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A Manifesto For The Morning After

Some days you wake up and feel the need to share stuff from ages ago.  I wrote this in one sitting in December 2019 as a response to the previous night's election - the one that Labour didn't win. This was my manifesto for going forward. With no idea of what was coming a couple of months later, or how shoddily Boris Johnson and his scabby government would deal with the crisis.  I've not read this back but I've a feeling that it still stands now, with a Labour Party that's representing someone other than the people it used to and is determined to mollify the far right (though the reset with the EU of yesterday might be a tiny step in the direction that it should have gone; I don't honestly know, I've lost the will to read the details) The main reason for sharing this now? For sharing a piece that only about 100 people ever saw?  It was performed by Mike Noble, now much more widely known as Banksy from This City Is Ours. The fact that someone who's on tell...