And so Donald Trump decides that Huawei is all right after all, or at least no worse than any of the rest of them. Trump was elected on a wave of discontent with the neoliberal economic policy, the identitarian social policy, the neoconservative foreign policy, and the anti-industrial Malthusianism, that Silicon Valley takes for granted.
Beginning with economics and then extending logically into every other sphere, that came to power in Britain, not with Margaret Thatcher, but with the Callaghan Government's turn to monetarism in 1977. And it came to power in the United States, not with Ronald Reagan, but with Jimmy Carter, who has now become, unless I am very much mistaken, the first former President of the United States ever to claim publicly that the incumbent President had not been legitimately elected.
In similar vein are the people who are jumping on the bandwagon against Chris Williamson. They thought that the economic and social free-for-all, spread across the world by force of arms and yet somehow also committed to misanthropic tree-hugging, would carry on forever. Chiefly, on this side of the Atlantic, as the European Union.
In response to a very changed world, they are behaving as the spoilt children that they are. It beggars belief that Labour MPs are preparing to halt the funding of public services in order to serve the EU, yet that is what they are about to do. No doubt including the MP for North West Durham.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party will be registered before the House of Commons rises for the summer recess, even if I have to pay for it myself, ongoing lawfare or no ongoing lawfare.
And I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party will be registered before the House of Commons rises for the summer recess, even if I have to pay for it myself, ongoing lawfare or no ongoing lawfare.
And I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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