Thursday 21 November 2019

Serious Attention

The Liberal Democrats would not, under any circumstance, support either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn in the coming hung Parliament. They are therefore irrelevant, being for all practical purposes abstentionist. Electing a Sinn Féin MP may make a point, but it cannot make a difference. The same thing applies here this time.

The SNP has said that it would support Corbyn if he gave it something that he had categorically ruled out, but that it would not support Johnson no matter what. Again, that line is the line of irrelevance.

The Brexit Party has rendered itself redundant by endorsing Johnson's appalling Withdrawal Agreement, and by standing down over half of its candidates. If you want Johnson, then you should vote Conservative. And if you want Johnson, then no doubt you will.

And the Greens and Plaid Cymru have given up everything for which they have ever stood. They have become wholly owned subsidiaries of a party that devised and implemented the austerity programme for more than half of its life, that remains committed to permanent austerity as a matter of principle, that waged the war in Libya, and whose Leader says that she would launch a nuclear attack. Allied to that, the Greens and Plaid Cymru are no longer worthy of serious attention, much less of electoral support.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I am standing for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

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