Noticeably still including Jeremy Corbyn, there remain 35 MPs in the Campaign Group. Claudia Webbe is also still an MP. If those 36 did not oppose British military intervention in Ukraine, and that is what sending tanks is, then what has any of them ever been for?
While anti-war Conservatives are like leprechauns, believe in them when you see them, Corbyn and John McDonnell are the last of the 11 MPs and two tellers, all 13 of them Labour, who voted against the war in Kosovo, on 19 April 1999. Thus began the long, hard slog against neoconservatism, with Corbyn's name uniquely appearing in the right column of every Division List. At least in Britain, though, is this how that slog is going to end? Faced with the one that really could lead to a nuclear war, are they going to back down and back out?
But we are heading for a hung Parliament. 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 need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.
There seems little chance of George getting back in, Peter Hitchens won't stand, but you're a generation younger, we need you in Parliament next time.
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