Where Is Our Party?

Thames Water has returned to profitability. By hiking its bills. While there are grey areas, if something would obviously have to be rescued by the State rather than allowed to go bust, then it belongs in public ownership, just as if something obviously would not, then it does not. Corner shops? Obviously not. But water? Obviously.

At the point of privatisation, the water companies were debt free, as befitted the monopoly suppliers of something that everyone had to have, and the raw material of which fell out of the sky for free. The money that those companies paid out in dividends would easily cover any infrastructure costs. Yet leakage is out of control, and raw sewage is pumped into our rivers, our lakes and our seas.

And that is just water. See all the others as well. There is money for, as was again made clear this evening, the King's war in Ukraine, but not for trial by jury or for disability benefits, presumably not even for disability benefits for those injured fighting for a Ukrainian regime that itself seems to be heading to the dock for being as corrupt as we always told you that it was. We want 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. In the struggle for economic equality, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class, while in the struggle for international peace, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class and the youth.

Social solidarity is an expression of personal responsibility, personal responsibility is protected by social solidarity, international solidarity is an expression of national sovereignty, and national sovereignty is protected by international solidarity. Equality and diversity must include economic equality and class diversity, regional equality and regional diversity, the equal sovereignty of diverse states, and equal respect for diverse opinions within a framework of free speech and other civil liberties, including due process of law with the presumption of innocence, requiring that conviction be beyond reasonable doubt.

All of this is opposed by and to the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the anti-industrial Malthusianism and misanthropy of the Green agenda, the treatment of identity politics as equal or superior to class politics, the treatment of gender identity as equal or superior to biological sex, the cancel culture of which our people have always been the principal victims, the erosion of civil liberties, the stupefaction of the workers or the youth, the indulgence of separatist tendencies in any part of Great Britain, the consideration of any all-Ireland settlement that failed to preserve the National Health Service and other such achievements, or the failure to recognise that a sovereign state with its own free-floating, fiat currency had as much of that currency as it chose to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling any inflationary effect, means that therefore needed to be under democratic political control.

On point, after point, after point, we never could have voted Green, and we cannot vote for what Your Party has chosen to become. Parliament's website lists Zarah Sultana as the latter's only MP, and the Hard Right staff that controlled Labour candidate selection both in 2019 and in 2024 should explain how anyone ever signed off on a candidate with her views and connections. Say it again that we could never vote for that, just as we never could have voted Green. But we will vote.