It’s election time again

        “This is a party political broadcast by the leader of the Trusty Party.
I stand upright before you in all honesty to seek your vote so that I may
have another term of well-paid office.

 I am in many ways just like you – I have the same two eyes, ears and other
dimensions. It is true that I possess many times the average wealth, but I am poorer than my oily friend George Thicket. I know how important it is to you to have trust in your leader and believe me I have trust in my leader Jesus Christ.

 My party used be called New Labour. I must sincerely apologise for
having been given wrong information by my intelligence people. They assured
me that no one would think New Labour had anything to do with socialism. Of
course, not many people do think that way, but they are still a nuisance because they are not going away or dying quickly enough. But I was right to go to war with my opponent. The world is a better place for having me in charge instead of him, although it really doesn’t make much difference because the system runs us rather than the other way round.

 We in the Trusty Party (the T Party for short) are delighted to offer you a
set of policies that have been carefully calculated to cost you appreciably
less than an arm and a leg but also to Do Good. On jobs, health, housing,
education, transport, pensions, electric toothbrushes, cat flaps we can promise
anything you wish. We know you have a choice and we are determined not to be beaten on promises.

 My main opponent is the Honesty Party, but to be fair there is not a lot to
choose between us apart from the length of our hair. Their leader, like myself, is an ambitious, power-hungry, plausible,unscrupulous fellow. Some people even say I am the best leader the Honesty Party never had. There is also the Trust- Honesty coalition and the People’s Democratic Republic Front for More Respect. The comforting thing is that we all stand for basically the same thing
– no fundamental change.

 However, I do have to warn you about one danger that could threaten our
whole way of life and more importantly my very handsome pension. The
Socialist Party, which has been around even longer than our distant cousin
Old Labour, advocates the abolition of capitalism and the establishment on a
world scale of socialism.

 I’m sure there’s no need to tell you how disastrous this would be not just
for you but also for me, my family, my friends, and all big shareholders in the
British Economy PLC. These socialist people claim that all useful work is now
done by members of the working class, that is, men and women who have to
sell their labour for a wage or salary.

 People are, of course, not employed unless someone can see a profit in
employing them, but as we all know that is the way things are and, as one of my predecessors famously said, There Is No Alternative.”

Introducing The Socialist Party


The Socialist Party is like no other political party in Britain. It is made
up of people who have joined together because we want to get rid of
the profit system and establish real socialism. 

Our aim is to persuade others to become  socialist and act for themselves,
organising democratically and without leaders, to bring about the kind of
society that we are advocating in this journal. 
We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. 

We are not a reformist party with a programme of
policies to patch up capitalism.

We use every possible opportunity to make new socialists. 
We publish pamphlets and books, as well as CDs, DVDs and 
various other informative material.

We also give talks and take part in debates; attend rallies, meetings 
and demos; run educational conferences; host internet discussion forums,
make films presenting our ideas, and contest elections when practical. 
Socialist literature is available in Arabic, Bengali, Dutch, Esperanto,
French, German,Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish as well 
as English.

The more of you who join the Socialist Party the more we will be able
to get our ideas across, the more experiences we will be able to draw
on and greater will be the new ideas for building the movement which 
you will be able to bring us.

The Socialist Party is an organisation of equals. There is no leader and
there are no followers. So, if you are going to join we want you to be
sure that you agree fully with what we stand for and that we are satisfied
that you understand the case for socialism.

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