Even if it had been a very open secret on the Left for months. We had all expected it to be in the Leader's Speech.
That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.
Plus a demand for a straight In-Out EU referendum on the day of next year's European Elections, which only the Coalition could deliver, since it will still be the Government on that day. Another Commons vote beckons, this time challenging both Coalition parties.
Ed Miliband, over to you.
As Peter Hitchens wrote today "I couldn't care less which one of the the three Left-wing parties is in power".
ReplyDeleteExactly.
He didn't stop there.
ReplyDeleteThe Old Right is coming into line. Told you.
Indeed-the leading figure on the Old Right, Mr Hitchens himself, tells his readers to vote UKIP, if vote they must.
ReplyDeleteI have gladly taken his advice.
He did so very briefly.
ReplyDeleteBy pointedly refusing to mention UKIP in his column at the end of its (rather colourful) Conference week, he is back to scorning it as "Dad's Army".
The only person about whom he could find a good word to say was Ed Miliband.