The choice in Islington North couldn’t possibly be any clearer.
An assiduous constituency representative with a proven track record of delivering for the many, or a self-serving, Starmer-imposed mountebank that believes the “privatisation of healthcare is very, very important”, for the money.
An accomplished and genuinely popular man whose heart has been firmly placed in the middle of Islington North for some five decades, or a private health entrepreneur with the likability of vegetarian bacon that would privatise your heart, lungs, retinas, and reproductive organs for a guaranteed place in Keir Starmer’s “changed” Labour cabinet.
Would the 75,000-strong electorate in the constituency of Islington North agree with the neoliberal Nargund’s assessment of the importance of private healthcare provision? They need an MP that is in it for the many, not the money. They need Jeremy Corbyn.
Islington North: it’s not just trendy coffee shops
Forget the lazy trendy coffee shop stereotypes, Islington North is a borough with a shocking crime rate of 145 crimes per 1,000 people and a staggering 47.5% of primary school-aged children are growing up in poverty.
Sure, there’s some rich people living in Islington. Have you seen what a house costs in London these days?
Allow me to show you this “light and airy” ex-council flat in Highbury. Yours for an eye watering £625,000. Blame Thatcher:
Please, someone explain to me as if I was six-years-old, how a millionaire test tube Tory like Praful Nargund can even begin to imagine what it is like to serve ordinary people like you and me when he is preoccupied with trivial matters such as helping foreign private healthcare firms amass a £16 million profit in just nine months, from British patients?
Put the whole left versus right thing out of your mind once and for all.
This is quite simply a case of right versus wrong.
Right versus wrong, not left versus right
This is the well-oiled establishment engine, — determined to aggressively eradicate Jeremy Corbyn from frontline politics — versus the epitome of a people-powered grassroots campaign, determined to deliver an independent socialist MP to the House of Commons for the first time in nineteen years.
Jeremy Corbyn is acutely aware of the enormity of the task that has been forced upon him by the Labour Party. But sapient Corbyn, a veteran of TEN general election victories in Islington North, acknowledges the importance of commanding a mass-canvassing ground force with the ability to knock on every door throughout the constituency:
Labour has the data, they have the resources, there is only one way we can compete with the Labour machine: people power.
It would be utterly remiss of me if I failed to point out that YOU can be part of the ‘every door in Islington North’ challenge TODAY. Jeremy needs your help to make history.
How? Easy. You don’t need to sign up, just turn up at either of these locations TODAY.
- 11am – Corbyn campaign HQ, 89-93 Fonthill Road, London, N4 3JH
- 4pm – Phillip Noel-Baker Peace Garden, London, N19 3NF
Tales from the Crypt in Islington
No-nads Nargund’s spluttering, lackluster campaign — almost as invisible as Nargund himself whenever a local hustings event has been organised — was apparently supported by two political heavyweights from the Labour royalty unit, this past week.
So I did my research, expecting to see the sultan of sperm standing next to Gordon Brown (texture like sun) and Chuka Ummuna, and all I could find was him getting back-up from the close friend of a prolific paedophile sex trafficker and Margaret flippin’ Hodge, who must be as welcome on the streets of Islington as a pissed up England fan in a Glaswegian pub.
The not-once-but-twice disgraced Peter Mandelson — looking more like an extra from Tales from the Crypt by the day — is still determined to see the end of Jeremy Corbyn. Yawn.
Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, the Lord that once claimed nearly £3,000 in expenses from the public purse on fitting a shower in his constituency home in July 2003 — a year before he resigned to become a European Commissioner — will bring less than nothing to Nargund’s faltering campaign, because he has the charisma of a coffin lid.
Independent activists and independent media
I have stood back in awe over the past week or so and witnessed my good friend @RedCollectiveUK forensically expose the true extent of Nargund’s obscene profiteering from our NHS.
It should go without saying, the Canary — one of the very few media outlets that hasn’t bent over backwards to accommodate the red-rosette wearing polyps upon the anus of humanity, just because they’re going to win a sizeable majority at the general election — wasted no time in amplifying Red’s incredible revelations.
The old media could learn so much from citizen journalism and independent media working together to shine a light on what, and most crucially WHO these foreign-lobbyist-funded, corporate-owned Starmerite drones stand for.
I believe Jeremy Corbyn can win in Islington North, securing an astonishing eleventh consecutive victory in the constituency, but this one will be the most difficult of them all.
From speaking to friends on the ground, not everyone is aware of the fact Jeremy Corbyn is no longer standing for the Labour Party. This makes the accidental victory of Praful Nargund a distinct possibility.
Corbyn’s principles, now more than ever
I have heard the phrase “neck and neck” on more than one occasion, which could explain why we need to flood Islington with activists, not just today and tomorrow but up until the very last moment on July 4th.
Every single conversation matters. Voters need to know that Jeremy Corbyn is no longer a Labour candidate. Look for the name “Corbyn” on the ballot.
Stood on the steps of Islington Town Hall, shortly after handing in his papers to confirm his candidacy, Jeremy said:
“I hope those who have always supported Labour will understand that I am here to represent the people of Islington North with the same principles I’ve stood by my entire life: equality, democracy and peace. These principles are needed now, more than ever.”
As so very often in the past, Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely right.
Featured image via Rachael Swindon
