Nigel Driffield
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Markets only work when there is equality of opportunity to engage in them.
No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.
Ask any lawyer who blearily pressed the cell buzzer at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in the early hours of those hot, dangerous days in August 2011. There’s always a reckoning.
"Stand in your capital to show concern about the state of Britain? That's far right. Protest after the murder of children? Far right. Suggest we leave foreign courts so we can control our borders? Far right. Call to lower immigration? Far right. Point to grooming gangs? Far right. Vote for Reform? Far right. Sing a song about England? Far right. Fly the flag? Far right. It's really not hard to see why millions of ordinary people are fed up" mattgoodwin.org/p/what-did-you…
Remarkable that Labour have reached the hubris stage after just a month in power and while the country faces its biggest civil disorder for many years. Their apparent belief that the Conservatives can be 'destroyed' is also remarkable. Of course in the worst case (which I think very unlikely) we could be replaced by another party on the Right, but I don't think that is what Starmer means. Rather, it reflects something more scary: his belief, and that of so many in Labour, that there is no actual need for opinions on the right in British politics, even that there is something illegitimate about such opinions, and if the opportunity arises British politics could, and should, be reconfigured as a set of debates between various formations of the centre-Left.
