It is now 30th December and I have not written a blog since the General Election - although I have started a few. Maybe I have suffered from writers block! In reality it has of course been a busy time around Christmas but mainly I think my brain has been just pummelled by the momentous nature of the General Election campaign and everything that turned on it - as Brexit did - as for me and millions of others - our democracy did.
This morning as pretty much every morning I have had an early morning bike ride along the sea wall. It was a cold one this morning - a change from the last few days. My head is clear but full of random thoughts. Where to start? I have decided the best way is to start with observations rather than analysis - to keep it simple and short - so here goes :
The Green Party - the UK face of the Green Party for a number of years now has been Caroline Lucas. She has been the only Green Party MP - representing the maverick seat of Brighton Pavilion. Under Lucas the Green Party has got nowhere and they should reflect why. I would suggest to them that Lucas is a total turn off for most of the electorate. Her shrill and nasty politics are embedded in Labour's Momentum type left which was so heavily defeated in the General Election. She is a doctrinaire socialist who has used the Green movement as a vehicle to promote her wider and contradictory ideology which has been compounded by her anti Brexit anti democracy stance. There is no way green issues can be considered mainstream under Lucas's leadership. The Green Party should position itself above the political spectrum. We all want to be Green but we do not all want to follow a 6th former socialist haranguing us as part of a political game.
What of the Remainers - Remoaners? There is already a new term Rejoiners - which of course reflects the reality that finally Boris Johnson will be able to deliver the 2016 Referendum Result.
Do you recognise the names on this list?
Adonis Allen, Heidi Bebb Bercow Berger Boles Brake Cable Clarke, Ken Duncan Gapes Gauke Goodman Grieve Gyimah Hammond Harrington Lee, Philip Leslie, Chris Letwin Lidington Perry Pidcock Rudd Sandbach Smith, Owen Soubry Spelman Stewart, Rory Swinson Umunna Vaz Wollaston
These are mainly MP's elected on a leave manifesto / voted for article 50 / said they respected the referendum result who then sought to frustrate the leave process. These are mainly MP's who have been telling the electorate they got it wrong and were particularly telling us the public had changed their mind and no longer wanted Brexit. These people were duplicitous. These people were anti democratic. These people negotiated directly with the EU to try and frustrate Brexit (which many see as treasonable behaviour). These are Ex MP's. Those that stood for re election all lost. The message could not be clearer. The people wanted Brexit and or they respected our democracy - unlike the bunch above. It is hard not to say - good riddance!
Change UK - a new way of doing politics. You have to laugh. They were calling for a "Peoples Vote". Of course calling it a peoples vote got the peoples backs up right from the start. The people had had a vote called the referendum. At the very least if they were claiming to be doing honest politics they had to call it what it was - a second referendum - a chance to reverse a decision they could not accept. The other irony - and a massive nail in their duplicitous coffin was they claimed to want a second democratic vote because the people might have changed their minds but they steadfastly refused by using all manner of weasel words to stand in a bye election to reflect they were now standing for a different party with a different manifesto. Alas they have come and gone. It was no surprise. What chance did they have - led by the self serving champagne socialist Umunna, the vacuous Heidi Allen and the crazed and increasingly hysterical Anna Soubry. They all lost their seats. Vanity politics. All put in their place. The people have spoken. Of course they should show humility - apologise - but no - more hubris - more duplicity - but gradually they will fade into oblivion. They have been roundly rejected.
Ok enough for now - I do not want to get too wound up or too triumphalist! Leave some for another day. Blogs on wokeness, fascism, channel migrants and BBC bias to come soon!
This morning as pretty much every morning I have had an early morning bike ride along the sea wall. It was a cold one this morning - a change from the last few days. My head is clear but full of random thoughts. Where to start? I have decided the best way is to start with observations rather than analysis - to keep it simple and short - so here goes :
The Green Party - the UK face of the Green Party for a number of years now has been Caroline Lucas. She has been the only Green Party MP - representing the maverick seat of Brighton Pavilion. Under Lucas the Green Party has got nowhere and they should reflect why. I would suggest to them that Lucas is a total turn off for most of the electorate. Her shrill and nasty politics are embedded in Labour's Momentum type left which was so heavily defeated in the General Election. She is a doctrinaire socialist who has used the Green movement as a vehicle to promote her wider and contradictory ideology which has been compounded by her anti Brexit anti democracy stance. There is no way green issues can be considered mainstream under Lucas's leadership. The Green Party should position itself above the political spectrum. We all want to be Green but we do not all want to follow a 6th former socialist haranguing us as part of a political game.
What of the Remainers - Remoaners? There is already a new term Rejoiners - which of course reflects the reality that finally Boris Johnson will be able to deliver the 2016 Referendum Result.
Do you recognise the names on this list?
Adonis Allen, Heidi Bebb Bercow Berger Boles Brake Cable Clarke, Ken Duncan Gapes Gauke Goodman Grieve Gyimah Hammond Harrington Lee, Philip Leslie, Chris Letwin Lidington Perry Pidcock Rudd Sandbach Smith, Owen Soubry Spelman Stewart, Rory Swinson Umunna Vaz Wollaston
These are mainly MP's elected on a leave manifesto / voted for article 50 / said they respected the referendum result who then sought to frustrate the leave process. These are mainly MP's who have been telling the electorate they got it wrong and were particularly telling us the public had changed their mind and no longer wanted Brexit. These people were duplicitous. These people were anti democratic. These people negotiated directly with the EU to try and frustrate Brexit (which many see as treasonable behaviour). These are Ex MP's. Those that stood for re election all lost. The message could not be clearer. The people wanted Brexit and or they respected our democracy - unlike the bunch above. It is hard not to say - good riddance!
Change UK - a new way of doing politics. You have to laugh. They were calling for a "Peoples Vote". Of course calling it a peoples vote got the peoples backs up right from the start. The people had had a vote called the referendum. At the very least if they were claiming to be doing honest politics they had to call it what it was - a second referendum - a chance to reverse a decision they could not accept. The other irony - and a massive nail in their duplicitous coffin was they claimed to want a second democratic vote because the people might have changed their minds but they steadfastly refused by using all manner of weasel words to stand in a bye election to reflect they were now standing for a different party with a different manifesto. Alas they have come and gone. It was no surprise. What chance did they have - led by the self serving champagne socialist Umunna, the vacuous Heidi Allen and the crazed and increasingly hysterical Anna Soubry. They all lost their seats. Vanity politics. All put in their place. The people have spoken. Of course they should show humility - apologise - but no - more hubris - more duplicity - but gradually they will fade into oblivion. They have been roundly rejected.
Ok enough for now - I do not want to get too wound up or too triumphalist! Leave some for another day. Blogs on wokeness, fascism, channel migrants and BBC bias to come soon!
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