To Deepen Your Humanity

Another long night after a long day, but I will be posting at length as soon as possible. Even Owen Jones has his uses, and he has pointed out that none of the prurient hysteria about rapes, beheaded babies, and what have you, is in the 7th October footage that people purporting to be journalists are allowed to see but not to tell anyone about. Why do you so badly want those things to be true? Believe nothing about that footage until Peter Oborne says so.

Notice that still no one will call Palestinian children "children", and that more of them have now been taken hostage from the West Bank, since they are not charged with anything but merely kept as future bargaining chips and tortured for sport, than have been released over the same period in return for hostages held in Gaza.

Still, as the Gaza ceasefire has been extended, so Keir Starmer has been completely humiliated along with those who marched with Boris "Let The Bodies Pile High" Johnson and Peter "Nine-Year-Olds Can Consent To Sex With Adults" Tatchell to demand that the genocide be resumed. No one from the Government turned up, but a member of the Shadow Cabinet addressed that ghoulish event. Labour is now the greater evil, worse than the Tories. We should no more want it to win the next General Election than most of its MPs wanted it to win the last two, or than any of its staff wanted it to win the last four.

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.