This election is not about Brexit, it’s about common human decency

One million people, many of them in work, forced to rely on foodbanks; 1 in 4 children living in poverty; homelessness, including rough sleeping, at a 30-year high; real wages down; the worst housing crisis of any advanced industrialised economy; the NHS in crisis; the most ramshackle, anarchic, and expensive rail system in Europe; the highest prison population in western Europe; crime up; suicides up — all this as as the combined wealth of the richest 1000 people in Britain increased by 183 per cent over the same decade in which 120,000 people have died as a direct result of austerity.

This grim toll ensures that the general election on 12 December is the most important and seminal in a generation.

Brexit of course will figure front and centre for many people when casting their vote. The issue has polarised British society over these past three years, corroding social cohesion as the country grapples with what is inarguably the most severe political and constitutional crisis it has faced in generations. What is crucial to grasp is the fact that Brexit is not in a Tony Benn exit from the EU. Instead it is a disaster capitalist project of the right, dripping in nativism, English nationalism and xenophobia, exposing the dire consequences of a country that has yet to honestly or properly address its colonial…