It’s my first time ever joining a party, I have no idea of what’s going to happen tbh.
My constituency is very Labour/Lib Dem, i don’t think I will change things at the local level, I ll probably attend a local meeting and if it feels friendly enough, I will maybe volunteer, will see.
But I wanted to do more than watch from the sidelines, KB is the ballsiest political leader around, she’s walking a very tight rope considering the mess she inherited and she’s doing it well, I wanted to give her a clear signal that it’s working. At least on me.
I m foreign-born but I am shocked and outraged at how the local population and their concerns about immigration and integration have been vilified by the middle class left (same in my native EU country), the Left is making Farage happen.
Reform will always be a Farage thing, he has too much ego to stand competition, he is no policy maker or manager or statesman and he would do anything Trump or the Russians tell him to. But his voters deserve a lot more respect, recognition and empathy than being called oiks or gammons etc.
I have utter contempt for the Bullingdon set, from Brexit to Covid, pretty much useless and self-serving bunch of arrogant chancers with a plum accent, they never had the guts or the insight to go against the multicultural, open borders trend emanating from the left even in opposition.
But KB is getting it and she has the guts to say it out loud.
And I love the fact she is a black woman of foreign origin, she is showing the left right in their faces that it’s about culture, not colour and that identity politics doesn’t work and is actually based on demeaning stereotypes.
Go Kemi!