13 February - Screwed over by the Left
Before
the 1983 General Election I won the office sweepstake with the nearest forecast of Mrs. Thatcher’s
majority and went on to repeat the trick in 1987 when I was widely regarded as mad to bet that she would win with a a three digit majority. it turned out to be 102.
Since then my political predictions have been less than perfect but in 2024 I
stuck my neck out by saying that if Starmer was elected he would be brought down by the left wing
of his party in only eighteen months.
I was almost right. In nineteen months he has become a dead man walking by being
so incompetent and apparently corrupt that he has had to appease his left wing
in order to limp on for a few months.
Imagine an old Trotskyist brought down by colleagues so much further to the
left. Off the scale levels of stupidity.
Rayner and Miliband pulling the strings; God help us!
Yesterday I bumped into an old acquaintance on a train and the conversation strayed into politics.
“I am 68 and I have been working for 51 years, never a day out of work and as I
approach retirement I find this country is utterly fucked.” A young fellow,
black, not that that matters, joined in and said we had been lucky. His life was on hold due to the
cost of living crisis. He cannot buy a house or even have a holiday because Labour has screwed him over.
And now it is sure to get worse. In just the last day or two we have seen votes for 16
year olds brought forward to repay the left and the Minister for Women is proud to announce that she
will ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling on women only spaces.
I do believe they are certifiably mad.