A Thousand Thanks, And The Fight Goes On

A thousand thanks to everyone who not only re-elected me to the Parish Council far more comfortably than either I or anyone else had anticipated, but who also gave me four times more District Council votes than I had dared hope for. To my delighted astonishment, somewhere between one quarter and one third of my District supporters voted only for me (as did even quite a number of my Parish supporters), and so presumably would not have voted at all if I had not stood.

Nowhere near half of my District supporters voted for any other single candidate. If even half of them had voted for John Ingham, then he would have kept his seat. Or, if even half of them had voted for my proposer, Paul Jackson, then he would easily have been elected. Or, if even half of them had voted for Bob Glass, then he would have come second and Labour would have won all three seats. So I have not exactly done too badly for a man with absolutely no material resources to speak of, and who had initially had to present himself in person at Consett Civic Centre so as to refuse to leave the room until given the relevant Nomination Papers, which They had repeatedly failed to send out to me by post.

So last night is just the beginning, especially in relation to my four key local aims: to secure a Youth Worker for Lanchester; to cut Lanchester’s Council Tax, by making the new Stanley Town Council pay for the services in Stanley provided by Parish Councils elsewhere, including Lanchester; to secure recognition of the existence of poor people in Lanchester, and the targeting services accordingly; and to stop the setting up of a regional assembly by the back door, which is the real reason for the latest demented scheme to introduce unitary local government in County Durham.

And also in relation to the local application of all my national and international work, of course. So the fight goes on, for real wealth redistribution, including fair tax; against the privatisation of Council Housing; against crime, drugs and antisocial behaviour; for fair school admissions policies; against the shipping in of a new working class which understands no English except commands, has no idea of workers’ rights in Britain, can be moved around the country at will, and can be deported if it steps out of line; for affordable, convenient public transport; against the EU Constitution; and in so many other areas.

Likewise, the fight goes on, against the "free" market, and instead for farm subsidies, for the Greenbelt, for the Agricultural Wages Board, for import controls, and for proper immigration controls; for rural services and amenities; for field sports; for the United Kingdom, against European federalism, and for an independent British foreign policy; against drugs, prostitution, pornography, and unrestricted drinking or gambling; for the State's support of marriage as the legally binding union of one man and one woman, and of fathers as more than mere sperm banks and cash machines; for enforcement of the age of consent laws; for the defence of Christian adoption agencies and other charities; for recognition in word and deed of Britain's and Europe's Christian heritage; and, again, in so many other areas.

And not least, the fight goes on, for no more pointless wars against non-threats, against the ongoing genocide of the ancient Christian community in Iraq, against the reduction of the British Army to a mere Defence Force of amateur policemen and social workers, against the reduction of the Royal Navy to a coastal defence force even though there is no threat to our coast, against the planned abolition of the Royal Air Force altogether, for properly equipped armed forces, for proper medical treatment of the injured, against spending billions of pounds on weapons aimed at nowhere in particular and which we could not even use without foreign permission, and for civil nuclear power to defend us from the turning off of our gas by the Russians or our oil by the Arabs.

After all, as long-term readers of this blog are already aware, I have the emails to prove that the BNP has undertaken to contest this seat of North-West Durham against me but not not against any other candidate, implicitly including the sitting MP, Hilary Armstrong. Therefore, be in no doubt, the fight goes on.