Imperial Preference?

The polling cards will soon arrive for the European Elections. We ought to go down fighting by voting for the Brexit Party.

Many of us would have liked a Lexit List, but no one in a position to organise one seems to have bothered. So here we are. We are never going to leave the EU. In for another five years means in forever. No second referendum. Just never leaving.

England is like Athens, Rome or Venice of old. The city-state Republic matters. But fundamentally and ultimately, the Empire does not. England outside London matters less than Northern Ireland, with about two thirds of the population of Greater Manchester.

You see, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and to an extent Wales and indeed the Irish Republic, are client states of the imperium, which can be bullied a bit, but which more often have to be cajoled, or bribed, or occasionally even acceded to.

But provincial England is precisely that. A collection of provinces, of satrapies, of colonies. If the chips were down, then we would matter less than at least two actual colonies, in Gibraltar and in the Falkland Islands. In one of those cases, those chips are now down.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.

I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.