Sunday, 29 November 2009

Controlling Interest

Nick Cohen is good on a convicted crook's un-repaid funding of what is at its centre a Eurofanatical, anti-family, pro-crime, pro-drugs party, while operating in the country at large as a Neither Of The Above franchise which it hopes will be extended to this constituency in May, as I am now told several times per day that only I can stop, since the local Labour Party has written off this seat because of the almost physically violent public fury at how the New Labour mafia has handled the selection process.

But Cohen is bad to call for State funding. State funding of anything must entail some degree of State control, which can often be necessary and beneficial. For political parties, however, it would be lethal. Only parties that met the organisational and political requirements of some committee would be able to afford to contest elections. Some committee such as, say, the Euston Manifesto Group. If, that is, it still exists.

28 comments:

  1. Do you think that there will be riots in Consett, Willington or Lanchester?

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  2. No, because there will be someone else to vote for. Not just here, I hope and expect.

    As the Labour Party was started, so the Labour Party is ended. Parties are means, not ends.

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  3. The LDs want to abolish Catholic schools. Make the most of that.

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  4. If not, I'm sure your wide network of Mail / Spectator / Telegraph contacts will, when they come up and speak for you...not

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  5. Oh, they will once we get round to hiring a hall.

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  6. The ultraconservative, mostly thirtysomething Catholic Boys will come, and that is a lot of them. The Telegraph thinks that it is the Catholic Herald. (How come, like Lindsay, they are all unmarried?)

    Hitchens will come and repeat his longstanding call for the return of the old right-wing Labour Party.

    Oborne will come and denounce both "the Political Class" and "the Israel Lobby". Whatever could that mean?

    Delingpole will come and tell us all that global warming doesn't exist, leading into Lindsay on how it is a plot to end working-class male jobs and foreign holidays.

    He's probably too anti-capitalist for Heffer and too anti-Zionist for Phillips but you never know.

    He is a dangerous man who knows his audenice and is not above playing the old "Lib Dems are anti-Catholic" card. That gives you the measure of him.

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  7. They are only resting him until after the Election because even Gerald Warner, Ed West and the other Cameron-haters are not actually declared candidates against the Tories, even if the Tories would have come third in this seat without him and will now come fourth. It's the principle. CCHQ thinks that this really is too much from the house organ.

    Damian Thompson still calls him "an important voice" and his many long comments are still welcomed. They are still his friends on Facebook, they still follow him on Twitter. Thompson is also Editor in Chief of the Catholic Herald so watch out for him in there in 2010. The Herald couldn't have invented a better candidate than him for a better seat than NW Durham, he is their dream come true.

    I don't enjoy writing this. All we fucking need is a Fleet Street connected Commons voice of the economically Leftist, practically pacifist Catholic Right.

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  8. You and Hitch have met several times, haven't you? Comments on here in the past have almost certainly been by him. Fraser Nelson has even commented on here under his own name when you wrote about something of his.

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  9. Nancy, it's amazing who you meet both on the Internet and elsewhere...

    Anonymous 15:09, please do not swear on my blog.

    Anonymous 14:47, the Lib Dems want to abolish church schools, of which we have plenty of Catholic and lots of Anglican examples here in this constituency. We have a large Catholic population, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing at all, about which Catholics care more politically than Catholic schools.

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  10. His blog account still works.

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  11. It's true. After all, I once wrote on the moderated Obama White House transition blog, and I follow Jimmy Carr on twitter. By that logic, I'm both an up and coming edgy comedian who is assured of a top ranking place in US politics in the futue

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  12. Not until you learn to spell.

    If Carter followed you...

    Anyway, can we get back on topic, please?

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  13. Who is the Labour candidate?

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  14. There isn't one.

    It is December tomorrow.

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  15. Who cares? This seat is a write off.

    We always knew it would be you this time, David. Labour or not, you were always going to get our votes when Hilary retired.

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  16. See on the stump in the New Year.

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  17. You definitely will.

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  18. And me.

    You are the Labour candidate, David, the real Labour candidate. Your position is the party we joined and that has been stolen from us.

    Whoever New Labour put up, she wouldn't be able to write this, she wouldn't be able to read it.

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  19. I hate to correct you David, because you'll probably accuse me of eating babies - or worse! - but I do need to point out that Jimmy Carr and Jimmy Carter are different people.

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  20. I wouldn't be surprised if David had never heard of Jimmy Carr. The earlier comment about whether his NuLab opponent could write this blog is very insightful. David is both a very practical politician and an intellectual such as you don't exactly find on NuLab or Cameron candidates' lists. Don't expect to see him on Mock The Week. And that is an extremly good and overdue thing in British politics.

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  21. Thanks to the miracle of copy and paste, anyone could write this blog.

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  22. But not, as Consett Catholic said, read it.

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  23. I don't think any of us expect to see David on Mock the Week.

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  24. And I won't be disappointing you.

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  25. Dr Laughland is on your blog roll. You should invite him to come and speak for you.

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  26. I've thought about that one: totally sound Catholic, totally sound foreign policy expert (except for the Flemish separatist sympathies, and I can't see that coming up), totally sound conservative critic of capitalism.

    But in best Eurosceptic fashion, he is now in Paris most of the time. Still, not an insurmountable obstacle.

    I could have half a dozen on one day, some sort of convention. It's a thought...

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