Not Playing?

"Clearly incompatible with our promise to have zero tolerance," you say? Has Jamie Driscoll been expelled from the Labour Party, then? Have the Labour members of his Cabinet been expelled from the Labour Party? Have the Conservative members of his Cabinet been expelled from the Conservative Party?

How come none of them, nor Simon Clarke, nor Nadhim Zahawi, has ever noticed that Jamie was a "Trot", or an anti-Semite, or whatever? Is Kim McGuinness likely to be so "refreshingly non-partisan", so "professional", and so noted for "not playing politics"? Are such traits generally observed in the right-wing Labour machine, or specifically in the right-wing Labour machine in the North East?

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 Keir 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.