As Keir Starmer prepares to begin his Leadership with enormous local election losses, so much for him. The Left's answer to "You're unelectable" is, "Well, so are you."
If Boris Johnson wants to give Labour a proper Pearl Harbor moment, then he should announce that at the Conservative Party's top 100 target seats, plus wherever a Conservative MP was standing down, the candidate would meet all of four criteria: lived in the constituency for at least 15 years, living in rented accommodation, no university degree, and an annual income not higher than £12,500 (which is two in five adults, before anyone starts). No exceptions.
As much as anything else, that income requirement would ensure no shortage of women, ethnic minorities and the disabled; I am both mixed-race and disabled, and I know. Anyone would think that it were really all about class. Some people might whinge that he had not gone through this committee, that committee and the other committee, but once he had made the announcement, then it would be too late. Tony Blair used to pull that trick all the time, and it works.
Meanwhile, today is the day that Sadiq Khan announces his candidacy for reelection as Mayor of London. Paul Embery, you know what you have to do. Ours is the 2020 Vision of a new political party, a new think tank, a new weekly newspaper, a new monthly cultural review, a new quarterly academic journal, and so much else besides. I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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