Alliance Coalition news
Today was an interesting day and not all good. Now, in politics, as you know, there are a lot of people saying a lot of things and there are two main threads, one which you know and another you’d suspect.
Firstly, Dan Hannan has his own ideas and his own plan has been put into action. The other two parties are in dialogue with them and a lot of people are doing a lot of skyping. Where your humble blogger fits in is as one of the minor catalysts and go-betweens in this at a lower level and I’m standing in the middle politically.
Too early to report real progress but some things are quite clear. No one wants to split his/her party, least of all the ES Tories and Dan Hannan has to play this thing completely right. UKIP and LPUK know that. The word coming through is:
1. There’s no point doing any of the admin – website, publicity etc. until we get a broad agreement of the way forward – that’s going on now, as I write.
2. The parties stay as they are and this thing is a broad coalition, no more.
3. The essential principle is to ensure no Eurosceptic or true conservative [small c] stands against another if possible. No dirty tricks or last second blows landed – the idea is to have as many Eurosceptics in parliament as possible – that’s the overriding purpose.
So, even though it might disappoint, there’s not a lot else that can be blogged about on it because the dialogue and conferencing is what it’s about at this stage. To fellow rank and file like me, rest assured we are deadly serious about this and it’s being explored.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
Cool! Some of the people HERE might be worth contacting.
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Shall do. Real life drama right at this moment which is reflected in no posting today.
You’ve done your best James, it’s up to those that are in a position of power now. It would help all those concerned if we came up with a name that makes it obvious that those involved are still “party loyal”. Something like, “The Eurosceptic Crossparty Alliance” might work. The common theme being our hatred of the EU in its present form without being disloyal to our parties.
It’s quite something that you’ve got people talking though, good stuff!!!
Well, that seems to be a formula for going nowhere.
Everybody wants their own turf, won’t even yield a blade of grass.
The bigger picture gets lost in personality desires.
Par for the course.
Bullshit, nothing more!
Sue – it’s looking positive but the daunting scope of the task was spelled out this evening. As Xxxl says, there’s a lot of personal turf involved and yet he’d be surprised. There is a place Xxxl wishes us to be and I’d agree with that and then there’s where we are now, in deep. We took some steps today. That’s all.
All the more reason to start something without the politicians.
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