Theory In Practice

The treatment of Donald Trump is monstrous, but the Department of Justice is a federal executive department. If the unitary executive theory applies, then it applies under President Joe Biden. In having failed to foresee this, Trump may be a normal politician after all.

The Thatcher and Major Governments never understood that their vast extensions of central government power would eventually hand those powers to Labour Ministers, who would use them, and who would extend them further. That was what happened.

And no matter how hard some of us tried to explain it to people in and around the Blair and Brown Governments, they never understood that their vast extensions of central government power would eventually hand those powers to Conservative (and, unforeseeably at the time, Liberal Democrat) Ministers, who would use them, and who would extend them further. That was what happened.

So of course Labour is not opposing things like the ban on peaceful protest. 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.