A Starmer Labour Government won't bring real change to people's lives & because of that- there will soon be violent discord on the streets.

I hope Jeremy Corbyn wins his seat in Islington North and returns to parliament as an independent MP.

Me wishing for that should not be confused with believing his sitting on the Green Benches can change or slow down Britain's frog march to fascism.

Retaining his seat would be a moral victory and an "up yours" to the predicted election of a Keir Starmer Labour government which by their own words will be more draconian on refugees than the Tories and follow a similar policy of austerity as David Cameron. Corbyn will also be a more effective constituency MP than Labour's candidate, who is a proponent of private healthcare.

I want Corbyn to win because it will piss off Starmer. But Corbyn retaining his seat will not be like having Winston Churchill in the House during his parliamentary "wilderness years." Churchill, to varying degrees, used his role as MP in parliament to delay or frustrate a government intent on enabling fascism. It was a different time and in the 1930s there were enough people within the political class not convinced of the efficacy of right-wing authoritarianism to preserve their dominance. Today that is not the case because dissent is not allowed within political machines and politicians are simply discredited or denounced by trumped up charges of anti-Semitism, or being supporters of Islamic terrorism to remove them from caucus. 

There won't be enough MPs elected in this General election that feel- the way Corbyn, I and all of you do- that Britain and the Western world are in a dangerous place politically and economically.

Polls suggest the Labour Party will win a supermajority, and outside of a few MPs like Diane Abbott or John McDonnell, all owe their allegiance to Keir Starmer's neoliberal technocratic brand of politics.

The Labour Party under Starmer did something that even Tony Blair never dared to do.

They have eradicated all vestiges of socialism from its governing ethos as well as tolerance to individual maverick MPs.

It's an ideological machine as cynical and controlling as the political wing of the communist party in old Soviet Russia.

Any warnings Corbyn will be allowed to make in parliament, considering the limited time given to independent MPs, shall go over like a prophecy from the blind Terisias in the myths of ancient Greece.

Corbyn will not be heard- or he will be shouted down without the benefit of an audience at home to witness him being silenced.

Jeremy Corbyn will be given scant exposure in the mainstream press whether he is returned to parliament on July 4th or not. Instead, the BBC and other news media outlets will provide plenty of air time to fascists like Nigel Farage.

Corbyn is anathema to the status quo and the news media class. There is a long-standing disgust mainstream journalism has for Corbyn. During the week of my dad's memorial service in London, I was having drinks with journalists who worked for left-of-centre news outlets or who defined themselves as left-wing.

All of them to some degree were derisory about Corbyn's political agenda. “Pie in the Sky” was how they summed up his socialism. I think they considered most things Corbyn proposed as unrealistic because it didn't affect them personally as their wages firmly ensconced them as upper middle class.

Others who I met during that week and who worked in the publishing industry were solidly convinced that Corbyn was a despicable antisemite. They were appalled that Corbyn was going to eulogise my dad at his memorial. They wanted the venue for his memorial to be a Guardian event where mourners had to purchase tickets to hear neoliberals define my dad's life and politics.

I didn't allow that to happen because I didn't think there was anyone politician better than Jeremy Corbyn to bid farewell to my dad. There disdain for Corbyn did inform me of one thing. The instruments that protect the status quo won't be shatter by incrementalism. There are too many well paid people protecting it by disseminating propaganda that keeps the laity yoked in a harness of prejudice fear and ignorance.

Don't expect from a democracy that uses first past the post to stifle dissent and new ideas that a parliament with a minute amount of leftists is going to turn any tide to favour the many. Opposition after July 4th is going to come from the streets. Mark my words, the final months of this year, into 2025 and beyond, will be reminiscent of the street battles; Europe witnessed following the end of the First World War.

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