Hi, everybody. Welcome to podcast number 47 of the Alexis SEL podcast. Now, this may in some ways seem a bit niche, the subject matter that we cover today, but I also think

it's the most important thing ever in the history of the world. So, you know, somewhere, you know,

treat it like that. It's also, I suppose, I've made my part of my career, part of my work,

has always been mocking the idiocies of the left, really.

They're kind of, the splits and the kind of ridiculous jargon.

And that was all fine and good in a time when the what the baddies called in Transformers movie,

they, the Decepticons?

Decepticons, yeah.

Yeah, that was when the Decepticons weren't coming for us.

Now I think this is a moment when I think that left party, some form of left party or left parties,

needs to stand in the general election and in coming by elections in the future.

I think now I don't think that just to concentrate on parliamentary

politics is the way forward that I think the new left parties, party needs to be both a

campaigning organization and, but also I think they don't take you seriously if you

don't also have members of parliament.

So I think that it has to be a, my feeling is that if we are going to save ourselves

from the aliens out of Independence Day, we rule us,

then we really need to get our shit together and have a party or parties that follow that twin

track approach. Well, actually having bums and seats in the House of Commons. Yeah, I think you

have to. I think that has to be a part of it. I mean, I guess. Yeah. But when we talk about,

sorry, to interrupt, but when we talk about, we need a party that actually represents us, you always imagine in your head like, oh, okay, they'll take up a third of parliament.

And that's such a, you know, that's like an unrealistic or something of like you don't imagine that actually being possible.

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