Ah, Change UK, the funniest misnomer since English Nonconformity.
More fools the Liberal Democrats for granting membership to Chuka Umunna. I mean, why? Why would they have done that? Even by the standards of politicians, even by the standards of Blairite politicians, even by the standards of Change UK Blairite politicians, he is a rampaging egomaniac in a class of his own.
The Lib Dems were no friends of the Blair Government, and they have a very democratic Constitution that has been designed for permanent Opposition. So it would not be at all surprising if the party in Streatham told Umunna to jog on.
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 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.
95% of Labour MPs and a good third to a half of Tories are really Liberal Democrat’s. I wish they all had Ummuna’s courage and conviction.
ReplyDeleteThen we could build a right wing party (and, yes, a socialist one opposite) that stood for the real divisions in this country, between Leave and Remain, mass immigration and so much else.
That has already been tried. An organised political Right, as such, is an un-British idea. Next to no one recently voted for UKIP, and the Brexit Party will get nowhere on any General Election manifesto acceptable to Nigel Farage. There really are not very many people like that. There are Tories, of course. But Rightists, as such, are a foreign phenomenon.
DeleteImmigration? How the years roll back, just reading that word again. No one ever mentions it now. Think on.