Eve of Poll Card

I have been called worse.

I am not firing on all cylinders, nor shall I be for quite some time, but this General Election has no possible outcome that would not make the case for my ongoing projects, most immediately my weekly magazine and my thinktank. Having initiated so much, I shall not have the right not to play my part in providing the necessary extraparliamentary support for the small number of MPs who sought 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. If no one did, then we see in France what would fill the vacuum.

Here at North Durham, we have the privilege of being able to vote for Chris Bradburn, who has already made himself a presence in community campaigning and with whom I look forward to working, as best I could, for many years to come. Vote for the Workers Party of Britain wherever you can, then for those Independents whom it had endorsed, then for other Left Independents, and then for the SDP. None of those is standing at Clacton, so vote there for Nigel Farage so that he and George Galloway could back each other up in daring to state the obvious about Ukraine. If you considered that a good enough reason to vote for Reform UK anywhere else where none of those other options presented itself, then I would not blame you.

The entry of Andrew Feinstein into the British electoral process ought to be huge news. He is vastly better qualified than his Labour opponent at Holborn and St Pancras. Next door at Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn could end this week as the Father of the House. And if a party returns at least one MP, then no vote for it, anywhere, has been wasted. Short Money is £19,401.20 for every seat won at the most recent General Election, plus £38.75 for every 200 votes gained, with a further £213,132.53 in travel expenses divided among the Opposition parties on the same basis. It would not be your possibly ropey local candidate who decided what to do with that money. It would be the Leader. George is on course to hold Rochdale. Vote for the Workers Party.