Sunday 22 December 2019

Putting Them Right

Farewell, then, to the Independent Group for Change, which was in its own terms less popular than either Trotskyists (as they were then called; the preferred term in this Parliament is "Stalinists") or the Alt Right.

The Labour Right is internationally the most belligerent section of British politics, but we now have it within our power to finish it off in the cause of peace. 

You see, it has also been unique in having an enormous fiscal base, due to its permanent or semi-permanent control of almost all of the most populous local authorities in England and Wales, with their Council Tax, their business rates, their pension funds looking to invest, their endless opportunities for sweeteners and backhanders, and so on.

In the urban centres, which mostly continued to vote Labour at the recent General Election, it is now up to the Left to remove those figures as candidates whenever their seats were next due to come up for election. 

But here in the ex-industrial townlands and countryside, we have already shown that we were capable of going even further. Notably here in County Durham, the first local authority that Labour won and which it has never lost in over a century since, in almost all cases we should simply vote for the candidate best placed to defeat Labour. In May 2021, we can deprive the right-wing Labour machine of the jewel in its crown.

Within that, though, there are odd left-wing Councillors who have sometimes experienced suspension from the Labour Party in order to protect Simon Henig, and I am very well aware that none of the Labour members of Durham County Council for wards in North West Durham signed Laura Pidcock's nomination papers, while certainly three and possibly all eight of them voted for me. But at least one of those three will be retiring in 2021.

I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

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