RIGHT
WING WOES IN LEWISHAM
It was
always a bad idea for any sort of patriotic party to be standing in the
Lewisham East by-election. Let me explain why and please bear with
me in being brutally honest about it.
When I was
aware that the Labour MP, Heidi Alexander, was stepping down and causing a
by-election in the Lewisham East constituency, I was immediately very doubtful
as to whether it was worth the English Democrats standing
there. Although I should say that I would never discourage any of
our members from standing even in the most unpromising areas if they really
want to do so and have the necessary resources to do so. Even in the most discouraging constituencies
there may be some potential converts to the Cause of England!
Lewisham
East is certainly such a seat. Looking at the 2011 Census results
Lewisham is a place where relatively few people identified as being “English”
and surprisingly few even identified as being in any sense multi-cultural “British”.
Since 2011
the misleadingly named “Conservative” Party (which actually is led by “Liberal”
zealots) has continued with the unrestricted, uncontrolled mass immigration of
New Labour and so every single year since then half a million or more
immigrants have come to England, many of them settling in places like Lewisham. That together with “white flight” or the continuing
movement of English people out of such places, has led to a near total
population displacement where the indigenous English population is largely
absent.
In an area
where the indigenous populations are still there, what we see across Western
Europe is that the patriotic and nationalist vote rarely exceeds 50% and is
usually not more than 30%.
Because of
the way electoral politics works people should not get discouraged at that percentage
because a block vote of 30% of the electorate would generally get the candidate
elected. That is of course unless the 30% is split up amongst
various parties, as is the case at present in England, with the Conservative
Party in particular always standing as a spoiler even in the most unpromising
seats for the Conservative Party.
The “Conservative”
objective in doing so is of course to prevent any other party from breaking
through, even where they do not actually want to win that
constituency.
This Tory
strategem is very much like the Aesop’s Fable of ‘The dog in the Manger’!
The top of this article is the
picture of ‘The dog in the Manger’. Here is that
story:-
“A Dog was lying in a Manger full of hay.
An Ox, being hungry, came near
and was going to eat of the hay.
The Dog, getting up and snarling at
him, would not let him touch it.
“Surly creature,” said the Ox, ” you
cannot eat the hay yourself, and yet you will let no one else have any.””
Sure enough
in Lewisham the Conservatives and most of the parties to the Left were putting
up what is now rather curiously (in such constituencies) still called ethnic
minority candidates even where the real ethnic minority in such a constituency
would be “White English”!
UKIP put up
a black “ethnic minority” their popular London Assembly Member David Kurten.
The new and
it seems politically naive ‘Democrats and Veterans Party’ put up the
splendidly named Massimo Dimambro who had 2013 votes in Lewisham Deptford for
UKIP in 2015.
Anne Marie
Waters who is the Leader of her own new UKIP splinter party which she has called
the anodyne “For Britain” very unwisely put herself up to stand in this
constituency. She got 266 votes this
time under her new flag compared with the last election where she stood in the
constituency then as UKIP candidate when she got 3886 votes!
Judging from
comments on social media it would seem that some of her supporters had got
sucked into thinking that she might have been able to do well in this
constituency. For the reasons that I have explained above that was
always going to be difficult.
I had
predicted that UKIP, For Britain and the Democrats and Veterans Party together
would not get 5%. In the event combined they got 3.2%.
Even adding in the Conservative spoiler Candidate's 3,161 the total Right of center vote was only 3874 which is 12 short of just UKIP's vote in 2015.
A point of
debate was which of them would avoid being beaten by the Monster Raving Loony
Party. In the event the ones beaten by the Loonies were the
Democrats and Veterans Party. Anne Marie Walters managed to avoid that fate
by a margin of 173 votes.
It would be
interesting to see what the paltry results in this by-election will have on the
future development of UKIP, The Democrats and Veterans Party and in particular
on the For Britain Party, whose leader Anne Marie Waters had staked so much of
her credibility on making a reasonable showing here.
