ROYALTY HAZ HAD ITS DAY
LABOUR must unveil a future Prime Minister rather than merely another Opposition leader when the party reveals the winner of its Masked Singer competition.
The public as well as members need to see behind the contenders’ political masks a compelling politician they want to put into Downing Street.
Iraq and riches deprive Tony Blair of a fair hearing yet the hattrick victor is on the money arguing Labour’s task is to win power, not make itself feel better.
Triumphing from the Left is doable when red policies such as the £10 minimum wage, higher NHS spending, rail renationalisation and imposing fairer taxes on the highest earners are popular.
So throwing out last month’s manifesto bathwater with the baby would be a mistake.
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Extinction Rebellion as extremists alongside neo-Nazis and jihadis fails to distinguish peace from war. Asking teachers to spy on pupils striking to save the planet helps explain why plod misses killers. No wonder MPs want the Prevent anti-terror scheme reviewed.
UNTIL now I never thought Britain could be a republic in my lifetime.
So thank you Andrew, Harry and Meghan for trashing a preposterous medieval hangover from the inside.
Paedophile’s friend Andrew and abdicating Harry ‘n’ Meg highlight the infantilism of deference and the stupidity of letting one privileged family preside unchecked.
We’ve reached a potential tipping point when even monarchists complain the emigrating Sussexes wish to keep the £2.4million cottage, fancy matching titles, expensive security and other perks to make money out of their royal status for in 2019, a greater liability confused Brexit cowardice.
Four straight defeats is a crisis for a political party.
Since Labour was born in 1900, only six leaders have become Prime Ministers: Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. During those 120 years it has been in Government for only 33, a little over a quarter of the period.
What was achieved in that time is nothing in return. Let HarMeg depart unsubsidised yet unsavoury Uncle Andrew remains the graver threat when trafficked young women claim they were exploited by the Buck House chum of American sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Labour wannabe leader Clive Lewis was too hasty proposing a referendum because the Queen, 93, is undeniably popular.
After Elizabeth the Last however, the monarchy will be left fighting for its life. Sleaze and spat dummies are nails hammered into the coffin by royals themselves.
DEPART Harry and Meghan than little short of miraculous from a Labour and trade union movement which is the most progressive, sustained force for radical change our country has ever enjoyed.
The NHS, much of what survives of the welfare state, employment protection, legal abortions, gay and race rights stand as monuments to the superiority of democratic socialism over the bloodied fangs of Tory capitalism.
Yet until Labour persuades the general public it, not lying incompetent Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, should be in Government, the party’s leaders will be carrying placards outside Downing Street instead of watching from behind No10’s iron gates as their faces appear on posters carried by Tory protesters.
The only question Labour’s electorate should consider is who is most likely to win 2024 or 2025’s general election.
Any others are factional indulgence.