Constructive

On the Government's constructive motion of no confidence, and that is where this country now is, the Left should vote in both lobbies, thereby leaving absolutely no doubt as to its equal rejection of Boris Johnson and of Keir Starmer.

That would set the pattern for the next General Election, no matter who was the Leader of the Conservative Party, or indeed of the Labour Party. If you can find £500 from somewhere, and 10 mates to sign your nomination papers, then you can get onto the ballot paper. I know, because last time, I did.

We must be in absolutely no doubt what we stand for. The following was recently sent to several publications:

We seek to strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty.

We therefore recognise the leading role of those who suffered most as a result of economic inequality, namely the working class, and the leading role of those who suffered most as a result of international conflict, namely the working class and the youth.

As such, we oppose the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the anti-industrial Malthusianism and misanthropy of the Green agenda, the treatment of identity politics as equal or superior to class politics, the treatment of gender identity as equal or superior to biological sex, the cancel culture of which our people have always been the principal victims, the erosion of civil liberties, the stupefaction of the workers or the youth, the indulgence of separatist tendencies in any part of Great Britain, and the failure to recognise that a sovereign state with its own free floating, fiat currency had as much of that currency as it chose to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling any inflationary effect, means that therefore needed to be under democratic political control.

We seek direct representation for our people on public bodies and in the media. Our people could and should hold the balance of power after the next two General Elections, before winning a third outright. 

We would be more than capable of cutting a deal with a clique that believed only in its own birthright to rule. That would be preferable to trying to deal with a faction that believed, as first principles, in permanent austerity at home and in forever war abroad.

Yours faithfully,

David Lindsay, Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2019 and 2024

Paul Knaggs, Editor of Labour Heartlands

The strikes will conclude with the proof of that last point. In contrast to Labour's intransigence, the workers in struggle will at least get something out of the Government. Sooner the bosses than the scabs.