As tens of thousands flock in renewed hope to join the Labour Party, much of the last Shadow Cabinet has walked off in disgust at the thought of actually having to believe in something. Yes, British politics is about to get much more interesting. Jeremy Corbyn though is no friend of Wessex. So long asContinueContinue reading “Valuing Europe”
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The Aye’ds of March
Et tu, Nicola? It’s onething to have Plaid Cymru singing the praises of an anti-Welsh Green Party but today we had the SNP join the chorus. Nicola Sturgeon has urged folk in England to vote either for the Greens or for a Labour candidate that would challenge Ed Miliband from the left. We would likeContinueContinue reading “The Aye’ds of March”
The Pecking Order
Irish nationalists have sometimes found the Scots and Welsh a bit puzzling. Ireland, as a separate island, is clearly not British. At best it’s one of the British Isles but even that’s controversial, with neutral commentators preferring something along the lines of ‘the North Atlantic archipelago’. Great Britain though is one land mass, from Land’sContinueContinue reading “The Pecking Order”
Green as Gravel
Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party in England & Wales (& Cornwall) was one of the panel on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? this week. To the amazement of anyone concerned about the ecological crisis we face, she launched into an impassioned defence of massive urban development and a rejection of those measures thatContinueContinue reading “Green as Gravel”
A Voice in Europe?
Postal ballot papers for the Euros have started to arrive, allowing some of us to see what ‘choice’, if any, the ‘democratic’ process has thrown up this time. Although WR has contested European elections in the past, this was when the constituencies were smaller, single-member ones that did less damage to regional identity. We haveContinueContinue reading “A Voice in Europe?”
Wessex Regionalists 