Whatever Floats Your Boat?

Kinnock. Clue's in the name. The Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion all rolled into one. Most people would have taken it as a given that Labour was going to keep the barge that we were paying £400 million per year to rent although it would cost only £50 million to buy, were it not a floating Grenfell Tower waiting to happen. Even while it cannot be used, it is still being paid for. That money is now very much in circulation, and we can all see where some of it is going. Stephen Kinnock wants more than one barge. Everyone can see why.

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.