Ergo, it is not surprising that the NHS would be ‘struggling to cope’. Whether that amounts, as Ms Williment’s claim to “ The NHS is in crisis.” I remain skeptical.
For I wonder if these outbreaks of Norovirus are related to the ongoing practice of Yorkshire Water pumping raw sewage into the rivers. And there is also flu going around (which may or may not be related to flu vaccinations spreading live flu virus everywhere).
I
shan’t tell you what the missus said… she looked at the picture and
said, “what sort of mother lays her child down flat if she thinks it has
pneumonia?” She’s a heartless woman, my missus.
I remain to be convinced that the ‘Red Wall’ will collapse on Thursday.
Though certainly there are indications that it might. Prof John Curtice was on the Andrew Marr show hedging his bets with regard to the way tactical voting might swing. Mathew Goodwin seems more sure, And the papers are full of stories as to the jockeying for position as to who should replace Jeremy Corbyn (if they lose).
Paul Embury thinks he knows Labour’s problem, and Gloria de Piero appearing on the Marr show, (link above), is of the opinion that the membership is too posh.
I’m
not sure who the ‘we’ was in the headline, but it certainly wasn’t the
Labour party. First they attacked her for writing in the Sun, then they
attacked her for being racist, and then they just attacked her. Until a
week later she was claiming to have been misquoted, and then resigned (or was forced to resign) as the Shadow equality minister.
And to show how in touch with Red Wall voters Labour are, Sarah Champion was replaced with Dawn Butler.
Just to place this into further context.
Rotherham was a scandal in which the Labour council turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse and exploitation of thousands of girls, and boys, (often in council care). The issue was so toxic to the Labour party, and remains so, that a previous local Labour MP, Dennis McShane, (before he was convicted and imprisoned for fraud) admitted that he chose not to look into it.
And
it wasn’t just one scandal, similar things were happening all over the
country: Oxford, Telford, Bradford, Keighley, to name but a few places.
So to replace the MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, with the Brent Central MP, Dawn Butler, was as brain-dead as it was tone-deaf.
Fine, they didn’t want this embarrassing story brought up again. Particularly when the Labour party was actively working to suppress inquiries elsewhere.
Fuck
white kids, we’ve got a black woman… that is Labour’s mantra… and black
people suffer racism don’t you know? Yeah well so do white people at
the hands of the Labour party. Because let’s face it, if these kids had
been any other colour than white, the Labour party would have been all
over this… blaming the Tories… setting up commissions…. heck if they had
been gypsies or Irish, Labour might have shown a bit of interest. But
no.
As far as fat old smiley Dawn Butler is concerned, ((allegedly) probably), the issue was that there was not enough BAME representation in the raped kids. (Though
actually there was, as I pointed out while helping police with a cold
case inquiry in another Labour council, when people were finally allowed
to talk about this issue after Andrew Norfolk’s reporting: without Hope
not Hate endlessly harassing them) Because more BAME is Labour’s answer to everything.
“ All the teachers, academics, race and equality professions, and other experts. We are not afraid of experts unlike the Tories.”
Now
I don’t want to pick on Dawn Butler because she is just another racist
idiot in a party of racist idiots. And no doubt in the way of these
things, she is not the person responsible, but then very few of the
racist idiots in the Labour party are responsible people…. certainly not
those on the front bench.
Because in today’s Observer is the shocking story of Laura (not her real name). And I wanted to highlight Dawn Butler’s comment because of something very particular.
But first to outline the story.
Laura lives in Sheffield. Sheffield has a Labour council, and is one of Labour’s rotten boroughs. Laura’s mother, Susan (not her real name), had herself been abused as a child, and unable to cope with her daughters behaviour placed her in care.
“ while
living at the children’s home Laura was able to come and go as she
pleased, despite often showing signs of having been abused when she
returned. Those exploiting the teenager were allegedly able to call for
her in taxis sent to the home.”
Does
this have a familiar ring? This is why I use Ms Butler’s quote about
experts, because these are Labour experts, working for a Labour council,
who are apparently so expert at there job they are completely unaware
of what had gone on in Labour Rotherham: 6 miles away.
“ Labour
government will unite our country with positive policies. We will also
tackle the rise of the far-right and launch an independent review into
the spread of hard right extremism.”
Now don’t laugh, Ms Butler clearly has no idea why branding everyone outraged by the events in Rotherham as far right: or anyone who voted to Leave as a far right: or anyone pointing out that she is a useless poseur,
as far right: or indeed why her party branding her predecessor Sarah
Champion, as far right; might lead to the increase of the ‘far right’. Not because these people are ‘far right’, but because in Labour’s collective #mind, anyone who doesn’t agree with their group think, or can see through their ill-thought-out policies, is ‘far right’.
But don’t stop her, brain-box-Butler is on a roll…
“ I
and my fantastic team of Carolyn Harris, Naz Shah and Baroness gale
have announced many bold, positive policies to bring about true equality
in this country.”
I wanted to get to this bit of Ms Butler’s speech…
“ We
have already seen the University of Glasgow make available £20 million
in reparations. Other banks and businesses must follow. Labour will
begin with consultation hubs in Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow and London.”
Yes
that’s right whitey: reparations. Bonkers Dawn Butler, who only got her
job because her party is so racist they can’t deal with brown skinned
English men (I do so loath the whole Asian nomenclature)
raping, pimping out, human-trafficking, kidnapping, and occasionally
murdering young women, and boys. And to prove just how racist the Labour
party is, well they ain’t giving none of that money to you whitey —
your ancestor might have been up a chimney, down a mine, dying of throat
cancer in the cotton mills but you ain’t getting none of that money….
just come home… vote… and then piss off again… oh and die if possible,
if you are old… preferably on a trolley in a hospital corridor so the
Mirror can run headlines about how it is the Tories fault….
Because under big-brain-Butler (who knows you Northern fascists are gunna vote Labour, like the whipped white dogs you are)(it doesn’t matter if you’re not white, in Dawn Butler’s head you are, and you need to be taught a lesson)…
“ This
initiative is a vital component in the fight against the far-right.
There needs to be a greater understanding of Empire, colonialism, and
imperial migration. False framing of these histories reinforced the
artificial separation between their history and our history. It
reinforces an ‘us’ and ‘them’. Black history is British history. This
false division can develop into hate. So by breaking this down, we can
tackle the misconceptions, and start to stem the growth of the far-right
— which is the fastest growing threat in the UK.”
Yes you are going to be taught White Guilt. It’s genius.
I mention this because Labour’s big thing, beyond inciting racial hatred,
is money. They are forever going on about how much money is needed if
services are to improve. Thus it is important to bleed money out of the
economy for reparations (for the few, not the many), to make sure we have to spend even more money to improve services.
But let’s go back to the story of Laura (not her real name)….
and no I don’t know Laura is white, but I strongly suspect it or the
Observer would not be going out of their way to avoid mentioning race
(which they nomally do at every possible occasion)….
“it
took months for authorities to sit up and take notice”, and by the time
they did, the then 14-year-old “had been sexually exploited by over 40
adults”. According to the family, social services “turned a blind eye”
to the abuse, and they claim that South Yorkshire police failed to take
any meaningful action to pursue those exploiting the girl.”
And I haven’t got to the shocking bit yet…
“ Laura’s
trauma was so severe that she had to be taken out of the children’s
home and placed in secure accommodation for a year. At the end of that
year she was sent back to the same children’s home and “within days of
being there” the cycle of sexual exploitation had started for a second
time. At one point Susan gave the police the names of 21 suspects — but,
she claims, police did little to investigate. Only one of the suspects
was questioned, belatedly, and officers are said to have accepted his
word when he said he thought Laura was 18. At the time she was 14.”
So
a Labour council, six miles away from where the exact same thing was
going on in another Labour council, has learned nothing. And the Labour, police commissioner, Dr Allan Billings, is overseeing the same police force who also appear to have learned nothing.
Obviously it is Tory cuts.
I mean when you have a list of 21 names, of people alleged to have had
sex with a 14 year old girl, and one of them says I thought she was 18,
well that’s fine. I mean it’s not like it is exactly the same thing as happened in Rotherham. But it’s the Tories fault.
But
now we get to the experts, because as we know it’s the Tories fault
that mental health services are in the state they are in (it has nothing to do with the changes of @2007 that imposed CBT, forced drugging, and caused Fran Lyon to flee the country). If only more money could be spent, we could hire more experts like these in the psychiatric hospital to which Laura (not her real name) was sent after trying to commit suicide…
“The
level of care and supervision she has received at [the hospital] has
been appalling and she has been [treated] worse than an animal. She
attempted suicide by taking an overdose twice in four days and still she
wasn’t monitored. Currently she is being kept in segregation to keep
her safe. She has been held in a room for five weeks with only a mat to
sleep on and a toilet. She is being guarded by three to four males from
agencies that do not interact with her.”
Where is Dawn Butler when all of this is going on?
I only ask because when Sarah Champion did Ms Butler’s job she used to bring up stuff like this. Sometimes she would use imaginative means to do so, like going to the Sun. That is when she wasn’t protesting for Gaza with disgraced councillors.
Anyway, let’s see what the authorities have to say…
“Sheffield
city council was asked to comment on a number of specific allegations
relating to its dealings with Laura, but declined to do so. John
Macilwraith, the council’s executive director for people services, said
staff always acted when alerted to cases of child sexual abuse.
The psychiatric hospital similarly declined to comment.
South Yorkshire police said that a coordinated investigation was under way in relation to Laura.
A
spokesman added: “As part of this, hundreds of documents have been
compiled and reviewed, multiple witness accounts have been taken, a
number of searches have taken place and a total of 13 people have been
arrested.”
Because here is an odd thing. If you look at that list of seats doing the rounds on Twitter (with southern Labour lefties begging dimwit northern monkeys to vote Labour), it is noticeable how many of those places have been through this…. or something very similar.
And the sad thing is this only only the tip of the iceberg.
But
at least Labour are addressing the issue, and offering liberal abortion
laws so you do have an escape route for your children.
The Girl Guides ( Reg. Charity Number 306016) has decided to step into the election. And Jo Swinson ( UK Charity Number 1112842) showing all her political skill by retweeting their intervention.
According to to Girl Guides…
“ The descriptions of Jo Swinson as ‘bossy’ and being like a ‘head girl’ are sexist. This should not be happening in 2019.
34% of girls are put off politics because of the way the female politicians are portrayed in the media. #GirlsAttitudes #GE2019"
The Big Tent Non-Politics of the Lib Dems
I wonder what badges the dull girls, who lack the adventure to join the Scouts, can get?
Not that it matters because it will be more of the same silliness of telling girls and young womenwhat they must think.
So
it comes as no surprise that the Girl Guides should take it upon
themselves to try and tell the rest of us what to think. Nor that Jo
Swinson, who doesn’t think much, would like the idea that somehow it is all a vast sexist conspiracy that people don’t want to vote for her.
Nor should it come as a surprise that the Girl Guides should choose to illustrate their premenstrual whinging with an article from inews, from four days ago, based on Jo Swinson saying,
“ Jo Swinson has hit out at descriptions of her as “schoolmarmish”, “bossy” and being like a “head girl” as sexist.”
So
what the Girl Guides are saying is that Jo Swinson in 2019 shouldn’t be
saying these things, and that in 2019 Jo Swinson shouldn’t be
happening- a sentiment shared by many within the Liberal Democrats.
And if they are saying this, then I am sure we can all agree that Jo Swinson is likely to put off 34% of girls from going into politics… if not more.
Of course when Girl Guides reach the real world, where they won’t get a badge for eating sweets, they might find there are other more tangible reasons for why they are excluded from entering politics. But don’t let facts get in the way, these bright young things have got letters to write protesting Putin’s plastic homophobia.
It
is only a matter of time before Jo Swinson retweets the Girl Guides
highlighting an article in inews based on a Jo Swinson quote that it is
sexist to attack her on the issue of tuition fees. Because as a Scottish MP she shouldn’t be voting on purely English matters.
And for once I agree with her.
It is sexist.
Ever
since Blair made a dog’s breakfast of Devolution people have been
pointing out the inequity of Scottish MPs voting on English matters, for
which they are accountable to no one.
So to blame spiky fingered, hand waving, gappy toothed, bosomy, faux nanny, Jo Swinson for this is just wrong: and sexist. And it is about time the Girl Guides got onto the case.
Certainly
the cadres in Northern England will be aware of Scottish Universities
recruiting English students at open days to study north of the border,
so the Scottish education system can draw yet more money out of England,
via student fees, to make up the shortfall in funding caused by SNP mismanagement.
Though
it is doubtful, given that the Girl Guides are based in Buckingham
Palace Road, that the northern cadres would dare be accused of being right wing by the Londoncentric ruling junta. And will no doubt observe the diktats and stick purely to trivialities, and not real politics.
The reason he has to say this to young voters is that they won’t remember, as apparently John Major doesn’t remember, (or perhaps he does, and had his hands over his eyes like a wise monkey: thus not witnessing) the ERM debacle.
Young Voters Pop Their Corks For Blair
When Europhile Prime Minister, John Major,
pegged the Pound to a basket of European currencies in order to
harmonise economic policies throughout the EU. This resulted in Black Wednesday. When the whole scheme collapsed, costing the treasury some £3billion, but not before interest rates reached 15%.
Obviously
to young voters, living in the age of Blairite inflation, £3billion
doesn’t seem a lot of money, and 15% interest rates is meaningless. So
Mr Major can probably trick them.
He
might even get away with their not knowing that he is responsible for
the Brexit vote, by yet another of his disastrous foreign policy
decisions: namely the Maastricht treaty.
Dear old John, with his shirt tucked in his underpants,
was determined to be at the heart of Europe. And with public opinion
being relatively favourable to Europe, off he went, and back he came
with the treaty.
Now stop me, younger voters, if any of this sounds familiar.
And
those in parliament, who cared about things such as sovereignty and
democracy duly rose to the challenge to oppose the treaty at every turn.
With the result that the only way the legislation could get through the
House was because the Speaker, Betty Boothroyd, broke the Commons’ rules.
But
that’s right kiddies, you get taken in by nice old John, I’m sure he
can tell you all about the time students used to get grants: just don;t
ask him about the massive hole in the public finances his Euromania
created that meant we had to say bye-bye to such nice things.
To those following the Russianphobic tale of those trying to keep Hillary out of jail,
it should come as no surprise that the ex-British ambassador to Georgia
should chose to flounce out of her current role as ‘the embassy’s
‘Brexit counsellor’, in this manner.
Given the innate Anglo-phobia of Americans, they tend to crop the picture to omit Prasenjit Kumar Singh,
in order to somehow implicate Mr Johnson in the dual conspiracy of
Russiagate and Ukrainegate. I am somewhat skeptical of this picture, for
a number of reasons, the principle one being the sudden gossip about Mr
Johnson’s amorous lifestyle.
No
doubt there are some who will go further and link the flight of Mr
Trump from the NATO summit, and Mr Johnson being involved in the schoolgirl gossip.
CNN, being bad liars (though they try ever so hard) rather give the game away when they say, “ Johnson
has been ahead in opinion polls, but, as his lead has narrowed in
recent days, officials are nervous about anything that could undermine
his chances of winning a parliamentary majority for his Conservative
party.”
The
polls have not narrowed in recent days. Though I can forgive CNN given
this kind of talk is their business model during American elections:
drawing in campaign funds to get them to run native ads on behalf of one
party or the other.
The
only thing conclusion I am tempted to draw from this turn of events is
that the polls might be accurate. And the establishment are desperate
for a hung parliament, in order to kill Brexit in kangaroo courts.
At
best it was mood music for dopey liberal woman, to give them yet more
information to misrepresent, in order than they can muscle in to ‘share the pain’.
The Type of Multiculturalism Liberals Don’t Like
Curiously Mr Khan’s article gives no evidence that ‘minority’ voters are not represented in the opinion polls. But he does make this rather odd claim…
“ Journalists
don’t see ethnicity breaks in polls, and even at a constituency level
are not addressing the possibility that the pronounced Labour-lean among
ethnic minority voters might be affecting outcomes.”
Because, as we know, (if we are living in the racist world of the Guardian) the polling companies only ever ask ‘huwhyte’
people about their voting intentions. In fact, I have it on good
authority that when polling firms send people out to canvas opinion they
are issued with a colour chart, and ordered not solicit the views of
anyone of a darker skin-tone than French — albino Jamaicans and mulattos
are acceptable so long as they are voting Tory.
Of
course we shouldn’t ignore the possibly that in fact the polls are
entirely correct, and the only people voting Labour are students, the
guilt ridden middle classes, anti-Semites and ‘minorities’.
And being as this is a racist article in a a racist newspaper, we of course have to get onto the subject of racism…
“ We
can see the low level of interest in the way that racism is discussed
generally, as an attribute of individuals, or as part of a
sensationalist story about celebrities, rather than as a systemic or
institutional issue with deep historical roots in our society.”
What like the Runymede Trust producing unsubstantiated claims of racial bias in polling data?
No I correct myself, because Mr Khan does have proof of the bias.
“ Where
are the vox pops with young black voters? Where are the editorials
about the “genuine concerns” of Asian working-class men?”
And what does Mr Khan mean by “genuine concerns”?
Of course we know what Mr Khan means, he is a member of the ultimate Anywhere class, the tax-free charity leach. What he means is the “genuine concerns” of the Asian (when does someone born in Britain stop being Asian?) working class man, who agrees with Mr Khan’s prejudice.
As for the ‘young black voters’
not being seen in vox pops. Either Mr Khan is ignorant of how TV
current affairs programs are made, or is being disingenuous. Everybody,
who bothers to look, knows that news is manufactured and not reported.
The
editor sends out a tellydolly to find someone who confirms the
narrative. In commercial television it will be to please the
advertisers: on the BBC it will be to confirm whatever whim happens to
be the fashion of the day (as culled from the letters page, editorials, and sometimes comment sections of a select few publications). If your face, or your opinion, doesn’t match the requirements, then it doesn’t get shown.
What the hell does Mr Khan expect? Journalists to do some work?
However, the most depressing thing about Mr Khan’s racist screed is this…
“ This
is both a question of basic data, but perhaps more importantly about
understanding the nature of ethnic minority communities in today’s
Britain, and of racism. Even without data we have no shortage of
journalists touring the country and meeting voters, but there’s been
little curiosity about ethnic minorities and their views about Brexit,
racism, the NHS or the economy — or anything much at all.”
No Mr Khan this is not true. And no matter how much you repeat it, it will not make it true.
Much as you want a segregated society, and a narrative that somehow Labour is losing because of racism, it doesn’t wash.
It may come as a shock to you, but ‘minorities’ are not the Borg. They are individuals. And even more shocking is that a ‘young black voter’ will find their opinion reflected as often in a vox pop of a ‘batty old white woman’ as the ‘batty old white woman’ will find their opinion reflected in a vox pop of a ‘young black voter’….
i.e. probably not at all, because vox pops are every bit as fake news
as sound-bites, native advertising, and Guardian opinion pieces.
Another
story I found mildly interesting, but will have little effect, is the
news that the South West Norfolk Conservative candidate had his election
papers signed by Dennis Pearce. Mr Pearce is the brother of football pundit, and ponyboy, Stuart Pearce.
So what? I hear you say.
Well, Dennis Pearce was the BNP candidate for South West Norfolk in the EU elections of 2009, and the 2010 General Election.
Seemingly the themes of redemption
preached in the wake of London Bridge attack don’t apply in this case. I
cannot confirm if Mr Pearce is in Norfolk to further the aims of the British motor industry.
I can’t say I am surprised that the subject of Labour’s anti-Semitism will have little impact. Labour have been a racist party for years, and will continue to be so regardless of what the EHRC decides.
Ms Abbott has been keeping a low profile during the election campaign, perhaps because she has a tendency to open her gob and say stuff. It is somewhat surprising, given that if Labour wins she will be the Home Secretary, that she instructed solicitors to prevent the Telegraph reporting on proceedings when her son appeared before magistrates.
Elsewhere, everyone’s favourite conspiracy theorist (after Alex Jones and David Icke) Carol Cadwalldr was in the High Court defending herself in libel trial brought by Arron Banks, benefactor of the Brexit Party.
I can’t help feeling that Putinphobic Carol might be on a bit of a sticky wicket. Since it is barely two weeks since she was on Twitter telling everyone who would listen
that she had the data from Mr Banks’ hacked phone. And would be
checking carefully to see if Putin, or anyone else vaguely Russian, had
been ringing him.
Many
have questioned Ms Cadwalldr’s sanity, and I find myself wondering how
crazy to do you have to be to openly boast about handling stolen data,
when facing an upcoming libel trial?
My guess is crazy enough to believe the Trump Impeachment trial.
While
we are on the subject of crazy, I have been enjoying various foreign
utubers trying to explain, or give commentary on, what is happening in
the UK elections.
Aside
from their apparent complete misunderstanding of the process, or indeed
the nature of the First Past the Post system, my merriment levels
increased at comparisons between Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, and
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. I wouldn’t be so bold as to suggest
there are no similarities, but I would suggest it is lazy, and more than
a little self serving to say so
.
However, I am more startled by the admiration shown for Nigel Farage.
I do not deny his role in Brexit. But equally I recall him as a rather embarrassed chap standing beside Robert Killroy-Silk, way back in the day, while the latter was ranting about Muslims.
Frankly
I am astonished at suggests, by some, that Mr Farage could become Prime
Minister. If only because he appears unable to form a workable party,
as demonstrated by the defections today.
Though
perhaps my greatest levels of smug enjoyment come from these utube
experts attempts at predicting the result. This isn’t a normal election,
it is being carried out in the winter(so the weather may be a factor), and despite signals that Labour voters may swing Tory — I am not convinced.
If that does happens, and this is my hunch, it will be on much larger scale than the polls are showing.
For
those not paying attention to the UK General Election, they may not
have noticed a second election campaign running concurrrently: namely
the battle within the Labour party for who should be the leader.
Over the past week or so, there has been increasing speculation on the question of if Corbyn wasn’t the leader where would the party be in the polls. Various names have been thrust forward, Keir Starmer being most often mentioned. But according to long time Corbyn criticRachel Reeves, the new leader should be a woman. A theme picked up by ex-Tory Nick Boles.
Meet Emma Pencheon, self entitled, over privileged know-all. Who the chances are, will never pay a single penny of tax in her life.
I don’t deny, she does an important job: as a doctor. But I find it
frankly odd that she feels the need to lecture others about poverty, but
doesn’t seem to understand that those people are in poverty (among other reasons) because the money is being spent to pay her wages .
For as we know, if we are to believe the current narrative, she as a junior doctor (I think she said) is getting £80,000 a year. Well maybe she’s not.
Which makes me wonder why she isn’t correcting this mis-information,
rather than blathering on with Labour talking points that make a) no
sense and b) win no votes.
And Ms Pencheon wittering on in her faux accent, (as if somehow she understands from reading poverty porn in the Guardian or the Independent), may feed her dopamine addiction through comments about her being ‘so brave’, but it clearly isn’t cutting it with the voters: if the polls are to be believed.
I
suspect this would be the case regardless of the leader, because the
message Labour are selling only applies if you live in Labour-land.
For instance, the issue with trains is not the ticket price (the price is what it is) but rather not knowing if you are going to get fined.
And
claiming that the usage of food banks has increased by four thousand
million per cent since 2009, or whatever, is all very well. Except there
weren’t many food banks in 2009.
And
it doesn’t take a genius to work out that if you drive up the price of
heating by switching to inefficient and expensive green energy, then
people will be skint. Yes, yes I know, if we produced cheaper electric
with coal fired power plants, or nuclear, the phone-ins on radio
stations would be packed out with asthmatics complaining they can’t
leave their homes. It’s best we stick to the plan of waiting to get rich
when the coal seams turn to diamonds.
Still one things for sure, if Labour lose Ms Pencheon will be out of the streets with the rest of her reedy friends, hoping to become a great thinker like Laurie Penny.
In yet another stunning bit of vote losing, (IRA man) John McDonnell has come out with the extraordinary claim that under Labour ‘families’ will save £6,700 a year.
You
might wonder what the hell he’s talking about, since Labour are
committed to spending something like £400billion, which will no doubt
lead to inflation and devaluation of the pound. I would add the current national debt, but exact figures are hard find.
Now
while I agree, in principle, with re-nationalisation. It should be
pointed out that Labour’s figure of £6,700 is the best case scenario. It
doesn’t factor in the strikes that will inevitably occur, due to
renegotiation of employment contracts. Nor does it explain how they are
going nationalise sectors of industries, for instance energy, currently
held as part of nationalised industries in other countries.
And
that is completely ignoring the fact that if the second referendum goes
against them, and there is no Brexit/Lexit, there will be no savings at
all because they will not be allowed to re-nationalise.
Of
course if Labour were serious, which we all know they are not, they
would re-nationalise the Bank of England, and bring monetary policy back
under the responsibility of ministers.
No
doubt, economists would throw up their hands. But regardless of the
economic consequences it would at a stroke make politics more serious.
Instead of wasting time on pointless debates and policy, members of
parliament would be forced to address real issues, and be held liable
for the consequences of their actions.
It
is perhaps a sign of how little politics actually matter to the Labour
party that they find themselves trapped in a loveless marriage between
the Blairites and Momentum, with a voting base consisting of an Anywhere
class, leaching off the poor, and those too proud to ever switch votes.
With a week to go, to actual voting (and counting) only a fool would predict the result.
But I suspect things are worse in the Labour party than they seem on the surface. Unleashing Laura (I’m sure you’ll agree) Pidcock to push the message is a sign of desperation.
