The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 28th July 2023
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 28th July 2023
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
They say it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good and that was certainly true of last week’s by-election results. Labour and the Liberal Democrats both took Conservative seats, and the Tories managed to hold their other former bastion in suburban London.
Although there was indeed something for everyone in the results, the biggest winners were the Lib-Dems, once again on the come-back trail. The Tories actually held onto Boris Johnson’s old seat, albeit by the skin of their teeth. And although the Starmer crowd were disappointed in failing to take all three seats, the overall swing in their favour puts them on course to victory at the next general election.
That, however, is not a foregone conclusion. With little to choose from between Labour and the Conservatives there’s going to be little incentive to even bother to vote next year. This can only work in favour of the Scottish nationalists and the Liberal Democrats who share a firm commitment to take Britain back into the European Union and would almost certainly ally with the Remainer factions in Labour and the Tory party to create favourable conditions for a ‘Rejoiner’ second referendum in the not-too-distant future.
We had a golden opportunity to open the doors to free trade across the world when we left the EU – Boris Johnson wasted it crawling to the Americans. But returning to the EU is not the answer. You only have to look at what’s happening on the streets of France to see that the EU is hardly a pillar of social justice. The only way out of the capitalist crisis is socialism and that can only come by ourselves alone, not the EU or the USA.