Email #9

Dear Harriet

Today is not a good day.  My mood is low and I'm lacking motivation so I have spent the afternoon doing some art therapy.  Art therapy is really good for people who have anxiety or ASD which is why my son had been responding so positively to it.  However recent cuts to schools AEN budgets mean that my son no longer has access to this.  

Thats the sign of our times though isnt it?  Cuts to welfare and the NHS, cuts to front line services such as the fire brigade services, the threat of privitisation of schools, of the NHS, of front line services, all in the name of austerity.

It needs to stop.

And this is why we need Jeremy Corbyn.

Yesterday's mirror poll had him as the clear front runner of the candidates.  That should be sending a stark message to Labour MPs:  He is the man that the party members want for the job.

Never mind the press.  The ordinary supporters, the "on the ground" "grassroots" members of the public, your voters are sending you a clear message.

There is no good promising to listen to the party members and opening up the leadership vote to us if we do not have strong candidates who represent what we want in a leader.

Yvette Cooper recently travelled to Scotland for a post election post mortem on "what went wrong".  Its simple really.  Scotland like the rest of the UK want and end to austerity and an end to Trident.  Never mind the politics of separation- the moment you use the word "separatist" you immediately put an end to any debate with Scotland.  But if you drill down to the basic core of what they want, most Scots will tell you simple: end austerity and scrap Trident.

SNP sent a clear message that they also wanted these things and therefore gave the Scottish electorate a viable option.  If Labour want to be a viable option in 2020 and not having yet another "what went wrong?" post mortem then they need to be clear about these two things.  Send the same message:  commit to ending auserity and commit to nuclear disarmament.

Because the vast majority of the English and Welsh electorate want this too.  And this is exactly what Jeremy Corbyn represents.

Leave the mainstream media to do their thing- they are never going to support anything other than capitalist right wing propaganda.  But dont use their headlines to guage the feelings of the electorate.
Ask the members. Give them a proper debate.  Ensure that Jeremy Corbyn is on the ballot paper.

If you dont, you may find that in 2020 the electorate no longer see Labour as a viable option.

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.