Below is
my speech for our National Party Conference at the Bestwood Lodge Hotel in
Nottingham on the 25th September 2021.
The venue
was splendid, having once been a house set in parkland outside Nottingham town,
which would have been a Victorian Gothic House like Balmoral.
It was a
very pleasant weekend spent in the company of many of our Party’s charming
members in lovely surroundings and discussing our favourite subject:- English Politics!
Here is
the text of my speech:-
Ladies and Gentlemen
Welcome to our 19th
annual Party conference.
I hope that you agree that this is a
fantastic conference centre for us and I would just like to say a big thank you
to Bridget Vickers, our Membership Secretary, who really has worked hard to
make this possible against, I would say, all the Covid odds that you can think
of! It is good to be back after the long
year of Covid!
This is said to be the very site
where King Richard III heard of Henry Bolingbroke’s landing and set off to meet
his fate at the Battle of Bosworth in 1465 after which Henry became King Henry
VII.
Talking of historic locations, I was
very disappointed back in June not to be able to have our Gold Members dinner
which was booked to take place in a fantastic hotel with a history going back
at least as far as Richard the Lion Heart.
He set out from there in 1190 to the Third Crusade!
Because Boris let us down completely
on the first freedom day, we wound up being cancelled at short notice. Now, of course, we are competing with all the
weddings and other celebrations that have been booked for months, which makes
it very hard to arrange a new date.
Still I am determined that we will do our Gold Members dinner as soon as
we can manage it!
For our Spring Conference we only
managed to have a virtual conference, but those that joined, I think, enjoyed
the day and again thanks are due to Bridget Vickers for organising that too!
This year we managed to stand in
some elections, including the Manchester and West Yorkshire Mayoralty and the
Bedfordshire and Essex Police Commissionerships in May and then also the Batley
and Spen By-election, of which more later for our candidate Therese Hirst.
What a year though. I think we will look back on it as a watershed,
where so many of the old certainties have withered away and which have
presented opportunities for our Cause, which I hope to make the most of.
In order to understand where we are
and what are the opportunities and priorities politically I think it is worth
considering the extent to which things have changed.
So the first thing to bear in mind
is that we now live in a much more openly authoritarian State than we thought
we did. Whoever would have thought that
we would have Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc., all being fully exposed as
biased and openly practicing bias against parties like us?
But also the State itself has made a
dramatic constitutional change, which we will talk more about later today, but
the effect is that the State has, in terms of constitutional categories that
political scientists would talk about it, transitioned from a Liberal
Democracy to a Police State. The British
Liberal Democracy was one in which the British Political and Media
Establishment and business Elite viewed the system as one where, although they
made a few concessions towards at least the appearance of democracy, the
reality was that they got their own way regardless of what the People actually
wanted. The searchlight of the genuine
popular or populist vote over Brexit exposed this appearance of democratic
values as being largely fraudulentk.
This was vividly demonstrated
over the Remainiac backlash against Brexit vote. Remember Anna Soubry?
Technically however we have now had
Brexit which removes some of the brakes on what the Government can do. In any event our country is certainly and
sadly not a State where we, the People, have “got our country back”. That is as yet a work in progress!
The British State has also emerged
increasingly fundamentally incompetent as almost any dealings with the British
State demonstrate. Remember that the whole of Lockdown was implemented to save
the English NHS. That is save it from
its inadequacy as a result of British Governments many years of
mismanagement. From my own work as a
solicitor, I would say even after we are supposed to be going back to work, we
still wind up with quite a lot of hearings being dealt with over the telephone
and through Zoom and quite often even that does not work as there are either no
judges or the administration has broken down.
I am sure you have all got many other examples!
We shall see what all this does to
the credibility of the British Political Establishment, but I think it is
likely to be dramatic when people wake up to the fact that the British economy
has been ruined and we are going to be in a period of high inflation. Also the level of competence of the British
State is continuing to decline.
I also think that politics is more
and more moving away from the old class divisions and instead the divide is
between patriots or nationalists and internationalists or globalists.
So let us consider what has happened
and is happening with the political parties.
Let’s start with the British Establishment ones.
So first let’s turn to the Liberal
Democrats. They have got themselves to
the point where they are fundamentally irrelevant, except as another “Me Too”
so called “Progressive Party”. Let me
give you an illustration as to how that works, even in their moment of greatest
success during the last year in the Chesham and Amersham Parliamentary
By-election.
I would compare the 2019 General Election results
in Chesham and Amersham and the 2021 By-election results which I think vividly
show that the two main things which happened in the By-election are as
follows:-
1.
The
“Progressive”/Leftist/openly Multi-culturalist, Green, Liberal Democrats and
Labour votes remained remarkably similar in number in both elections. The difference in the By-Election, is that
the Liberal Democrats were successful in getting most of those voters to vote
for them.
2.
The next
thing that is strikingly obvious is that there was a dramatic decline in the
percentage of turnout. The reduced
numbers of those who voted closely correlates with the reduced Conservative
vote in the By-election.
These results strongly corroborate the idea that
the Liberal Democrats’ campaign strategy was highly successful, but not in the
way reported in the Mainstream Media.
The Liberal Democrats seem to have adopted a
two-pronged strategy. The first to
persuade all of the Leftist or Progressive voters to vote for them and secondly
to demotivate the Conservative voters.
As usual, of course, there were some ridiculous
comments about majorities of votes in the Media. The figures of course don’t bear out any idea
that there has actually been a Majority, since the Liberal Democrats got 21,517
votes out of a total electorate of 72,828, which is, of course, just under 30%
of the electorate. In what world of
mathematical illiteracy would under 30% be called a Majority? That is if it
wasn’t politically expedient for the Establishment to do so!
I think it is interesting and informative to see
that the actual percentage of “Progressive” Internationalist voters, within
even a comfortably prosperous, quite middle class commuter area like Chesham
and Amersham, is less than 30%.
Compare this with the proportion of the electorate
in most of England who showed themselves to still be patriotic by voting for
“Leave” in the European Referendum.
In most constituencies in England over 50% of the
electorate voted for “Leave”. This
suggests an election winning strategy for patriots which is the mirror of the
Liberal Democrats’ one, i.e. 1) suppress the Progressive vote and 2) aim to
focus the Patriotic voter on one candidate.
Interestingly, as the Liberal Democrats have been
the focus of success in this case, that shows that this candidate no longer
needs to be one of the two principal British Political Establishment
parties.
It also shows that Conservative voters are in a
transitional period of weakening loyalty to the Conservative Party.
This is perfectly rational, since the Conservative
Party nationally does not stand for anything that any sensible conservative
minded voter would actually personally support.
Any signs of the dissolution of the
Conservative/Labour stranglehold on English politics can only be strongly
welcomed by any real patriot!
These are the actual numbers comparing between the
two recent election results in Chesham and Amersham:-
CHESHAM & AMERSHAM – RESULTS
COMPARED 2019/2021
GENERAL ELECTION – 2019
14,627 Liberal Democrats votes
7,166 Labour
votes
3,042 Green
votes
______
24,835 Total “progressive” votes
(Conservative votes 30,850)
(No other
candidates)
55,978 Total vote
76.8% Turnout
BY ELECTION 17.6.21
21,517 Liberal Democrats votes
622 Labour
votes
1480 Green
votes
______
23,619 Total “progressive” votes
(plus c.800 split among other candidates)
(Conservative votes 13,489)
37,954 Total votes cast
52% Turnout
COMPARISON OF VOTER TURNOUT
18,020 Fewer votes overall
17,361 Fewer Conservative votes
So that’s the Liberal
Democrats.
Then also on the “Progressive” side
we have the Greens who, as an Internationalist Leftist Party, have become an
increasingly serious threat to the German Establishment especially on the Left
and they could one day do the same here.
But of course the main so-called
“Progressive” Party remains Labour, albeit with many fewer MPs than at any time
in its recent history.
Its leadership under Kier Starmer is
so-called center Left, which means Internationalist and Multi-culturalist.
Labour are thus busy cementing
themselves into being the party for those who work for the State, or are on
welfare benefits, have so-called liberal life-style values, and are
pro-internationalist.
This is a mind-set which considers
national borders themselves to be “racist” and which is hysterically pro-mass
immigration.
This is an agenda which is
completely contrary to what most traditional white working class, English
voters, who were Labour’s traditional voter base, want. This raises a real gap in the political
market for those voters’ support. It is my hope that we English Democrats will
fill that gap.
Labour is concentrating on filling
the position on the political spectrum which is also occupied by the Greens and
the Liberal Democrats. Across much of
Western Europe this situation has already played out and in many cases the
equivalent party to Labour has been marginalised to the extent that they are no
longer a credible party of government.
I think Labour ceasing to be a
credible party of government would be a major shift in politics in
England.
This is doable. They are no longer the party of government in
Scotland. They have never been the party
of government in Northern Ireland and although they are still the party of
government in Wales, but that is mainly because Plaid Cymru are a particularly
useless and ineffective example of the capture of nationalist parties by
Internationalist Leftists, which means that real Welsh nationalists have really
nowhere to turn.
If Labour ceases to be the potential
party of government in England, then the next party to come under pressure will
be the Conservative Party.
Turning therefore to the
Conservative Party, they seem at the moment to be almost unassailable, but that
is because the People generally think that the Conservatives under Boris
Johnson are those that delivered Brexit and have conservative values and who
also are patriotic and against mass immigration.
In fact, on most of these issues,
the Conservative Government’s position is mostly a lie, or, as they would
prefer to call it, a series of “Populist Positioning Policies”.
The Conservatives have done nothing
and will do nothing to reduce mass immigration.
On the contrary they are facilitating it.
On Brexit they have done as little
as they can possibly get away with. In
particular and rather importantly, Boris Johnson, has directly betrayed the
Northern Irish loyalists on the issue of Northern Irish protocol with the
EU. This has created a permanent customs
border in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The British Government’s lawyers
went so far as to argue in the Belfast High Court a few months ago that they
had repealed, at least in part, the Act of Union between Great Britain and
Northern Ireland and amazingly they claimed to have done so by implication
rather than by any express legislation.
The former SDLP parliamentary candidate who was the Judge in the case
was of course delighted to uphold the idea that the Act of Union between
Northern Ireland and Great Britain had been dissolved. This will I think have major
ramifications for the so called
Conservative and Unionist party’s credibility as the upholder of the Union.
The Conservative Government’s next
big constitutional challenge on the question of the Union will be in Scotland
with the Scottish National Party and Nicola Sturgeon. She is supported by the Scottish Greens, who
support “dissolving all our petty nationalisms into the greater European
whole”.
Ladies and Gentlemen the first time
I heard that expression I was amazed, but the second time I had the wit to ask
if that whole was spelt without a ‘w’.
Anyone not got that one?
The prospect of another Scottish
Independence Referendum will boost our agenda dramatically, as has, of course,
the almost constant coverage of the Scottish Parliament’s different handling of
the Coronavirus emergency than the British Government’s handling here in
England only. I personally find many
more people aware of the situation than used to be the case. What do you find amongst neighbours, friends
and family?
In the Batley & Spen By-election
one of the interesting experiences was that none of our people saw any
Conservative campaigners and the Conservative candidate was mostly conspicuous
only by his silence and by his refusal to speak to most of the media or to do
interviews.
This however was a By-election which
the Conservatives had a serious opportunity to replace Labour.
In the event, after all the usual
Labour corruption vividly displayed at the count, the net result was that the
Conservatives were only about 300 votes short.
If they had really worked at trying to push the Labour candidate out, I
have little doubt that they would have succeeded. The fact that they didn’t make that effort is
highly significant because it shows that the Conservatives are aware that the
biggest threat to their position is that Labour collapses. The reason for this is that basically all the
Conservatives have really got going for them when they are canvassing, once you
realise just how dire they are, is that they claim to be marginally better than
the Labour Party. That is their main
“argument” for voting Conservative is to keep the Labour Party out! If Labour ceases to be a credible challenger
then what I ask is the point of the Conservative Party?
Other parties that have tried to
fill the gap on right of centre, at least partly left by the disappearance of
UKIP, are Reclaim and Reform.
Reform is the utterly hopeless new
name of the Brexit Party and is now led by Richard Tice. They do have the advantage of having retained
the Brexit Party’s database and they are sitting on a large war chest. We don’t know how much of the £17.5m that
they raised in the last EU election has been taken by Nigel Farage when he
left, but there must be a considerable sum left and, of course, Richard Tice
himself is personally very rich.
The other right of centre contender
is the Reclaim Party led by the actor, Laurence Fox. I think that would have already vanished if
it wasn’t for the fact that Laurence Fox is bank rolled to the tune of £5m by
Jeremy Hosking.
Neither of those parties have done
any good at all in elections and Reform was humiliated with a derisory 368
votes in the Hartlepool By-election where they had previously come third in 2019
General Election with 10,603 votes.
Others have talked of registering
new political parties, right, patriotic or nationalist right, but they are of
course up against it with the Electoral Commission, which ever since the Brexit
vote has been openly hostile to any patriotic party, so I would not expect that
to change anytime soon!
I think Ladies and Gentlemen that
you will agree that that leaves the English Democrats. Whilst we are of course not nearly as big as
we would like to be, we have been going now for nearly 20 years. We have some brand awareness. Although again
not as much as we would like. In the Essex Police Commissioner election in May
I stood and did quite well getting 42,831 votes which was almost 10% of the
vote. We are the only party campaigning
for England’s interests, for England’s future and for the English Nation.
It is worth reminding ourselves that
2020 started off with a newly elected Boris Johnson Government enthusiastically
making noises that they were a patriotic, libertarian, pro-Brexit Government,
that had thrown off the years of Brexit betrayal under the lacklustre
(Conservative) Theresa May.
What a difference 18 months makes!
2020/21 has revealed Boris Johnson’s
Government as a Government that had planned a Lockdown whilst misleading people
that they were going to show common-sense. Instead of following our
Constitution and our Parliamentary traditions they have used deceitful tactics
to roll out a raft of highly authoritarian, ministerial diktats which have,
without any proper parliamentary debate or democratic mandate, stripped away
our rights as citizens. This has all been done under the traditional
tyrant’s cry of “Necessity”!
Even Brexit has not been properly
honoured. Instead we have what is little more than Brexit In Name Only
(BRINO!).
Also far from controlling mass
immigration Boris’ Government has been actively persecuting those who have
highlighted illegal immigration on boats coming over from France. The
British Government has then housed 20,000 or more of them, in 3 and 4 star
hotels across England! Far from making any serious attempt to deport
them! The Government has also quietly made it easier for migrants to come
here who will inevitably immediately claim our Welfare Benefits. They have
done this by dropping the minimum income requirement on bringing over a
spouse.
The Government is also now demanding
the building of 12m houses over English countryside to house all those migrants
who have already come here!
All this at a time when the
Government’s incompetent handling of Lockdown has crashed our economy and
driven the national debt up far beyond what it was after the Second World War!
Turning from politics to the Law,
here the transformation of the British State from an ostensible Liberal
Democracy into an openly Police State has been as dramatic as what has happened
at the political level, but with even less acknowledgement in our dishonest and
deceitful Mainstream Media!
The 23rd March came and
went with Boris’ dishonest claim that he was locking down the country when he
had no legal power to do so. This was superseded by a raft of Regulations
brought under the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 after Parliament
had been brow-beated into passing the Coronavirus Act 2020 on the basis that it
was an emergency (although at nearly 370 pages it is obvious that it had been
months in the preparation) but without the Government declaring a “State of
Emergency”.
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 was
also side-lined, as that would have meant that Parliament had some supervisory
role over what Ministers were up to.
Instead the wholly undemocratic and,
on all traditional principles, unlawful approach has been of using a 1984 Act
which was primarily about controlling diseased goods and individuals coming in
through the docks, instead to Lockdown the whole of England (N.B. the British
Government does not have direct authority over Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland) and thus avoid parliamentary scrutiny.
In England slowly some Judicial
Review challenges started to come forward, the most high profile of which is
the Simon Dolan case, which has raised over £400,000 as a fighting fund on
their Crowd Justice Appeal. The English Democrats also issued a Judicial
Review.
Unfortunately the Simon Dolan case
only argued that the Regulations were beyond the powers granted in the Act
(ultra vires) and that the Regulations were in breach of the rights protected
under the European Convention of Human Rights. In the end the Human
Rights Act claims failed entirely. This was partly because Simon Dolan is
a multi-millionaire who lives in Monaco and therefore wasn’t personally
affected by the removal of Human Rights in England.
Also it was because the Government
has adopted the tactic of regularly changing the Regulations, so that by the
time any case gets to court, the Regulations that are being challenged have
long since been overtaken by other newer Regulations. Many of these newer
Regulations are remarkably similar to the previous Regulations but not quite
identical! They are thus avoiding judicial scrutiny too!
The Simon Dolan case was allowed to
be heard by the Court of Appeal. It failed on the ultra vires point which, on
the traditional legal analysis, should not have failed, but the Court of Appeal
has produced a Judgment which has endorsed the power of Ministers to make
fundamental alterations to citizens’ rights without the need to go to
Parliament, based entirely on ministerial diktat.
This is a Judgment that would not
have been out of place in mid-1930’s Germany, at which time German Judges were
busy confirming that the powers granted to the Reich Chancellor under the
Enabling Act meant that he could re-write any law and that it was lawful for
him to do so.
It is therefore not inaccurate to
say that the Court of Appeal has endorsed a wholly new constitutional
understanding of the nature of the British State. It no longer a
Parliamentary Liberal Democracy, but instead a Police State, in the traditional
definition of a Police State.
This is particularly true when you
couple the Dolan Judgment with the way that the police have actually been
behaving on the streets.
The police have regularly made
clear, when they are dealing with any protest that challenges the new order,
that they do not care whether what they are doing is legal or illegal.
They say that they are focussed on doing is enforcing the orders that they have
been given. Police Officers have thus shown themselves to no longer be
that traditional English idea of the police as Officers of the Law, but instead
they are now merely paramilitary state enforcers, as is vividly reflected by
the transformation of their uniforms!
Where does that leave those of us
who are not happy with the Globalist, International, Multi-culturalist,
Europhile, Authoritarian (but fundamentally incompetent) British Political
Establishment?
Well firstly there are still legal
challenges going on. The English Democrats’ Judicial Review challenge was
over the original Lockdown Regulations and as the Dolan case was proceeding to
hearing in the Court of Appeal, the High Court didn’t give us permission to
proceed even though we did have the good additional points of pointing out that
what was being done was unconstitutional, which had been missed by Simon
Dolan’s lawyers.
Our Party’s National Secretary and
Greater Manchester Mayoral Candidate, Stephen Morris, together with other Lockdown
sceptic activists continued the challenge by issuing a further Judicial Review
dealing both with the more up to date Regulations and also raising the
constitutional arguments.
Given that, since Tony Blair’s
Government, you cannot become a judge without having first to “demonstrate a
life time’s commitment to Equality and Diversity”, it maybe that this will not
succeed, but it would be wrong of us not to try to use purely legal means to
challenge the authoritarianism of this Government.
As the UK lurches more and more
towards dissolution, the principle question that will arise is whether England
should be broken up or whether it is the UK.
Who here would like to see England
broken up? Hands up.
That means you are all against what
the British Political Establishment want to do - which is to break England up
into “Regions”. They say “England is too
big” and so it should be broken up.
If the UK breaks up anyway because
Scotland leaves but in the meanwhile England has been broken up we English are
going to be in no end of trouble.
It is therefore vital, even on the
basis simply of common sense, that we English Democrats succeed in keeping
England together.
It is therefore Ladies and Gentlemen
vital that we keep our Party ever moving forward and our movement together
moving forward.
I therefore look forward to working
with you in the coming year in the interests of our Cause and of our
country. Are you with me Ladies and
Gentlemen?
