Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> </p><p>I do not think that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/keirstarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keirstarmer</span></a> has that fantasy. I do suspect that he is only too aware that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> will have to choose - and which choice it should make. He has to face the fact that at least two of the opposition parties - the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservatives</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reformUK</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democraticunionistparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democraticunionistparty</span></a> - are unlikely to support him. Nor will their allies in the media. Worse still he may be facing something of a 'fifth column' within <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> - of which <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mauriceglasman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mauriceglasman</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluelabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bluelabour</span></a> are part.</p>