In accordance with the policy of my trade union, I declined to endorse the Labour manifesto. Two years into a Starmer Government, disaffiliation is going to be a hugely popular idea right when there is an election for General Secretary. Join Unite Community here.
Even the last Labour Government made genuine progress on rough sleeping and on child poverty. This time, faced with a worse situation in both cases than was bequeathed by John Major, there is no proposal on the first, and there is the stated intention to do active harm on the second by keeping the two-child benefit cap.
The general tone of the incoming Government will be such that, as Neil Kinnock might have put it, I warn you not to be either working-class or a man, and I warn you like Hell not to be both. But the fightback has already begun. Watch this space. And where you can, if you have still not done so, vote for the Workers Party of Britain.
First past the post can’t be defended after this. “Reform’s roughly four million votes translates into a 14% share of the total votes cast in the election, but only 1% of all the seats in the House of Commons. By contrast, Labour won 34% of total votes cast, but about 64% of the 650 seats.”
ReplyDeleteIt can defended by the people who won under it. There is never any answer to that.
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