In The Lionesses' Den No More

Well, that's that, then. I would have loved to have been able to have said that English football was now primarily a sport for girls, although I would then have had sympathy with girls who did not play it, condemned to be as miserable as boys like that.

As it is, though, the idea that the Manchester United players on the England women's team should now be given the last word on the fate of Mason Greenwood has somewhat lost its punch. Although they are still better-qualified than Rachel Riley.

Greenwood's class, sex and colour make him the sort of person that the economic changes that began with the Labour Budget of December 1976 have enabled people of Riley's class, sex and colour to harness the power of the State to dominate and persecute. In any one or more of class, sex and colour terms, whom do you more closely resemble? Greenwood? Or Riley? And even if your answer is the latter, if you feel any need to stand with the oppressed, then which of them is that?

Riley and her entourage are indifferent to the fact that a working-class woman and her baby daughter may be deprived of their livelihood. You either went to Thorpe Hall School and then completed an internship at Deutsche Bank, or you did not. Thorpe Hall School, where the fees are currently £15,084 per year plus extras, with a grand's deposit merely to accept a place. And an internship at Deutsche Bank, because who needs to be paid? What are Mummy and Daddy for?

But if the widely circulated recording of Greenwood and his alleged accuser had been verifiable, then the Crown Prosecution Service would have proceeded against him with a firm expectation of success, although that circulation and the comment on it could have been argued to have prejudiced the trial. It is demonstrably a fake.

Meanwhile, all 16 of their body cameras malfunctioned as Israeli policemen branded the Star of David onto the face of a Palestinian who was certainly of the same sex as Greenwood or the uproar would be audible even to the London media, who was probably of much the same age, and who was of a much more similar colour to him than Riley was. To side with Riley on anything is to side with this branding, and with everything else like it, while to remain neutral is to be complicit. There is therefore a moral and political obligation to side with Greenwood.

Greenwood does not "deserve a second chance". He is still on his first chance. He should never have been suspended on the basis of mere allegation, a pernicious practice that the Rileys of the world are now trying to impose even on Parliament, in order to empower the likes of Jess Phillips to get rid of any MP whom they wished to replace with someone else of their own choosing through the tightly controlled selection processes in all parties.

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 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.