No Go?

Yesterday, at least 300,000 people in London alone, with large numbers elsewhere, expressed the view of 76 per cent of the population by marching for a permanent peace, although of course the BBC said that there were three, and of course there were theatrical leafletting and arrests by the Police in obedience to political instruction from a sacked Home Secretary and from the Leader of the Opposition.

Later today, a tiny number will march for a resumption of genocide, although of course the BBC will say that there were many hundreds of thousands, and do not be surprised if the Police lay down on the ground to be stabbed, kicked, spat on, and so forth. They were stabbed by the same people at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, but their complaints annoyed Suella Braverman, who had directly incited it, and Keir Starmer, who had at least indirectly done so.

"Tommy Robinson", who broke his licence on that occasion, has not been arrested, and will be there again today, while no one else of any note wants to be. Choose today's march, and you have chosen him, and worse. You have chosen Marine Le Pen, on one of whose events this is openly modelled. You have chosen Geert Wilders; the Wilders is no doubt your latest wig after the Thatcher, the Trump, and the Milei. You have chosen Javier Milei, who stands a 50 per cent chance of launching an invasion of the Falkland Islands, and then what would you say? You have chosen the Dublin rioters. You have chosen the Community Security Trust, which follows black men home for having dared to walk down "its" streets, but which is being allowed to direct the policing of this event in Central London.

You have chosen Jonathan Pollard, who has emerged from wherever he is kept, still unrepentant at having killed at least 40 American agents in the Soviet Union after Israel swapped the American intelligence that he had sold it to fund his cocaine habit, for the often questionably Jewish Russians who are now such a hardline racist force in Israel; unlike some, those 40 or more dead were real. You have chosen a total collapse in journalistic standards, according to which carefully selected courtiers are shown footage, or claim to have been, "but I can say no more", and the public is just expected to curtsy and believe it.

You have chosen to say that Palestinians "die" while Israelis "are killed", that Palestinians "take hostages" while Israelis "administratively detain", and that Palestinians under the age of 18 are "aged 18 or younger", while Israelis aged 18 or younger are "children". You have chosen the mass hostage-taking of Palestinian children, since the vast numbers in such "administrative detention", every one of whom who comes out describes being beaten, have not been charged, have not been allowed legal representation, and have been kept for future political trading purposes, as we now see. Most of them have been picked up for throwing stones at the IDF, which is a lot less than the now governing West Bank settlers do to it daily and with complete impunity. You have chosen this. You are the Labour Party.

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 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.