So who is going to get Yemen now? It looks set to be the people who have just staged the attack in Gwadar. And yes, there is a connection. Two sides are fighting to dominate the world, and they are both horrific, but there is no point in wishing or pretending that this is not the situation.
Only one of them, however, inspires, funds and directs terrorism on our soil, indeed even against our very Parliament. And only the other does at least offer us the opportunities of, most obviously and for all its faults, the Belt and Road Initiative.
We need an end to this country’s poisonous relationship with Saudi Arabia and with the other Gulf monarchies. And we need withdrawal from NATO, which commits us to the defence of Turkish Islamists and of Eastern European neo-Nazis, soon to be joined by Latin American caudillos, while charging us two per cent of our Gross Domestic Product for the privilege.
Instead, we need bilateral peace treaties with all other European countries including Russia, with the United States, and with Canada. And we need peace treaties with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and with the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
At least in the House of Commons, British political understanding of these matters ranges from the limited to the totally absent. 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.
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