Rishi Sunak does not know that some people work at the weekend, and that a lot of those are young. What does he think that those waiters are? AI drones? Nor does Sunak know whether parents would be prosecuted for the failure of their adult children to complete the National Service that no man under 85, nor any woman of any age, had ever done; by the time that this came into effect, then the last veterans of National Service would be in their nineties.
As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sunak cut the funding of the National Citizen Service by two thirds in a Budget that increased the real terms funding of almost everything else. Yet now he would make the completion of National Service a condition of public sector employment. As much as anything else, since that could not possibly apply to foreign nationals who had not set foot in Britain until they were too old for this scheme, it would make them more employable than British citizens by the British State. Over to GB News.
Speaking of the public sector, Keir Starmer is said to have "been in government" because he used to be the Director of Public Prosecutions. But the same could be said of anyone who had ever held a managerial position in the public sector. Has a headteacher "been in government"? Yet the media are so resigned to a 20-year Starmer-Streeting Government that that is among the numerous Labour porkies that they are just letting go for their own protection.
Starmer would keep the two-child benefit cap, he would not restore the cap on bankers' bonuses, he would not ban fire and rehire, he would not ban zero hours contracts, he would not implement John Smith's signature policy that employment rights should begin with employment and apply regardless of the number of hours worked, he and Wes Streeting would privatise the NHS in England, and everything in Rafah is a giving effect to Starmer's stated position on 11 October, as was the targeted killing of three British aid workers, military veterans all, with a weapon that had been supplied by Britain. Such are David Cameron's and Andrew Mitchell's public school Arabist instincts that both a halt to arms sales to Israel, and the recognition of Palestine that most of the world has done, would have happened by now if the Official Opposition had been calling for them rather than siding with the people who burned down churches and who spat on priests as matters of religious obligation. Labour is the greater evil.
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 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.
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