General Election - December 2019

Well, I have already made up my mind already whom I shall be voting for: none of them have the slightest appeal for me. The three principal leaders make me want to puke every time I see them on TV, and it is so obvious from their parties' stated policies and tactical voting that self-interest is their main motivation.

I am a staunch advocate of leave, as must be clear by now, but sadly I cannot bring myself to vote for the Brexit party either, as they have no other policies and will have little to contribute after the Election. They have very little chance of gaining many, if any, seats anyway, as people seem more likely to accept Johnson's softer route.

So, for the first time in over 50 years, I shall be sitting quietly at home while others are rushing to the polling station this time.

As you know, Rob, I agree with your description of Johnson, but Fruitcake? I would like to see you stand in front of hundreds of people for an hour or so and speak coherently and intelligently without any notes! You may despise what he stands for, but he is very far from being an idiot or nutcase as you describe him.

He will always be the leader of the Brexit Party as long as it exists. You don't have to be an MP to lead a party, Caroline Lucas is a good example of that.

Stewart  

Quite right Stewart. Nor to be Prime Minister. In fact Sir Alec Douglas-Home who initially became PM and Tory leader while in the Lords, was Prime Minister for a couple of weeks in 1963 while he belonged to neither the House of Commons nor the House of Lords, before winning a by-election to take him into the Commons having rejected his peerage.


Rob possibly recalls Sir Alec more for his cricketing exploits:

Under his courtesy title of Lord Dunglass, the future Earl of Home played 10 first-class games in the mid-1920s. It was appropriate for a man who changed his name so regularly that the 10 games were played for six different teams: Middlesex, Free Foresters, HDG Leveson-Gower's XI, Oxford University, MCC and Harlequins. He batted and bowled a bit and had a reputation for doing both better on a wet wicket.

Your knowledge of pre-war cricket is very impressive. Do you think that Douglas Jardine would have made a brilliant politician, or would he have been pilloried for the way in which he heaped all of the blame for "bodyline" on Harold Larwood?

Stewart 


I wouldn’t be confident in asserting that he’d be ‘brilliant’, Stewart, and certainly not in the modern era when powers of persuasion rather than asserting authority from a position you’ve been appointed to, is an ever increasing necessity. So while I think Jardine may well have struggled to get elected, even in his time, a less frontline role in politics, such as directing things behind the scenes in the way Dominic Cummings does, or Alistair Campbell did, might well have suited him.

While Larwood was a willing accomplice in implementing the ‘bodyline’ tactics, subsequent blame shifting doesn’t look good. Just witness the current attempts to shift blame from the shoulders of Tom Watson, an architect of his own downfall if ever there was one, onto preferred scapegoats by those who yet again struggle to accept the result of a democratic election; in that case being the vote by Labour Party members to overwhelmingly elect Comrade Jezza as the Labour Party leader.

The better news that Larwood spent a long and hopefully happy time living in Australia, although he did return to these shores to collect his MBE, indicates that not everyone agreed with Jardine’s version of events.

Let’s hope our upcoming election is not ruined by the authoritarian forces of the Left. Thinking that in the run up to Christmas, so many Jewish families will already have their bags packed, in preparation for a quick exit from the country should a Corbyn regime come to power, sends a shiver of discomfort through most of us. The front pages of almost all of today’s newspapers makes chilling reading. And it’s not just in the bigger more obvious stories that Jezza’s ‘National Socialist’ sympathies are apparent. They are indicated in more subtle ways as well, as the letters pages of our newspapers reveal.





Then when you add in other Left leaning politicians such as anti-democratic Fuhrer Swinson gaining control of her Party, and it’s little wonder that we seem to be living in an age where Referendum votes could well be overturned if they do not provide the ‘correct’ result.

Whenever we witness the Authoritarian Left trying to dictate to us locally or nationally, we need to resist them in every way possible while there’s still time, as I’ve a feeling that otherwise it could soon be too late.

NIGEL FARAGE - TRUE PATRIOT



              



Our Nige has put the best interests of the Country before all other considerations, by instructing his troops to stand down in the constituencies of 317 (highly respected) Tory MPs. This news is bound to be warmly received by ordinary voters up and down the UK, many of whom were growing increasingly concerned as to the fate that might await us if extremist dark forces gained control on December 12th.

The big bonus locally is that Thursday night at the Langstone Cliff should now be an even more jolly event than it otherwise would have been. And a chance to buy jovial Nige a pint while regaling him with the tale of how we've also successfully prevented a Left Wing power grab just a few miles down the coast. So let's hope for a good turn out of TFF members on Thursday evening for this Brexit Party bonanza with Nigel Farage. Don't forget, 7pm, Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren.