The parlous state of the Conservative party would matter very much less were it not for the fact that the alternative is a Labour government led by Keir Starmer.
Recent days have given us two examples of how a Starmer administration would be very far from the moderate and sensible force he tries to depict. First, it emerged that Labour is still very much in the gender self-ID camp. Then came a reminder that Labour in power will implement a corrosive and extreme stance on matters to do with ethnicity that ascribes any difference in outcomes across different groups to ‘structural racism’ that the state has an urgent duty to eradicate.
Such ideologically-based public spending favouritism would surely cause yet further damage to UK race relations
Labour sees such anti-black racism in almost everything, the latest examples being energy bills and housing costs. The party chair, Anneliese Dodds, claimed in a social media post this week that: ‘Under the Conservatives, Black families are: 5x more likely to be behind on energy bills, 4x more likely to be behind on their rent/mortgage.
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