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We don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable

Reading Lynne Segal’s (super) Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy reminded me of the closing lines from Jeremy Corbyn’s acceptance speech in 2015:

I say thank you to everyone for all their support, friendship and comradeship during this election process. And I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories, not just electorally for labour, but emotionally for the whole of our society to show, we don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable, things can and they will change.

Let’s leave aside the question of whether Corbyn was ever well suited to being Labour leader, let alone Prime Minister. The significance of those words, stated plainly with absolute sincerity, just hit me like a punch to the gut. There was a crack in the order of things, an opening to something better, which has been rather violently closed. Things can change but they won’t change.

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