Real About Reform?

Behind the paywall of a newspaper that has never endorsed the Labour Party at any election and never will, the 60-year-old Keir Starmer has today anointed Wes Streeting as his successor, quite possibly in the course of the next Parliament, by confirming Streeting's bad Sixth Form policies of making GPs direct employees of the State and of allowing people to wander in on hospital consultants without any gatekeeping whatever. The hospitals, by the way, will have been privatised. Right as the GPs' surgeries had been nationalised.

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.