We’re driving towards a cliff and arguing over the tyre pressure

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This is not the time for choosing the lesser of two evils.

The ’lesser of two evils’ is a phrase laden with special significance in the US with the upcoming Biden vs Trump presidential contest. It doesn’t say a lot about choice and politics and, dare I say it, hope, when the debate comes down to “at least he’s not Trump”. Neither was Clinton. But from this side of the Atlantic, it appears that the Democratic Party believes they don’t need to learn the lesson of the last election because Trump is imploding and they’ve removed all popular alternatives to force their party loyalists to vote as instructed.

We have a similar situation in the UK now, although an election could be another four years away. The Labour Party has decided that it wants, not to challenge neoliberalism and climate crisis and poverty and inequality and racism, but to ensure that nobody will ever dare to think it has socialist principles or works for the improvement of the working class. This Labour Party — under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer — looks to appease the billionaire media and reassure the City, as Blair once did.

I left the Labour Party when the announcement came of Starmer’s election as leader. I’m not a soothsayer but I knew that, with Corbyn gone, so had Labour’s last chance to be the party that…