Labour leader Keir Starmer seems to want to delude us.

After being told that people interviewed outside Labour’s conference last week said the party was not so much the alternative or opposition but the “lesser of two evils”, and that it had become “more and more right-wing”, the best to be said is that he didn’t deny it.

Instead, he tried to claim that he had positioned the party in line with voters, and pointed to a couple of recent by-election results:

Isn’t it more likely to be true that voters in those polls considered there to be no viable alternative to Starmer’s far-right version of Labour, if they wanted to keep out the Tories (and the SNP, in Scotland)?

That would be because the mainstream media – like ITV’s Good Morning Britain, which carried out the opinion poll mentioned here – didn’t bother to explain all the options available and what their policies were.

Rather than discussing all the candidates standing in these elections, their policies and how they might correspond with what voters want, the UK’s media concentrates on the most powerful political parties of the moment – Labour and the Tories – urging us to choose between whatever they are forcing on us right now.

That is not democracy.

As a voter, your job is not to choose the oppressor that will keep the other oppressor out.

Your job is to vote for the candidate you think offers the best policies to improve the UK as a place to live and (hopefully) prosper.

If Labour is considered to be too “right-wing” by people at the party conference, the “least-worst” option, then it is not offering those policies and voters have a duty to look elsewhere.

Independent left-wing candidates are springing up in constituencies across the UK – mostly disaffected ex-Labour members offering policies that were once considered traditional. If they win seats, they will certainly group together in Parliament.

Look for these people and support them, if you want something better. “They can’t win” is a self-fulfilling prophecy only because people like you persuade yourselves that it’s true.

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