Merseyside

Since the British People’s Alliance is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker and anti-war party of economically social-democratic, morally and socialy conservative British and Commonwealth patriots, Merseyside is an area where our tradition is strong, at least as much as it is in the North East, where the British People's Alliance started.

If the candidates can be found, then we full expect, not only to fight every seat on Merseyside (we will be fighting every seat in the United Kingdom), but to win very many of them. One Liverpool MP in our tradition has already parted company with anti-life, anti-family, anti-worker and pro-war New Labour, which has replaced him as its Prospective Parliamentary Candidate with an anarcho-capitalist, libertine advocate of Eurofederalism under overall American neoconservative control.

The British People’s Alliance is now the only party opposed to those agenda and standing instead in the tradition of that MP and of several others on Merseyside, not least including Britain's leading parliamentary authority on poverty and welfare provision. We very much hope that those MPs will join the British People's Alliance and stand under our banner at the next General Election. We are today’s party of Attlee, Bevin, Morrison, Bevan and Gaitskell. We are today’s party of Lloyd George, Keynes and Beveridge.

Furthermore, the North East and Merseyside are both treated as cut off by the Political and Media Classes. Just contrast the number of regular or occasional television programmes set in the Greater Manchester-West Yorkshire-South Yorkshire belt, which is what London-based commissioning editors almost always seem to mean by "the North". The more picturesque parts of Yorkshire also get quite a look-in, even if Heartbeat, or Last of the Summer Wine, or even Emmerdale is not exactly on the over-realistic side.

Look at the honours heaped on Manchester United when it wins a European title, but not on Liverpool Football Club when it does the same thing. Who could have told, from national media coverage, that the recent shooting of an 11-year-old boy in Liverpool took place, not only quite a smart part of town, but in fact in a city with a better record on gun-related deaths than Birmingham, Manchester or (wait for it) London? And so one could go on.

Going all the way back to the 1970s, the Callaghan Government’s proposals for Scottish and Welsh devolution were rightly and vigorously opposed by Labour MPs from the North East and from Merseyside, whom and whose constituents nobody had bothered to ask in advance. This negligence was to be, and continues to be, repeated by the Blair-Brown Government, not only over devolution, but also over a whole host of other issues.

A vital part of the solution to this is to have strong MPs from Merseyside, from the North East, and from other neglected, patronised areas, drawn from a party which is most strongly committed to the economic, social, cultural and political representation and betterment of those areas. That party is the British People’s Alliance. We invite and urge all Merseyside’s MPs to join us. And we invite and urge the people of Merseyside to ensure that we have candidates in every seat there, and to support those candidates at the polls.