But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

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Most of the newspapers are not really newspapers at all, they are political players as well as spectators and their bias and tendency to sensationalism has grown worse... I do think to a certain extent the model where you stand up and say ‘vote for me, and I’ll give you the perfect job, the perfect life, the perfect school and the perfect hospital’ won’t work today”. Alastair's Turf Moor Diaries". football.fanhouse.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 December 2009 . Retrieved 30 December 2009.

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Elgot, Jessica (29 May 2019). "Tom Watson calls Alastair Campbell's expulsion 'spiteful' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. In 2018 Campbell worked for the People's Vote campaign's planning and organisation of a march on Parliament on 20 October, which drew an estimated 250,000 people [59] onto the streets. The march was described by the media as the second biggest ever, after the protest against the Iraq war in 2003. Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, ' But what can I do?' Though he never liked Margaret Thatcher, she never sank this low. Boris Johnson, however? “I have considerable experience of prime ministers,” he writes. “Whether Tory or Labour, none were liars. Johnson was, and is. Fact.” Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster and activist, known for his political roles during Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party. Campbell worked as Blair's spokesman and campaign director in opposition (1994–1997), then as Downing Street Press Secretary, and as the Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson (1997–2000). He then became Downing Street director of communications and spokesman for the Labour Party (2000–2003). He returned as campaign director for the 2005 general election in Blair's third win.

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a b Robinson, James (28 May 2010). "Alastair Campbell Question Time row: Government hits out at BBC". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010 . Retrieved 28 May 2010.

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Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. Policies that serve the interests of the privileged few. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I do?' Kazakhstan". Freedom House. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013 . Retrieved 5 July 2013.Facilitated by the brilliant Julia Macfarlane of ABC News and joined on stage by students from UCL. Alastair will explore the challenge laid out in the sub-title of his book: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How YOU Can Help Fix It. Campbell voted Labour in the 2019 general election, having been part of a failed tactical voting campaign aimed at preventing Johnson from winning a majority. [71] [78]

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Just the other day, I was doing a debate with Gary Neville for Debate Mate” the charity that pairs working class young people with adults to help them gain confidence in debating. “I was arguing that politics was the best route to changing the world.”Campbell is a master communicator. He knows the power words have to change the world. Such is his love of language and the ideas it conveys, he’s even coined his own neologisms. Combining ‘reliance’ with ‘perseverance’ saw him invent a word sitting at the epicentre of his thinking and his book’s can-do optimism - ’Perseviliance’… Mason, Rowena. " 'Alastair Campbell says he no longer wishes to be a Labour member' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019 . Retrieved 2 August 2019. it focuses on the three Ps that have done so much damage – populism, polarisation and post-truth... But What Can I Do? Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, And How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell ( Penguin Random House ) is out now