To give this Parliament its fourth Prime Minister, they are said to be preparing to crown Penny Mordaunt, who is responsible for this, and who supports the gender self-identification that has materialised out of thin air since Governments came to be comprised entirely of members of the Conservative Party. Apparently, she is the candidate of the Right. Well, of course she is. This is on the front page of the Daily Mail, so even if it is not really happening, then it is what some very powerful people want to happen.
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.
I have no plan to join the Workers Party of Britain, although nor would I expect to stand against it. If, however, it did not contest North Durham, then I would. 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. We have made a start.
That link is shocking.
ReplyDeleteEverything gets sent up the corridor to the Lords, to be turned into something enactable. It all goes back to the abandonment of proper hours in favour of the prioritisation of babies' bath times.
DeleteIf men and women can be self-made, this is what it means.
ReplyDeletePrecisely. With its concept of the self-made man or the self-made woman, Thatcherism has inevitably ended up as gender self-identification, which was unknown in Britain in 2010, meaning that it has arisen here entirely under a Conservative Government. Indeed, it was unknown outside anything like the British mainstream even in 2015, meaning that it has arisen entirely under a Government with only Conservatives in it.
DeleteIn December 2022, Margaret Thatcher was depicted on British television for the first time in quite a while, in Prince Andrew: The Musical, the title of which spoke for itself, and in which she was played by one Baga Chipz, a drag queen. Well, of course. A figure comparable to Thatcher, emerging in the Britain of the 2020s, would be assumed to be a transwoman, just as Thatcher herself emerged in the Britain of everything from Danny La Rue and Dick Emery to David Bowie and The Rocky Horror Show.
Hence Thatcher’s destruction of the stockades of male employment, which were the economic basis of paternal authority in the family and in the wider community, an authority that cannot be restored before the restoration of that basis. Thatcher created the modern Labour Party, the party of middle-class women who used the power of the State to control everyone else, but especially working-class men. Truly, as she herself said, her greatest achievement was New Labour. Leo Abse, who had had the measure of the milk-snatcher, also had the measure of Tony Blair’s androgyny.