Putin Things In Perspective

Well, it's not as if this "Russian hacking" made any difference. The Conservatives still won last year's General Election by a mile, so why are they making a fuss? 

The answer is that Dominic Raab, of Britannia Unchained and Anne Sacoolas infamy, wants to be the next Leader of the Conservative Party.

But he wants to lead that party from its pre-Johnson and pre-Sunak wing that does indeed want to sell the NHS to the Americans, and which really does believe that there are Russian and Chinese plots all over the place. 

Why he is not in Keir Starmer's Labour Party, I have no idea. As much as anything else, that party is not exactly spoilt for choice when it comes to potential future Leaders. 

It is all very well to say that a party that had flogged off the NHS would never win another General Election. But Raab and his ilk are fanatics, on whom such reasoning is by definition lost. 

And while it made no electoral difference, the documents themselves in this case were genuine. It was just that they referred to the Conservative Party before it had become electorally dependent on the Red Wall.

That was the party of Dominic Raab. It is now the Labour Party of Keir Starmer, in which Raab therefore belongs.

By the end of the decade, neoliberal and neoconservative zealots will be the only people still voting Labour. And they will be convinced, truly and honestly convinced, that it was the Russkies and the Chinkies who were stopping them from winning.

Meanwhile, in the sane world, 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.

Now, how about an investigation into Saudi interference in British politics? Or American interference? Or Israeli interference? Or Indian interference? I do not deny that the Russians and the Chinese are trying their luck. But they are not the ones who are having any luck.