Wednesday 20 February 2019

Defective

Now that George Galloway has dared to mention it on Sky News, will either that network or the BBC dare to show the film of Joan Ryan taking money from the Israeli Embassy in order to bring down Jeremy Corbyn? If not, why not?

And no, of course the thwarted careerist Luciana Berger did not really leave the Labour Party because of anti-Semitism. Don't be silly. Or is the Conservative Party now anti-Semitic as well, since three MPs have just left that for the same Group?

As a company rather than a party, the Independent Group marks the apotheosis of Blairism, with politicians privatising themselves. But for all that they have voted for everything nasty that this Government and its predecessor have done, the accession of Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen marks a sharp leftward shift in that Group.

Hitherto, it has been "the Tories" as imagined by Laura Pidcock: not paying staff, trying to privatise the Royal Mail, wishing the reimpose the pre-2015 austerity programme, demanding that British foreign policy be controlled by Saudi Arabia, calling for the abolition of trial by jury, extolling the wonders of water privatisation, insisting that the spooks be believed without question, warning against people with a funny tinge, being endorsed by Katie Hopkins, and  taking money from the Israeli Embassy in order to bring down Jeremy Corbyn.

Mercifully few, if any, of Pidcock's 16,516 Conservative-voting constituents, just over one third of the total, are like that. But the discovery of that happy fact would involve speaking to them. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

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