So Jeremy Corbyn has admitted what we all suspected: that even if Labour were to win a snap general election in the new year, Brexit would still go ahead as planned. Is there any reason to vote for either of the two biggest London parties? If you want to save Wessex from economic suicide, voteContinueContinue reading “Don’t Look to London”
Category Archives: Europe
Trump is Alienating Europe, and This Is a Good Thing
This article is not directly relevant to Wessex, but it does tacitly support our vision of a Europe of the Regions. Whether the author realises it or not. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/01/trump-is-alienating-europe-and-this-is-a-good-thing/
Another Europe is Possible
‘Believe in Britain’, they say. And why not ‘Believe in Europe’? Grassroots Out have taken to arguing that Brexit isn’t ‘anti-Europe’ at all, rather as if the SNP had presented independence as being pro-British. Confused? The underlying idea is that the EU is not just at present objectively anti-European – in its submissive attitude toContinueContinue reading “Another Europe is Possible”
Post-Truth Politics
Is an Eton education good value for money? From the public’s point of view, it seems not, given Boris Johnson’s underwhelming analysis of European history. He lit up the weekend with his dire warning that the EU is little better than a Fourth Reich. For others, it’s the EUSSR, but we’ve learnt to recognise thatContinueContinue reading “Post-Truth Politics”
Wessexit
Of all the reasons for remaining in the EU the most compelling arises from quietly contemplating the alternative. Being marooned on a small island run by Gove, Johnson and IDS is a chilling prospect. It also smacks of betrayal of those elsewhere working for a better Europe. The Danes in particular fear isolation without theirContinueContinue reading “Wessexit”
Keeping It Under Your Hat
With 11.5 million documents to read through, we’ve not heard the last of the revelations from the Panama Papers. David Cameron is on the defensive, though Jeremy Corbyn’s attacks are blunted by the fact that his party was once led by one half of the Blair couple, now rumoured to be worth a cool £60ContinueContinue reading “Keeping It Under Your Hat”
Autarky for All
What’s the point of political devolution in a world of globalist economics, where democracy can’t change a thing because there’s no world government to hold multi-nationals in check? A good question, to which the answer is to reject not only over-centralised government but also over-centralised economics. Demand autarky for all. Autarky – self-sufficiency – isContinueContinue reading “Autarky for All”
Independence for Europe?
“No European can be a complete exile in any part of Europe.” Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796)It was a curious coincidence (or was it?) that on the same day that David Cameron dressed up as success what was clearly failure, the USA announced a quadrupling of its defence spending in Europe. It’sContinueContinue reading “Independence for Europe?”
Squirming for Europe
“To contribute to the creation of a sustainable and equitable global economy in which the health, security and liberty of all is paramount, regardless of race or creed.” Aims of the Party: Charter of the Wessex Regionalists, 2001The Chalice and the Blade is a book by Riane Eisler that sets out what could be describedContinueContinue reading “Squirming for Europe”
Presi in Paris
“We know and we have seen that conferences are events which bring together important people who are unable to act on their own, but who together are always able to resolve that in fact nothing can be done… Why is [Europe] unable to forecast and prevent one crisis after another?… Today the European spirit andContinueContinue reading “Presi in Paris”
Wessex Regionalists 