Well, last week I quit the Labour Party, which I've supported for the two decades of so of my adult life, to support a new initiative.

We deserve better.

That'll support candidates who are Green Party or independent or indeed labor candidates using a pragmatic criteria.

What do they stand for?

Do they support taxing the rich, investing in our collapsing public services, public ownership,

radical actions to tackle the climate emergency with policies which

create good jobs and improve our living standards and crucially don't support war crimes.

I know I know what you're thinking, what an unreasonable and deranged extremist I am.

But anyway my opposition to Israel's genocide of war on Gaza and

Labour's refusal to condemn war crimes is absolutely a huge crucial part of why of course I left.

So I went on the news agents podcast to discuss all of this and I was interviewed by

the former BBC journalist Louis Goodall.

Now I should start by saying I have a huge amount of respect and time for Louis.

I think he's head and shoulders above most British journalists.

Because he's intellectually curious above all else and he knows his stuff so when he

interviewed me he put me under real pressure which I would obviously expect a good

journeys to do but not pressure that was just bad faith or disingenuous or

anything like that you can listen to the whole interview on the news

agents show wherever you download your podcast, but here's a segment about my local

Labour MP and the Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornbury.

Do you think cutting off food, water and electricity

is within international law?

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