Reading The Ruins

Three things to take away from Geoff Norcott's programme last night, How The Middle Classes Ruined Britain.

First, the State is much better at primary education than the private sector is, so the real gaming of the system is for primary school places, and presumably nobody proposes the 5-plus.

Secondly, the "free" market in housing turns city centres into playgrounds for the rich and into property banks for absentee speculators, with the worst offenders being right-wing Labour Councils.

And thirdly, he interviewed Harriet Harman's son. In the light of all of the foregoing, make of that what you will.

The working class needs to bypass both the municipal Labour Right and the Liberal Establishment both in education and in the media, and it needs to develop ways of doing so in housing and in other fields.

The EU referendum result has confirmed that the workers, and not the liberal bourgeoisie, are now the key swing voters who deserve direct representation on local public bodies, on national public bodies, in the media, and at the intersection of the public and media sectors.

Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration.

I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up.

I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so.

In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.