Scenes from Village Life: Part II

National and international readers, please omit?

Thanks to http://socialists-against-lindsay.blogspot.com, we now know that the following are the views of The Right Honourable Hilary Armstrong MP (hilary@hilaryarmstrong.com) and of her researcher and preferred successor, Neil Fleming (FlemingN@parliament.uk):

1. That I have had the Derwentside District Council webforum closed down, and that for the reasons stated on that blog;

2. That I am "practically a member of Labour high command" on DDC, and that the Derwentside Independents are a "non-Opposition" of which I am also "practically a member";

3. That "Labour high command" (including me, apparently) are "statists and syndicalists for their own nationalist and theoconservative reasons", and that "non-Opposition" (including me, apparently) are "nationalists and theoconservatives for their own statist and syndicalist reasons";

4. That Hilary and Fleming are not statists, syndicalists, nationalists or theoconservatives, but rather are subscribers to the Euston Manifesto (http://www.eustonmanifesto.org/) and the Henry Jackson Society (http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org.uk/), and proud of it;

5. That I have "more clout than a dozen or more elected Labour Councillors put together" [which ones, exactly, and why?];

6. That my views as set out on this blog mark me out as "a reactionary Catholic and a Little Briton masquerading as a Socialist";

7. That I am "much, much more dangerous than [George] Galloway";

8. That there is a "right-wing Labour machine" which maintains a "one-party fiefdom of County Durham";

9. That "A woman’s right to choose abortion (up to and including partial birth abortion) is a non-negotiable Socialist principle, as is everyone’s right to choose when and how to die," such that "No one who disputes either of these is in any sense on the Left";

10. That "The right of same-sex couples to marry is a non-negotiable Socialist principle," such that "No one who disputes it is in any sense on the Left";

11. That "The right of transsexuals to new birth certificates giving their true gender is a non-negotiable Socialist principle," such that "No one who disputes it is in any sense on the Left";

12. That "The right to engage in post-pubescent consensual sex is a non-negotiable Socialist principle," such that "No one who disputes it is in any sense on the Left";

13. That "No one who holds Lindsay views on any of these matters [Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, the Inquisition, condoms and AIDS in Africa, and the life and legacy of Alfred C Kinsey] is in any sense on the Left";

14. That a politician of the Left cannot subscribe to Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism, and that "There is nothing further needing to be said about this";

15. That a politician of the Left cannot refer to "John Paul the Great", and that "There is nothing further needing to be said about this";

16. That my views mark me out as "anti-Europe and anti-American";

17. That Britain and the other Commonwealth countries that retain the monarchy are lacking in "self-respect";

18. That the Catholic Unionist traditions in Scotland and Ireland are "dangerous", so that they must be kept "voiceless"';

19. Of Saint Helena and other territories whose people choose to remain British to this day, proudly having such a background precludes one from being a politician of the Left, and "That says it all"; and

20. That "The less said, the better" about Mail and Telegraph readers.