Questioning Alister Jack yesterday, Labour's Rosie Duffield, Tonia Antoniazzi and Karin Smyth joined the Conservatives' Laura Farris and Rachel MacLean in making the point of principle against gender self-identification, as all five have what are now quite long records of having had to do against the practice of this Government.
But while both the Government and, noticeably, the SNP want to talk only about the constitutional question, Labour is not even doing that. It says nothing more than that none of this would have arisen in the good old days of Labour government both in London and in Edinburgh, so yah boo sucks to the Tories and the SNP alike, vote Labour.
Quite apart from the fact that that is not how anyone remembers relations between Westminster and Holyrood when they were both under Labour control, it is a contemptible approach to both issues, and it is yet another demonstration that the Labour Party is as bankrupt morally and intellectually as it is financially.
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.
The TRAs outside were shouting "Keir Starmer eat shit".
ReplyDeleteNo one is all bad.
DeleteStarmer is now hated by both sides. Jolly good.