The Balance of Power?

David Cameron has said we all knew from the start. Boris Johnson is a purely opportunistic Brexiteer who did not and  does not believe a word of it.

Also thoroughly opportunistic are the Liberal Democrats, and indeed the former advocates of a so-called "People's Vote" who have lately attached themselves to the Liberal Democrats. 

Those ought now to move on again, since Lib Dem policy is now not a "a People's Vote" at all, but the simple revocation of Article 50 as the first act of a Lib Dem Government, presumably including any Government to which the Lib Dems had any connection.

On that basis, the Lib Dems will now take any and everybody. They merely mirror the Brexit Party's single-policy insistence on a No Deal Brexit as a matter of principle, their own single policy being that Article 50 must be revoked without reference to Parliament, or to the electorate, or to anyone.

As the Brexit Party is replete with right-wing cranks, so genuine Fascists, properly so called, have never had any problem with a European Union, only with the one that happened to exist at the given time.

These days, they are  once again very keen indeed on the idea of a United Europe as the bulwark of their own conception of Western civilisation. They have been in the past, and they are again now. Well, there is a party for them now. And who would look for them there?

And as the Brexit Party can accommodate the Revolutionary Communist Party, so there is a very small section of the Far Left, but it is there, which supports the EU. Of Trotskyist lineage is the Alliance for Workers' Liberty that publishes Solidarity. The old Tankies have the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), its Weekly Worker newspaper, and its support network in Labour Party Marxists.

They are pretty libertarian on things like drugs and sex; the ancestrally Stalinist, at least, now want to abolish the age of consent altogether, for example. They are pretty much away with identity politics and with Greenery, much as the fash also are, in their way. Well, there is a party for them now. And who would look for them there?

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems as we have known them, who opposed the Iraq War and who opposed the Blair Government's assaults on civil liberties, who defended the County Durham Teaching Assistants and who defended those who were faced with losing their homes to the Haringey Development Vehicle, are being elbowed aside in favour of the very recent arrivals of Blairism in Exile and of David Cameron's old Parliamentary Private Secretary.

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. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.