Arguable That The Defendant

The cranks are cranking that the Equality and Human Rights Commission has settled with Ken Livingstone and Pam Bromley out of the goodness of its heart, to spare them financial loss. What are you if you laugh at that? An anti-Semite? Get some new material, people.

Livingstone and Bromley did not even have to sue the EHRC. They merely applied for a judicial review of the report. They won that right. In the words of the judgment, it was "arguable that the Defendant [the EHRC] made an error of law in relation to Article 10 ECHR." Rather than answer that in court, the EHRC has folded. That was the last part of the scam that was still in place, so it is over.

As should be the EHRC, a notoriously anti-black, anti-Muslim and anti-disabled body that was created by Tony Blair in what we fondly assumed were his last days in power, and which saved itself from Dominic Cummings by producing the report that is now in tatters.

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.