"There cannot be any room in British politics for people who justify killing children for ideological means," declares Dan Price, a Change UK candidate in the North West, and apparently a stranger to the distinction between means and ends. As if Claire Fox had ever done any such thing.
Change UK, on the other hand, is certainly being supported and probably being funded by Tony Blair. Unlike Claire, or indeed Jeremy Corbyn (who, it must be said, has never supported dissident Republican opposition to the Good Friday Agreement, either), Blair has at the very least justified the killing of an awful lot of children both by ideological means and to ideological ends.
Look, the old RCP crowd has a colourful history. That ridiculous Aaronovitch creature, who has baggage of his own, once tried to link Corbyn to Red Action, but it was in fact the lot who are now around Spiked, and several of whom are friends of mine, who were part of the Red Front electoral coalition with Red Action and others in 1987. Kenan Malik, of The Observer and of The Moral Maze, has come a very long way since he was Red Front's candidate at Nottingham East.
But no one at Spiked or the Academy of Ideas has ever started a war, and they have in fact opposed all of the uniformly catastrophic wars of the last 20 years, just as Corbyn has, or just as a few valiant souls on the almost entirely extraparliamentary Old Right have. Change UK, on the other hand, has as its Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Defence a man who still vigorously defends every one of those wars.
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.
Change UK, on the other hand, is certainly being supported and probably being funded by Tony Blair. Unlike Claire, or indeed Jeremy Corbyn (who, it must be said, has never supported dissident Republican opposition to the Good Friday Agreement, either), Blair has at the very least justified the killing of an awful lot of children both by ideological means and to ideological ends.
Look, the old RCP crowd has a colourful history. That ridiculous Aaronovitch creature, who has baggage of his own, once tried to link Corbyn to Red Action, but it was in fact the lot who are now around Spiked, and several of whom are friends of mine, who were part of the Red Front electoral coalition with Red Action and others in 1987. Kenan Malik, of The Observer and of The Moral Maze, has come a very long way since he was Red Front's candidate at Nottingham East.
But no one at Spiked or the Academy of Ideas has ever started a war, and they have in fact opposed all of the uniformly catastrophic wars of the last 20 years, just as Corbyn has, or just as a few valiant souls on the almost entirely extraparliamentary Old Right have. Change UK, on the other hand, has as its Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Defence a man who still vigorously defends every one of those wars.
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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