Stanley Amies

Hi, I’m Stanley, and I’m standing to represent you on the National Policy Forum. As a dedicated party campaigner in Sheffield, I have seen first hand the help and hindrance the party’s policy platform can offer when we’re trying to convince voters to come home to Labour on polling day. Increasingly our policy priorities are out of step with the voters I speak to on a week-in-week-out basis. In the past, when voters on the doorstep raised council flat waiting lists and rising utility bills, we could present ourselves as insurgent opposition bringing change after 14 years of austerity, but increasingly we are regarded as an out of touch and managerial party, ignorant of the cost-of-living issues affecting ordinary people. As your representative on the NPF, I want to do my bit to change this. I won’t understate to the Party’s upper ranks how much discontent there is from voters towards the status quo. Instead, I will argue for a radical and redistributive programme to rebuild our country by prioritising the needs of working class people, particularly the need for stable housing and decent employment. The government has made some good progress on these issues already, but to regain the trust of voters we need to be faster and more focused on these bread-and-butter matters, so please vote for me to be your next representative on the NPF.