Beyond The Pale

And so the worthless Withdrawal Agreement passes, binding us to the level playing field provisions, and thus withdrawing us only from the decision-making process.

Boris "Two Articles" Johnson has put this in because he knows that it will lead to calls for reaccession. Expect them to begin at the start of February, if not before.

On this one, the Conservative Right still thinks that it has won, although it will be under no such delusion for very much longer. On everything else, though, it must know that it has been defeated. 

Jeremy Corbyn rightly called the Queen's Speech a pale imitation of the Labour manifesto, and woefully inadequate to its own task. But it confirmed his essential claim the he had won the argument.

The objections to such a programme in principle, rather than merely as going nowhere near far enough in practice, come from the right wings of the two parties. And nobody gives a damn what they think. 

As soon as the members have their say, then they will elect the most left-wing candidate available to be Leader of the Labour Party. 

And Johnson's priority is holding onto seats that can only be held by colossal levels of public spending, only not as colossal as those advocated by the other side.

Britain will soon become 1970s America, where Richard Nixon wanted to put up spending a lot, and Ted Kennedy wanted to put up spending a hell of a lot, so they had a meeting and agreed to split the difference. 

Nixon could then claim to have restrained Kennedy, and Kennedy could then claim to have forced Nixon's hand in the other direction.

Get used to this kind of thing. The key swing seats are not where they were a month ago, and they will not be so again for a very long time, if ever. We are the masters now.

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