"Alba and All for Unity have almost no support," say the people who decide which parties should be given a platform from which to state their case.
Alex Salmond and George Galloway are deemed too obscure to be worth interviewing. Yet in the midst of the regrouping of the Left, attention is being lavished on the Northern Independence Party.
Complete with its rather insulting whippet, that party is nothing but a divisive diversion, and the publicity that it is being afforded is decidedly suspicious.
Northern independence is obviously never going to happen, and it would in any case be a betrayal of everyone south of wherever the border was supposed to be who was crying out for economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends.
Indeed, the NIP itself is already such a betrayal. Have absolutely nothing to do with it.
I'd rather see a whippet than some twerp at a desk with a union jack behind him.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for the NIP! (And I live in the South West.) My hope is that NIP inspires other breakaway parties to emerge and declare their own "independence" from the "NEW" Labour hegemony. Blair didn't win because he was right-wing, and Corbyn didn't lose because he was left-wing. Blair won because Murdoch loved him, and Corbyn lost because Murdoch hated him.
ReplyDeleteWhen I, happily, voted Blair in '97, I thought we were on John Smith's trajectory. But all we got was a few tweaks, then business as usual. We were lied to. I never voted "NEW" Labour again, until Corbyn. I won't be voting for Starmer. That's not me 'splitting the left vote', that's me not voting Tory. I never have voted Tory, and I never will vote Tory - whatever colour tie they're wearing! I vote for the left. Always.