04-05-2010 Courage!

Just as couple of days to go!

We’ve had a terrific campaign with better, more extensive media coverage than we could have hope for and lots of words and emails of encouragement from people not only with the constituency of Islington South & Finsbury, but from across the country from people who are following our campaign with real interest.

All we need now is a good turnout on the day and the determination of the electorate to express their desire for other voices to be heard other than the prattle and babble of the “big” political parties, who are resolute in making sure that everything stays exactly the same after the election as it was before.

But we can make a difference.  We can use this election as our historic demonstration that we want more from our democracy (because we know we deserve better) than what is offer from the main parties.  We can show them that they will be challenged, that others will be heard, and we will have a new politics that represents real change and social justice and fairness for all.

All we need is courage.  All we need to do is to stand together and collectively resist the shrill insistence of the big parties that our vote must be a vote for one of them – it doesn’t have to be and we can prove it.  We can vote with our hearts and mark our X next to a name that has compassion at its heart, and that is Animals Count.

No other political party has a manifesto as deep, as wide-ranging and as shot through with the sense of true justice as the Animals Count manifesto.  We are utterly committed to justice for all and every vote we receive raises the volume of our voice and makes it possible for us to speak on behalf of all of those who are disadvantaged, vulnerable and ruthlessly ignored by the main political parties.  Every X next to our name is the proof that another politics is possible, that other voices will be heard and that we do care about the lives of all in our world.

We are the proof that politics can have a heart of compassion, and as a Candidate in the election I make no apology for saying that I care, I really care and that I really want to make a positive difference to the lives of those in society who are so desperately at our mercy and who deserve to be treated with respect and consideration.

It is not about power for its own sake, it is not about making a profit and protecting the wealth of the almost uncountably wealthy, it’s about giving a damn.  And we really give a damn.

With just a little courage we can resist those tired old parties who have nothing to offer anyone else but only something for themselves; with a little courage we can say goodbye to them and their old ways, and say yes to what is new, what is real and what will be a fresh and vital change for our world.

It is time for a new way of doing things.  It is time for Animals Count!