All Of That Lot?

"Kamala Harris is a sinking ship. That must be why Leonardo DiCaprio has got on board." There's only one George Galloway. While the Washington Post's reasons for declining to endorse Harris remain debateable, the Los Angeles Times has done so because of the genocide of Gaza. That liberals are cancelling their subscriptions says everything that we already knew about liberals.

Including by not sanctioning Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, and at least arguably Benjamin Netanyahu as well, Keir Starmer's Government is making the United Kingdom an active participant in this state-backed settler terrorism on the West Bank. Centrism and right-wing populism are con tricks to sell exactly the same economic and foreign policies to different audiences by pretending to wage a culture war. Fascism is inherent in both of them, and it never arises except by their joint enterprise.

Therefore, since the centrists have lately transferred their affections from the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran to the monarchists, or at least divided them between the two, yesterday's march and rally in support of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon featured most or all of the Iranian monarchist flags in Britain outside specialist museums of one or more of Persiana, royalty and vexillology. As with the ubiquitous Israeli flag, note well that this is who the wavers of such are.

As when the same faction stabbed the Police at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, these drunken and cocaine-fuelled events are always noted for public urination, in yesterday's case on Westminster Abbey, among other things. That seems fitting in the country where the water companies have certified themselves as having passed pollution tests that were never carried out.

Yesterday's denunciations were mostly of Reform UK, and this morning Richard Tice took to GB News to return the compliment, professing that, "All of that lot, we have nothing to do with them, we want nothing to do with them." There go Reform's existing supporters, then. And in return for what? For whom?

Half of Conservative councillors, not noted as woke Marxists or what have you, think that Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick are both too right-wing to win a General Election. One third of Conservative MPs voted for James Cleverly, and no small proportion of the rest voted tactically, if incompetently so, in what they had thought was that interest. In the places that returned Conservative MPs even this year, being the Tory MP is at least as much a social as a political position, and even more so for the wife. And so on. It is not going to happen.