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Shouting at the telly

I am a socialist. I believe we are better off by all working together, that we DO live in a Society and we should all look out for each other and help each other. Bill Shankly, the legendary Liverpool manager summed it up best when he said.. "The socialism I believe in isn’t really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other, everyone helping each other, and everyone having a share of the rewards at the end of the day... it’s the way I see football and the way I see life."   For the most part of my life I believed the best way to achieve socialism was to vote for the Labour Party. However, over the last few years it has become apparent to me that I couldn't have been more wrong. The party that gave us the NHS and the welfare state, the ambitious party that rebuilt the country after the war and gave us workers rights and protections that we now take ...