Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday, 3 September 2007
One Party Brown Appoints Notorious Racist Adviser
No, not Patrick Mercer. He just made an entirely honest and unremarkable observation, and paid the price in the present Age of Lies. I am talking about John Bercow, sometime Secretary of the Race and Repatriation Committee of the Monday Club.
No it wasn't. You described Brown as "One Party Brown". I noted that you are you are attempting to form a new political movement made up of people who are currently members of both the Labour and Conservative Parties, which you believe are destined for oblivion, and that you are therefore "One Party Lindsay". Except that you haven't achieved anything yet, and are therefore "No Party Lindsay".
Well, yes, I only ever intend to be in one party, if any. (I might well be dead by the time that the tendencies in question crystalise into parties as we have known them, if they ever do). And I have a pretty clear idea as to what any such party would look like, indeed be like.
But I don't want it to be the only party in Britain. Still less do I want it to fight elections pretending to be two or three different parties when it isn't, thus denying any real choice to the electorate. That's the difference.
Why did you delete a comment which was, entirely reasonably and politely, critical of you?
ReplyDeleteIt was off topic.
ReplyDeleteNo it wasn't. You described Brown as "One Party Brown". I noted that you are you are attempting to form a new political movement made up of people who are currently members of both the Labour and Conservative Parties, which you believe are destined for oblivion, and that you are therefore "One Party Lindsay". Except that you haven't achieved anything yet, and are therefore "No Party Lindsay".
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, I only ever intend to be in one party, if any. (I might well be dead by the time that the tendencies in question crystalise into parties as we have known them, if they ever do). And I have a pretty clear idea as to what any such party would look like, indeed be like.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't want it to be the only party in Britain. Still less do I want it to fight elections pretending to be two or three different parties when it isn't, thus denying any real choice to the electorate. That's the difference.