Right then, Michael Gove, let's see it. Let's see the legislation to outlaw section 21 "no-fault" evictions.
And let's give three cheers for the three-term Labour Government that never ended them. Except on here, that faction is universally predicted to return to office.
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.
Labour will be winning a thumping majority, there's little doubt about it. With the polls showing Labour in a a massive lead for such a long time, it's all feeling very 1997.
ReplyDeleteI'd keep quiet about that, if I were you. But anyway, Labour needs a swing of 8.3 per cent to become the largest party, or 12.7 per cent, the largest in its history, to win an overall majority. No chance.
DeleteThe polls are absolutely consistent this time. They’re on course for a big majority. If they didn’t get one, it would be even worse and we’d be looking at a Lib Dem/Labour “progressive alliance.”
ReplyDeleteThe polls are not showing a swing of the necessary size, and they always narrow during the campaign.
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