This Ticket Punches

My polling card has arrived. Yours too, I expect. So that's the end of Brexit, then. In for another five years means in forever.

No referendum. Just never quite leaving. We are now more likely to join the eurozone and the Schengen Area than we are to leave the EU.

I understand the calls from sections of the Left for a boycott of the European Elections. But that is always a bad tactic. If an election or a referendum is being held, then someone is going to win it.

And notice that everyone from Rory Stewart to a Remainer activist in the Question Time audience makes a point of referring to the Brexit Party as the vehicle, not only of Nigel Farage, but also of George Galloway.

The other side has recognised that this is a joint ticket. Even if you would never have voted for Galloway, then vote for Farage. Even if you would never have voted for Farage, then vote for Galloway.

Unless you would not have voted for George at Bradford West in 2012, and certain very fringe elements of the Left did take that view, then vote for the Brexit Party in 2019. 

Remainers, meanwhile, make sure to vote Lib Dem, and confine Blairism to the same dustbin as "Tommy Robinson".

By the way, just as I alone predicted a hung Parliament in 2017, so I alone predicted that George would win Bradford West in 2012, when everyone else said that he would lose his deposit.

Another hung Parliament is coming, 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.