| Working Class Party |
| It is early days yet and what we are most interested in is hearing from you and what you think of what we outline below. Are we missing something? We want you to tell us. Who do we hope will support us? We hope to get support from Labour supporters who have voted in vain for the party supposed to represent the interests of the working classes . Labour supporters may feel that their party has been hijacked by public schoolboys with their a distinctly middle class view of socialism, based on doctrine and words, rather than sharing out the money. They may feel that the working classes no longer have a voice in politics and badly need one. How else do the working classes have any hope that the problems which confront them, such as crime and education, will be given the attention they need? We hope to get support from conservative supporters who feel that Conservative governments have indeed failed to conserve what was good about Britain . We have seen a persistent erosion and destruction of some of the essential values and norms of behaviour which once made this country the most peaceful and decent in Europe. As well as failing to preserve what was worth conserving, Conservative governments have simply sold out to big business, regardless of the effects upon truly conservative values . Voters of both persuasions may feel that the obsession with so-called modernisation of both parties is only another word for destruction of the best aspects of the British way of life. |
| Contact us theworkingclassparty@yahoo.co.uk |
| Membership of the working Class Party is free. If you want to join click here. If you do not want to join , but simply want to register your support for the ideas you see here, we want to hear from you. It is important to us to be able to gauge what support we have. Also, if you have any suggestions or objections, or feel there is something we have missed, please let us know. If you want to make a more substantial contribution to the shaping of policy, we welcome your ideas and suggestions, and you may contact the policy committee. theworkingclassparty@yahoo.co.uk |

| If you wonder how much longer the working classes have to suffer crime and violence, bad education and poverty, then read on... |
| This is a non-doctrinaire party of neither left nor right; we are devoted to returning commonsense and decency to our society |
| To single mothers on the housing estates sitting at home mourning the fate of their children caught up in the drug and weapon culture, we ask ; Do you believe it when our leaders tell you there is no crisis amongst our youth, that the problem comes from only a few bad apples? To the old people afraid to even leave their flats, we ask; do you believe our leaders when they tell you Britain is better now than it ever was? To the thousands whose lives are blighted by crime and violence, we ask, do you believe that we have no need for a sense of right and wrong, self restraint and decency? We believe Britain needs a rebirth of the values which make civilisation possible. The rich don't seem to think so. Perhaps a society driven by greed and self-gratification suits their aims. After all, its the way to fill your pockets. But those of us who can't simply buy their way out of the chaos, who cannot buy a safe and pleasant environment away from crime and violence and the misery and destructiveness of modern living in Poor Britain, we have no choice but to try to make the best of what we have. And that needs something more than what is on offer from the ruling parties. To them there is no emergency in schools, on the streets, on the estates. What do the weekly murders of teenagers mean to them? It's not their children, its not anyone they know. What does it matter to them if it isn't even safe to go out anymore? It's safe where the rich and powerful live. What does it matter to the rich if everything is broken and smashed up, because we can't even bring our children up not to be mindlessly destructive? What does it matter to them if the streets are strewn with litter just thrown there by a generation who hasn't been taught to care a damn for anyone else? The rich of both political parties live where the worst of these effects aren't felt; it isn't real to them. They see the world through a car window, they see their own big houses and simply turn away from the ugliness and misery around them; they simply don't see it, and they don't feel the fear. They don't see it because they can't afford to face up to the truth that something is very wrong; that the experiment hasn't worked; that bringing up nearly two generations to sneer at Right and Wrong, to despise self-restraint and consideration for others, to laugh at politeness to strangers, has led to disaster, had led to a nasty, brutish society. The ruling classes have undone all the values which we need for civilisation to work, they have made it fashionable to be violent, aggressive, loud, rude, offensive, hurtful, boastful, pompous, and disrespectful. The result, is not just a rude and unpleasant environment, the result is Murder on the streets, the result is children getting killed for wearing the wrong shoes, and being in the wrong group of friends, the result is violence upon strangers for fun, kickings and beatings for entertainment, maimings for nothing. The result is fear and tyranny, at street level.. From above it may look like fashionable subculture, or rebellious youth, it may suit their fantasy of themselves as free individuals, but from below , in the real world, it looks like life being unlivable. For the poor, life in Britain is sometimes a living Hell. How long can we carry on in misery before we decide to really rebel; before we reject the fashions created for us by American corporations trying to shift music and clothes, - and insist on the way of life WE need. A society that wants to be civilised cannot reward only greed and material success; We have to show that we value other qualities, such as considerateness towards others, more highly than selfishness. It doesn't have to be like this - but we have to make a choice. We have to chose whether we believe in Right and Wrong or not. We have to chose if we expect certain standards of behaviour in society or not. We have to chose if young people have to obey the rules or not. If the answers are yes, and we do want a peaceful and decent society, then we must be prepared to make the very real and concrete changes necessary to get one. This is about the future. Todays youth are tomorrows adults. Perhaps its time for youth to rebel against youth. In this manifesto we hope to have made a start describing the changes needed to restore decency to Britain. |
| The Working Class Party |
| This is about a vision of the future. A future where Britain is a safe and pleasant place to live, for everyone, not just for the well off; where violence, rudeness and aggression are banished. Britain used to be a civilised country, and can be once again. |