One of the most persistent demands made of us by non-members is that we should work to set up a confederation of decentralist parties, on an all-England or all-Britain basis. It’s a course of action fraught with difficulties, rather like trying to get the cart to go before the horse. So let’s take it apart,ContinueContinue reading “Ourselves Alone”
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Lord Bath at 80
Alexander George Thynne (he later dropped the ‘e’ from his surname) was born in London on 6th May 1932 but, as he put it, he “emigrated to Wessex within the next few weeks”. His mother was Cornish, a member of the Vivian family. His father was Henry Frederick Thynne, then styled Viscount Weymouth and laterContinueContinue reading “Lord Bath at 80”
First Impressions
Colin Bex, WR Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, was out in Witney today testing the ground for a possible challenge to David Cameron. No final decision has been made on the choice of constituency to be fought but the Leader of the Opposition does make a very good target. Voters who’ve had enough of the Government’s voodooContinueContinue reading “First Impressions”
Never Ever Land
Thomas Hardy, in 1912, wrote of Wessex as “a partly real, partly dream-country” that “has become more and more popular as a practical provincial definition”; “the dream country has, by degrees, solidified into a utilitarian region which people can go to, take a house in, and write to the papers from”. Hardy disapproved, which isContinueContinue reading “Never Ever Land”
Wessex Regionalists 