Meanwhile in what the settlers call the Mainland (referring to the neighbouring island), this writer was at first wishing that the Great White Hope of the English Labour Party would lose his election. The benefits of this are clear: utter turmoil in a party that cannot find a minimally competent and likeable person in its cohort of more than 400 MPs, leading to its likely collapse and replacement by the Greens. In fact it is too much to hope that this party—useless in every respect except in its ability to prosecute a Class War on the poor, and its constant war crimes abroad—would truly disappear. Macdara envisages a rump party continuing to stand for election, given the extraordinary arrogance and self-absorption of the party and its clique, perhaps with 7-10% support; a rump that would doubtless collaborate with the other rump parties of the establishment, rather than the Greens or the so-called nationalist parties (English nationalist parties being exempt from this descriptor by virtue of being instantiations of the Master Race: nothing so petty as nationalism can be held against such beings).

In fact your correspondent quickly saw that the best way to see through the destruction of the ELP would be for Burnham to win. This cipher of a human being—capable certainly of actual human speech, unlike Keith Starmer, but devoid of definition when it comes to actual policy—the sole hope of the party, will fail them. The structural problems of England are so severe that it is unthinkable for a political leader to make any improvements without major changes. And the man is not for revolution. In fact he has already promised to stick to all of the policies that have made the government a catastrophe thus far. Had he failed in the by-election, the party could enjoy the sweet feeling of if only, and retain some hope. With his victory, even this is not possible; we will soon see the weirdness and desperation of a people without even hope (not just thinking of the ELP, but of the English people more broadly).

A word on the Greens: they did run against Burnham, but senior figures in the party were willing to allow him a clear run in the national interest. What more could demonstrate the essential loyalty of at least some of the Greens towards the English Establishment; a sense that they themselves exist by virtue of borrowed votes and are therefore merely an extension of the ELP? Unfortunately this impression was upheld by their failure to run against the Reform leader in his fatuous by-election. They said they would, then saw what the big boys and girls in the Establishment Party were doing, and fell in line. This is a disappointment, an opportunity lost to demonstrate their difference from the others. The Green Party is a separate organisation: it need not save other parties, it need not copy them.

As ever, what hope for the part of Ireland that these people hold in their claws? They want us so badly, but they will never know or care a thing about us.