Saturday 15 November 2014

A Rocket Up The Whole Thing

Well, that's that, then.
 
Following Nigel Farage's New Statesman piece, Nicola Sturgeon's explicit guarantee that the SNP would not support a Conservative Government but would, on certain conditions, support a Labour Government, means that David Cameron and Nick Clegg are now the only Party Leaders who do not openly and publicly want the supposedly useless Ed Miliband to become Prime Minister.
 
So much for David Cameron's (in itself, utterly unremarkable) request that Labour, Lib Dem and Green supporters vote Conservative at Rochester and Strood. I mean, they might, although I doubt it very much.
 
But the next General Election, far from being the most complicated since the War or what have you, has become a straight fight between ConDem Cameron and a pro-Miliband alliance of everyone else.
 
Vote ConDem to keep Cameron as Prime Minister. Vote any other way, since Natalie Bennett is also on record as being open to Labour conditionally but absolutely closed to the Conservatives, and the end result would be Miliband in Number 10, not by accident, but by design.
 
The only person other than Cameron who wants to keep him is Clegg. Do you agree with Nick?
 
Sturgeon promised to make the payment of the Living Wage a condition of public sector contracts in Scotland, while including the dig that Holyrood could not make it a requirement by legislation. Labour therefore, and in any case, needs to promise to legislate to that effect throughout the United Kingdom.
 
But her main condition was the absence of nuclear weapons from Scotland. Again, Labour needs not only to match that, but to exceed it, by making it Union-wide.
 
No, Russia is not a bastion of liberal democracy, nor is she our ally, which would be an entirely different matter. But she has neither the will nor the means to attack us; nor had the Soviet Union, which could not transport bread from one town to the next.
 
Russia's internal and external enemies are also, at best, no friends of ours. They, too, are no paragons of whatever our values might be.
 
Unless, in the internal case, those values are unreconstructed Stalinism, or Islamism, or "National Bolshevism" with the hammer and sickle in place of the swastika on the Nazi flag, or an anti-industrial, anti-urban and anti-scientific anti-Semitism.
 
If Sir Edward Leigh or Dennis Skinner, the broadly Old Right Fleet Street brigade or the Morning Star, were in truth as their respective detractors allege, then that would issue in the strongest possible hostility to Russia, rather than in the opposite approach that they do in fact adopt.
 
Tomorrow, veterans of the Waffen SS Galicia, many of whom settled in Britain after the War, will march to the Cenotaph in London, accompanied by their supporters. There is to be a silent protest against  them, in memory of the victims of Ukrainian Nazism, past and very much present.

10 comments:

  1. Well, at long last.

    In today's excellent article on the Rochester & Strood by-election Mr Hitchens writes...

    "" I am a hardened non-voter, and can’t remember when I last bothered to cast a ballot in the safe Labour seat where I dwell. But if I lived in Rochester or Strood I should certainly vote next week, because it seems to me, on this rare occasion, it would make a difference.

    If the Tories can’t hold Rochester, politics in this country will change deeply and forever. If they do hold it, politics in this country will remain the same""

    He continues; ""So I expect Ukip will win, not least because I personally will be glad if they do. ""

    At long last. Peter Hitchens declares for UKIP.

    Welcome aboard sir.

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    1. In other words, as he has been more than hinting for months, he has declared for Ed Miliband as Prime Minister.

      UKIP will in theory support either him or Cameron as the cards fall, but its members and voters hate Cameron to an extent for which there are hardly words.

      Every other non-Coalition party has explicitly ruled out Cameron or his party under any circumstances, and is now (like UKIP) openly setting out terms to Miliband and to Labour.

      None of them would get everything. But each would get something. If there were to be another hung Parliament. But there won't be.

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  2. We are the only party Peter Hitchens ever could vote for.

    http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/five-lessons-ed-miliband-s-pro-europe-speech-cbi

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  3. Ed Miliband specifically ruled out the only thing that would ever make any deal with UKIP possible.

    There's no rowing back from this.

    http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/five-lessons-ed-miliband-s-pro-europe-speech-cbi

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    1. the only thing that would ever make any deal with UKIP possible

      Bless.

      Unless they really are still just a bunch of amateurs.

      But if ever a party's voters did indeed have nowhere else to go...

      We shall never find out. No deal is going to be necessary. But Farage is clearly up for one in principle.

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  4. You don't know anything about patriotism or Peter Hitchens if you think he'd ever support any party except us.

    As he wrote recently of the LibLabCon:

    ""None of the three party leaders – supposedly rivals, actually accomplices – truly loves the Union.They all view it as an outdated, conservative idea and they much prefer the glinting Teutonic rule of Brussels and Berlin.

    They’ve been working night and day for decades to destroy British patriotism, culture and history, and replace them with a tasteless, pasteurised multiculturalism.""

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2755007/PETER-HITCHENS-What-threaten-Scots-Exploding-haggises.html#ixzz3JWClEI9w
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    1. He can vote UKIP, and tell his readers to do so, to his, their and your hearts' content. That is a vote for Ed Miliband for Prime Minister, an outcome to which he is clearly much more open (which is to say, at all) than he is to the alternative.

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  5. He doesn't care who wins out of David Cameron and Ed Miliband. His aim is exactly the same as UKIP's-to end the corrupt two party system that has sold Britain down the river.

    It will be the same government whoever wins the 2015 election.

    70% of our laws and our borders will still be run from somewhere else.

    I don't think people like you actually get what has happened to us. I suspect you've never read the Lisbon Treaty have you?

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