David Blunkett was right about the unacceptability of sending a rapist to a women's prison. While the Government in which he was Home Secretary was awful in many ways, it never did that. But he was wrong to agree with Ann Widdecombe that they should voluntarily forego free dental treatment, and in her case also free eye tests.
A former Shadow Health Secretary, Widdecombe made the entirely false statement that the National Health Service had never been intended to provide, "free healthcare for everyone, including billionaires." Blunkett effectively endorsed that. Welcome to the Labour Party that no policy reason has placed 20 points ahead in the polls, mercifully 23 months before the next General Election.
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.
We need that balance of power, we need you in Parliament.
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