We’ve been using PayPal for a while. It’s lived up to expectations as an easy way for not-for-profit organisations to process membership fees and donations. Until now. This month we found access to our money restricted unless we provided our company registration number and uploaded a copy of the registration document. We can’t do that. ContinueContinue reading “PayPal Bull”
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A note on 2021 local elections
Postal ballots have already been dispatched for the local elections on the 6th of May. Whilst we will be eagerly cheering on regionalist and civic nationalist parties standing in other parts of the country, we will not be fielding any candidates ourselves, as we lack the resources. Neither do we have any specific recommendations onContinueContinue reading “A note on 2021 local elections”
2020 Annual Report
Every year around this time, we have to file an annual report of our political activities to the Electoral Commission. This is our report for 2020. Alexander Thynn, founder of the modern Wessex movement, passed away from Covid-19 in April. Although he moved to the SDP in the 1980s, he continued to support our effortsContinueContinue reading “2020 Annual Report”
Flights of Fancy
We’ve had to become experts in flag law, because until 2012 it was a criminal offence to fly the Wyvern without first obtaining planning permission. Marking a historic change of policy, the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles proclaimed on St Ealdhelm’s Day in 2013 that ‘The Only Way is Wessex’. Without their LibDem partners to keepContinueContinue reading “Flights of Fancy”
England Expects
Last week, we reviewed the Tories’ integrated defence and foreign policy review. This week, there’s a more specific document, Defence in a Competitive Age. As usual with this lot, what’s not said speaks louder than what is. As far as defence of the post-war rules-based order is concerned, the title’s a clue that the whiteContinueContinue reading “England Expects”
Weapons Of Mass Delusion
One of the party’s longest-standing members, Douglas Stuckey, whose interest in current affairs dates back to the Spanish Civil War, described Boris Johnson’s defence and foreign policy review as the worst he’d ever seen. Dove or hawk, there’s something in it to displease everyone but it’s more like chickens coming home to roost. Having BrexitedContinueContinue reading “Weapons Of Mass Delusion”
One of 100
The Wessex Regionalists have been an unabashedly pro-European party from our inception. Our founder, Alexander Thynn, always saw Wessex as part of a “Europe of a hundred flags”, never as an isolated fortress. This does not mean that we were blind to the faults of the EU, but we recognised that if you want toContinueContinue reading “One of 100”
Happy Birthday, Mebyon Kernow
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the foundation of Mebyon Kernow, a senior partner of the Wessex Regionalists in our struggle against the government’s artificial South West region. MK was founded on 6th January 1951, initially as a pressure group, their inaugural meeting taking place at the Oates Temperance Hotel in Redruth. Early members includedContinueContinue reading “Happy Birthday, Mebyon Kernow”
Let Them Eat K-rations
The government has announced a £24.1 billion investment in defence at a time when the rest of the economy is struggling due to the ongoing effects of Covid-19, and when the cliff-edge that is Brexit is fast approaching. The prime minister was vague at PMQs about what the money would be spent on, so don’tContinueContinue reading “Let Them Eat K-rations”
The Union of the Snake
Alexander DePfeffel Johnson is in trouble with the Scots again, following his controversial claim that devolution in Scotland has been “a disaster”, a claim he has since tried to walk back into purely a criticism of the SNP. Politicians in Holyrood recalled his 2012 claim, made while mayor of London, that “A pound spent in CroydonContinueContinue reading “The Union of the Snake”
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