Get Back To Where You Once Belonged

In our previous posts on our response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we wrote about how devolution has allowed the Scottish and Welsh governments to respond flexibly in a way that the English regions, hamstrung by London dominance, cannot. The results of this have manifested themselves in a recent Somerset Live report about how the endContinue reading "Get Back To Where You Once Belonged"

The NHS was founded on 5th July 1948. Let’s make it NHS Day every year.

The NHS was launched on 5th July 1948, bringing together a disparate mix of municipally run and charity hospitals - often poorly funded with inadequate services - private voluntary hospitals, and private GP practices, access to whose services largely depended on one’s wealth.  The chief architect of the modern NHS was Aneurin Bevan, as MinisterContinue reading "The NHS was founded on 5th July 1948. Let’s make it NHS Day every year."

Wessex Political Thinkers: Alexander Thynn

I had long intended to write a post on the founder of our party as part of the Wessex Political Thinkers series. The sad news of his recent death makes a reflection upon his contribution to Wessex Regionalist thought even more timely. Alexander Thynn--then Viscount Weymouth, later Marquess of Bath--first became interested in formulating aContinue reading "Wessex Political Thinkers: Alexander Thynn"

Isolation and Community (part 1)

A crisis such as the present COVID-19 pandemic demands a response from us. Readers of this blog will be curious to know what a Wessex regional parliament, with the Wessex Regionalists as the dominant party, would have done differently in this situation. Such a question is almost impossible to answer, as hindsight is always 20/20,Continue reading "Isolation and Community (part 1)"

Redirected Fail

Wessex folk have been robbed of our European citizenship.  By a gang of liars and cheats.  Who convinced just enough voters that the EU is inherently evil, the ‘EUSSR’, ‘the Fourth Reich’, and that a leaky boat in shark-infested waters is preferable to a refit of its sturdy cabins.  For eurosceptics though, Brexit is never ‘done’.  Their aim nowContinue reading "Redirected Fail"