Rallying Cry

It gladdens my heart that my old friend Maurice Glasman is coming round on Ukraine. Boris Johnson's Daily Mail front page article is of course the latest stage in his campaign to return as Prime Minister.

And whatever the failings of either of them, Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are unique among each other's opponents in being anything more than purely parochial and factional figures. People are always going to turn up to hear them, whether in huge numbers in Corbyn's case or for huge fees in Johnson's. Books by or about them are always going to sell. There will be films and television programmes about them from time to time for the rest of all of our lives.

Johnson could wipe the floor with Keir Starmer, but as it is, we are still heading for a General Election between Starmer and Rishi Sunak, certainly leading to 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.