Of Protest

What was rejected in 2019 was Jeremy Corbyn's capitulation to Keir Starmer over a second referendum on EU membership. Without that, then there would never have been a General Election in 2019. Had Starmer never inserted that into his Party Conference speech at the last moment, or had Corbyn sacked him for it, then the Election would have been in the spring of 2022, and it would have resulted in a hung Parliament with Labour as the largest party. Heaven knows what would have happened then, but that would have been the result.

Still, now you have it from the horse's mouth. "Labour is not a party of protest." It is not for people who dislike things the way they are. It is for people who just want the status quo to be run better, mostly by those who were not quite so flagrantly crooked financially. There is plenty of time for Labour to lose its poll lead, which is not based on any policy difference with the Government.

Since you almost certainly can see the problem with Britain as it is, then you have absolutely no reason to vote Labour. That party does not even want power, which can be wanted only in order to do something with it. It wants the trappings of office, which Starmer and his circle could afford anyway, but which they want everyone to pay for them to have. The last Labour Government was no less sleazy than this one, and nor would a Starmer Government be.

But Starmer's dishonesty is becoming a story. He lied to his party members to get their votes, so he would lie to anyone else to get their votes. 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.