Thursday, 31 December 2020

Arise

Being brown does not let you off being a tax avoider, Sir Lewis Hamilton. And there never really was a brick through the window of Dame Angela Eagle, but of course you Straussians are obliged to lie to the rest of us for our own good. 

Bringing us to Oliver Kamm, whose forthcoming foray into amateur psychiatry, which runs the very real risk of losing people their lives, is endorsed by seven pillars of that same metropolitan liberal elite. Only three are psychiatrists.

As for the rest, one believes that being the Governor of the Bank of England makes him an authority on mental health. Another holds the same view of his own status as a columnist on The Observer. A third is Beth Rigby, who might politely be described as embarrassing.

And the fourth is Alastair Campbell, who was presumably asked only because Charles Manson was dead. Although Manson would have refused the reputational damage of association with either Campbell or Kamm. Whereas Campbell has no reputation to damage, not even by association with Kamm.

Expect rave reviews of this book from people who will have felt no need to have read it, because they will have  slept or snorted with its author. Welcome to the world of Carrie Symonds, and Keir Starmer, and Ed Davey, and all the rest of them. Their overthrow cannot possibly happen too soon.

Seeing The Join

Dress it up however you like, but today Spain got Gibraltar. Still "good enough for you", is it? Gibraltar, Northern Ireland and Scotland should each have been given a "Which Union?" referendum, all to be held on the same day, and with Gibraltar to have become part of the United Kingdom, as was once proposed for Malta, if it had chosen the British rather than the European Union.

There are more Remainers in Britain than there are people in many an EU member-state. And those who, unlike Stanley Johnson, were not in any case entitled to an EU nationality need not have long to wait. The European Union could declare every British citizen to be an EU citizen unless they specifically renounced it by paying an exorbitant fee in euros, and by filling in a form that would be accepted by post only. That form could be in Bulgarian, which is the only official language of the EU to be written using the Cyrillic script. More or less nobody would bother with any of that.

Nothing will really end tonight. Britain will remain subject to the State Aid rules, so nothing will be able to improve in the areas that had swung the referendum for Leave. Re-joiners, as such, will contest every seat at the next General Election, and at every General Election until they had got their own way. That is before mentioning the strong Re-join sentiment in and around the parliamentary bodies of both main parties. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

The Whites of Their Eyes

Having been flown to Israel at the expense of Donald Trump's biggest donor, Sheldon Adelson, Jonathan Pollard has been given a hero's welcome by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Although Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had never wanted Pollard to be released at all, the neoconservative silence is deafening, and it contrasts starkly with the bellyaching from that corner about much of the coverage of the death of George Blake, who, unlike the Cambridge Apostles, was just a basically foreign mercenary who got a better offer.

The lionisation of Sergei Skripal also sits ill. Real traitors, such as Pollard and Skripal, both of whom did it for the money, are somehow all right. Yet a man who was objectionable precisely because he had had nothing to betray, and who had been recruited on that clear understanding, was somehow the embodiment of evil merely for having done what such men do.

As for why Stalinist and Nazi sympathies and sympathisers are treated so differently, there is nothing complicated or mystifying about that. It is about the Second World War. And you are the ones who keep up the cult of Churchill. The wonder is that your cult of Thatcher has not translated into treating Maoists more sympathetically again, since the Peking Plotter was always exceedingly partial to them in what had become, by her time, the three-cornered Cold War. Give that one a few more years, I reckon.

The pictures of Netanyahu and Pollard explain the role of Israel in American and, especially, British politics these days. Supporting Israel means opposing the dark-skinned Other abroad, and thus also at home. The motivation is fear. Just as there will be a Spanish-speaking majority in all 50 of the United States by the end of this century, so, if next year's British census went ahead, then it would confirm what everyone already knew, that every ward east of the Irish Sea now contained at least some people whose political roots were at least partly in the liberation struggle of the Global South, and that those residents tended to be younger.

Always the world in one city, for many decades London has been the capital of that struggle. For five years, a major political party was led by a man who was steeped in it, and who greatly increased that party's membership not least by bringing in people whose principal political identity was as anti-racists and anti-imperialists. Jeremy Corbyn did little or nothing to help himself against the racist and imperialist backlash, but BAME voters remain fiercely loyal to him even now, and he remains a political megastar on the Three Continents, among whose poor and huddled masses he probably has more influence than any other single individual, if only he would use it.

The Labour Party, meanwhile, has reverted to type. It was always going to do so. By far the biggest rebellion of the Corbyn years was the mass abstention on a motion calling for an end to British support for the Saudi war in Yemen until there had been an independent investigation into civilian casualties. And who can forget Labour MPs' reaction to Hilary Benn's speech on Syria, wildly cheering and applauding a war? Ed Miliband's imposition of a three-line whip had kept Britain out of Syria, but Corbyn had been too weak to do the same.

And now, Labour is led by a man who is open to white replacement theory and to a British version of the Israeli Nation-State Law, attempts at drafting which would be a satirist's dream come true until it all became horribly real. It was Corbyn who subjected Labour to the IHRA Definition, but it is Keir Starmer who has granted to the questionable representatives of no more than 40 per cent of Britain's infinitesimal Jewish population the right to sit in judgement on allegations of anti-Semitism, empowering them to expel people from a party of which they themselves were not members or even supporters.

If Jews are a "race", then where is the independent panel of black people to judge allegations of the anti-black racism that runs rampant among the Labour Party's staff? Judaism is a religion to which anyone may convert, so where is the independent panel of Muslims to judge allegations of anti-Muslim bigotry in a party whose only hijabi MP has been permitted not to give her address in court for fear of physical attack by members of her own party and supporters of its Leader?

Where is the independent panel of Christians to judge allegations of discrimination against those who are often very left-wing economically and even more commonly very anti-war, and whose Christianity leads them to dissent from the extreme social liberalism that Starmer and his supporters are glad to see entrenched economically as neoliberalism and then imposed on the world by force of arms?

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party, which into the present century included at every level the full range of views on Israel and Palestine, has seized the opportunity to shore up what it thinks is its own new base by requiring fealty to a State that was founded (in point of fact, by anti-British terrorists) on the premise that one group of white people, having been wronged by other white people, was entitled to compensation in the form of any territory that it happened to choose in the nonwhite world, and to hell with the nonwhite people who were already living there.

As for the Liberal Democrats, they welcomed with open arms the MPs who had left the Labour Party after the adoption of the IHRA Definition because it was still not racist and imperialist enough for them. Clearly, the Lib Dems were. They then imposed Luciana Berger as the parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green in an act of race-hustling that was as shameless as it was probably illegal and mercifully unsuccessful. The people now running the Labour Party fall over themselves to say how much they want this person back.

Loose Luciana, the well-munched Berger, has had some things to say about me in her time. So I would welcome her as the Lib Dem candidate for North West Durham. Just as I would welcome whoever was the Labour candidate, campaigning for Starmer to become Prime Minister in order to counteract white genocide by enacting his Nation-State Law. In any event, I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

The Left Should Welcome Brexit


So this is it. Forty-eight years after Britain joined what was then the European Economic Community, the fasten seatbelt signs are switched on and the cabin lights have been dimmed. It is time for departure.

Many in the UK, especially on the left, are in despair that this moment has arrived. For them, this can never be the journey to somewhere better: instead it is the equivalent of the last helicopter leaving the roof of the US embassy in Saigon in 1975.

The lefties who voted for Brexit see it differently. For them (us, actually, because I am one of them), the vote to leave was historically progressive. It marked the rejection of a status quo that was only delivering for the better off by those who demanded their voice was heard. Far from being a reactionary spasm, Brexit was democracy in action.

For a start, it is clear that the UK has deep, structural economic problems despite – and in some cases because of – almost half a century of EU membership. Since 1973, the manufacturing base has shrivelled, the trade balance has been in permanent deficit, and the north-south divide has widened. 

Free movement of labour has helped entrench Britain’s reputation as a low-investment, low-productivity economy. Brexit means that those farmers who want their fruit harvested will now have to do things that the left ought to want: pay higher wages or invest in new machinery.

The part of the economy that has done best out of EU membership has been the bit that needed least help: the City of London. Each country in the EU has tended to specialise: the Germans do the high-quality manufactured goods; France does the food and drink; the UK does the money.

Yet the mass exodus of banks and other financial institutions that has been predicted since June 2016 has not materialised, because London is a global as well as a European financial centre. The City will continue to thrive.

If there are problems with the UK economy, it is equally obvious there are big problems with the EU as well: slow growth, high levels of unemployment, a rapidly ageing population.

The single currency – which Britain fortunately never joined – has failed to deliver the promised benefits. Instead of convergence between member states there has been divergence; instead of closing the gap in living standards with the US, the eurozone nations have fallen further behind.

In their heads, those predicting Armageddon for the UK imagine the EU to still be Germany’s miracle economy – the Wirtschaftswunder – of the 1960s. The reality is somewhat different.

It is Italy, where living standards are no higher than they were when the single currency was introduced two decades ago. It is Greece, forced to accept ideologically motivated austerity in return for financial support.

The four freedoms of the single market – no barriers to the movement of goods, services, people and capital – are actually the four pillars of neoliberalism.

The Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated the importance of nation states and the limitations of the EU. Britain’s economic response to the pandemic was speedy and coordinated: the Bank of England cut interest rates and boosted the money supply while the Treasury pumped billions into the NHS and the furlough scheme. It has taken months and months of wrangling for the eurozone to come up with the same sort of joined-up approach.

Earlier in the year, there was criticism of the government when it decided to opt out of the EU vaccine procurement programme, but this now looks to have been a smart move. Brussels has been slow to place orders for drugs that are effective, in part because it has bowed to internal political pressure to spread the budget around member states – and its regulator has been slower to give approval for treatments. Big does not always mean better.

Leaving the EU means UK governments no longer have anywhere to hide. They have economic levers they can pull – procurement, tax, ownership, regulation, investment in infrastructure, subsidies for new industries, trade policy – and they will come under pressure to use them.

Many on the remainer left accept the EU has its faults, but they fear that Brexit will be the start of something worse: slash and burn deregulation that will make Britain a nastier place to live.

This, though, assumes that Britain will have rightwing governments in perpetuity. It used to be the left who welcomed change and the right that wanted things to remain the same. The inability to envisage what a progressive government could do with Brexit represents a political role reversal and a colossal loss of nerve.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 31

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it. I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 36

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 45

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes last year.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Suicide Watch: Day 68

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, the Crown has been granted an adjournment because you have no case. And I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day 68

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 87

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you could not after all come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name. That same Court had granted the Crown an adjournment because it had had no case.

Nevertheless, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Meanwhile, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 147

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 178

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Wednesday, 30 December 2020

Something To Look Forward To?

A national lockdown next week, then.

Probably until Easter.

At the very, very earliest.

Sanction Your Mind

If Vladimir Putin had wanted Alexei Navalny dead, then Navalny would have been dead. A bullet in the head. None of your Novichok, which clearly does not work.

The Russian and Chinese economies are increasingly integrated, a huge bloc of which post-Brexit Britain ought to be wanting a piece. Are they run by good men? No, they most certainly are not.

But they are not run by men anywhere near as bad as the House of Saud; in the whole world, only North Korea is, although Saudi Arabia's Gulf satellites do come close. Motes and beams, brothers and sisters. Motes and beams.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 30

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it. I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 35

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 44

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes last year.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Suicide Watch: Day 67

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, the Crown has been granted an adjournment because you have no case. And I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day 67

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 86

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you could not after all come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name. That same Court had granted the Crown an adjournment because it had had no case.

Nevertheless, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Meanwhile, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 146

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 177

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

The Long Game

David Cameron had the EU's permission to hold the referendum. You only have to say that for it to be obvious.

If Remain had won, then the placation of Euroscepticism would no longer have been considered necessary. Within 10 or even five years, we would have been in Schengen and the euro.

If Leave had won, then another 10-year process would have begun. Pretending to leave, while remaining subject to the State Aid rules, would have ensured that nothing had got any better for the left behind areas. That would eventually have brought about reaccession, complete with Schengen and the euro.

Tomorrow, we shall begin that process. But nothing more than that. This is the long game, and we are being played. Still, I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

Getting Brexit Done?

Everyone has been desperate for years to get this thing over and done with, but we are still to be subject to the Common Fisheries Policy, probably forever. And we are still to be subject to the State Aid rules, officially forever, with EU disputes panels that had the enforcement powers of the European Court of Justice, and which were made up of people who were on their way to the bench of the ECJ. Supported by Theresa May and Keir Starmer, this is simply not Brexit at all. 

The European Communities Act passed handily. So did Margaret Thatcher's Single European Act. And so did Maastricht. So what? Nor will today or tomorrow be the end of anything. The inadequacies of this deal will be universally apparent by 2024, when a party with a commitment to re-joining the EU, complete with Schengen and the euro, is going to contest every seat in Great Britain, having been in government a great deal more recently than the Labour Party had been. This is the bassline of the political soundtrack to the rest of our lives.

Demonstrated So Brilliantly

One from 19th September 2016:

Too many times, there has been an implication during and after the EU referendum debate that the 52 per cent who had voted Leave had been naïve, ignorant or racist, as if the Remain campaign had been uniquely free of dodgy statistics and of misleading information. Not only is this deeply insulting and patronising, but it does not reflect my personal experience. I was originally in favour of the EU. I loved the idea of nations trading and cooperating to find solutions to common problems. If I could have seen a glimmer of hope that the EU could reform, then I would have gladly voted Remain. But I could not keep deceiving myself.

The EU has not guaranteed peace in Europe: it played a role in initiating the recent trouble in Ukraine. It is not a friend of the poor and vulnerable: it is heavily influenced by big banks and corporations, and has caused misery for the people of Greece. You do not have to be on the political Right to oppose it, as Tony Benn and Bob Crow demonstrated so brilliantly. Treating European immigrants more favourably than non-European immigrants is the real racist policy, and expecting the unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats in Brussels to change their ways is the real naïvety. My main principle against the European Union is also the reason why I oppose our foreign military interventions: I believe in independent nation states, and that the internal running of a country should be a matter for the people of that country to decide and no one else.

I used to say that James Draper, who is 20 years my junior, was my dauphin or delfino. But I am probably now his dowager. Do read the whole article to see that the fight very much goes on.

The House Divided

The "good enough for me" brigade needs to explain the fact that John Redwood and Owen Paterson could not vote for this deal. The DUP went so far as to vote against it. There was one Remainer Labour vote against, but of the 36 Labour abstainers, at least two, to my certain knowledge, were Leavers. 

Nor is Jeremy Corbyn, who also abstained, noted as an enthusiast for the EU; his Facebook post today essentially sets out the age-old Bennite position. And Claudia Webbe recently appeared on an Internet television programme during which she showed no dissent from Daniel Kebede's description of the EU as "absolutely hostile to the Global South and to black lives", or from his identification of Fortress Europe as the model for Donald Trump and his wall.

Kebede strongly rejected the suggestion that all Leave voters were racists. Instead, he insisted that, "the fundamental driver was that people had wanted more control over their lives." He is obviously one of us, and he lives here in North West Durham. The Constituency Labour Party could do a great deal worse.

Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Any Old Irony?

"But, in the biggest irony of all, if this is to benefit British capitalism it will require a makeover – to become more high investment and stakeholder-oriented, working closely with government. It will have to look… more European," smirks Will Hutton, on his way to suggesting that one of tomorrow's anti-Brexit Labour rebels would lead the party to victory in 2029 on a manifesto commitment to re-join the EU.

And Vince Cable calls for "a European (and Asian) approach [that] would disappoint the hard-core, Atlanticist, economic libertarians of the Tory party and Brexit movement. But I suspect that the prime minister will feel he has already delivered for them on Brexit and needs some new friends. He will make a lot of friends if he steers post-Brexit Britain in the direction of being a bit more European, even perhaps more German (but don't mention the war)."

Well, we were in the EU for nearly 50 years. During that time, did we "become more high investment and stakeholder-oriented," with capital "working closely with government"? Or did we in fact become very markedly less like that than we had been on 31st December 1972? 

We had more than long enough to become "a bit more European", but we did the opposite. The approach that Hutton and Cable advocate works a great deal better in Norway or Switzerland, outside the EU, than it ever worked in Britain during our decades of EU membership.

Healthy Debate

"Died with is not the same as died of" is doing the rounds again, I see. 

Plenty of people who die in traffic accidents no doubt have underlying health conditions, but those are not what kill them. Every victim of Harold Shipman also had at least one underlying health condition.

And no healthy person under any age has ever died of Covid-19. If you have Covid-19, then by definition you are not a healthy person.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 29

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it. I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 34

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 43

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes last year.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Suicide Watch: Day 66

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, the Crown has been granted an adjournment because you have no case. And I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day 66

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 85

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you could not after all come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name. That same Court had granted the Crown an adjournment because it had had no case.

Nevertheless, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Meanwhile, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 145

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 176

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Blocked By Blood

Do not try and blame the Queen, who cannot answer back. Tony Blair is the reason why Tony Blair cannot be knighted, and we all know why.

If by convention that blocks Sir Gordon, Sir David and Dame Theresa, well, albeit on a smaller scale, they are all guilty of similar offences.

This Deal Is Supported By All The Wrong People

If Theresa May, or the Coalition, or a Labour Government had brought home this deal, then the people who were praising it to the skies would have been calling for treason trials.

But it has been brought home by "Boris", who can do no wrong. Yet May is going to vote for it, as is Keir Starmer. This deal is supported by all the wrong people. 

Still, I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

What Shall It Profit?

Out of the European Court of Justice, we are to be subject to EU dispute panels with much the same powers and probably much the same personnel, in order to ensure our compliance with legislation over the content of which we are to have no say whatever.

The European Research Group has bought into this because it realises that a reshuffle is overdue. But Boris Johnson long ago neutralised the Right by absorbing it. Far from promoting any more of its glittering ornaments, he intends to sack the ones who were already there. After Thursday, they will be of no further use to him. The ERG have not even sold their souls. They have given away their souls for nothing.

Not Good Enough For Me

The Conservative Remainer-Rejoiners are going to vote for this deal, as are most of the Labour Remainer-Rejoiners. Like Nigel Farage, the European Research Group has sold out. However unrealistically, the ERG has turned careerist. As for Farage, you would have to ask him.

We are still to be subject to the Common Fisheries Policy in all but name, effectively forever. And we are still to be subject to the State Aid rules, officially forever. But ERG types never did object to the State Aid rules. As far as they are concerned, opposition to the EU was "Loony Left" until, suddenly and for no particular reason, it stopped being, in the very late 1980s.

Jeremy Corbyn's compromise on Brexit was one of the big reasons why I decided to stand as an Independent at last year's General Election. The single biggest, in fact. That is why I do not get the idea that, "If it's good enough for Farage and the ERG, then it's good enough for me." Nothing has ever been good enough for me just because it was good enough for a politician whom I happened to support in general. And I am still the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

Recessive?

In England today, there are more people in hospital with Covid-19 than at any other time since the beginning of the pandemic.

The parliamentary recess has therefore been extended by a week, to 11th January, although even that is one day earlier than Eton had ever planned on going back. No school should therefore reopen before 11th January at the earliest, or whenever MPs did indeed return to Pestilence Palace.

I almost never pass comment on the care of children, since I do not have any. But parents, you have a social responsibility not to send your children back into the plague pits and then all the way home again, five days of the week.

Turbulent

Today is the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, never called "à Becket" in his own time.

This would have been the ideal opportunity to have announced that, since no one in this country had ever been known to have contracted Covid-19 at a church service, the churches would now be reopening as usual, and let the successors of Henry II do their worst.

Ora pro nobis.

Monday, 28 December 2020

Fools Rush In

The European Parliament, which has to ratify the Brexit deal for it to come into effect, will not be debating it until February or March. Why, then, is the British Parliament voting on it on Wednesday of this week, less than a week after it had been concluded?

A procedural device, such as an amendment to the Government's motion, needs to be deployed, ideally to ensure that the House of Commons would not consider this until all other bodies that needed to approve it had done so.

Arabian Nights

If the Foreign Office does not offer consular assistance then, since there is now a separate Department for International Trade, what is it for?

As for Loujain al-Hathloul, we do not support Saudi Arabia in spite of its repression. We support it because of its repression. The British State, as such, trains the Saudis in how to repress.

A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for this. A vote for Labour is a vote for this. And a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote for this. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

On The Coattails

Eton had broken up before the Government was threatening to take schools and councils to court merely for having moved teaching online.

And even if everything went according to plan, then Eton would not be going back until 12th January. Nor, therefore, should any other school.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 28

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it. I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 33

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 42

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes last year.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Suicide Watch: Day 65

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, the Crown has been granted an adjournment because you have no case. And I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day 65

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 84

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you could not after all come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name. That same Court had granted the Crown an adjournment because it had had no case.

Nevertheless, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Meanwhile, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 144

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 175

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Trawling For Votes

No one is going to revisit Brexit in five and a half years' time. The fishermen have been sold down the river. But the SNP and the Liberal Democrats are playing a blinder here. The length and breadth of the fishing communities, they will be able to say that they had voted against this.

However absurd and even disgraceful that will be in view of their commitment to reaccession, as a simple fact it will be impossible to deny. Might there be Lib Dem gains in 2024 due to Hard Brexit votes in the West Country, even as their other gains were from Hard Remainers who had felt betrayed by Keir Starmer? Bet anything you like on it.

Caught Red-Handed No More

This really is the end of Northern Ireland, at least as part of the United Kingdom, the definition of which has now been stretched to the point that it has become meaningless.

There may or may not be a 32 County Republic, but Britain is on the way out of Northern Ireland. Well on the way, in fact. Only a Conservative Government would ever have dared to do this. And now, this one has. 

This is not about a United Ireland. This is about whether Britain wanted Northern Ireland. That was always going to be the question eventually. And we are now days away from pulling out. 

There are even going to be capital controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. From this week. United Ireland or no United Ireland, the Six Counties are out of the United Kingdom if being in it still means anything at all.

Finding The Level

The levelling up that Boris Johnson proposes is incompatible with the level playing field to which he has signed up.

Do not expect the fishing issue to be revisited in five and a half years' time, but at least it could be. The cause of the fisheries is just, but it is receiving such attention because the media do not know where to begin to look for the vastly more numerous people who have been sold down the river by the decision to remain subject to the State Aid rules, and that not for five and half years, but forever.

So much for the people and places that swung the referendum for Leave. That result has effectively been nullified, and with it the results of both subsequent General Elections in the areas that decided them. 

British big capital, which is the only interest of which any British Government has any concept, has agreed with Franco-German big capital, which is the only interest of which the French and German Governments or the EU institutions have any concept, that they will remain free to move around each other's territories at will, regardless of any social consideration, including the need for a balanced economy.

Any Labour Party that voted for this, or even abstained on it, would be worse than useless. And the worse than useless Labour Party is indeed going to vote for this wretched deal. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

Sunday, 27 December 2020

All At Sea

It is welcome that the SNP intends to vote against the Brexit deal. That party's ridiculous position deserves to be interrogated. It professes to wish to save the fisheries, while at the same time it advocates reaccession to the European Union.

Britain is to remain subject both to the Common Fisheries Policy for at least five and a half years, and to the State Aid rules forever, thereby spitting in the faces of the people and places that swung the referendum for Leave.

Labour intends to vote in favour of this, a far cry from the days when the Miliband Leadership was calling for the repatriation of industrial and regional policy while voting against an increase in the British contribution to the EU's budget. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

Enough Rope To Hang Herself

Covid-19 has postponed this year's reshuffle, at which Priti Patel, and several other Rightists whom Boris Johnson had to some extent owed before the General Election, would have been sacked. If she really does have civil servants working of a proposal to restore capital punishment, then Johnson is letting her dig her own grave.

More than 20 years ago, I heard Michael Gove argue in favour of that one. But it was hard to imagine that he believed what he was saying even then, and it is inconceivable that, as a Member of Parliament, he would vote for it now. Certainly not 100 MPs would do so, and probably not 50, or a mere one in 13 of the total.

The death penalty's supposed popularity is based on antique polling, since the question has barely been polled in this century. Most people would now find it as offensive as being asked their opinion of interracial marriage.

So if Patel were to pursue this, then she would be humiliated, and her position would become untenable. There is every sign that Johnson is setting her up for that, to save himself a job. Jumping before she was pushed, indeed.

The Holden-Nut Nuts Challenge: Day 27

Richard Holden, Princess Nut Nuts testified against you at the trial at which you were acquitted, and since your election she has repeatedly blocked your promotion.

So why do you want the country to be run by her? This question will appear here every day until you have answered it. I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Oliver Kamm Candidacy Watch: Day 32

Oliver Kamm, you consider that Richard Holden, Laura Pidcock and I are all unfit to be Members of Parliament.

In that case, then you need to announce your own parliamentary candidacy here at North West Durham. 

Put up or shut up. This post will appear daily until you do.

The Pidcock-Starmer Challenge: Day 41

Election to the National Executive Committee at Stage One is the stuff of Labour royalty, and 824 of Laura Pidcock's voters expressed no other preference.

Add quite that level of popularity within the party to the fact that she still lives here in North West Durham, and to the fact that she lost this seat by only 1,144 votes last year.

All in all, she is already the Labour candidate for North West Durham at the General Election of 2024. There is a certain amount of paperwork to be done, but it is nothing more than that.

Any Labour candidate at that Election will either believe that Keir Starmer ought to become Prime Minister, or will at least be pretending to believe that.

Laura is not the pretending type, so the question is this: Laura Pidcock, why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

Not, "Why do you want a Labour Government?" Why do you want Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister?

This question will appear here every day until you have answered it.

I am the declared and active Independent candidate for North West Durham.

Suicide Watch: Day 64

The two of you who are planning to drag me back to court, the Crown has been granted an adjournment because you have no case. And I am still here. What you really want is for me to commit suicide, which strongly suggests that you have been successful in that regard in the past. One of you has already spent nearly 20 years trying to bring about my death by my own hand. Every time that either of you sends the Police round, or what have you, then that is the intention.

But that will never be the effect. You have met your match in me, and you need to remember that while I am not permitted to name you here, you would be named in court if you pursued me there. You would be named in court as having tried to drive a man to suicide. Would that be good for business? Would that be good for political advancement? Would the Church see that as good for the Church? Think on.

This post will appear daily while you continued your doomed campaign to force me to take my own life. Each of you has clearly succeeded in forcing other people to take their own lives. But I say again, to each and both of you, that you have met your match in me. As one of you ought to have worked out a long time ago.

CPS Watch: Day 64

Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service does not deny that it is an enforcement agency of the right-wing Labour machine, and that its behaviour towards me at every point has proved that conclusively, as that behaviour continues to do.

The CPS does not deny that it corrupted the jury at my trial, and that it would do the same to any jury, or to any bench of magistrates, that might try me in future. If I were ever to be convicted of anything again, then that point would be proved.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, does not dispute that he knows me to be innocent of the offences with which he has charged me.

His predecessor, Alison Saunders, does not dispute that she has always known me to have been innocent of the offences with which she charged me and arranged to have me convicted.

Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that they have persecuted me, and that they continue to do so, purely in order to advance their professional, political and social lives on and around the right wing of the Labour Party.

And Saunders, Hill and the CPS do not dispute that, since I am nothing special, they are certainly doing this to dozens of other people at any given time.

This post will appear daily until there is any change in the above circumstances. I am a declared and active candidate for the parliamentary seat of North West Durham at the next General Election.

My imprisonment prior to the next General Election would make me the First Past the Post, just as my conviction prior to the last one would have saved my deposit. My enemies need to think on.

Clergy Watch: Day 83

On 4th November, at Peterlee Magistrates' Court, you could not after all come along and witness the latest instalment in the lawfare against me by the right-wing Labour machine, including under it Sunday name. That same Court had granted the Crown an adjournment because it had had no case.

Nevertheless, are you a bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in any of the Red Wall areas: the three Northern regions, the two Midland regions, and North Wales? (Why that matters will become evident from an emerging project.)

If so, then do you believe that I am guilty of the charges against me, meaning that my accusers are telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com to say so. No names will be used, but a running total will appear here every day.

The current total is zero. There is no bishop, priest or deacon of the Roman Obedience who is ministering in the North of England, the Midlands, or North Wales, and who believes my accusers to be anything other than liars.

Meanwhile, the Patrons of my parliamentary campaign at North West Durham now include, as private citizens, the 12 archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Red Wall dioceses of Birmingham, Hallam, Hexham and Newcastle, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Northampton, Nottingham, Salford, Shrewsbury, and Wrexham, together with the clergy of the Escomb and Pontop Partnerships, each of which falls partly in the North West Durham constituency.

Oliver Kamm Arrest Watch: Day 143

There is more evidence to arrest Oliver Kamm than there was to convict me, and he clams up over on Guido Fawkes when asked whether or not he has been arrested. So, has Oliver Kamm been arrested? If not, why not?

Kamm faked a death threat against himself, and he used a contact at Durham, who ought also to be arrested and who may in fact have been so, to try and pin it on me. That incident is so similar to the one of which I was convicted as to call into question my conviction. A daily update will appear here until further notice.

Oliver Kamm Libel Watch: Day 174

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times.

Sue me.

Your bizarre CapX article, as well as numerous other statements of yours since then, have had nothing to do with the substance of my previous court case, in relation to which I maintain my innocence. So they have not already been tested in court. And they are lies.

You made up the "anti-Semitic death threat" against yourself, in a language that I could not read, and even though you are not Jewish. I was present when the Police literally laughed it out.

Like me, the Police know how you did it; they know who in Durham you used, and so do I. Eventually, you will either do time for this, or it will see you sent to a psychiatric institution, possibly both.

You are a stalker with an acknowledged history of mental illness, and I can see less and less reason why I ought not to move to have you committed. Or sent to prison. By the criteria that were used to convict me, then that would be an open and shut case.

Next time that you try and frame someone, then do not use a language, and even a script, that your target cannot read. The Police tend to laugh out that kind of thing.

Oliver Kamm, you are a liar, and as such you are unfit to hold your position on The Times. Sue me. This post will appear here daily until you do.

Saturday, 26 December 2020

Deal Us Out

The EU has kept a sizeable proportion of its catch in British waters for a "transition period", and we all know about those. Moreover, even as initially agreed, that period is to last a whopping five and a half years.

And we are to remain subject to the State Aid rules via the "level playing field" mechanism, thereby rendering impossible the economic regeneration of the areas that made the decisive difference for Leave at a referendum that now feels like a lifetime ago.

This will not do at all. WTO terms, the great bogeyman of No Deal, would indeed be better than this. The Liberal Democrats seem poised to vote against this deal as one last stand against Brexit itself, thereby hoping, perhaps realistically, to pick up the votes of many of the people who had hitherto placed their trust in Keir Starmer.

Well, there are 11 Lib Dem MPs. Let there be at least 12, elected as Labour a year ago even if not currently in receipt of the whip, who will vote in the same lobby but for the opposite reason. Let there be at least 12 who will make a stand for huge investment in manufacturing, for increased productivity, and for local procurement, all in the interests of working people and of ethical trade.

We know that that will not be the Labour whip. Quite the reverse, in fact. And we know that at least two of the MPs who might vote for this would already have been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for the archetypal Red Wall seat of North West Durham. What are you doing?

Royal Colours

The casting of Golda Rosheuvel at Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton is a level of historical accuracy that would be matched only by giving Queen Victoria and her children the heavy German accents that in fact they had when they spoke English in public, while showing them speaking German in private, as the Royal Family did at least until the First World War.

Not only is our own dear Queen of heavy immigrant stock, and married to an immigrant, but they are both probably part-black. In fact, no one could believe anything else having seen a portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose features were publicly called “Negroid” at the time, when her ancestry was common knowledge and apparently disturbed nobody. The city of Charlotte in North Carolina is named after her, and it is the seat of Mecklenburg County.

She was descended from the part-black Royal House of Portugal, another member of which was Catherine of Braganza, who was the consort of Charles II but from whom no one is descended, unlike her husband, whose descendants included Princess Diana and include both the present Duchess of Cornwall and the former Duchess of York. In a portrait displayed in one of the private areas of Durham Castle, Catherine is shown looking just like a mixed-raced Briton of today. Or, indeed, like Meghan Markle.

Furthermore, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are plausibly believed to be descended from Muhammad through various part-Moorish royal lines on the Iberian Peninsula, back through the Kings of Portugal and Castile, to the old Moorish Kings of Seville. Even if Robert Graves was once ushered away from Her Majesty after he had mentioned their common descent from the Prophet of Islam, that view is widely held in an entirely matter-of-fact way across the Islamic world. Genghis Khan and the Tang Emperor Suzong are less plausible ancestors, but not impossible ones.