bene an acuve consu luency-based MP, linking in the area, and taking up black •CODIC S issues in a big wav are all an imporlan! part for me of being candidate and Labour MP. I am keen to discuss all inis with constituency that we SU Cal our canall underway from now on.
The thing about being an vir Is inal you ve gol e platform, people listen 1o Some ol Campaign group MPs, for example. have been able Ic use the fact that they are MPs calll paigns in a way that is just nol open 1o labour movement activists or even lo Labour councillors.
Using the access 1o the media that you have as an MP 1o promole campaigns and trying lo act as a kind of a caralysi is a benefit. But I'm sort adherent to the slogan that voting would, change things it would be banned! in the City, in the financial institutions 'Il is wrong to imagine that just by taking office the Labour Party, let alone individual MP will necessarily bring about far-reaching changes. Far. reaching change this Society more complex process.
So I don't see being an MP as the apex of the pontical process, only as a part of that process: with access. and platforms that others don't have. The job of an MP is working with the rest of the around campaigns, rather than seeing themselves as ine pinnacle of the process.
That is the first thing lo be said about being an MP. and it applies 1o all candidates. But the issue black parliamentary candidates has raised other questions. li has created a debale on the left about careerism and this has tradictions for the white left. There has been similar débate about selecting women candidates. Registration in advance
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