The Poisoned Chalice?
Following the successful referendum campaign and the majority support of the British electorate for Brexit, UKIP — the United Kingdom Independence Party — have been thrown into a state of disarray. Nigel Farage has quite rightly in my view been awarded the lion’s share of credit for masterminding the campaign to induce the Tories to hold an ‘in-out’ referendum on UK membership of the European Union, and it seems that flushed with his own success,…
Leaders Conference – Quest for Unity & Direction
Following the controversy of Nick Griffin’s ultimately disastrous stewardship of the British National Party, that party has shed most of its former members and the nationalist movement in this country has become fragmented and disoriented. Today our movement is composed of a number of comparatively small organisations, many of them tiny, and all of them largely impotent in terms of being able to effect political change either now or within the foreseeable future. In recent…
Further Reflections on Brexit
Well, we did it. A first, indispensable, step has been taken towards the healing of our nation. The generations of the First and Second World Wars gave everything to save Britain from foreign domination and invasion, but the fear that the present generation might throw away their sacrifice has proved unfounded. We should thank God, rejoice and enjoy it for a day or two – and then get down to the arduous, long term business of completing the healing…
Rejoice!
Despite months of intense scaremongering by the Remain campaign, it now looks as though we are heading towards victory for the Leave campaign and a firm vote in favour of the UK leaving the European Union. As of 05:15am this morning the Leave campaign have received 15,437,289 votes, compared to 14,328,314 for the Remain campaign, placing Leave on a 51.9% share of the vote counted so far and 1,108,975 votes ahead. Already Nigel Farage has given the…
Some Thoughts on the Corbyn Phenomenon
By Max Musson: Most people from all political persuasions are both surprised and bemused by the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party, not knowing quite what to think. There are those members of the public who are of a more radical left-wing persuasion who will no doubt be rather pleased by Corbyn’s success and the prospect of being able to vote for a decidedly left-wing prime ministerial candidate at the next…
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…
ITV Leaders’ Debate & the Elephant in the Room
By Max Musson: As we all know, the forthcoming General Election will be largely irrelevant to the future wellbeing of the British people — we will after all simply be swapping ‘Tweedle-dum’ for ‘Tweedle-dee’ in an election that will almost certainly end in a Conservative led coalition or a Labour led coalition and in a continuation of fundamentally the same policies that have been so damaging to our nation over recent decades. Against this background…
The Rise of UKIP a Cause for Joy?
By Max Musson: As most of us will have anticipated, last night’s local elections have seen the annihilation of genuine nationalist candidates as media promoted UKIP sweep up the bulk of our previous supporters, and many more in addition that they will have won from the other parties. I describe UKIP as media promoted, because despite the last couple of weeks in which the knives have been out for Nigel Farage in an attempt to…
Farage ‘Spanks’ Clegg
By Max Musson: Yesterday saw the second of the much vaunted debates between our lack lustre deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the new, ‘naughty boy’ of British politics, Nigel Farage, and as was widely expected, Farage gave Clegg another good ‘spanking’. Whereas post debate opinion polls after the first of their televised debates placed Farage ahead of Clegg with the approval of 57% of viewers as opposed to just 36% for Clegg, post debate…
Further reflections on Boris’ Britain
By Frederick Dixon: In his excellent article on this website “Tory Toffs, Cosmopolitanism and Greed” Max Musson said of Boris Johnson’s 28th November speech “Deprived of racial, religious or national identity, the truly cosmopolitan individual has no real sense of community with any of the population groups among whom they live”. Boris’ speech was a vindication of Thatcherism delivered in his very own inimitable style; rousing, spirited, amusing, persuasive, and in his remarks about immigration…