Today was my youngest son's sports day. It was an enjoyable afternoon with many activities showcasing the children's achievements throughout the academic year in PE. Lots of children were awarded medals and cups for sporting achievements and sporting attitude throughout the year. All the parents were proud of the children, whether given an award or not.
I enjoy spending time celebrating the success of my children and their peers but it is bittersweet for me because I worry about their futures as much as I cherish the present.
I, like many parents, want my children to keep achieving and to meet and then exceed expectations. I want them to realise their potential and then break through to go beyond and achieve their dreams. But I worry that if the present course that this incumbent government continues, they will slip through the cracks: the cracks in education and the cracks in society.
My children, though they have their own issues, are wonderfully bright, humourous, gifted and caring individuals, They have potential. My eldest is gifted academically and my youngest is a talented sportsman. They both could achieve so much more than I have. They have it in talent to rise out of the poverty that traps me. But here is the crunch: because of my poverty, if this incumbent government gets its way, they might end up trapped too. Simply because they lack the privelidge of birth. This isnt "socialist envy" this isnt "jealousy". This is realism.
Labour says it wants a fairer society for all. Be the change that you want to see. Start driving through the barriers of race and class. Create the fairer society that is beyond class division. Strive for the success of all on merit, regardless of birth.
This starts with standing up to the incumbent government at every opportunity against every action they seek to take that only divides society further.
Fight the power, change the system.
Constituent, Labour Party member, Union member, sleep deprived carer, concerned citizen, self employed mother, mother of a teenager with ASD, socialist, environmentalist, Disabled Rights supporter, Jeremy Corbyn supporter, mother feeding her children with nectar points, defender of the vulnerable, advocate, logistics savant, concerned niece, grassroots activist, anti austerity campaigner, RNLI supporter, unashamed welfare state service user & social housing tenant, protester, fire brigade supporter, carers allowance claimant, less than perfect parent, socialist agitator, worrier
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