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Turning anger into action in Newcastle this weekend

We’ll be developing a people’s manifesto for the 2026 local elections. We’ll network, learn, inspire and support each other and chart a future path for socialist politics, writes JAMIE DRISCOLL

Jamie Driscoll, speaking at the Convention of the North, January 25, 2023

IN 2014, two professors analysed 1,799 policy issues in the US. They found that, “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

We know that a whopping 88 per cent of Britons don’t trust political parties. Not least because governments respond to the demands of big money over individual citizens.

Wes Streeting increased NHS privatisation despite it being hugely unpopular. It makes no electoral sense. Until you check the register of donors, and find he accepted £372,000 from private healthcare companies. We have no idea what additional deals have been done for this future. Alan Milburn has made millions since retiring as health secretary. The list is long and nefarious. Tony Blair pimping himself out for global oil firms is just his latest outing.

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