Parties To The Conflict

Colonel Jacques Baud tells it like it is about Ukraine. "We are at war with Russia," said the German Foreign Minister today, and that is obviously true. But, "We are not at war with Russia," "clarified" the German Foreign Ministry. Which is it? We all know the answer.

That Minister, Annalena Baerbock, is a Green. This is what Greens are, at least in government. The ones in government in Scotland are belligerent in the extreme. Greens are like the Liberal Democrats, who opposed the war in Iraq when they thought that they were always going to be in Opposition, but who waged the war in Libya once they had attained office. As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we know that one day, and pretty soon, everyone will claim that they had always agreed with us about Ukraine. For now, though, not a single MP is opposed to this madness. Not one.

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.