We must fight to our last breath against digital ID, against any attack on trial by jury, against any loss of the automatic right of appeal from the Magistrates' Court to the Crown Court, against rule-taking EU vassalage, and against any criminalisation of efforts to dissuade children from embarking on drastic and irreversible hormonal and surgical treatment. We must fight no less vigorously to make up the deficiencies in the legislation that had already been enacted on workers' and tenants' rights, which had been watered down to the point of homeopathy in breach of the Labour Party's successful manifesto.
Speaking of homeopathy, making a 77-year-old cancer patient read out that rubbish, in public and on television, was nothing short of elder abuse. But next time, the King might at least enjoy the rarity that the drivel had been written by another Cantabrigian. Either Andy Burnham or Wes Streeting would give Cambridge its first Prime Minister since 1937, and Labour its first from a comprehensive school (the Conservatives have already had Theresa May and Potty Betty), but Streeting would not change the apparently constitutional rule that no male product of any mixed secondary school, state or private and comprehensive or selective, should ever become Prime Minister. No, that really has never happened. Look it up. Still, while St Aelred's Catholic High School may sound like a boys' grammar, at least by Burnham's time it was a mixed comp. Burnham was born in 1970.
Immediately behind the Chief Whip, Barry Gardiner was holding a copy of Paul Holden's The Fraud, a devastating study of Morgan McSweeney, Labour Together, and all that. Labour is a party of extremely right-wing people who lack the social connections to make it in the Conservative Party, and whose two defining experiences were being brought up to spit on everyone below them, which was everyone else where they grew up, and discovering in their first 36 hours at university that they were nowhere near the top of the class system, a discovery that embittered them for life. Like Keir Starmer, Burnham is really one of them. But Streeting is their distilled essence.
At 68, the venerable Afzal Khan was always on for a peerage sooner rather than later. Bringing that forward by a couple of years would indeed make it possible for Burnham to contest the ensuing by-election at Manchester Rusholme. But in 2024, the Greens and the Workers Party came second and third there, with a combined vote of 36.1 per cent. Next door, Gorton and Denton was far safer for Labour. It is not now. The Greens acknowledged that the Workers Party's standing aside had got them over the line, so if they did not return the favour, then the Workers Party should go very hard indeed.
Zack Polanski rents one room in a building the sale of which would net his and several other people's landlord two million pounds, but these days that is London, and increasingly also elsewhere. Polanski, however, could not possibly have believed, either that the Council Tax on his houseboat was covered by his mooring fees, since it would have said so on something that he had signed, or that he was not liable to pay Council Tax on what was clearly his main residence, since he was registered to vote there. Indeed, he has apologised. But unlike you or me if something so basic did not turn up, he never asked the council where his bill was. For years. While sitting on a London Assembly to which he was not paying the precept. Oh, yes. Hit the Greens hard.
Next up, Clacton. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is going to find Nigel Farage in breach of his duty to register Christopher Harborne's gift, so tax-free, of five million pounds. Farage's prominence and the sheer sum of money, as well as Harborne's being based abroad, will lead, not only to Farage's removal from the House of Commons even if that required the first formal expulsion since 1954, but also to his disqualification. The death of Shirley Porter created a vacancy for Britain's most corrupt living politician. Farage and Boris Johnson have been giving each other a run for Harborne's money. Johnson is already banned from applying for a former MP's parliamentary pass, a shocking censure of a former Prime Minister.
Time was when Farage could have threatened to bring his boys out onto the streets, but they are increasingly sick of him, and the powers that be are growing less frightened of them. Using bladed articles that they had brought for the purpose, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's drunken and coked up supporters attacked the Police at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day 2023, leading to the second sacking of Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, that time because she had encouraged them. That was the first Zionist terrorist attack in London in many decades, but it was not the first ever. Anything comparable in the Palestinian cause would have led to the imposition of martial law. But, with the Met perhaps stung by criticism of its recent online love-in with Yaxley-Lennon, the Unite the Kingdom march and rally on Saturday is going to be policed like the Right had not experienced since the 1930s, if ever.
This event is so remote from the mainstream of working-class male culture that it clashes with the FA Cup Final, but then for which England team do the Yaxley-Lennonists cheer? The one full of blacks? Or the more successful one full of lesbians? At least five foreign nationals have been banned from entering this country in order to use the Unite the Kingdom platform to call on Donald Trump to invade the United Kingdom and effect regime change, for which numerous guests on our shores had the effrontery to call from that platform last time. Three of those five are from EU member states, so their prohibition is a Brexit benefit. In March, Starmer literally gave the red carpet treatment to President Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria, who is otherwise Abu Mohammad al-Julani in the manner of "Tommy Robinson", and who is massacring Christians as befits a sometime second-in-command both of Al-Qaeda and of the so-called Islamic State. Al-Sharaa should not have been given houseroom, and nor should Filip Dewinter, Valentina Gomez, Ada Lluch, Joey Mannarino or Eva Vlaardingerbroek. Whoever radicalised Moses Edwards, it was not "al-Julani".
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