More Potatoes Than A Russian Salad

Explain to me how the Wagner Group was not already banned in Britain, even if it can hardly be said to be active here, or remotely interested in becoming so? But for about 72 hours a few weeks ago, its members were supposed to have been Our Boys, and rather more recently their leader was apparently blown out of the sky by the Great Satan. Yet now, this. Anyone would think that the people who decided these things had no idea what they were talking about.

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.