Thursday, 6 July 2023

An Epicentre of Terror

Naftali Bennett has forced the BBC to apologise for having agreed with him. He confirmed that his troops were happy to kill their targets, and he confirmed that some of those targets were 16 or 17 years old. Are all of them even as old as that? But in any case, this man has no shortage of supporters in British politics and in the British media. Safeguarding? Prevent? Are you there?

Still, 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 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.

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