Why Ignoring The Left Is Dangerous

I have a powerful imagination, I admit that with pride not shame. Sometimes my imagination takes me into Rod Serling-like flights of fancy and sometimes I reflect on the words of George Orwell, Robert Tressell and Aldous Huxley. But using your imagination to envisage the worst possible scenario is vital if we are to protect ourselves from the threats coming to our society from the far right. The Tories are a hateful breed, they have no care or compassion for the weakest and poorest among us and I find visualising George Osborne in a Nazi uniform worryingly easy to achieve.

New threats are coming from UKIP - infant class Nazis working their way up to the top form. I saw Nigel Farage in a meeting recently. He professes to be non-racist which did not equate with his constant references to Romanians and crime. The eager audience licked it up while I sat and scowled. Why is anyone surprised UKIP is being "infiltrated" as they put it by the far right, including EDL members? They are cut from the same cloth; it's just one is at the bargain basement end of the hate spectrum while the other is at the pricier end (think M&S, Debenham's, Waitrose. I'm not suggesting they have anything to do with UKIP by the way).

The left has no voice in the media apart from Owen Jones, the token "socialist". People like him because he raises a dissenting voice and I have nothing against him personally. But he is still a Labour member and let's not forget Labour hasn't proved itself worthy of the nomenclature "left" for a very long time. Its talk of shirkers versus strivers and concerns over immigration rankle with socialists like me. I want to see us, the workers, united against the idle rich and the exploitative capitalism they impose on us. By workers I mean all of us, including non-workers and foreigners who I welcome with open arms. We must stand together to defeat the hatred from the far right.

Anyway, back to my imagination. I can foresee a time when it becomes illegal to have far left views and certainly to be a trade union activist. People who dare to go against the grain and speak out will mysteriously disappear.

Shame on the media and especially the BBC for pretending we don't exist. The BBC has fallen head over heels in love with Nigel Farage yet has no hesitation in mocking Bob Crow on Have I Got News For You and Question Time where he is frequently seated at the end of a panel made up of right wing politicians and journalists.

I am not spitting the dummy because the Socialist Party does not get on the television. I am genuinely worried about our future. We are sleepwalking into a Nazi dystopia of our own making. Speak up, don't be afraid of ridicule, just speak up and keep speaking.