Has Theresa May Deliberately Thrown the Election?
On the 22nd April I wrote an article questioning the Prime Minister’s motives for holding a snap general election at this time. I pointed out that in the 2015 general election the Conservatives had a manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership; that they introduced legislation through Parliament in June 2015 to hold such a referendum, which was passed by an overwhelming majority in both the House of Commons and the Lords; and…
A ‘Second Referendum’ on EU Membership?
The European Union Referendum Act 2015 is an Act of Parliament that made provision for a non-binding referendum to be held in the UK on whether Britain should remain a member of the European Union or leave. The bill was introduced to the House of Commons by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 28 May 2015 and the Act was subsequently passed by 544 votes to 53 on 9 June…
The Corruption & Debasement of our Electoral System
By Max Musson: Yesterday I wrote about some of the shortcomings of our political system here in the UK and in doing so, I referred to “the inadequacies of our electoral system, … the mendacity of our media moguls and the corruption of our politicians”, and today I would like to focus attention on the ‘inadequacies’, or perhaps I should have said the ‘iniquities’ of our electoral system. Political pundits will often blame anomalies within…
British Democracy In Decline
By Max Musson: As the day of the General Election draws near, falling party memberships, falling voter turnout and diminishing respect for those in public life are all factors signalling a widening gulf between those in government and the people they are meant to represent. In recent decades voter turnout at general elections had been gradually falling, dropping from 83.9 % in 1950 to 77.7% in 1992 and following which there was a marked drop of over six percentage points to…
The Clacton Rebellion
By Kasredin: Five years ago, the British National Party was the great hope of the nationalist movement in this country. Nowadays it is largely an irrelevance. We need to be realistic however. Even if the British National Party still had around fourteen thousand members and over one hundred councillors then it would still only be one notch above an irrelevance. The plain fact is that the British National Party has always faced too many obstacles…
Who Should We Vote For?
By John Salisbury: There are two important elections taking place in the near future and, for the first time, I find myself participating in discussions with other nationalists about which party it is best to vote for and whether it is actually worthwhile to vote at all. I believe that these questions deserve addressing in some detail because they are important ones; voting is one of the few ways in which British nationalists can…
We need to talk about Ed
By Kasredin: If the anti-British national press is to be believed, the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is promising to drag us all back to the 1970s, and the days of Wilson and Callaghan. We are expected to dislike him, and to compare him with the cheese-loving inventor Wallace in the animated films by Nick Park, but let us consider some hard facts. Under the ConDem coalition government, Britain has a deficit of £120billion. Instead…
The Rise and Rise of Western Spring!
By Max Musson: When we launched this website as the ‘shop window’ of our organisation, our ultimate aim was to establish Western Spring as the most popular and influential nationalist website in the UK and today we can celebrate the passing of yet another major milestone in the development of our media outreach. For the very first time www.westernspring.co.uk has achieved an Alexa ranking placing us higher than all of the three main establishment parties.…
Alexa Rankings II – Good News!
By Max Musson: On 12th May this years I published a short article pointing out the fact that this website Western Spring had surpassed the website of the Liberal Democrats for popularity, measured in terms of the number of online hits we receive. Since then there has been some movement in the rankings which has cause most political website to drop down a little and whereas on 12th May we were ranked 15,812th most popular…
Alexa Rankings
As the popularity of the coalition government plummets, Western Spring overtake the LibDems in the online popularity stakes!