I do think you can go overboard on ine поно! what an MP can do. Let me make myselt clear. Power One of the things that was brought home 10 me very early on was the fact that power in this country doesn' entirely lie parliament. The first job I had when I left university was working for te mome Office graduate trainee. That me that power in this society lies in the institutions of the Stale: the police, the so on. And power also lies I take ex:== assump:iobecause you're less olitically core: aKeN be gord winger. I've heard that argument tor a long time For example, remembe Ken Liv. ingstone making such speech at a Labour Parti conference Briefing fringe meeting. He talked about how very dangerous it was candles the colour of their skin or their SCA. rather than whether they supported socialist policies. And look what happened Ken Livingstone!
EEL.
black peopie: tionship to the left. Basic. ally they see black people clients the left, LaKe senious exception to black people getting involved in politics Themselves same level The underlying adherence to 'clientism' is the problem of the walle er not the problem of black careerism