Bank Robbery

The privatisation of RBS has resumed. Shares are being sold off at a loss to the taxpayer, who bailed out RBS in the first place.

Yet small businesses and local economies are crying out for investment the length and breadth of the country.

And the loss, though huge, is still smaller than the profit that RBS made last year. Yet there is no suggestion of reimbursement to the Treasury.

This ought to be an enormous story. But it isn't. Well, of course it isn't.

Something In The Air

Crawley is a Labour target seat. The current Conservative MP, Henry Smith, is a good friend of the Chagossians. But so is Jeremy Corbyn.

Might Corbyn impose a three-line whip for Gatwick over Heathrow? To provide London with its undeniably necessary expansion in airport capacity, Gatwick would be far better than a third runway at Heathrow.

And the extra distance to the centre of London would be nothing to people from anywhere else in the world. Americans, say. Or Chinese.

Trial Date Watch: Day 40

More than seven weeks after I had again been due to stand trial, I now no longer have a trial date, even though it is rightly a criminal offence to fail to attend one's trial.

Had I been tried, as expected, on 6th December, then, even had I been convicted, I would already have been released, since I would by now have served three months even of a wildly improbable six month sentence.

The legal persecution of me, which has been going on for over a year, was initiated only in order to deter me from seeking public office or to prevent my election to it, and its continuation is only to one or both of those ends. Amnesty International is on the case.

Until there is anything to add to it, then this post will appear here every day that the post is delivered.

Libel Watch: Day 95

The Leader of Durham County Council, Simon Henig, was so afraid that I was going to be elected to that authority, that he faked a death threat against himself and dozens of other Councillors.

Despite the complete lack of evidence, that matter is still being pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service as part of the attempt by the sacked Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, to secure a Labour seat in one or other House of Parliament.

If I am wrong, then let Henig and Saunders sue me. Until they do, then this post will appear here every day that the post is delivered.

While The Thames Turns Yellow

In the East of England, the South East (not London) and the South West, the Conservative Party has lost 68 of the 168 local by-elections that it has defended since the General Election, more than one third of the total. More than half of those have been lost to the Liberal Democrats.

In British politics today, this is the biggest story that you never hear about. Across the Remainer heartlands of the South, watch out for a double figure of Conservative losses to the Lib Dems at the General Election that will inaugurate the next hung Parliament.

Making it all the more important that they are not the only holders of the balance of power. I know for a fact that I am not going to be the only one of our people in the field, but I am the first one already declared.

My crowdfunding page has been taken down without my knowledge or consent. But you can still email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com instead, and that address accepts PayPal.

EU, What A Night

12th June, and on into 13th, is going to see Parliament as it used to be, before the need for scrutiny gave way to the need to be home in time to bathe babies.

But it is becoming increasingly clear, alas, that we are never actually going to leave the EU. All that the Remain side has to do is outwit its own designated supporters of Brexit. Similarly, all that Michel Barnier and Jean-Claude Junker, from the rather more cerebral right-wing traditions on the Continent, have to do is outwit David Davis, who does not really believe in Brexit, anyway.

This is why, even after having swung the referendum, the pro-Brexit Left, which has seen through the EU from the start, is still denied a platform. It is not as entertaining as Jacob Rees-Mogg to people who like that kind of humour. And it is vastly more difficult to beat on the issues, because it knows what they are.

Use Your Intelligence

With #spycops going mainstream, and with the Jeremy Thorpe case back in the news, then you have to admire MI5 for so much daring to acknowledge its own existence. But it certainly made me stop and think that MI5 considers itself so close to local authorities that it is willing to share "intelligence" with them. "Intelligence", in fact, on everyone who has ever attended an anti-cuts, anti-war or pro-Corbyn event.

MI5 ought not to exist when we have the Police. And its interest is never in the Far Right, of which it is an integral part, but which alone has murdered a sitting Member of Parliament since 1990. At best, on that score, it expresses its concern about "lone wolves". Lone wolves seem to come in only one colour. You never hear of a brown lone wolf, or of a black lone wolf. For the truth is that lone wolves do not come in any colour. Those on whom that label is pinned are anything but lone.

As January's arrests in relation to National Action made clear, and as I have been trying to tell you for years, the single biggest internal security threat comes from the Far Right. A Far Right that is enormous, longstanding, very highly organised, armed to the teeth, and possessed of the closest possible ties both to the DUP and to the Conservative Party.

Sammy Wilson, who was then the DUP's Press Officer and who is now one of its MPs, chaired the founding rally of the Ulster Resistance, which has never disbanded or disarmed in any way. Ian Paisley (the Elder, so to speak), Peter Robinson and Ivan Foster all spoke at that rally.

Emma Little-Pengelly, who is now the DUP MP for Belfast South, is the daughter of Noel Little of the Paris Three. She owed her election last year, for a somewhat improbable seat, to the concerted efforts of the local Loyalist paramilitary organisations, to whom she extended barely coded thanks in her acceptance speech. It is highly unusual for a married woman from her background to continue to use her maiden name, even in hyphenated form. But Noel Little's daughter does so.

Thomas Mair, the murderer of Jo Cox, described himself to the Police as "a political activist", and so he was. No Irish Republican organisation has murdered a Member of Parliament in the present century or in the preceding decade, and the people responsible are now such pillars of the British Establishment that they are entertained at Windsor Castle. No Islamist or Leftist organisation has ever murdered a Member of Parliament. But the Far Right has done so, only in 2016.

National Fronts come and BNPs go, EDLs come and Britain Firsts go, but certain institutional and organisational manifestations of the Far Right are perennial, even permanent. Mair's is the Springbok Club, which is run by the people who also run the London Swinton Circle. And that, in turn, was addressed by Liam Fox (born 1961) and by Owen Paterson (born 1956) as recently as 2014. Ah, those old 1980s Tory Boys, in their Hang Mandela T-shirts and all the rest of it. Wherever did they all end up?

In the Thatcher and, to a lesser extent, Major years, there were Ministers who were members of the Western Goals Institute or the Monday Club, which latter had played a key role in securing British accession to the EU. Those crossed over, via such things as the fiercely Eurofederalist League of Saint George, to overt neo-Nazism on the Continent, to the Ku Klux Klan, to apartheid South Africa, to Ian Smith's Rhodesia, to the juntas of Latin America, to Marcos and Suharto, to the Duvaliers, and so on. Nick Griffin's father, Edgar, was a Vice-President of Iain Duncan Smith's Leadership Campaign. He answered what was listed as one of its official telephone numbers, in his house, with the words "British National Party".

More recently, schools policy has been dictated by the published eugenicist Toby Young, and there has been an attempt to hand over control of the university sector to him. Young is a stalwart of the London Conference on Intelligence (there's that word again), along with the circle around the Ulster Institute for Social Research and the Mankind Quarterly, and along with Emil Kirkegaard, that advocate of the rape of drugged children. The media rehabilitation of Young is now well under way.

I tried to tell you.