Statement of Person Nominated

For decades, I have borne the racial abuse, the disability-based abuse, and the physical assaults, including an attempted murder, inflicted upon me by the right-wing Labour machine in the North East. But not even the strangulation had ever previously left me with the breathing difficulties and the chest pains that I endure as I write this.

It is almost reassuring that some red-rosetted person who had clearly been born in the twenty-first century should even know the words "half-caste" and "spastic". But if he had grown up on the Labour Right, then he would. And while my spirit is still willing, my flesh is now too weak to cope with all of that, at least when it crossed over into sticks and stones. So I have withdrawn as a parliamentary candidate at North Durham. 500 votes would have been nice, but they would not have been worth having a heart attack for. Or being murdered for. Never say never, but other than the position for which I was duly nominated a year ago, yet to which no election has been held, thus leaving it unfilled, this looks like the end of my pursuit of elected public office. Trying to become a first-time MP in my fifties would be like still trying to become a rock star at that age. In Lanchester, people have had more than enough opportunities to vote for pretty much anyone to stop me. I only hope that they will no longer come crying to me.

I apologise to everyone who signed my nomination papers. If you gave money, then email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, and, while it would not be until sometime next month, you would of course have it back. My other projects continue, with the most pressing, so to speak, being the weekly magazine and the thinktank. Vote for the Workers Party of Britain, even though its candidate is standing only because a specific individual is the Labour candidate, and even though it is at least in part a grift to get Short Money out of the efforts of candidates who have had to fund themselves. Give it 200 votes at North Durham, and assuming that George Galloway kept his own seat, then let it have another £38.75. But prepare for a Starmer Government that was as I had suffered, but on a national and international scale. That was what the last Labour Government was like. At his age, Keir Starmer himself would be a one-term Prime Minister. Yet expect the nightmare to last 15 to 20 years. Like a murder stretch. But without the remission.