people by virtue of their government of choice decided to support the Apartheid regime and its globally acknowledged evil.


I am and have been a card carrying member of the Labour Party. Why? Because I believe in democratic socialism where the community looks after its own, with national peace, a realistic hope of work and personal liberties are guaranteed.

Not a Communist, not a pacifist, just a democratic socialist who believes a nation is better served by equality for all rather than the factual statistic that 99% of British wealth is owned by 1% of its people. The "I'm all right Jack " legacy of Margaret Thatcher.


I cannot vote SNP, nor Plaid Cymru, two parties which I gave a very modest £20 to last night for their common sense stance on Syria. I am "real" Labour man and boy and like supporting a football team, there's only one.

However 67 Labour MP's decided, again, after the Iraq disaster of 2003 ( which affect you an I on the streets of Britain to this day, it's always the working classes picking shrapnel from their arse, never the decision makers with bodyguards and bullet proof Jaguar's) to vote for strikes on Syria and ISIS.

Do I want to see ISIS destroyed, yes. I've taken the time to watch every beheading, crucifixion , men burned alive, and thrown under tanks.

Have you? No? Why? Too squeamish?

If war, murder, and it's realities were shown on television, there would be no more voting for PlayStation clinical raids on any nation becuase the videos I watched, the reprisals then from Kurds on ISIS, the reprisals from Assad forces on both would make you realise that only barbarity follows barbarity, as proven in Iraq, and bombing has never in human history ( bar Hiroshima/Nagasaki) done anything other than displace innocents, radicalise moderates and give in extreme cases, extremely evil and I'll people the "God message", namely a feeling of divine right to avenge.


Has anyone today questioned Saudi Arabia, Qatar or some Emirati nations on good evidence that their money is funding ISIS? No, becuase they supply us with oil, we fill our financial black holes with weapons sales and British current and ex ministers get paid handsomely for consultancy work by these nations.

This is where what should have been a principled stance by the Labour Party essentially turned into a self serving Britisg farce of the ages, namely greed, money, and unholy alliances.


Saudi Arabia internally is backward, barbaric and supports international terrorism.

So how many MP's will use their oratory ( yes you Hilary) to discuss this in a packed Parliament?

Qatar is on a lust of nations that is believed to be facilitating terrorism via cash going through it.

How many MP's currently on the books of UAE companies ( there's a lot of school fees abd mortgages being paid by our friends in Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai) are openly scornful of these nations for not dealing with issues on their own doorstep? The refugees ignored, terrorists supplied with weapons and money?


The man on the street, the political illiterate see one thing, and one thing only. Scary men with black flags, who are coming to get you.

The enlightened, and those who've voted and been active for years see patterns, cycles and perpetual war. All with a financial or greed based motive, all with a basis of knee jerk nationalism which guess what, only perpetuates more war, more extremism, more fear, more civil liberties of OUR citizens eroded.

To those 67 Labour MP's who voted, in football parlance, you're not fit to wear the shirt. You let working people down and have brought more heat, more pain, more radicalisation to our streets at a time when we desperately need to solve old problems in new ways rather than with aggression.

And to those who say stick to football I say this.

Voting on Xfactor or I'm a celebrity might be the summit of your voting ability, but I and many others will watch, ask questions and genuinely try to find other routes to peace rather than bombs which will have little effect on ISIS yet will have a huge impact on innocent families and children.

Innocent like yours.


To my Labour grassroots friends in Cannock, you'll always get my support. Keep fighting the good fight.

Stan

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