He is talking about putting up
for UKIP.
In April 2010, Nigel Farage told
the Any Questions audience that UKIP wanted to legalise all drugs. Even
the Lib Dem on the panel disagreed with him. But what says Delingpole?
If it is a Eurosceptic that you
want, then how about Ed Balls, or Jon Cruddas, or the next Chairman of the
Parliamentary Labour Party, John Cryer, a Eurosceptical dynast?
As is the Labour PPC at Corby and
East Northamptonshire, Andy Sawford, the son of Phil Sawford, who was until
2005 the Campaign Group MP for Kettering.
The only thing that will do is split the Tory vote. Fine by me.
ReplyDeleteI am not convinced of that. But it hardly matters: the Labour pick-up in this case was in the bag, anyway.
ReplyDeleteDelingpole's main characteristic is a loathing of the Welfare State and the NHS and I can't see that message appealing to Labour voters in Corby itself
ReplyDeleteThen he wouldn't mention it. Rather, his candidacy would challenge the Labour candidate to be true to his own inherited Euroscepticism and to certain other important principles:
ReplyDelete- That we cannot deliver the welfare provisions and the other public services that our people have rightly come to expect unless we know how many people there are in this country, unless we control immigration properly, and unless we insist that everyone use spoken and written English to the necessary level;
- That we must reject any approach to climate change which threatens to destroy or prevent secure employment, to drive down wages or working conditions, to arrest economic development around the world, to forbid the working classes and non-white people from having children, to inflate the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, or to restrict either travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich; and
- That we must uphold the full compatibility between, on the one hand, the highest view of human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development, and, on the other hand, the most active concern for the conservation of the natural world and of the treasures bequeathed by such expansion and development in the past.
Bring it on.