Sunday 18 August 2019

Right Out

Remember when the media's official parliamentary voices of Brexit, pub bores whom Boris Johnson has declined to appoint to anything at all, thought that they had won? That seems like a very long time ago now.

This Government is precariously dependent on a dozen or more Conservative MPs' not voting to make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister, on the abstentions and preferably the votes of a handful of people who were elected as Labour MPs and who mostly hate Brexit but who all hate Corbyn even more, and on the abstentions of the Lib Dems for much the same reason.

The Right did better before the referendum. The Right did better under the Coalition, in which Mark Francois was a Minister. He is not a Minister now.

Making these people the media's official parliamentary voices of Brexit was an intentional tactic in the strategy to ensure that Brexit itself never happened. So far, that strategy is coming along nicely.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration.

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. Buy the book here.

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. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

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