Refusing Integration

It seems the mayor of London, having accomplished three consecutive electoral victories, has no plans to jump aboard Team Starmer, which looks unlikely to manage two. Sadiq Khan has warned that Labour must stop taking progressive voters for granted, which seems rather unfair: far from taking progressives for granted, Labour has explicitly repudiated them, called them student politickers and antisemites, and told them just where they can go if they don't like it. Were it not implausibly subtle for either the Starmer inertia or the McSweeney bludgeon, one might suspect an attempt to discredit Khan by association with themselves; especially as Khan has also maintained an electoral coalition that includes Liberal Democrats and even the beastly Greens, without deigning to pander to that vital Farage Falange demographic which constitutes the moderate and sensible heart of the nation. With such a record on his conscience, it's hardly surprising that Khan would hesitate to tackle today's choppy electoral waters buoyed up by the ball and chain of accredited membership in Team Starmer.