It's #SocialistSunday. My thoughts on the general election 2024. I'm a bit late with this, but I'm still recovering from the hangover on Friday morning. That's cos I'm getting old, but I've never seen an election result like this one. Of course, it's another shit show, but one like we've never seen the likes of before. We knew the Tories were going to get routed, and we weren't sure how bad it was going to be. One poll had them on 60 seats - if only!
The infamous exit poll had the Tories on 131 seats and reform on 13. They ended with 121 and 5 respectively. Not bad, particularly when we got to see the backs of scumbags Rees-Mogg, Truss, Grant Schapps (if that is his name), transphobe Joanna Cherry, Mordaunt, and Fabricant (to name a few). But 5 Reform MPs is 5 too many.
But what about Labour? A landslide with 34% of the vote, less than they got in 2017 when Corbyn was leader. Kid Starver is the new PM and Reevesy says 'there is no money' - she's either thick or lying, or both, but where does that leave us? Not in a good place, for sure. Am I optimistic for Starver's 'change'. Not at all. It seems that the money he's going to be getting won't be from the BoE but borrow from the likes of Blackrock. So, more asset stripping and privatisation, and with freeports and SEZs it seems the `UK will soon have been completely asset stripped. There is a very real danger that Starmer's 'change' will just be business as usual.
In better news, the Greens did well, gaining 3 seats to a total of 4, and coming second in over 30. The Green manifesto was the best, and they are the most democratic party in the UK. The highlight for me was the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North - 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn'. Big shout out as well to Fazia Shaheen, and Andrew Feinstein who halved Starver's vote in Holborn and St Pancras.
Better news as well today (Monday). It seems the French united left have beaten Le Pen in France and are now the largest group in the Assembly. That's something the left in the UK needs to learn from.
The fight goes on, and on. As a comrade of mine once said - 'Organise, organise and organise!' We have a lot of work to do! Let's get going!
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