If the Government cares so much about Armistice Day, despite not knowing the meaning of the word “armistice”, then why do veterans sleep in the tents that the Home Secretary so deplores, although she does not deplore them in the good way? And those veterans are relatively fortunate. Not all of them have tents.
Michael Gove is said to be preparing to redefine nonviolent extremism as, “the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy, its institutions and values.” People are saying that the first arrest ought to be of Suella Braverman. But while she does make a significant contribution to such overturning and undermining, she does not do so nonviolently. Yet what are we offered instead? Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper. Tony Blair used to say exactly the sort of things about the homeless that Braverman says now. No doubt he still does.
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.
Suella Braverman used £25k of expenses to pay her parents Energy Bills for 5 years when she occasionally stayed there rent free.
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"It was all within the rules."
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