"IT'S ridiculous to think I'll get votes but I want to ruffle some feathers in Croydon South, get people talking about class war."
This is the General Election plan of Jon Bigger – a self-proclaimed anarchist who wants to challenge Conservative candidate Chris Philp in 2015.
The setting of the interview could not be more different from Mr Philp's back in November. Rather than a party HQ we are in Mr Bigger's Brighton Road house, and he is alone, without assistants.
Is this a one-man crusade, I ask him, and when did he decide to enter the fray of politics?
"Well it's actually a bit counter-intuitive for anarchists to start a political party in order to join the parliamentary system," he said.
"But Class War is a new party which will have about 75 candidates standing throughout the country.
"I thought about how unequal our society is and what anarchism can do to solve its problems. Standing sounded like fun.
"I was made redundant by the Home Office last year for purely political reasons and am doing a masters, so I have time to focus on a campaign."
So what will he be offering the people of Croydon South?
"I can't really offer anyone anything because I'm not going to get the votes but I want to start a discussion about the class war," he said.
"The poor are being told to pay for what the rich have done to the economy and all the main parties are funded by corporate interests.
"Why is anyone surprised when the rich's interests are protected?"
Mr Bigger said he wanted the more affluent people of Croydon South to give more in taxes to provide for people less well off.
He said: "It's absurd to think the rich are richer because they work harder. What do you say to the person who can't get a job locally and doesn't have enough money to travel further?"
In an anarchist's ideal world then, how would the constituency be run?
"There wouldn't be a parliamentary system so there wouldn't be a constituency," he explained.
"The three main parties are just branches of the same who all work within a neo-liberal framework.
"Austerity itself is class war – it's an ideology to get the poor to pay more.
"Labour doesn't do anything for the poor and has already said they will carry on with the cuts."
Although Mr Bigger said his party had not finished drawing up its policies, he said he would campaign for jobseekers' allowance to be doubled, a maximum wage and workers' hours of no more than four a day.
