Side Order

Sides have been picked. Those who side with the Israeli Government now side with everything that is asserted by the proponents of the view that all rape allegations are true by definition and that any conviction rate below 100 per cent of complaints is therefore self-evidently incorrect, while those who so assert now side with everything that is contended by the supporters of the Israeli Government. I hope that they will be very happy together. They richly deserve each other.

The Tel Aviv Pride that Israel's British and American cheerleaders have suddenly decided that they love so much is quite possibly the most LGBTQI+ event in the world, and no safe space for the gender-critical. It is easy to laugh at the fate of Rosie Duffield. But we should not let that stop us. Well into this year, she was leaking about a possible defection to the Conservative Party, but it would now be too ambivalent about genocide for her, even if Britain did abstain on a ceasefire for fear that churches in this country might be bombed over Christmas by the May Golan types who were the sources of the BBC's claims of rape on 7th October. Is stripping people nearly naked and filming their public humiliation not sexual violence? Why not #ThemToo? We all know.

Still, let us be grateful for small mercies. A Labour Government would have voted against a ceasefire. Labour is now the greater evil, worse than the Tories. We should no more want it to win the next General Election than most of its MPs wanted it to win the last two, or than any of its staff wanted it to win the last four.

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.