Welcome to the world of "effective Opposition". The decriminalisation of torture? Abstention. The prevention of mass evictions in the winter and during a pandemic? Abstention, to decisive effect. The statutory authorisation of Police and MI5 informants to commit crimes up to and including murder? Undoubtedly, another abstention.
The Universal Basic Income? Outflanked by a party whose present Leader was a Cabinet Minister in the Austerity Coalition, and on course to be outflanked by the hated "TOR-ees" next year. Next year, indeed, the Hated Ones might very well produce an Asian Prime Minister, while an erstwhile Director of Public Prosecutions will still be panning for votes, not in the gutter, but in the sewer.
The Government now does as all normal people have done for more than 15 years and casually describes Tony Blair's wars as illegal. But Labour cannot even bring itself to do that. And for what? Against what is in general the worst Government in living memory, the Labour Party rarely pulls even, and it has never, ever been ahead.
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