Write Them Both Off

Boris Johnson is unfit to remain Prime Minister, while Keir Starmer is unfit to become Prime Minister. Here along the Red Wall, the Labour Party is glad to be rid of us, while the Conservative Party resents having needed our support. 

I first campaigned to save Shotley Bridge Hospital as long ago as 1996. No one could be happier at the announcement of the Hilary Armstrong Memorial Hospital. But my point still stands. 

No one wants to close the schools. But any “circuit break” that did not return them to the provision that had been made during the lockdown would be a waste of time.

The most obvious time to take such a break would therefore be around the half-term holiday: the week before it, that week itself, and the week after. That would be no thanks to Starmer, or to Johnson. 

If there had to be another national lockdown, then there would have to be another national lockdown. But no way in the world are you less likely to catch Covid-19 in London than you are in rural and small town County Durham. That simply cannot be true. Yet the Official Opposition is not even attempting to make that point. 

Locally, faced with the scandalous writing off of Dominic Cummings’s Council Tax, Labour also has nothing to say; Independents and Liberal Democrats are making the running. 

Nationally, Labour is abstaining rather than oppose the decriminalisation of torture abroad, and the authorisation of Police and MI5 informants to commit unlimited crimes, even murder, at home. 

Meanwhile, the Conservatives have voted to devastate British agriculture by flooding this country with dirty food. Neither of them is worthy of support. Please give generously.