For at least 40 years, since long before the changes wrought by the Blair Government, it has been a question of national sovereignty or the House of Lords, "but you can't have both."
That that House would certainly block withdrawal from what Tony Benn always understood and said was really the EU, was his principal reason for wanting to abolish it.
The Conservative Party could not find a thousand new pro-Brexit Peers, and in any case it would not want to.
This whole matter is about to come to a head. Not before time.
A seat in the Lords could be the last hope of saving this Commons seat from you. You already have the dress sense for it.
ReplyDeleteSave it from me for whom? Those who want "a white, English, Protestant candidate whose body declared the truth of white excellence"?
DeleteOr "Alliance for Green Socialism, Anarchist Federation, Class War, Communist League, Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), Communist Workers Organisation, Independent Working Class Association, International Socialist League, Labour Party Marxists, New Communist Party of Britain, Revolutionary Communist Group, Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Party of Great Britain, Socialist Resistance, Solidarity Federation, Spartacist League of Britain, Workers’ Fight, Workers Revolutionary Party, World Revolution"?
All of whom, if they are all real, clearly reject the bourgeois deviationism of "Ronnie Campbell, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, Momentum, Red Labour, Unite Community, the Durham Miners’ Association, the County Durham Teaching Assistants Activists Committee, the Labour Representation Committee, the Socialist Campaign Group, the National Health Action Party, the Pirate Party, the Communist Party of Britain, the Morning Star, the Socialist Labour Party, Left Unity, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, Counterfire, Spiked, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, Socialist Appeal, Socialist Action, FBU, ASLEF, RMT and TSSA."
http://davidlindsay2020.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/under-attack-from-both-extremes.html
Neil Fleming, the Aryan Nation candidate backed by the ultra Left. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact doesn't begin to describe that kind of Red-Brownism. Is he still calling you a mulatto?
DeleteLoving the idea of raising you to the ermine so he doesn't have to be beaten into the ground at the ballot box by you, though.
You mean, "again." He and I both contested the election to Lanchester Parish Council in 2007. A ludicrously overpromoted former Chairman of that body, he very nearly lost his seat on it. He didn't. But he got far fewer votes than I did. And he always will. For anything.
DeleteFleming? They're not even going to try THAT hard. Another women only short list, this time leading to an outside candidate. Backed by the old Derwentside machine and according to that link "supported by all “Independent” Durham County Councillors", you'd walk it. That's exactly what your mates in the Corbyn camp want. You should have been in Parliament for 11 years by now.
DeleteRemainers should apply for people's peerages, we are completely disenfranchised.
ReplyDeleteNot without success, Plaid Cymru encourages its supporters to apply for peerages. I tend to think that supporters of what might loosely be called Blairism (or Cameronism, come to that) ought now to do so. They have the social connections to get in.
DeleteIt's just going to be some girl out of the typing pool, you'll not even notice she's in the room as you clean up at the polls. They gave the one like that who lost them Blaenau Gwent a peerage, but that wasn't under Jeremy. When you beat her, she'll be finished. A kind of female Neil Fleming.
ReplyDeleteHeavens, what an image.
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