Whatever Measures Necessary?

The Brexit Party is still on course to top the poll in the North West, with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour second. If that is not the result, then the reverse will be. Either way, Claire Fox is going to be elected. So much for bringing up Warrington, or the Irish Freedom Movement.

None of that has ever done Corbyn any harm, since its only possible target voters either would never have voted Labour under any Leader, or in any case could not have done so because they lived in Northern Ireland, or both.

And now, this. Could it be that even in England, and indeed perhaps especially in England, the only position that anyone now held on the Irish Question, and most people in England simply hold none, was either that of Sinn Féin or that of the dissident Republicans? The impending European Election result in the highly populous North West would appear to suggest so.

Most people still expect a dissident Republican to be elected at the top of the list of the party that had topped the poll there, pushing into second place the party that was led by a Sinn Féin supporter and which probably had a Sinn Féin member as Shadow Chancellor. The measure of explicit dissent from all of this will be the vote for Change UK.