Free school meals yesterday, rent controls today. The only time that you ever learn that the Labour Party had a policy is when they ditch it. Lisa Nandy's objections to rent controls assume that other problems in housing policy are laws of physics.
As for not bringing back the Department for International Development, it was created by Tony Blair. It survived David Cameron, Theresa May, and well into the Premiership of Boris Johnson. But it did have its faults. So Keir Starmer has to explain why he does not want to revive it. I guarantee that his reasons will be the wrong ones.
But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Starmer would result in 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.
What do you make of the Boundary Commission?
ReplyDeleteI am going to post on it later today.
DeleteBank of England Governor Andrew Bailey confirms the COVID lockdown and not Brexit is the elephant in the room of the UK’s economic crisis.
ReplyDeleteBailey says: “One of the striking things about the UK is that the size of the labour force is smaller than it was at the outbreak of Covid. We have had a shrinkage of the labour force. We are seeing some reversal of that now but we are still not back to where we were pre-Covid.”
We will all be laying the price of that disastrous, stupid, unnecessary lockdown for the rest of our lives.
Everywhere had it, or everywhere remotely comparable. You did not get to go to the pub for a while. Someone said no to you for the first time in your life. Get over it.
DeleteWho mentioned Brexit? The Brexit obsessives are the twins of you lockdown obsessives. It is notable that no one is ever both. No one could live like that.
There are also Ukraine obsessives, as if the only three countries in the world were Britain, Ukraine and Russia. But they speak truer than they know. We have sanctioned ourselves.