Labour to win, with a majority. It would change everything for the better. Many of the shadow cabinet (Angela Rayner, Keir Starmer, John McDonnell), and recent entrants into parliament (Thangam Debbonaire) have an integrity in their desire for greater equality across society that the current PM and his sorry forsworn crew have never known (and only pretend to acknowledge as even valuable).
The thinking that has influenced the Labour manifesto – of Mariana Mazzucato and other anti-neoliberal economists – is visionary, but it is also hard-headed realism for our times, if the rise of repressive and polluting kleptocracies is to be checked now. I even think the long game Jeremy Corbyn is still playing might have been prudence: Brexit will not be resolved for decades unless it is stopped and gradually voters (for instance in Wales) are coming to recognise this dreadful prospect.
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