"We have no objection to this march for an armistice on Armistice Day," says the Royal British Legion. Or words to that effect. And since the march was never planned to go anywhere near the Cenotaph, then the exclusion zone is either pure theatre, or aimed at someone else entirely. If not both. The Police will indulge Suella Braverman, but not to the point of allowing her her riot. "Tommy Robinson" and his diminutive following will be contained. Was that not what she meant?
Sadly, Braverman has allies elsewhere, with Camden Council seizing the tents of the homeless. To do what, exactly, with them? Labour holds 46 of the 55 seats on that authority, which is led by the New Labour princess, Georgia Gould. The party also holds both of the borough's parliamentary seats, with one MP being Keir Starmer. The other is Tulip Siddiq, who is intercontinental royalty and the Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Gould is undoubtedly one of the 100 Peers whom Starmer intends to create in order to staff his Government.
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.
There was a hate march all right.
ReplyDeleteAnd the love march would have been even bigger if the Police had not frightened numerous coach companies into cancelling bookings. You backed the wrong side there, lads.
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