The average American is absolutely enamored with England to the point of a weird sort of fetish - their posh accents, their funny spellings for everything, their constant jabs at us rejoining the Commonwealth, but the truth is they have injustices and fascist assholes just like us here in the good ole United States of America (just look at who they started scaremongering first after the terrible Manchester tragedy). And just so you Harry Potter-loving nerds think I’m picking on you, I too, have my Anglophilia in the form of the adorable and pure Daisy Ridley, so hear me out.

On June 8th, the citizens of Britannia will be voting for all the seats in Parliament, the legislative branch of the United Kingdom. Naturally, some political commentaries have provided handy-dandy guides for us non-Brits, but lest you be led to believe that the struggle for power with Labour vs. the Conservatives (also known as the Tories for some very British reason) neatly parallels our own disastrous electoral politics, let me disabuse you of that notion. Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of the Labour Party and arguably champion of the people, is a helluva lot better than grumpy Bernie “drones with candy and peace signs” Sanders ever was. And while Theresa May is not a loudmouthed, orange fascist, she’s a special kind of annoying that has attracted the likes of the openly racist UK Independence Party, who were crucial to pushing #Brexit last June. As of this writing, she’s so far refused to show up to debate Corbyn on policy, so take that for what you will. Make no mistake, us Americans should be actively rooting against the Tories - whatever May says in public about Trump (wagging her finger rhetorically about the Paris climate change deal comes to mind), they are of like mind on economic policy and both oppressors of the poor.

Compared to Corbyn, who is aiming to unseat the bumbling Theresa May as Prime Minister, Bernie Sanders looks positively like a Tory himself in some instances. The slogan of Labour does not proclaim some false revolution, where politicians merely trade spots oppressing minorities, but distinctively declares, “For the Many, not the Few.” Sanders styled himself as a “democratic socialist” here in the States, but abroad, most of his policy proposals in the domestic realm were fairly tame. One of Britain’s key problems has to do with saving and updating their national universal healthcare because that's normal to them. Corbyn promises in the very well-written (if somewhat objectionable in parts to us on the far left) Labour Manifesto to rescue the NHS from the chains of Conservative budget cuts. Corbyn’s push to take control of Parliament and reinvigorate Britain while dealing with the fallout of #Brexit is a prime example of how to mobilize and speak to the people on the issues that they care about. Labour knows that people, especially youth, need employment. Labour knows that imperialism is not the answer to terrorism, and only breeds an endless cycle of war and devastation. Labour knows that the capitalists cannot be allowed to hoard their wealth. Labour knows the people for #GE2017.

It is precisely because of how and why Corbyn’s Labour is poised to present a desirable alternative to the Tories that leads me and many of my comrades in the United Kingdom to believe that we should stand in solidarity with Labour. It is they, and not the fascists in the UKIP, who are the future of the once supposedly “great” empire. And here’s hoping Labour uses this as an opportunity to dismantle empire, however utopian that hope may be.