No, it doesn’t force that. What it does force… A single politician on their own can’t achieve anything. They need to operate in gangs. They need to get alliances, coalitions within their own party or cross party. In 2011, there was a cross party movement that I was part of to help get anti-slavery day on the books, but it needed Labour, Lib Dems, and Conservatives all running together to get this through. We’ve got an early day motion through in five weeks. That sort of stuff doesn’t happen. You can’t do anything on your own, and it’s also true that you have to fit in before you can stand out. That’s also true, but stand up for what you believe, because if you’re doing it for the wrong reasons, if you’re just being an insider… The color of the green benches in the House of Commons are green for a reason. They’re supposed to represent the commoner. If you’re going in there under false pretences, you shouldn’t be there in the first place.
