Every day brings fresh articles to show that Keir Starmer and his rabble are economically not egalitarian enough or democratic enough for The Guardian. There are banana skins that are economically more egalitarian and more democratic than The Guardian, while its core readership, which it understands perfectly, has at least two other places to go electorally in England, two in Wales, and three in Scotland.
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.
The Observer is shilling furiously for Starmer.
ReplyDeleteIt is worried that its readers will vote Lib Dem, Green or SNP. Meanwhile, The Guardian's hostility to Starmer is something to behold, although it may not last into a General Election year.
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