Spectacle Wins Over Politics For Keith Vaz

Judging by last Sunday’s Bollywood convoy, speaking directly to his electorate is old-hat for 28 year Labour incumbent Keith Vaz. Mr Vaz thus managed to create a media spectacle which eclipsed even the recent visit of Labour-leader, Ed Miliband.

Many politicians now perform like world-class actors in their own right, blurring the boundary between politics and the world of celebrities. By promoting entertainment over political substance they hope that the electorate will forget to judge them for the lack of positive achievements.

Aspiring politicians from other group’s disagree, and continue to argue that striving to improve the lot of ordinary people should be the bread and butter of politics. Entertainment is fine, but it should not be used as a smokescreen to hide a lack of will of elected politicians to fight to lift their constituents out of poverty.

TUSC candidates bring the ordinary concerns of workers to the centre of their campaigning efforts. They say that the bankers should pay for the crisis that they caused, and that there should be no cuts to Government funding of public services. Indeed, all three local TUSC parliamentary candidates have said they would only take an average workers wage if elected, demonstrating their firmly held sincerity in representing the needs of normal people.

This is a letter that TUSC Parliamentary Candidate for Leicester East, Michael Barker, sent to the Leicester Mercury on 22nd April.