On The Ground

"Can the Minister assure us that there are no British troops on the ground on Gaza?", asked Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons today. He has been in politics far too long to ask a question to which he did not already know the answer.

In fact, as he must have expected, he received no answer. But a D-Notice confirms the presence of the SAS in Gaza, where Tony Blair is being lined up to be the Viceroy of the gas field once the ethnic cleansing was complete; even The Jewish Chronicle confirms that Israel knew about the 7th October attack a year before it happened. Meanwhile, all parliamentary questions about RAF Akrotiri have been blocked. This is a British war, so a Commons Division on it was not, nor would it be, gesture politics.

There was some vomit-inducing "Won't someone please think of the children?" stuff today from a bunch of cants who saved their frontbench positions, or their hopes of such, by abstaining when there was such a Division. But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.