Ultimately To Reverse?

We may be expected to believe that Boris Johnson was either barking mad, or giving succour to those who were, by claiming that his removal was "to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result", but here is Michael Heseltine saying exactly that and calling for the job to be got on with.

Of the last eight Prime Ministers, going back 33 years, only Johnson and the very short-lived Liz Truss have attained the office without at least some degree of endorsement from Heseltine, the man who killed the British coal industry and who privatised more of the British economy than any other single Minister in history. Theresa May had an odd way of repaying him, but look what happened to her.

Britain is already so closely aligned with the EU as to be one of the largest economies that conformed to EU law. It is inconceivable that the numbers of all those British officials who largely used to run the place have been deleted. Those of us who did not move in such circles got nothing out the EU, we are getting nothing out of Brexit, and we would get nothing out the EU again.

Rather than allow our strongholds to be electorally decisive a second time, a battle for the economically and socially liberal bastions of Remain is being engineered between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, the parties that until 2015 comprised the most stable Government since 2010. Nigel Farage has assisted them no end by announcing on television that, "Brexit has failed."

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.