At Left Foot Forward, we are making a fundraising appeal - please donate.
Dear reader,
As you may have seen, Left Foot Forward is launching a fundraising appeal this summer. When I started writing, no-one did more to give me a platform to be heard. When the rest of the media turned away, Left Foot Forward listened. I wanted to tell you why I’m supporting the appeal and why I think it’s crucial Left Foot Forward’s evidence-based blogging continues.
A few years ago, I started to campaign against welfare reform. Sick and disabled people are facing a full £9.2 billion of the government’s deficit reduction plan. Campaigners like me had a hard job. No politicians were on our side and the public only heard from a biased, uninformed media.
Left Foot Forward didn’t just publish our articles. They were always there for advice, they introduced us to important contacts, put together the first Welfare fringe at Compass conference and gave us the confidence to take our battle to the next level.
The Spartacus Report would never have happened without the unstinting loyalty and passion of Left Foot Forward’s team and all the others who took no credit. Campaigners are only ever as good as their supporters.
Left Foot Forward is aiming to raise £3,000 this summer so it can gear up this autumn for the government’s return to Westminster and its attempts to cause further harm to Britain’s welfare system.
Left Foot Forward needs every reader to step up, make a small donation today and keep them successful.
There are now scores of readers making small monthly payments to Left Foot Forward and hundreds making small donations every year.
Can you join them and make a one off donation today to help achieve their £3,000 summer fundraising target?
Thanks for your time,
Sue Marsh
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43 Responses to “LFF gave me a platform to be heard”
Newsbot9
What rot.
Any left winger who trolled like you did right here would be banned in a second from right wing sites.
Newsbot9
You keep demanding that you have the right to troll anyone who’s left wing at any time.
Selohesra
To be fair to LFF I dont think you can accuse them of modding too much – I’m no leftie but all my comments get through – despite Botty’s pleas for all dissent to be silenced
Patrick
I’ve read a lot of your posts and three common traits emerge:
1. Anyone who doesn’t support the Left is ‘wealthy’ or a ‘fat cat’ or one of the “1%.”
This is patently not true. It’s like me claiming all Labour supporters wear cloth caps or work down mines. And yet you always state this. In fact, you normally make responses such as, “Ah yes, got to keep those wages down to protect your profits”. Really? My profits? I don’t own any companies. I don’t earn more than an average salary. I live in an average neighbourhood. So I don’t why you make these clearly inaccurate and inflammatory assumptions. Its not engaging with the poster on any level. Back in the 1980s it was people such as myself who voted Thatcher and Major into power. It wasn’t captains of industry or rich city slickers that won those elections. It was the aspirational working and middle class. The other thing is, do you really think that some wealthy company director or city whizz kid is going to even read this site, let alone post responses?
2. Anyone who posts disagreements is a ‘troll’
Do you understand the difference between trolling and disagreement? You might well be convinced of the veracity of your viewpoint, but if you’re going to post on a political forum, then you should be prepared to accept dissenting views, even if those views are forthrightly expressed. What is the sense in having a comments feature, otherwise? What is the point of the site anyway? If only people who agree with these articles read them, then the whole site is pointless.
3. Anyone who makes a post about how left wing policies have adversely affected them is labelled a “whiner” and and told to “stop moaning”.
The implication of this is that you are so convinced of your the moral superiority of your views that you needn’t engage with people who aren’t on board, you can simply tell them to shut up.
Selohesra
I’ve thought about this a bit and reckon that Botty is not for real -I suspevt he is a plant from conservative home or somewhere parodying the left to make them look daft