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Independents for Wessex – Local Elections 2025 – Wessex and Local Government Survey results

WR’s involvement in this year’s local elections commenced with our sending of a survey to independent and minor-party candidates in the polled areas, on matters of Wessex identity, devolution, and the values of the Party. What proceeds in this blog post is an overview of the findings of our survey. This will be followed upContinueContinue reading “Independents for Wessex – Local Elections 2025 – Wessex and Local Government Survey results”

Labour At One: What Comes Next?

As the Starmer government passes its first anniversary of holding power, there has been much looking back and taking stock of their achievements in the past year. In the court of public opinion, however, Labour have little to boast of, with the surge of Reform UK’s polling numbers, and their strong showing at the localContinueContinue reading “Labour At One: What Comes Next?”

Independents for Wessex – Local Elections 2025

On the 13th of April, Wessex Regionalists sent an email out to independent and minor party candidates for 2025’s upcoming local elections and by-elections. The email included a link to a Google Forms survey, inviting candidates to answer questions about Wessex, regionalism, devolution, and politics. We will, in due course, lay out the overall findingsContinueContinue reading “Independents for Wessex – Local Elections 2025”

AGA 2025 – a brief report

Wessex Regionalists met for our Annual General Assembly this year on March 15th. The conference this year was held in Weston-super-Mare and attracted members from near and a far – as close as the town itself and from as far as Berkshire. Last year’s Council was re-elected en bloc and, in the Council meeting immediatelyContinueContinue reading “AGA 2025 – a brief report”

Devolution Is Not Regionalism

Originally published on theonlywayiswessex.net. As a party which places devolution at the core of our identity, we should be delighted that the government has announced a devolution bill as part of the king’s speech, at the opening of the current parliament, right? Well… First, a short history lesson. During the Blair administration, there was saidContinueContinue reading “Devolution Is Not Regionalism”

A Night to Remember

Originally published on theonlywayiswessex.net. “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive / But to be young was very heaven!” Wordsworth’s ardour for the French Revolution cooled in the light of experience. Labour today has reason for celebration, but not for triumphalism. How many voted Wessex Regionalist? Write-in votes aren’t separately recorded, so weContinueContinue reading “A Night to Remember”

St Ealdhelm’s Day visit 2022

This year’s St Ealdhelm’s Day visit is to Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire, a recreation of an Anglo-Saxon working farm. The event will take place this coming Saturday, 21st May 2022. We will meet at the farm at 11.30 am, and there will be a re-enactment of a battle between Saxons and Britons at 2.00ContinueContinue reading “St Ealdhelm’s Day visit 2022”

AGM, Longbridge Deverill

On 23rd October, the nearest Saturday to King Alfred Day, a handful of us met to visit the churches at Longbridge Deverill and Kingston Deverill, near Warminster. Kingston Deverill’s Alfred connection is that it is a possible site of Ecgbert’s Stone, where Alfred mustered the men of Wiltshire, Somerset, Hampshire and possibly Dorset against theContinueContinue reading “AGM, Longbridge Deverill”