So the phoney war is over. The voters of Uxbridge & South Ruislip now have a clear choice - on Heathrow, HS2, NHS, rent reform and housing.
So tweets the Labour candidate, Chris Summers.
I hope that he will also be able to take on Boris Johnson over drug legalisation.
Simply by adhering to Labour Party policy, Summers will be able to confront Johnson's advocacy of no immigration controls whatever.
With drug legalisation, the abolition of all controls on immigration will presumably be Johnson's pitch for Leader next year.
With drug legalisation, the abolition of all controls on immigration will presumably be Johnson's pitch for Leader next year.
Johnson has at least been a known and unflinching global anarcho-capitalist since before he was selected, never mind elected. No entryist, he.
People sometimes say that the next Parliament will be as those of the 1980s would have been if between 50 and 80 per cent of the Official Opposition's MPs had been members of the Militant Tendency.
But they are wrong. The Militant Tendency had no existing foreign entity to which it owed allegiance.
Rather, the next Parliament will be as those of the 1980s would have been if between 50 and 80 per cent of the Official Opposition's MPs had been members of Straight Left or of some Maoist faction.
Rather, the next Parliament will be as those of the 1980s would have been if between 50 and 80 per cent of the Official Opposition's MPs had been members of Straight Left or of some Maoist faction.
There is a civic and patriotic duty to decapitate this beast even before it rises from its slumber, by electing Chris Summers instead of Boris Johnson.
Meanwhile, George Galloway told a large stadium and huge television audience on Thursday evening that he was "real Labour", and that he wanted a Labour Government in the spring.
There is going to be a Labour Government, anyway. Labour has an eight-point lead this weekend. That would translate into an overall majority of 96, which is well over twice the number of Labour MPs from Scotland, and not very far off twice the number of Scottish MPs in total.
Logically, therefore, Galloway must be leaving Parliament in favour of the Labour candidate at Bradford West. There is talk of a bid for Mayor of London.
There is going to be a Labour Government, anyway. Labour has an eight-point lead this weekend. That would translate into an overall majority of 96, which is well over twice the number of Labour MPs from Scotland, and not very far off twice the number of Scottish MPs in total.
Logically, therefore, Galloway must be leaving Parliament in favour of the Labour candidate at Bradford West. There is talk of a bid for Mayor of London.
I can't stand Johnson and I live in London.
ReplyDeleteIf he favours even less immigration controls than the Labour Party that is certainly not a plus point for Labour-it's a Nixon-China point.
Vote for neither of them.
The only party in the whole of British politics that favours real immigration is obviously the one I vote for-and tonight's poll has us surging in Clacton.
Has it already come to that?
DeleteYou probably don't even know what I mean, do you?
Wow. Just look at this. The voters really are rejecting the old parties-and not just in Scotland.
DeleteGideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos MORI said: “Only 74 per cent of voters with a preference choose one of the three main parties — history tells us that’s unusually low, and a fall from nine in 10 even in 2010.
“In other words, one in four are giving their vote to a party outside the main three, highlighting the troubles they all face — and Ukip are the main beneficiaries.”
A striking finding is that more Labour Party supporters say they are dissatisfied with Mr Miliband (46 per cent) than the 42 per cent who say they are satisfied with his performance as Labour leader
Those Leader satisfaction questions are an inappropriate American import. The only pertinent question is for which party people will vote at the General Election. The results of that have now been very clear for years. And they are becoming even clearer.
DeleteThe first two paragraphs dealt with voter preferences. You clearly only read the last one.
ReplyDeleteNo, each and all of them make my point.
DeleteIf UKIP won at Clacton, then it would be with the incumbent MP. What would that prove? Nothing.
Or, at any rate, nothing that you would like.