Jeremy Corbyn, who lost anyway, might have read out something that someone in Russia had put on Reddit, which was perfectly true in itself, and which also appeared in the Daily Telegraph. Meanwhile, in real news, Kantar today has Labour on 35 per cent and the Conservatives on 45. A 10-point Conservative lead is now routine. So much for Keir "20 Points Ahead" Starmer.
The Labour Party has ignored the advice of its own lawyers and spent eight million pounds paying off its racist former staff, who have spent five years gaslighting black people by presenting themselves and the rest of the Labour Right as principled anti-racists. They are as bad as the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is true to the Blair Government that created it in that it sacks its black and disabled staff first. Welcome to the metropolitan liberal elite.
This is the decade in which, with the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, Labour will become one of the three parties competing only for the votes of those rich white liberals to whom all three of those characteristics were equally important. For many decades hereafter, they will rant incessantly about how their lack of electoral success was the fault of the Russians, or the Chinese, or the Man in the Moon. And no one will pay the slightest attention to them.
Starmer has single-handedly created the phenomenon of the Black Wall, waiting to fall as soon as there are votes to be cast. Mass abstention, votes for locally organised candidates (through community organisations, black churches, mosques, and so forth), and votes for small Left parties, are all likely as forms of expression. The second and the third may of course overlap. But what if the Conservative Party were to make the proper play for the Black Wall that it has made, and which it is still making, for the Red Wall?
The Conservative Party now takes it as axiomatic that if you drew a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel, then everywhere north of that line had been dramatically impoverished and disempowered by all three parties since the Budget of December 1976, although never more so than under Margaret Thatcher, until it had risen in revolt to cast the decisive votes for Leave in the 2016 EU referendum, for Labour that delivered a hung Parliament in 2017, and to give the Conservatives an overall majority in 2019.
Therefore, the Conservative Party now takes it as axiomatic that there must there be a full strength Brexit at the end of this year, and enormous public spending along, and to the benefit of, the Red Wall. That spending is made possible by the recognition of the principle that a sovereign state with its own free floating, fiat currency has as much of that currency as it chooses to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling inflation, means that must therefore be under democratic political control. Again, this is now axiomatic to the Conservative Party.
Meaning that anything else may just as easily become so. To find out what that may be, then Boris Johnson should announce that each of the individuals listed here, and a nominee of each of the organisations listed either there or here, would now have a consultative role unless they chose to forego it, which would be their choice. The same should be extended to the rapidly growing Haredi communities.
Labour has a particular problem with black men. Only six black men have ever been Labour MPs. There are only three at the moment, with only two black men currently sitting as Labour Peers. There are fewer than 100 black men as Labour Councillors, and no black man in this century has sat either as a Labour Member of the London Assembly or as a member of the party's National Executive Committee. So Johnson could start by promising a black man, preferably a local and working-class black man, as the Conservative candidate in each of the 10 blackest seats that were represented by a white woman Labour MP.
Everything is now on the table, for those who are prepared to bring themselves to the table. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.
The Labour Party has ignored the advice of its own lawyers and spent eight million pounds paying off its racist former staff, who have spent five years gaslighting black people by presenting themselves and the rest of the Labour Right as principled anti-racists. They are as bad as the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is true to the Blair Government that created it in that it sacks its black and disabled staff first. Welcome to the metropolitan liberal elite.
This is the decade in which, with the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, Labour will become one of the three parties competing only for the votes of those rich white liberals to whom all three of those characteristics were equally important. For many decades hereafter, they will rant incessantly about how their lack of electoral success was the fault of the Russians, or the Chinese, or the Man in the Moon. And no one will pay the slightest attention to them.
Starmer has single-handedly created the phenomenon of the Black Wall, waiting to fall as soon as there are votes to be cast. Mass abstention, votes for locally organised candidates (through community organisations, black churches, mosques, and so forth), and votes for small Left parties, are all likely as forms of expression. The second and the third may of course overlap. But what if the Conservative Party were to make the proper play for the Black Wall that it has made, and which it is still making, for the Red Wall?
The Conservative Party now takes it as axiomatic that if you drew a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel, then everywhere north of that line had been dramatically impoverished and disempowered by all three parties since the Budget of December 1976, although never more so than under Margaret Thatcher, until it had risen in revolt to cast the decisive votes for Leave in the 2016 EU referendum, for Labour that delivered a hung Parliament in 2017, and to give the Conservatives an overall majority in 2019.
Therefore, the Conservative Party now takes it as axiomatic that there must there be a full strength Brexit at the end of this year, and enormous public spending along, and to the benefit of, the Red Wall. That spending is made possible by the recognition of the principle that a sovereign state with its own free floating, fiat currency has as much of that currency as it chooses to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling inflation, means that must therefore be under democratic political control. Again, this is now axiomatic to the Conservative Party.
Meaning that anything else may just as easily become so. To find out what that may be, then Boris Johnson should announce that each of the individuals listed here, and a nominee of each of the organisations listed either there or here, would now have a consultative role unless they chose to forego it, which would be their choice. The same should be extended to the rapidly growing Haredi communities.
Labour has a particular problem with black men. Only six black men have ever been Labour MPs. There are only three at the moment, with only two black men currently sitting as Labour Peers. There are fewer than 100 black men as Labour Councillors, and no black man in this century has sat either as a Labour Member of the London Assembly or as a member of the party's National Executive Committee. So Johnson could start by promising a black man, preferably a local and working-class black man, as the Conservative candidate in each of the 10 blackest seats that were represented by a white woman Labour MP.
Everything is now on the table, for those who are prepared to bring themselves to the table. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.
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