What People Are Saying

The following, all about me, are from elsewhere on the blogosphere:

"The prophet, apostle and high priest of paleo-Labour" (True Socialists Against David Lindsay -- http://socialists-against-lindsay.blogspot.com), defined by David Lindsay Watch (http://davidlindsaywatch.blogspot.com) as "Old Labour means to High Tory ends"

"Statist, syndicalist, nationalist and theoconservative" (David Lindsay Watch)

"A reactionary Catholic and a Little Briton masquerading as a Socialist" (True Socialists Against David Lindsay)

"A loyal son of a voluntarily subject people" (ditto)

"The old Socialist means to the Buchananite ends" (David Lindsay Watch on several American neocon blogs)

"Incipiently fascistic" (http://frsimon.livejournal.com)

"Criminally ignorant" (lillabularo on http://frsimon.livejournal.com)

"The leadership contest in full fray,
Who could keep the Tories at bay?
Was he from Manchester?
Or maybe from Lanchester?
But none other than David Lindsay!

http://david-lindsay-for-prime-minister.blogspot.com/"

(James, who shares a blog (http://innerwestcentral.blogspot.com) with an old friend of mine but whom I have never met, on http://letsbesensible.blogspot.com, also maintained by another old friend of mine; but I only discovered them both over the weekend, whereas James posted this on 7th September)

"It is second nature to the British People to understand all of this [various of my views as posted here]. And now, at long last, there is a politician who understands it with them: David Lindsay" (the terribly flattering, if embarrassing, http://david-lindsay-for-prime-minister.blogspot.com)

"David Lindsay's genius lies in his articulation of what we all know implicitly, instinctively and intuitively in the real world, but our arrogant and insular political-media class is too cut off to understand" (ditto)

"Of course, you do [agree with various of my views as posted here]! We all do! At the very least, you will once you have read him: you will realise what you have always known deep down. This is also the case with his superlative four-post essay Left And Right Must Unite And Fight. Yet who else in public life is saying any of these things? It is no wonder that few people still vote and almost nobody still belongs to a political party.

Why is David Lindsay not an MP already? He must become one as soon as possible. And he must become Prime Minister as soon as practicable thereafter" (ditto)

And the following are from emails forwarded to me by naughty people:

"I only really disagree with him about hanging" (Labour MP and serving Minister -- I am against hanging)

"A ghastly throwback to the sort of people who only stayed in the Labour Party because they were too Eurosceptical to join the SDP and their roots in local government and the unions were too deep" (leading liberal-"left" journalist)

"His office would be nothing but a telephone exchange between Clarence House and the Vatican. Labour does not need its own Norman St John Stevas" (high-ranking Labour Party official)

"If he was already an MP, we'd be putting him forward for Deputy Leader" (high-ranking trade union official)

"Candidates like him could cost us every seat in the North, and every farming, churchgoing seat in the South. Imagine you're a churchgoing farmer in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumberland [sic] or Northumbria [sic]. Are you a Lindsayite, or a Cameroon? It's a no-brainer" (high-ranking Conservative Party official)

"L'Angleterre, voici votre de Gaulle" (reportedly uttered by a Gaullist MEP)

Keep them coming!