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,…
System Restore – Maggie Thatcher and Michael Foot Return to the Stage!
They say that fashions change in cycles and that if we wait long enough, those bell-bottomed jeans we loved in the 1970s will come back into fashion again, and it seems this is just as true in the ‘bread and circuses’ world of electoral politics as anywhere else. For some years now the public have become progressively less and less interested in politics, finding the three main establishment parties virtually indistinguishable in terms of the…
Waiting for Godot
By Max Musson: Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Irish playwright and poet Samuel Beckett and described as a ‘tragicomedy’ it incorporates both tragic and comic elements as the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon wait in vain for the arrival of a third character, Godot, who never comes. So, what has this got to do with us? It is a metaphor for a condition that I recognise in many nationalists at…
Annihilation at the Polls –What Next?
Max Musson: Despite the euphoria that has accompanied UKIP’s dramatic advances during the recent local and European elections, we must not allow ourselves to be carried away by thoughts that Nigel Farage and his party are about to lead us to salvation. UKIP is a party of the political establishment. It’s members do not regard the party as such, but Farage has tailored the party’s policies so that while they appear to chime with popular…
Dr Strangeways Meets the Messenger – A Parable
By Max Musson: It was a time of great confusion and frustration, but the Sun shone, bunting fluttered in the breeze, banners flew and music played creating an atmosphere of hope resurgent. Then, accompanied by a shrill fanfare, Dr Strangeways mounted the dais before the assembled mass of those who seek life everlasting. “Good morning my friends”, he called to the people. “Good morning!” they all replied. “This morning I shall conduct an experiment in…
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…
A White Imperium
By Nick Grifford: Modern British nationalism is, broadly speaking, dogmatically retroactive. It is politically impotent, culturally impoverished, and presciently challenged. Perhaps this is true in relation to most White nationalisms, but personally I can only comment on the curious persuasion that is endemic throughout this Sceptered Isle — at least among those with any sense of collective identity. It is apparent that the preponderance of nationalist parties and groups in the United Kingdom share common ground;…