Remainers, get out and vote for the Liberal Democrats. No seats for Change UK would be the end of Blairism once and for all. The Greens are in a much weaker position than the Lib Dems this time, and in fact they are quite split on the EU.
It would still be a huge upset if the Conservatives were to win no seats at all, which as much as anything else would require that they took fewer than one in 10 votes cast in the South East. But it is no longer beyond the bounds of realistic possibility. Do it.
The Brexit Party is already ensuring that Labour will not top the poll anywhere outside London, and the Lib Dems can ensure that Remain City echoes Brexitland in telling Labour to get off the fence.
Jeremy Corbyn never wanted this daft policy in the first place, and almost all of the Labour candidates today are his enemies. So if you like him, then you have absolutely no reason to vote for them. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Leavers, get out and vote for the Brexit Party. There are racists in all parties, but the hardcore racists of the old UKIP are either still in the new one, or they are now attached to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, whom even UKIP will not have.
You do not have to like Nigel Farage, who is the reason why the Brexit Party, as such, is unlikely to last 18 months. This is not about him personally, still less is it about his views on domestic policy issues over which, as an MEP, he has already never exercised any influence in 20 years and counting.
It would still be a huge upset if the Conservatives were to win no seats at all, which as much as anything else would require that they took fewer than one in 10 votes cast in the South East. But it is no longer beyond the bounds of realistic possibility. Let's do it.
And Jeremy Corbyn never wanted Labour's daft Brexit policy in the first place, while almost all of the Labour candidates today are his enemies. So if you like him, then you have absolutely no reason to vote for them. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Calling for abstention and calling it a "boycott" is an abrogation of responsibility. With a radio, television, and social media reach of which no other Lexiteer can dream, George Galloway is rightly having none of that. If I had had the five thousand pound deposit lying around, then I would have put up myself. But here we are.
Calling for abstention and calling it a "boycott" is an abrogation of responsibility. With a radio, television, and social media reach of which no other Lexiteer can dream, George Galloway is rightly having none of that. If I had had the five thousand pound deposit lying around, then I would have put up myself. But here we are.
Indeed, the second most prominent Brexit Party campaigner after Farage has been Claire Fox. By 10 o'clock tonight, a list headed by Claire will have received the votes, not only of many people who usually voted Labour, but of more or less the whole of the large Tory minority in the North West.
Claire has even had an article in the Daily Mail, making it arguable that the huge number of Mail readers who are voting for the Brexit Party today are, at least to some extent, voting for Claire. Every allegation that is routinely made against Corbyn could be made against Claire, only truthfully and even more so.
Spiked and its predecessors have rightly opposed every war of the last 30 years, and they have been a great deal more forthright in the style of their opposition than Corbyn has often been. Spiked has been more sceptical, to put it mildly, than Corbyn has been in public about Russia-bating over Salisbury and other things.
"Marxist" and "Trotskyist" are thrown at Corbyn by people with little understanding of the first word, and with none of the second. But Claire really is a Marxist, and specifically a Trotskyist. Ask her, and she would tell you.
Unlike Corbyn, Claire opposed the Good Friday Agreement because it was still not the 32 County Republic. I remember her telling Melanie Phillips on The Moral Maze that "I do not accept Israel's right to exist," a statement that Corbyn has never made, or we would certainly have heard about it by now. And so on.
Claire is going to enter the European Parliament for the party for which the people who had lapped up and regurgitated the attacks on Corbyn are going to have voted. Such lapping up and regurgitation will therefore no longer be possible, or at least not with any moral, intellectual or political consistency. So, far more than a vote for his Labour enemies, a vote for the Brexit Party is a vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
Beyond that, 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.
Claire has even had an article in the Daily Mail, making it arguable that the huge number of Mail readers who are voting for the Brexit Party today are, at least to some extent, voting for Claire. Every allegation that is routinely made against Corbyn could be made against Claire, only truthfully and even more so.
Spiked and its predecessors have rightly opposed every war of the last 30 years, and they have been a great deal more forthright in the style of their opposition than Corbyn has often been. Spiked has been more sceptical, to put it mildly, than Corbyn has been in public about Russia-bating over Salisbury and other things.
"Marxist" and "Trotskyist" are thrown at Corbyn by people with little understanding of the first word, and with none of the second. But Claire really is a Marxist, and specifically a Trotskyist. Ask her, and she would tell you.
Unlike Corbyn, Claire opposed the Good Friday Agreement because it was still not the 32 County Republic. I remember her telling Melanie Phillips on The Moral Maze that "I do not accept Israel's right to exist," a statement that Corbyn has never made, or we would certainly have heard about it by now. And so on.
Claire is going to enter the European Parliament for the party for which the people who had lapped up and regurgitated the attacks on Corbyn are going to have voted. Such lapping up and regurgitation will therefore no longer be possible, or at least not with any moral, intellectual or political consistency. So, far more than a vote for his Labour enemies, a vote for the Brexit Party is a vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
Beyond that, 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.
I voted for the Brexit Party too today like almost every Conservative voter that I know. Your tortured reasoning at the end is ridiculous, though. A vote for the Brexit Party is, purely and simply, about delivering Brexit (their only policy).
ReplyDeleteIt has absolutely nothing to do with supporting one of its MEPs positions on Israel, Irish reunification or anything else. Don’t be preposterous.
You'll see.
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