Tell A Truth Big Enough

Showings of Oh, Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie were proliferating even before Glastonbury gave it the priceless publicity of cancelling it. The fear is that it will become "the default version of events" for an entire generation, much of it still in primary school or below in the Golden Corbyn Summer of 2015. To which one can only tell the late-middle-aged that it already is. As it should be.

That Keir Starmer is a planted spycop is nothing more than a statement of the blatantly obvious, and it is simply the only way of explaining his 40-year career. That Israel and its strongest supporters in Britain brought down Corbyn is something about which they openly boast, but it is "anti-Semitic" when other Jews say it, and the contributors to this film are about 50 per cent Jewish, narrated by Alexei Sayle.

Everything that they have said has been vindicated by the Forde Report. The EHRC found all of two specific examples to back up its predetermined conclusion of anti-Semitism, and both of those are subject to judicial review. Of course Harriet Harman subjected Boris Johnson to a kangaroo court, but that is the Blairite world of the EHRC for you, and what goes around, comes around.

Did a hall full of 2000 anti-Semites give Ken Loach a 15-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival? The third episode of The Labour Files is The Hierarchy, about the hierarchy of racism in the Labour Party as pointed out by Jackie Walker of this film, and it recently won the Gold Award for documentaries at the New York Festivals TV and Film Awards. Those awards, those festivals and that city may be many things, but they are not anti-Semitic.

Certain commentators are reduced to asserting that Corbyn's enemies among Labour MPs and on the party's staff could only have been relatively right-wing, since they were in the Labour Party. Those people have met them, so that is not a naïve mistake. Not that even that would be excusable in such a position. As anyone who has ever met most Labour MPs or any Labour Party staffers knows, they are the most right-wing people in British politics by a very long way.

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.