Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire By-elections October 2023

 

Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire By-elections October 2023

 

The two By-elections that took place on the 19^th October had interesting results which bear looking at carefully - especially since the Mainstream Media now seem to entirely specialise in misleading their readers. 

 

Whilst it has been reported, and is of course true, that Labour won both of them, there wasn’t a swing in the way that the Mainstream Media reported. 

 

In the case of Mid-Bedfordshire, Labour’s vote in the By-election was 13,872, whereas in the previous election in 2019 Labour’s vote was 14,028, i.e. a reduction of their vote by 156.

 

The only other part of this election result which has been at all accurately reported is the fact that the Reform candidate got 1,487 votes, which  was slightly more than the difference between the successful Labour candidate’s vote and the unsuccessful Conservative candidate’s vote of 12,680. 

 

The really striking element of the result is in fact that the Conservative vote went from 38,692 votes in 2019 down to 12,680, i.e. their vote was under a third of what it had been before. 

 

For Reform’s vote to make a difference it would have to have been taken entirely from those that would otherwise have both turned out and voted Conservative.  Personally I think that is a bit of a stretch, but nevertheless an interesting quirk.

 

Turning to the Tamworth By-election result, in this one Labour got 11,719 votes, whereas in the General Election Labour had got 10,908 votes, so they did get slightly more votes than they had got before, i.e. slightly less than a 1,000 more votes. 

 

The difference in Labour’s result is more than explained by the reduction in the vote for the Greens and for the Liberal Democrats who went respectively from 935 votes to 417 and for the Liberal Democrats from 2,426 to 417. 

 

Reform’s vote of 1,373 was again slightly more than the difference between the Conservative and Labour vote.  Again for Reform to have really made the difference it would have to be shown that all of their voters would otherwise have both turned out and voted Conservative.  Again a bit of a stretch.

 

The big headline again should have been the collapse in the Conservative vote from 30,542 in 2019 to 10,403, a reduction of just less than two thirds.

 

The interesting comparison for the General Election at the end of next year that I would suggest everybody thinks about is what happened to the “Progressive Conservative” Government Party in the 1993 Canadian General Election, where they went from 156 seats and being in Government, down to 2 seats and even the Prime Minister lost her seat!

 

The highly encouraging point is that the “Progressive Conservative” Party was irretrievably damaged and ceased to exist, never becoming a governing party again.  Their politics, as their name sounds, was very similar to the current UK fake “Conservatives” who are in fact progressive on every policy (although they are perhaps more adept at lying about it). 

 

The other quirk is that the Party that really pushed the “Progressive Conservative” Party over the edge was called “Reform”.  In that election they took many traditionalist and socially conservative voters off the “Progressive Conservatives” and helped to cause their total collapse.  Reform never became a governing party in Canada and has now disappeared, but it was the icebreaker that caused the realignment of Canadian politics. 

 

We can and should all hope that the same happens here at the next General Election!

 

 

English Democrats Spring Conference of 2023

 

We recently had a very successful Spring Conference with many excellent speakers.  Here is my contribution to the speeches:-

 

Ladies and Gentlemen

 

Welcome to the English Democrats Spring Conference of 2023.

 

I would like to thank you all for coming to Rutland, whose Motto is “Multum in Parvo”, meaning:- Great even though Small.  Perhaps that should be our motto for this conference Ladies and Gentlemen!

 

I would like to give a special thanks to Bridget Vickers – stand up Bridget!  Bridget has organised our weekend. 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen what I usually do is give a round-up of my observations on the state of politics, in particular, the other parties, but I think on this occasion we have got to start by looking a little wider.  In particular it is worth having a think about the state of the Mainstream Media and also of the British State itself.

 

So far as the Media are concerned, all the broadcast television media, with the exception of GB News, are completely dominated by the woke, internationalist, multi-culturalist, cultural Marxists.  Not only can you not trust what they say about things, but you have to be suspicious about what they are not commentating about as well. 

 

Often, when there is what they would call a human interest story being made much of, what they are actually doing is using that to blot out the need to report a story that they don’t want to cover. 

 

It is also worth bearing in mind that one of the things that has been shown very clearly by the Coronavirus “Emergency” is that the media fully colluded with the British Establishment.  It was no accident that Ofcom and the Media refused to cover any contrary narratives.  This was a concerted programme of propaganda.  Even now they are mostly trying to minimise revelations about Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages.

 

There are some internet based radio stations that are still trying to report the truth, but, in the main, the conventional radio stations are equally infected with multi-culturalist propaganda narratives.

 

When you accept that the Media are neither truthful nor reliable sources of information then you are in with a chance of getting a clearer perspective. 

 

The problem is, of course, that even social media is contaminated by wokery.  Consider the perversions of the search algorithms within Google and the outright banning or shadow banning of any serious oppositional narratives on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

 

On Twitter we are shadow banned, whereas many other groups are outright banned and you cannot even share their links on Twitter.  

Turning to the State, the first thing to observe is, of course, that it is only in England that the British State rules directly.  That is because Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own political systems. 

 

In England however, as we experienced all too clearly during Lockdown, the British State and the British Political Establishment rule over us and do not care what we English people think about things.  In fact their only interests in us and what we think is to find ways to tax us and to side-line us.  And Ladies and Gentlemen that is not just Matt Hancock that I am talking about!

 

The British Civil Service is obsessed with multi-culutralism, BAME and LGBGTQ+ initiatives.  If you are a Minister you cannot get the Civil Service to even do their jobs properly, let alone do what you want them to do that is if your agenda is not fully onside with the multi-culturalist.

 

As Lord Frost wrote recently in the Daily Telegraph.

 

Bill Nighy's portrayal in ‘Living’ of a 1950s government official spending his career not serving the public sadly remains rather too true to life in the modern civil service

 

Lord Frost continues:-

 

Imagine a friend comes to you. She has been offered the job of new chief executive of a large, long-standing, organisation – business, charity, school, whatever – and he wants your advice. As you talk, the following becomes clear: she will not be allowed to move, or dismiss, any of the previous senior staff, however badly they are performing. Indeed she won’t be able to hold anyone to account for poor-quality work.

 

She will be able to bring in a maximum of three advisers to help, but they won’t be allowed to instruct, or have any say in managing, anyone else in the organisation. She will be prohibited from having any say in the organisation’s finances, pay arrangements, structure or HR policies. She will generally have no say over who is hired or promoted.

 

She can be summoned at just hours’ notice to answer in public on any aspect, however minor, of the organisation’s work. If her staff provide wrong information or try to conceal problems, they will not be blamed, but she will.

 

Lord Frost then asks

 

Would you advise your friend to be a Cabinet minister? Surely you would say: “You must be mad. You can’t change anything and you can’t run the organisation. How do you expect to achieve anything?”

 

Lord Frost continues

 

I am unusual in having been a civil servant, a special (political) adviser and a minister. In all those roles I have seen that the problem is that, as Sir Humphrey puts it to Jim Hacker: “Minister, you are not here to run this department.”

 

Lord Frost concludes

 

Obviously this is unsatisfactory for all. One person’s determination to deliver is another’s accusation of “bullying” – and it is noticeable that most such allegations are against determined ministers with a clear agenda who want to get things done, and come from departments such as the Home Office, the Foreign Office, or Ministry of Justice, which are visibly poorly run or ineffective in getting a grip on their policy agenda.

 

I don’t think we can do better than consider the announcement recently made by the Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, i.e. the Senior Civil Servant in charge, Matthew Rycroft who recently announced a revised Home Office Mission Statement, which was reported in the Daily Telegraph as follows:-

 

“Mr Rycroft’s memo, which was part of a weekly news bulletin sent across Whitehall, stated: “In the Home Office, our departmental purpose, or mission, is to contribute to a safe, fair and prosperous UK.”

 

He continued: “Whether it’s in righting the wrongs suffered by some members of the Windrush generation, our efforts to combat violence against women and girls, or our work to expand global talent visa routes, I would like that sense of purpose to run through everything we do.”

 

Who has spotted the missing key policy area that almost every English person would think is their principal job?  Anybody? 

 

That’s right their Mission Statement doesn’t include any attempt to control either mass immigration or illegal immigration. 

 

Then we have the Leftist Senior Civil Service whose report on Party-gate did for Boris Johnson, who it now turns out is not only a Labour supporter but is going into a senior position in the Labour Party.

 

So Ladies and Gentlemen if you are asked is the Civil Service impartial?  Answer with two words: “Sue Gray”!

What about the Judiciary?  The relevant jurisdiction for England is that of England and Wales. 

 

First it is worth pointing out that the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, is heading up the Welsh Government’s push to separate the Welsh jurisdiction from the English one.

 

Personally I support that move as we will then be left with an even clearer separation between the treatment of England and the other Nations of the UK. 

 

Judges in England are appointed, and have been ever since the time of Blair, by a Blairite quango, called the Judicial Appointments Commission.  What the JAC says is that it won’t even consider an application from somebody to become a Judge or to be promoted unless they can first demonstrate a “Life-time’s commitment to Equality and Diversity”. 

 

This system has now been in place for nearly 20 years, with the objective of the last proper Lord Chancellor, Derry Irvine, as set out in his speech when this was being set up in which he said that he was setting up a system that would ensure that “Nobody with reactionary views was either appointed or promoted to the Bench”.  This is a Political Appointment system.  By now Irvine’s objective has now been fully realised.  There is nobody on the Bench in England who is not a Social Justice Warrior or who has some other good reason for being in favour of “Equality and Diversity”. 

 

I think I can give no better example than to tell you than what Joshua Rosenberg KC, the husband of Melanie Phillips, wrote.  Joshua Rosenberg is, I would say, the leading journalist, and media commentator on legal matters.  Obviously he is Jewish. When the latest Master of the Rolls was appointed (the Master of Rolls is one of the most senior Judges in England) Joshua Rosenberg wrote approvingly that Equality and Diversity was making good progress in Judicial Appointments and the measure of that progress was that, of the last 8 Masters of the Rolls, 7 had been Jewish and the other one was gay!

 

In Lockdown what we saw was the impact of the political bias of the Judiciary in its decisions.

 

Equality and Diversity of course is a contradiction in terms which can only be understood as official jargon for internationalist, statist, multi-culturalism.  This means that the Judiciary are all pro Big State and therefore any challenge to the State’s powers is doomed to fail before such Judges, whatever the traditional English Constitution may have to say. 

 

The English Jury system which was the real defender of our liberties has also been pushed to the margins of the court system, whereby it only applies to certain serious crimes. 

 

Most other crimes are dealt with by judicial statist, multi-culturalists.  The State employees are called District Judges and sit in the so-called “Magistrates” Courts.  Even the unpaid civilian magistrates of course have had to go through the Judicial Appointments Commission’s process and to demonstrate their Social Justice Warrior credentials.

 

Now turning to big business.  The corporate world seems to have been fully taken over by the Equality and Diversity obsession as has all the various Regulators. It is amongst small business and ordinary people that we still find open support for traditional values. 

 

What about local government?  What about the scandal of the cutting down of thousands of trees in Sheffield, about which there has just been a report showing an appalling lack of honesty, transparency and the total contempt for the electorate by Labour’s One Party State apparatchik who run Sheffield City Council.

 

So Ladies and Gentlemen what do you think of the State of the British State here in England? 

 

Yes I agree it is a mess and a mess that is hostile to the interests of the English Nation. 

 

Then of course, all this is coupled with the British Establishment’s commitment to try and break England up into bogus “Regions”.  Regionalisation has by no means gone away as their agenda. 

 

Turning now to the political parties.  I will start with Labour, as Labour is currently looking as if it is going to form the next Government after the next General Election in January 2025. 

 

In England we need to notice that Labour is the party which is openly committed to the Equality and Diversity agenda and are openly Social Justice Warriors and are openly anti-English.  The exception to this is that in the Red Wall areas they do try to pretend to be traditional pro-white working class, although if any serious attention is paid to what Labour are up to by anybody in these areas they would know that Labour is their enemy rather than their friend.

 

So far as England’s future is concerned Gordon Brown has recently reported on Labour’s proposals for Constitutional Reform, the key issue of which is to be cemented into the UK Constitution is the idea of Regionalising England. 

 

This is a grave danger for the future of England.  We will not get the media to report that though.  As Laura Kuensberg informed us:-  We are “blocked”! 

 

We also struggle to get most ordinary people to take an interest in such an abstract idea as the threat to English integrity.

 

Turning to the Conservative Party, which over the course of the last year has had three leaders in decreasing order of democratic mandate. 

 

Boris Johnson was elected as Leader of the Conservative Party by the membership and then won a land slide electoral mandate on the admittedly largely bogus manifesto on “Getting Brexit done”!

 

We then had Liz Truss elected by the Conservative membership without a general democratic mandate. 

 

Now we have got Rishi Sunak, completely unelected, whose leadership is solely the product of a backroom coup. 

 

Just listen to this extract from the former Express political editor and former UKIP MEP, Patrick O’Flynn. 

         

EARLY last summer a Tory backbencher loyal to Boris Johnson sought him out to warn him his position was in great peril and to urge him to ensure the first plane carrying illegal immigrants to Rwanda took off.

 

This MP’s message was that the Government should defy the European Court of Human Rights and get the Rwanda deportation programme started so that the heartland Tory vote – including Red Wall voters – would feel once again that Boris Johnson was their guy, delivering their wishes in the teeth of Establishment resistance.

 

Johnson’s reply to this MP was that he needed to show “strategic patience”!

 

Some six weeks or so later the blond bombshell was announcing his enforced departure from Downing Street. One reason the “herd” of Tory MPs felt able to move against him was that Johnson was no longer seen as the people’s hero battling on their behalf against the high-ups.

 

The same is now true of Rishi Sunak. Though the Prime Minister never had a great connection with 2019 Tory voters anyway, he simply cannot afford to let them down much longer on the issue of stopping the small boats.

 

There have been spontaneous public protests against migrant hotels from Merseyside to South Yorkshire, Bedfordshire to Lincolnshire and Cornwall to Kent. In Eastbourne, Sussex, there are no fewer than nine seafront hotels now given over to accommodating illegal arrivals who have lodged asylum claims.

Elsewhere wedding bookings have been cancelled and staff have been made redundant as hoteliers have accepted lucrative taxpayer-funded contracts to become asylum-seeker hostels. (Such as the Lion in Shrewsbury)

 

There are also instances cropping up of councils using grants given to them under the levelling-up policy to purchase new swathes of housing to be dedicated to refugees only, especially those from Ukraine and Afghanistan. Quite why those who have already been given refuge in Britain from war zones should then also be fast-tracked in front of a million British families waiting in cramped or temporary accommodation for permanent social housing has not been satisfactorily explained. The effect of the policy is certainly to add insult to injury as town centres and seafronts are judged by many to have become less safe places for locals, especially women and girls.

 

Many Conservative MPs, particularly those sitting in Red Wall seats and other constituencies with big working class populations, are tearing their hair out after doorstep conversations and letters and emails from constituents expressing disgust at the Government’s performance on this issue.

 

The people around Sunak may suppose that after the Conservatives contrived to have three different prime ministers in a single year last year, that he is safe from yet another defenestration. If so then they should think again.

 

With crucial local elections looming in early May, the Tories could be headed for results almost as bad as those achieved by Theresa May in the European parliamentary elections of 2019. She chalked up a nine per cent vote share which became her political death warrant.

 

The principal danger for the Conservatives in these looming local polls is not that huge swathes of their 2019 general election backers will come out for Labour or another left-of-centre party, or even for Richard Tice’s Reform party. It is that there will be something akin to a general strike by Conservative-leaning voters. They will not come out at all.

 

But given Sunak’s lack of any direct mandate from Tory voters that would be a devastating blow. If the Prime Minister thinks that playing the small boats issue long - so that it is turned into a 2024 manifesto retail policy promising to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights – will be sufficient to give him necessary momentum then he is going to be sorely disappointed.

 

Voters know full well that the Conservatives are primarily to blame for the havoc that “lefty lawyers” can cause because the Conservatives hold a big majority in the body that makes our laws and yet have failed to make new ones that prevent wholesale abuse of the asylum system.

 

Sir Kier Starmer may be another Lefty lawyer standing in the way of solving the migrant crisis.  Rishi Sunak is another Globalist super rich merchant banker who wants to grant even more legal visas to get illegal immigration off the headlines, whilst pretending that there is some real difference between the two Parties and so hoping to deceive the electorate again with what the Tories call a Populist Positioning Policy, which, when I was in the army, was called “Bullshit Baffles Brains!”

 

So Ladies and Gentlemen the Conservative and Unionist Party is not a Party that anyone could trust to try to implement socially conservative ideas or even patriotic ideas.  They are just as multi-culturalist and globalist as Labour, it is just that their strategy is to lie about it.

 

Turning to the LibDems they remain neither liberal nor democratic, but they are capable of  effective sly tactics, particularly in By-elections.  In seats that have been traditionally Conservative they are likely to do well, as socially Conservative voters will probably decide that it is not worth the bother of voting for the Conservative Party.

 

The Greens remain the watermelon party.  “Green on the outside and red on the in!”

 

Then we have the Reform UK Party which is the former Brexit Party.  It is not technically a party at all, it is a limited trading company, but it is a limited company that must still have a considerable proportion of the £17.5m which as the Brexit Party it raised, even if Nigel Farage may have taken a substantial amount of that money out when he ceased to be the Leader. 

 

Richard Tice, Reform’s Leader is not willing to get involved in any discussions with any other political groups and, indeed, when the Conservative MP, Andrew Bridgen, came out against the Jab, he went so far as to say that he wasn’t interested in having Andrew Bridgen in the Reform Party, as he was absolutely vile to have made any comparisons with the Holocaust. 

 

Richard Tice then had egg on his face when it became clear that Andrew Bridgen was just quoting a Jewish scientist and many senior Jews have written to the Prime Minister to complain about the use made of Andrew Bridgen’s comments, as the comments were not anti-Semitic.

 

Despite Reform UK now appearing to be getting 8% in the opinion polls they have not done well in By-elections despite spending the full £100,000 campaigning allowance.

 

The opinion polls however suffer from exactly the same problems as the Mainstream media.  The pollsters are invariably multi-culturalist and the participants in the polls are usually people who have signed up on-line to take part.  The result is that opinion polls have been increasingly unreliable in predicting what people are actually thinking. 

 

Then there is the Reclaim Party, which is basically Laurence Fox with a big chunk of money in the bank account donated by the Jewish financier, Sir Jeremy Hosking.  You cannot expect the Reclaim Party to mount a full-on challenge to multi-culturalism.  

 

The last party I would like to comment on is UKIP.  UKIP kindly invited me to speak at their conference last weekend.  I think it is fair to say that as UKIP currently stands they and we do agree on many things.

 

The main area we do not agree on is the question of England and the English Nation.  They are British nationalists. 

 

UKIP now suffer from all the same problems that we suffer from in terms of media coverage and social media reach, but at least their invitation of me to address their conference a couple of weeks ago shows that they are thinking outside the box of party partisanship.  That is good news and bodes well for future cooperation.  We shall hear from their Chairman, Ben Walker, later today.

 

Now Ladies and Gentlemen let’s turn to the English Democrats.  Didn’t we do well to oppose Lockdown and Jab mandates?  And what about the Ukraine War?  We also remain the only English nationalist party.  We do suffer from all sorts of difficulties in terms of getting our message out there, which can only really be got around by getting leafleting done.  This year we have got a tranche of local elections and we have also got the possibility of standing in some Mayoral elections.

 

The following Councils have Directly Elected Mayoral Elections in May 2023 and I have put out a call for members to come forward who live in, or own property in, or rent in, or are on the electoral roll in the following local authorities:-

 

North of Tyne Combined Authority

Bedford City Council

Leicester City Council

Mansfield City Council

Middlesbrough City Council

 

If you qualify to stand and would be willing to do so then please make yourself known to me as soon as practicable.

 

As the only English nationalist party it is our job to fight the British Establishment and especially Labour’s agenda to break England up.  As nationalists it is our job to fight against the internationalist, multi-culturalist agenda. 

 

We therefore have some very big tasks ahead of us with few tools to do so. 

 

In that regard I cannot do better than to quote Winston Churchill who said at a decisive moment when many wanted to give up “If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each other of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground”.  With that graphic thought in mind Ladies and Gentlemen let’s make sure we aim high and aim to win!  We need to stiffen our sinews for the fight.