Last Wednesday at Wandsworth council’s town hall, I went to a full council meeting for the first time in my life (as a spectator) to try and find a news story and it was one of the weirdest nights of my life. Everyone was looking at this 18 year old boy out of his place like a penguin in the middle of Oxford Street.

I was sat in the public gallery as a labour supporter surrounded by conservatives and felt I had to keep my head down in case they knew I was one of “them”. I then had a nose bleed and they were really nice actually.

About two months ago, I was just a regular member of the Labour Party. One of 550,000+ members. Now, I’ve been leafletting twice, I have been to many launch events, I am a delegate for the Roehampton Ward meaning I can vote on the matters the CLP raises at monthly meetings.

I am in the running to be a member of the Executive Committee of the CLP which manages the day-to-day direction of the constituency. Also people in the party have convinced me to join them in canvassing on Sunday which I am both insanely nervous while incredibly excited for.

Labour are currently a few points behind the Conservatives. I have absolutely no idea how either. Over 14 million people in this country are in poverty, 1.5 million people are destitute. This week, the Work and Pensions secretary, Amber Rudd accepted that their solution to getting people out of poverty, Universal Credit has increased food bank usage. Surely this means they have failed to govern yet, as it stands the electorate think they are better to govern the country. Do people know about this damage or are people just don’t care about others? Or is it as simple as Labour aren’t good enough but surely they’d be better than this.

As the Champions League returns next week, UEFA are discussing whether they will abolish the away goals rule. I completely agree with this change.

When UEFA originally made the rule in the 1960’s, travelling to a European away leg for a team would be a strenuous and tiring affair. Also away grounds were much more unique and contained hostile conditions.

But now the players travel in pleasure and stadiums are pleasant to a greater extent so the difference in difficulty between scoring away and scoring at home is much smaller that it’s not worth it being more valuable.

They’ve been more allegations towards Jeremy Corbyn this week from Rachel Riley among others. As I don’t doubt there is antisemitism in the left. I never hear the same outrage when there’s bigotry on the right. Not the same allegations for the duration of nearly a year now.

Let’s remember Britons were denied health care and deported because they were black under Tory rule. Let’s remember the former conservative co-chair Baroness Warsi said herself Islamophobia is “widespread” in the party. Let’s remember in 2013’s same-sex marriage vote 45% of Tory MP’s voted against it. There is barely the same outrage as there should be on the right.

As Egyptian TV jail a host for interviewing a gay man, Britons will think, “Thank god that doesn’t happen here”. They’re correct, the UK in 2019 is one of the best civilizations for LGBT people to live in but I believe there is still a way to go until there is true equality.

For starters, same-sex marriage isn’t even legal in certain parts in this country. The DUP, part of the coalition government don’t even agree with it, LGBT people have higher rate of mental health problems and homophobic hate crime is as high as its ever been, there is still a long way to go.