Meaningful Voting

And so UKIP ends, as we tried to tell you that it was always going to end. It is nothing without Nigel Farage. So now, it is nothing.

Come to that, whatever happened to Nigel Farage? Two years ago, there was talk of conducting through him all relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, and he narrowly lost out to Donald Trump for Time Person of the Year. 

But where is he now? Well, I'll tell you where he could be. Against Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who calls himself Tommy Robinson, Farage, Suzanne Evans and Patrick O'Flynn would all be welcome to campaign for me to become the Member of Parliament for North West Durham. We might even reunite Farage and George Galloway on a platform.

I am assuming that Yaxley-Lennon will be standing, since otherwise he would be running scared of the white working class. I also repeat my challenge to Toby Young to contest this seat, where his party took 34 per cent of the vote last time, and where Labour, it and I are universally accepted as being on 30-30-30, so that any one us could be the First Past the Post. Either that, or he has conceded every point here.

As for the sitting MP for North West Durham, who presumably intends to be the Labour candidate, scour the Division Lists from yesterday's three monumental Government defeats, and you will see that her name is absent from all three of them. Yet her son was born in July. July. She is very much up and about around Lanchester, as well she might be. Nice "work" if you can get it.

Either she will miss next week's vote on Brexit, in which case her position will be untenable. Or she will turn up, in which she will have to explain why she has not been turning up for many months. It is unlikely, but not impossible, that there might be a General Election next month. Would she contest it, despite still being "on maternity leave"? I mean, seriously?

But I do not stand against people. I stand for things. Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I will stand for this parliamentary seat of North West Durham, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.