Our General Election Press Launch – Even Sky News came too!
As I mentioned in my previous Blog item, over the years we have tried hard to get our press launch covered.This has always previously been a struggle but this year we did get some interest, both from ITV and, in particular, from Sky, who actually sent a reporter.
We were briefly on the Sky News and also a more detailed report was done for Sky’s website. Here is a link to the article, click here >>> Coalition With Nationalists 'Would Be Treason'
The text is slightly off what I said because I wasn’t accusing Scottish and Welsh Nationalists of being traitors to their countries, but my point was focussed more on Ed Miliband and the Labour leadership.
But leaving that aside, I think the Sky reporter has done a good job.
What do you think?
A lesson, from history, for the English Democrats, on strategy. THE NORTHERN POWER BASE. "In 1063, King Swein Forkbeard, England's first Danish King, filled with the desire to conquer England, sailed quickly round East Anglia, into the mouth of the Humber and along the Trent until he reached Gainsborough. Without a fight, Earl Uhtred and all the Norhumbrians (the English north of the Humber), the people of Lindsey (Lincolnshire) and of the Five Boroughs (Derby, Leicestershire, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford) and all the Danish settlers north of Watling Street submitted to him. This diplomatic victory gave Swein the POWER BASE from which to attack Aethelred in the south."
ReplyDeleteThe EDs should organise in the three northernmost of the Five Boroughs - Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln - which are within striking distance of the party's South Yorkshire redoubt.
DeleteNot a comment on the launch, but important to note: Without the Battle of Hastings there would have been no aristocratic revolution and without that no changes in language, law, architecture and attitudes. As William of Malmesbury wrote in the early 12th century, the 14th of October 1066 was a "fateful day for England, a melancholy havoc for our dear country brought about by its passing under the dominion of new lords."
ReplyDeleteWe can do something about recovering our lost English soul, by resurrecting our theedish (national) tongue in the form of New-English. See 'How We Talk, if the English had won in 1066' by David Cowley.
About 'How We'd Talk - if the English had won in 1066'
ReplyDeleteSee: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NQhqzRlJCjk
The BBC report was fuller and balanced. Similarly, the BBC video had more information. Unfortunately, most of what Robin said is not of much importance to voters. He could take a leaf out of Nigel Farage's book. A little less (i.e., much less) about the treatment of traitors in history, and a lot more about immigration, the Coalition's failures regarding the economy and the widening incomes gap, the lack of social cohesion, the fact that spending now is higher as a percentage of GDP than it was under all but the last two years of the Labour government, when Brown and Darling were spending to bail out the banks. Luckily, the bank bail-out was not as great as it would have been if Brown had followed Cameron's and Osborne's urgings at the time. The consequences of immigration for housing , social welfare, the health service, the threat to the countryside of house building, a rising population needing more schools for the children of immigrants who breed more than do the natives. Robin had plenty of issues of real importance to the English people to talk about and he didn't, preferring rather to concentrate on hanging drawing and quartering and an obscure argument regarding Monmouthshire.
ReplyDeleteWhat is all this talk about hanging, drawing and quartering?
ReplyDeleteSurely the only focus should be about England's position within the "union" and your dedication to English independence. Look at the SNP - they are now threatening to vote on England-specific areas of policy such as England's NHS. Surely THAT should be your starting point, not awkward historic references.
You made a lot of good points about the prospect of a PC-SNP-Green-Sinn Fein alliance along with Labour, which does have the potential to be a gorgon's head of a coalition and the stuff of nightmares for anyone who cares about fairness for England, but I think - as I said - the references to medieval torture were unfortunate.
It is pleasing to see the EngDems getting more press coverage, and I hope the party is able to capitalise on any potential fallout of any messy politicking involving the SNP and their attempts to boss England post election.
The ED's trump card is that is the ONLY party with a REALISTIC plan for dealing with the West Lothian question, and it is the ONLY party which is SERIOUS about getting an English parliament. Neither of these facts were touched upon.
DeleteUkip pays lip service to an English parliament, but as British "nationalists" they do not want it because an English parliament will lead in short order to the break-up of the UK. If the EngDems are getting more press coverage they need to use it to press home the nationalist message that in order to deal with England's problems, England needs to be independent with a sovereign parliament (not necessarily/preferably not/ in Un-England/London).
Joe Tidy, the Sky News Reporter, reported that, according to the English Democrats, "A coalition government with the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru or Sinn Féin would be tantamount to treason".
ReplyDeleteThat position is illogical. The Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein AND the English Democrats are working for the dissolution of the UK. The EDs should welcome the role of the SNP and Plaid Cymru as the friends of English nationalism in the UK parliament. If over the next five years, Labour allows the SNP and Plaid Cymru to move towards independence for their countries, that can only bring English independence nearer. That might be traitorous for British "nationalists", but it is not for English nationalists, since it brings the end of the UK nearer. Logically, the English Democrats would collaborate with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to achieve that end, i.e., the SNP and Plaid Cymru might put questions to Westminster on behalf of the English Democrats, e.g., regarding an English parliament .
April the 23rd and an election in less than a month. Shock, horror! David Cameron has discovered the English But he has a short attention span, particularly where the English are concerned.
ReplyDeleteThe most typical ED territory, should be the left-behind voters of Clacton or an area radically changed by immigration such as Boston & Skegness. It is not Un-England/London's liberal establishment, which has always been cosmopolitan and English hating.
ReplyDeleteThe EDs should be targeting Labour-facing seats in the north, including Hartlepool, the old political turf of Blairite architect Lord Mandelson.
Since this event, the English Democrats, Robin appeared on the Daily Politics show with Jo Corfield.
ReplyDeleteWith such a high proportion of young adults unable to live independently and having to share with parents, the EDs should have a policy of preferentially housing English people before immigrants. It is not right that English people whose ancestors have lived in the same area for generations see foreigners getting homes before their own adult children.
Since Cameron made it an issue in the General Election, a new poll has revealed that a substantial number of English voters would rather break up the UK, than see the SNP at Westminster. According to a Survation survey for the Mail on Sunday, 44 per cent of English voters are in favour of independence in that event, with only 31 per cent preferring the continuance of the Union. That leaves a massive 25 per cent of English voters undecided.
ReplyDeleteCameron has set the wheels in motion. towards English independence. The EDs must seize the opportunity, which he has created, to press the independence case. The fact is that there will be many SNP members at Westminster. Thanks to Cameron, the EDs are pushing on an open door.
I am back again to promulgate verbiage after serious heart surgery. It was not an experience that I would care to repeat as I was in hospital for two weeks with one week of depending on an external pacemaker to stay alive after my heart had been damaged by the removal of the valve. Still I now have a shiny, new mechanical valve which will last for one hundred years., plus the requisite internal pacemaker. The question is do I really want to live that long, especially in view of the fact that the way things are going England and the English will by then be history or toast.
ReplyDeleteAs regards the NHS, I have written to thank the nurses for the way they looked after me. As regards the surgeons, consultants and doctors from everywhere on the planet but mostly the Indian sub-continent I have not changed my view that most or arrogant and lacking in empathy leaving the nurses to cope with the emotional fall-out. Interestingly, faced with such a United Nations of medics I found myself drawn to those with whom I shared common blood. The progressives would dismiss this as racism of course but to me it is only natural, when we feel at our most vulnerable and insecure we want to be with our own tribe. A Czech politician noted on RT yesterday that all over Europe we are seeing the rise of the "extremists" of both political wings. It is not they who are extremists but the financial and political elites bent on destroying the homogeneous nation state and all the democracy that Europeans have fought for in the name of the one per cent who want to rule the world. What is happening is just redressing the balance.
Also on RT we had a gaggle of "nationalists" in Blackpool vowing to remain English until they day. They even spied a Nazi salute. They were met by the usual anti-Nazi brownshirts. This is what England and Europe are reduced to, any Europeans wishing to retain a national identity are pictured in this way. The Czech politician, Svoboda was his surname, also said that Europe had an aging population and needed young blood from elsewhere. There must be another solution, ask the Japanese.
Of course all this has come to the fore thanks to the results of mad Hillary Clinton's joy at removing Ghaddafi with French and British help and the Libyan gateway that is allowing the bombed of Africa and the Middle East to surge into Europe by hook or by crook. Ghaddaifi warned Europe but the oil barons, the arms salesmen, big business and the bankers wanted to get to Libya the then richest country in Africa. Doubtless, there was method in their madness and the swamping of Europe is all part of the plan towards world domination over a world that will be like one huge dump. Europeans and their dominant civilisation will be gone as the minarets sprout everywhere ( bar Switzerland!!).
I read the above with interest. Of course we should find common cause with the Celtic nationalists. Rupert Murdoch - not my favourite - has predicted eventual Scottish independence. Then England will be free too; but for how long will it be England if nothing changes? I have been reduced to watching "Call the midwife" if only to remind myself of what England did and should look like.
England never looked like "Call the midlife", which seems to portray some kind of Irish fantasy transferred to a Cotswolds village.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you are too young to remember the England of the 1950s? To me Call the Midwife is very much like the England I remember, although but a child.
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