Colonial Features

Will the people who go on endlessly about the alleged innumeracy of Diane Abbott be equally vocal about the manifest innumeracy of Jim Ratcliffe? Or, indeed, about Darren Jones's assertion that the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 had been aimed at collaborators with Nazi Germany? One of its targets did go on to be a high-ranking Nazi, but if Jones knows that, then I am a taaffeite. Yet this is not the second half of a third term. This is the starting lineup of the first team.

Ratcliffe endorsed Labour at the last General Election, which says it all about both of them. And was colonisation not supposed to have been a good thing? If it gave India its railway network, then bring on some of that here with uncharacteristic speed. The endorsement of Ratcliffe's remarks by Reform UK is almost as creepy as Matt Goodwin's trouser-rubbing about schoolgirls' lady parts. For that matter, has anyone ever tracked down a woman whom Zack Polanski had hypnotised in an attempt to enlarge her breasts? Truly, Britain is Epstein Island.

At Gorton and Denton, even without counting the Conservatives and their candidate who wanted to do things that she had had 30 years to do in the Police, the Right is split at least three ways, between Reform, Advance UK, and the Libertarian Party, and arguably four, with the SDP. Although they are all milk-and-water Zionists compared to the true believers of the Communist League, the British Pathfinders of the American Socialist Workers Party that in turn confuses matters even further by calling its weekly newspaper The Militant.

Fewer than 8,576 votes for Hannah Spencer of the Green Party, or less than 23.5 per cent of the vote, would mean that she had failed to match the combined Green and Workers Party total from 2024. That would make it a proven error for the Workers Party to have stood aside, and to have done so despite having a councillor elected under its banner in Longsight, where he had unseated the Labour Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council. None of the three Greens on that authority, nor any of the five on Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council including Spencer, sits for a ward in Gorton and Denton.

Many of us who had hitherto voted for the Workers Party whenever it had given us the opportunity have had profound misgivings about its decision not to a contest a seat where it had taken 10.3 per cent of the vote at the General Election. We want to strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty. In the struggle for economic equality, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class, while in the struggle for international peace, the leading role belongs to those who suffer most from its absence, namely the working class and the youth.

Social solidarity is an expression of personal responsibility, personal responsibility is protected by social solidarity, international solidarity is an expression of national sovereignty, and national sovereignty is protected by international solidarity. Equality and diversity must include economic equality and class diversity, regional equality and regional diversity, the equal sovereignty of diverse states, and equal respect for diverse opinions within a framework of free speech and other civil liberties, including due process of law with the presumption of innocence, requiring that conviction be beyond reasonable doubt.

All of this is opposed by and to the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the anti-industrial Malthusianism and misanthropy of the Green agenda, the treatment of identity politics as equal or superior to class politics, the treatment of gender identity as equal or superior to biological sex, the cancel culture of which our people have always been the principal victims, the erosion of civil liberties, the stupefaction of the workers or the youth, the indulgence of separatist tendencies in any part of Great Britain, the consideration of any all-Ireland settlement that failed to preserve the National Health Service and other such achievements, or the failure to recognise that a sovereign state with its own free-floating, fiat currency had as much of that currency as it chose to issue to itself, with readily available fiscal and monetary means of controlling any inflationary effect, means that therefore needed to be under democratic political control.

Reform has welcomed the endorsement of Bonnie Blue. Richard Tice wants to legalise cannabis, Nigel Farage concurs with the Green Party in wanting to legalise drugs across the board, and Lee Anderson signed a select committee report in that direction in 2023. Numerous Reform figures were fanatical supporters of the Prime Minister of Net Zero, of very big spending long before Covid-19, of the highest net migration ever, of Stonewall, of the lifting of the requirement that jobs in Britain be advertised first in Britain, of the lockdowns, of the Northern Ireland Protocol, and of the war in Ukraine.

And Reform's grandee, Ann Widdecombe, was a faithful Junior Minister under John Major, a Minister of State under Michael Howard as he began the shredding of civil liberties in a bidding war with Tony Blair, a Shadow Cabinet stalwart under William Hague, twice a cheerleader for the putative Leadership of Ken Clarke, a scourge of foxhunting, the only Conservative MP to vote with Gordon Brown for 42-day detention without charge, and an autobiographical praiser of Michael Heseltine for having killed off the British coal industry. She is an avowed opponent of the Assisted Suicide Bill only because it contained insufficient "safeguards", and she opines that men who had "undergone extensive surgery" should be sent to women's prisons even though every cell of their mutilated bodies still contained a Y chromosome and they themselves had been socialised as males. That Farage has felt the need to stop courting Ben and Zack Goldsmith indicates how well-advanced that had been. Who needs the Greens?