Hope For Us All Yet

Noted for having more staff than readers, perhaps because it never employs anyone who really needs to work for a living, The Guardian is having paroxysms of joy that big individual donors are returning to the Labour Party, so that it no longer has to depend on common little members or on beastly little union johnnies. 

Several of these individuals were up to their necks in Tony Blair's sale of peerages, which are not honours, but seats in Parliament. Such are Keir Starmer's sort, and apparently they are the right sort. Although heaven knows what they think that they are buying. There is never going to be another Labour overall majority, and Labour stands no chance of being in office at all for many, many years yet.

Was it worth it? Was it worth committing fraud in order to throw the 2017 General Election merely to take back control of a party that was not worth having? You now claim that you used to "joke" that Starmer would put you 20 points ahead. But you did not. You stated it as a fact.

In reality, though, he has kept you permanently eight to 10 points behind. Much of the other half of the Red Wall will fall next time, and the Black Wall will fall with it as your racist Leader and his racist staff inspire mass abstention, support for locally organised Independents, and support for small Left parties. He may even lose his own seat.

Meanwhile, the party that has almost always been led by the Prime Minister, which is going to be led by the Prime Minister for anything like the foreseeable future, in which the Leader's word is law, and which defines itself as having no fixed ideology, has become the first Government in the world to adopt Modern Monetary Theory, mirroring the sorry fact that a British Labour Government was the first in the world to adopt monetarism.

The Conservative Party has largely been taken over by the old Revolutionary Communist Party. Anyone from Spiked who wanted a Conservative seat in 2024 could probably have one, and would then stand a well above average chance of Ministerial office. Claire Fox as a Minister in the Lords is already a perfectly realistic prospect. There is hope for us all yet.  The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.