An Attack On One?

You may have missed it, but NATO has today refused to admit Ukraine on grounds that will always apply to it, with even Ben Wallace, possibly in a stopped clock moment or possibly in a sign of things to come, calling the Zelensky regime ungrateful. At the group photograph, everyone else turned their backs on Volodymyr Zelensky, perhaps not knowing who he was, and undoubtedly bemused as to why he was there. We all remember those boys who pranced around in combat fatigues, but as another 45-year-old, let me assure you that they have grown out of it. Apart from Zelensky. How tiresome.

Thankfully, the unity was not ruined by the presence of Keir Starmer, who has been known to besport himself in such attire in his seventh decade. 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.