The Stairway to Heaven – Part 2 – Guerrilla Politics
There can be no more iconic image of romantic derring-do than that of swash-buckling British cavalry soldiers in bright red tunics and all their gold braided finery charging on horse-back, swords drawn, towards the Russian cannons that opposed them during the charge of the Light Brigade. Yet romantic and heroic though the charge of the Light Brigade was, the British cavalry were so depleted in numbers by the withering hail of enemy fire that by…
Battered & Spent – The Results and the Way Forward
Following the catastrophic decision by no less than five different patriotic or nationalist organisations to stand against each other in the Batley & Spen by-election yesterday, the election result has been declared and all five organisations have been left battered by experience, with their energies spent, in what was from the very start a forlorn endeavour. As can be seen from the table below, despite a very low voter turnout of just 25.8%, the Labour…