This may be a bit heavy on the Russia-baiting, in view of the several other countries of which similar things might have been said, but it is still essential viewing, and it is scrupulously fair between Israel and the Palestinians. London is the money laundering capital of the world, to the extent that the Americans classify Britain as high-risk.
Yet this very day, Anneliese Dodds has been outflanking the Conservative Party from the economic right, because that is what the Labour Party does. In government, Labour has been economically to the right of the Conservatives at every point since the Budget of December 1976.
In Opposition, Labour has been anywhere to the Conservatives' left only under Michael Foot and Jeremy Corbyn, neither of whom ever commanded the allegiance of anything more than a small number of the party's MPs. In 2015, Labour "contested" a General Election on exactly the same economic programme as both of the Coalition parties. But it is nowhere near that left-wing now.
Not that we should necessarily oppose all Labour candidates. Depending on local circumstances, in each constituency at the next General Election there should be one Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Independent candidate who subscribed to this and this.
The complete list of those candidates would appear here, and anywhere else that we could get to publish it. If I could raise enough money to be a viable candidate, then I would contest the seat where the most people had offered to sign my nomination papers. Please give generously.
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