The Rochdale Pioneer

From Lucas Wainwright to George Galloway, if you want to win, then be endorsed by this site. Jamie Driscoll is very lucky to have me.

Even I turned up to my own count. But of course Labour had thrown Azhar Ali under the bus because it had known that George was going to win. Of course it did not suspend him until he had made a statement about the media that even then had had only one word wrong with it, and not when he had repeated the suggestion of Haaretz and The New York Times that Israel might have had prior knowledge of the 7th October attacks. It is either that, or the Israeli intelligence services are even less frightening than a submarine-based British nuclear "deterrent" that does not work in the damp. That would suit me.

And while the number of children killed in Gaza since 7th October is not yet anything like as high as it was at Auschwitz, of course Chris Williamson is correct that the daily rate is probably higher. Are we not allowed numbers anymore? Like the people who were all in favour of identity politics when it was just hating men, and working-class and black men in particular, very much the same people were all in favour of the race card when they were the only ones who had it, specifically in the form of what they were able to present as the only genocide ever, of which they further presented themselves as the only victims, thereby somehow demanding unconditional support for a foreign state, which was not even a British ally, and which had not existed at the time, but which anti-British terrorists had by then been trying for decades to bomb into being. Like so many things, this war is being promoted on the basis of an obligation to believe any and every allegation of rape, without asking for anything so vulgar as evidence.

Such, as its viewers seem oddly prepared to overlook, is much of the content of GB News. Such is almost all of the political content of the Daily Telegraph. And such is Reform UK, which really only exists as a television station and as a newspaper, since whenever people are given the opportunity to vote for it, then hardly anyone does. It is soon going to lose that newspaper, most of the political writers on which effectively admit that no one else would employ them. Simon Danzcuk's list of grievances could have been presented in full during the campaign. He is nothing but a sore loser. Stop talking about the party that not even Lee Anderson, so popular that he is going to lose his seat, wants to join.

I am not a member of the Workers Party of Britain, but it should now be on the airwaves as often as the Greens, and more often than any party with no MPs. 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. We have made a start.