”Dear Jeremy,
I appreciate that you are extremely busy and I do hope that you eventually find the time to read this.
My name is Edward and the first time that you ever came into my sphere was around 2 years ago, when you gave your pre-leadership election speech in Liverpool.
I have always voted Labour, before you came, because I believed that as an openly gay man from the age of 16, that Labour would defend my rights as a human being. I came out aged 16 in 1986, I come from Surrey, as you know a Tory heartland, and with Tory voting Daily Mail reading parents, whom I love very much. I actually thank them in hindsight for buying the Daily Mail as it cemented my utter disgust of, and my lifelong opposition to, the Conservative Party.
But, back to the point, I heard you speak. It was a light-bulb moment for me…..I never realised that I was a Democratic Socialist, your speech was an awakening of my true political identity, and of just how important that identity is. Here was a politician that for the first time in my life, I believed in and trusted in completely.
I spend every day campaigning on your behalf, and I must confess, I am up until the early hours such is my support for you, for what you offer this country. It’s salvation from what is the most horrific political epoch I have ever witnessed. I thought that Thatcher was bad, that we would never see her like again, but May, she is 10 times worse.
What makes me so anxious, and so angry, is the treatment of our vulnerable citizens. The elderly, left to rot, taking up hospital beds because of the draconian cuts in Social Care…..4 million children in poverty, the return of Victorian era disease…..disabled people dying, committing suicide….the amount of homeless on our streets….there is a litany of horror after horror. I live everyday in anxiety. How can this corrupt, evil government get away with it? Surely this is Gross Negligent Manslaughter?
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On the bright side I am very lucky to have met a fantastic partner. He is a paralegal training to be an Attorney. He is British of Afro-Caribbean descent, and he’s my best friend and soul mate. We laugh a lot together. Plus he’s very handsome so that helps.
I just wanted you to know that I think you are an amazing fellow. You have so much energy, and when you have the full weight of the media and establishment against you, I often wonder how you cope……because it upsets me very much, the vicious unfairness of it. I will fight to my last breath for you and what you represent for this country, and the future of its children.
I do feel that we are on the road to Fascism and autocracy in this country under this wholly corrupt Conservative Government, it terrifies me and I am fully aware and alert to the fact that this is the General Election of my lifetime, of our lifetime. It is pivotal, so much depends on it, so much is at stake. I have your back Jeremy, I have never faltered or wavered in my support for you, and I never will.
Just as an after thought, after 30 years of nagging my Mum and Dad….last year they finally stopped reading the Daily Mail and started reading the Times instead (not much of a mark up I know….but something!)….now I am trying my hardest to challenge them in their hypnotic belief in the TV and newspapers…..I get so passionate and urge them to stop thinking about themselves and to think about their children and their grandchildren. It’s an uphill battle but I won’t give up, just as I won’t give up campaigning on Social Media, blogging and designing memes, and attending my CLP meetings.
If you are interested (and Heavens knows have the time!) here is one of my recent blog posts; https://redrobin.blog/portugal-budget-deficit/.
Plus a picture of my partner and myself on holiday a couple of years ago.
Thank you for all that you do, working so tirelessly on behalf of all of us, and of all who suffer. I love you so much for all that you do, and stand for.
Here’s to victory…..we have to have it. And we will.
Thank you Jeremy!
With love,
Edward.”
