paulfromcamden
Baffled
OK. I'll carry on voting for the party I consider the least worst option.At present you have no choice but to vote for the least worst option- hardly satisfactory. The Labour Party under the first two years of Corbyn‘s leadership was the sort of broad-based, left populist movement that would have been capable of something significant, especially if he had made serious overtures to the extra-parliamentary movement that was developing. Likewise the SNP in the run up to the 2014 indyref reflected the widespread desire and ambition for significant change.
But in reality, Parliament is not, and never has been, the locus of political transformation we all wish to see. Movements like Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, Black Lives Matter, Gilet Jaunes, Palestine Solidarity Campaign etc were/ are exponentially more important and effective that a passive x on a ballot paper once every five years.
Completely agree with you that real change comes from outside Parliament - much as politicians would like us to think we lack any form of agency.