Vote Early, Vote Often?

It says everything about Keir Starmer that even now, Boris Johnson is not ruling out an early General Election. A General Election any earlier than 2024 would mean that since 2015, there had been four in seven or eight years, an average of one every two years or less.

That would be a disaster for every strand of political opinion that looked to the parliamentary system, for all its many and enormous faults and failings, as the best available means of delivering to Britain the endlessly interrelated goods of economic prosperity, social cohesion, political stability, and national security. Our Britain would look like a banana republic or a failed state.

The Leaderships of both main parties are strikingly close to authoritarian, elitist factions, and the people who are trying to take over the Conservative Party are striking close to the ones with which the Labour Leadership is already intimately connected. The Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Nationalists offer no hope in this regard; quite the reverse, in fact.

If there were to be a General Election this year or next, then we would be lucky to be allowed another one during the following 10 years, or every 10 years thereafter. If we protested, then as of this week we would already be looking at 10 years in prison, the same as in Hong Kong.