Channel 4’s Jon Snow is back from Scotland with his eyes opened: see his blog on the subject, and the many comments it’s attracted. To sum up, London is loathed from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Westminster politicians are vicious and corrupt; City slickers are the downfall of a decent society; the meejah couldn’t careContinue reading "Terror Incognita"
Leccy Goes Local
Until 1948, the electricity supply in Bristol, as in many towns, was run as a council department, with its own power stations at Temple Back, Avonbank and Portishead. In that year it was effectively confiscated by the London regime, without payment of full compensation, only to be sold on in 1990 as part of SouthContinue reading "Leccy Goes Local"
Masters & Servants
Not a working day goes by without London interference in local decision-making. What makes the UK such a desolate place to live is that this interference is so widely accepted, at best as something that cannot be changed, at worst as something entirely natural, a system under which London provides ‘leadership’ for a grateful nation.Continue reading "Masters & Servants"
Hold That Door
Last week, the London regime finally bowed to pressure to recognise the Cornish as a national minority under the relevant Council of Europe agreement. Or tried to, not very hard. The official press release talks about having to ‘modify’ the application of the European convention to accommodate the idea of a national minority – theContinue reading "Hold That Door"
Digital Devastation
As the implications of the Heartbleed bug continue to be revealed, it becomes clear that while a digital society, including a digital economy and digital government, delivers many benefits, many of these are exceedingly fragile. Two items from the press last month further illustrate the point. The first is from Metro, which reported on theContinue reading "Digital Devastation"
Softly, Softly
Angus Macpherson is Police & Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire Police. He recently told a business breakfast meeting that the police were now working as a region, taking in Gloucestershire, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, but, he added, “We will not lose Wiltshire Police – neighbourhood members of the police, working and living in local communities. ItContinue reading "Softly, Softly"
Berlin Wall II
Aye or nae, Scotland’s debate over its future is laying bare the fundamental structure of the UK in ways that no academic study could have begun to contemplate. There’s nothing like demanding answers to questions that were always thought too fanciful to ask but have suddenly become part of an urgent reality. We know whatContinue reading "Berlin Wall II"
Lesser Lands?: A Postscript
“Universal peace will be impossible, so long as the present centralised states exist. We must desire their destruction in order that, on the ruins of these forced unions organised from above by right of authority and conquest, there may arise free unions organised from below by the free federations of localities into provinces, of provincesContinue reading "Lesser Lands?: A Postscript"
Lesser Lands?
Still, after all these years, we get comments to the effect that regionalists don't understand the English love of the shires and therefore the instinctive resistance that is provoked by regionalism. It’s a straw man argument, based on what may have been said by the Labour Party about phasing out county councils. We have alwaysContinue reading "Lesser Lands?"
Review of 2013
Every year when we submit our accounts to the Electoral Commission we are also required to provide a ‘Review of Political Activities’ covering the year just gone. The 2013 Review has recently been agreed and here is what it says:“The Eastleigh by-election in February provided an unplanned but welcome opportunity to raise the Party’s profile. Continue reading "Review of 2013"
Wessex Regionalists 