Every Day Weak

At 36, Lee Rowley was making so little in the City that he could afford to become an MP instead. He is another Kwasi Kwarteng. So it is possible that he really does believe that the four-day week involves "removing up to 20 per cent of the capacity", in the way that next to no one at that end of the political spectrum any longer understands how the Universal Basic Income would work (even though it used to be one of their ideas), or how the money supply works.

In that case, then it is not he, so much as the hidden hands, that have decided that the experiment with the four-day week at the Bolshevik citadel of South Cambridgeshire District Council had been such a success that it had to be discontinued. The reason officially cited is that it was cutting the profits of the agencies that funded the Conservative Party. Everything else had improved. But that was what mattered.

Yet what are we offered instead? Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. 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.