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There is plenty wrong with Lloyd Russell-Moyle, but not even those things will save you from Keir Starmer. Meanwhile, the Labour Party is lining up senior military officers to be parachuted into the seats that had not yet selected Labour candidates. I have not been able to ascertain which country's Armed Forces we were talking about. But then, at that level, they themselves can be imprecise about that. Short of further purges, there are now very few of those seats, and very few indeed that will have Labour MPs until tomorrow's dissolution of Parliament. One such, though, is North Durham.

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 Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

The Workers Party of Britain is not contesting North Durham, so I am. Please contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, including if you might be able to help with, not to put too fine a point on it, money. But I will be on that ballot paper, come what may. At the time of writing, there is no Labour, Conservative, or Liberal Democrat candidate at North Durham. 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. We have made a start.