Things Fall Apart, the Centre Is Not Bold

Team Starmer's exchanged Labour is so zealous a party for working people that one of the two biggest trade unions in the country has declined to endorse the manifesto. Unite has reservations over a mere three of the pledges made and dumped along the route to sensible moderation, and is apparently unimpressed with the pledges that remain to be broken once in office. These include better-run bantustans for the Palestinian Untermenschen, some jolly big numbers attached to the health and education sectors, and the creation of GB Energy, a "publicly owned green power company" that won't generate any power and will most likely end up as a boondoggle for funnelling taxpayers' money into private profits. Fortunately, the manifesto did gain the approbation of someone much nicer than Sharon Graham and nearly as nice as Natalie Elphicke, with an entirely non-Stalinist penchant for rewriting history; and was agreed without debate by an utterly non-Stalinist round of clappity-clappity by the as yet unpurged.