Monday 20 May 2019

Urgent Question

Following the jaw-dropping news that the Douma attack was probably staged, where is the Urgent Question on today's House of Commons Order Paper? It is not there.

There is also silence from Labour on Iran. There is no opposition to the potential extradition of Julian Assange via Sweden. There is active support for an amnesty for alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq. And so on.

Jeremy Corbyn has sidelined Corbynite supporters of economic stimulation at home and opponents of military interventionism abroad, just as Donald Trump has sidelined Trumpite supporters of economic stimulation at home and opponents of military interventionism abroad. In both cases, we see the results.

Although one is going to have a disappointment on Thursday and other is going to have a catastrophe, the Labour and Conservative Parties are not going to collapse, or anything like that. Peter Hitchens, most obviously, has been predicting that "within 10 years" for more than 20 years now. But between them, they took 82 per cent of the vote at the 2017 General Election, more than a year after the EU referendum.

The point is that such are now the three polities of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, that neither main party can ever again win an overall majority in the House of Commons, no matter who led it or what its policies were. Another hung Parliament is coming, therefore, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.

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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