Saturday, 1 July 2023

Lumps of Excrement

Jeremy Clarkson has endorsed Keir Starmer. Who turns out to have been in secret talks with the privatised water companies to prevent their desperately necessary, and massively popular, renationalisation.

The Labour Right is not "moderate". It is not "centrist". It is not remotely "social democratic". There is no one at any level of the Conservative Party who is remotely as far to the left as most Labour MPs, and all of the party's staff, are to the right.

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.

2 comments:

  1. Considering it controls the party way ahead in the polls, the media never scrutinise right-wing Labour.

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    1. Indeed. They never even call it by its name. But then, what do the fish call the water?

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