Damian Thompson, Oliver Kamm and their acolytes, notably the utterly hateful Jonathan Simons (what did I ever do to him?), have devoted mind-boggling proportions of their lives to ruining mine.
They have very largely succeeded.
Two books commended by Peers and Professors, but unreviewed anywhere. Staggering lies about me on the Internet. And very much else besides.
They have very largely succeeded.
Two books commended by Peers and Professors, but unreviewed anywhere. Staggering lies about me on the Internet. And very much else besides.
It is as if I were a fictional character that existed purely for their amusement.
All because I have dared to articulate the position to which the One Nation Society is now dedicated.
Between them, they have on occasion brought me to the brink of suicide by their efforts to silence our point of view and, moreover, to deprive me of a livelihood, as Kamm has now done at least twice.
Kamm or one of his minions is now even maintaining a highly active Twitter feed in order to hound and harass me and anyone who has anything to do with me.
I always knew that they would come after the One Nation Society, and I have been waiting for the day. Clearly, that day has arrived.
If this falls through, then I really might end it all. I should be quite unable to go on. This is my last hope.
And, though I say so myself, this is the only systematic attempt that there has been in many years to give an organisational expression to our view, as such.
I should have died in my sleep a few hours after, without there having been any kind of selection process, I was presented with the papers nominating Neil Fleming for the council seat that was rightfully mine.
That would have led in short order to the parliamentary seat that I am universally said, by people who did absolutely nothing to bring it about, to have deserved.
But instead, my life ended there and then.
That would have led in short order to the parliamentary seat that I am universally said, by people who did absolutely nothing to bring it about, to have deserved.
But instead, my life ended there and then.
Don't give Fleming the satisfaction. The party had to impose AWS despite 23 years of a woman MP as the only way to stop him giving this seat to Owen Temple and the Lib Dems. Everyone knows it should have been you, your old friends mention it regularly. One day it will be.
ReplyDeleteOh, I don't know. Most the people who had it all arranged, as of course I know that they did, have retired, died, left he Labour Party, moved out of the area, or some combination of those.
DeleteWithout the AWS imposed to stop NF, if David had been in place he would probably have been the only nominee for parliamentary candidate when Hilary retired. Maybe some paper candidate from over the Crook side, but nobody who could have beaten the unified Derwentside machine behind him. Probably no one else at all.
DeleteWhat if you had been a councillor for Lanchester for 50 years?
ReplyDeleteI'd have been perfectly happy.
DeleteThey could have put up a plaque to me on a seat by the bus stop when I died.
Speaking of seats, at least I'd have kept mine.
It's that council nomination, isn't it? You would have let NF be the MP, you would have campaigned for him, if he had never stolen the council nomination promised to you that time round before he was even a party member.
DeleteIt pains you terribly, doesn't it? Your views are mainstream Labour again but you are not allowed in the party never mind Parliament. They called you too young for so long they ended up giving things to people younger than you, some of them now far younger. There is a county councillor in a next door ward and a parish councillor in Lanchester both young enough to be your sons, one of them will be an MP one day. People will be MPs next year who are 10 years younger than you and very few will be as original thinkers as you are. You would have made a real difference in local and national politics but now you will never have either. We are all the poorer for that.
ReplyDeleteThey are both good lads. Don't be surprised to see them both in Parliament eventually.
DeleteThat will be the one that never goes to council meetings? The one the current chair of NWD stood down to ensure the money was saved from an election only to see that cllr never turn up? Yes to one, no to another. But it's not really the point, keep yourself going or give up blogging. It's not worth ones mental health.
DeleteI do not know what those council and CLP references mean. I am out of all of that now.
DeleteBut this is no longer about blogging. They are trying to strangle the One Nation Society, in many ways my life's work, in its cradle.
People up at the Civic Centre used to ask you why you didn't put up for the district. The look on your face was priceless. You are a very wronged man over a very long time.
DeleteAt least you still have your academic staff library card. They don't give those out to just anybody, you know.
DeleteApparently, they genuinely don't anymore. But that is a whole other thread.
DeleteI should quite like to be buried with mine.
We always wanted a local MP, the AWS delivered three candidates from the North East, two of them from inside the constituency but none from among known local Labour activists.
ReplyDeleteA Newcastle based union official, a 23 year old student, and Pat Glass, who after all was only a parish councillor at the time, same parish as you but for nothing like so long. So two were really local, of whom one was a student in her early twenties. Guess who won.
I know you like Pat. I like Pat. What I mean is, in an open selection you would have been the only credible candidate.
None of the older council and union lot would have bothered. They would all have backed you. There could even have been no other nominations.
Hilary had to get you out of the party to queer the pitch for that other one, but the national party saw them both coming.
I was the only credible candidate for the third District nomination in 2003. But they still gave it to someone else.
DeleteI have to say Im baffled. The only "position" I've ever seen you articulate on here is " vote Labour". Hardly dangerous and extreme enough to merit a campaign of censorship and intimidation.
ReplyDeleteSeveral mainstream newspapers and their commentators hold the same view , from the Mirror to the Independent. Indeed Oliver Kamm votes Labour.
Owen Jones writes an unsubtle "vote Labour" column every week in the most mainstream of papers; the Guardian. And nobody's ever tried driving him to suicide.
So why are they picking on this Labour supporter?
NEC results today. We tried to put you on the NEC once, but Hilary insisted your own CLP had to nominate some incumbent we had never met and that useless body nodded like dogs, the DLP was so much better you will remember. If we had known she was going to do that we could have made sure there were enough people there to stop her and put you on the ballot but obviously that was her plan. Vile woman with a vile sidekick, if we had got you onto the NEC we could have had you as MP in 2005, you would be coming up to 10 years by now. Maybe even 2001, it was that long ago.
ReplyDeleteBy the way. Don't do it. You've put up some great writing now and again amidst all the pro Labour guff.
ReplyDeleteYou have alot of interesting ideas,( if only you didn't chain yourself to that outfit).
You'd be missed, I can tell you.
Your UKIP reader.
I am not chained to any outfit.
DeleteBut you are very kind. Thank you.