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And this time, I do not mean Nick Cohen. Well, not directly, anyway. Once again, the energy companies are to be empowered to break into people's homes and install prepayment meters. Obviously, no party suggests renationalising them, as the huge majority of the electorate would favour. There is a word for the merger of state and corporate power to the point of physical violence. That merger is also evident from the way in which everyone in politics seems to be tied to Fujitsu.

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.