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Speech to Conference 15th September 2018 at Leicester

 Speech to Conference 15th September 2018 at Leicester

On Saturday the 15thSeptember we English Democrats had a successful and very pleasant conference at our usual September venue in Leicester, at which, amongst others, I delivered my keynote speech as follows:-
Ladies & Gentlemen, Fellow English Democrats and English Nationalists
Thank you Stephen and to all who have helped set up today.
As Henry VIII might have said to each of his wives in turn “I will not keep you long!”
I am delighted to welcome you again to the geographical centre of England. Although the City of Leicester itself may not be typical of England demographically I was interviewed a few months ago when the BBC’s opinion poll of 20,000 plus people showed to the EDL’s horror that over 80% of people living in England regard themselves as English and it turned out that Leicestershire is one of the areas where people are most proud of being English.  So Leicester is not only a suitable location for our meeting today geographically but also in terms of generalised support for what we English Democrats as a Party stand for. 
Ladies and Gentlemen the English Democrats formally launched in August 2002 so we have passed our 16th birthday.  If we were an individual we would now be legally allowed to own property but we would not yet be able to vote and would not yet be liable to be called up to the Armed Forces if there was a war!  We are however now one of the oldest of the smaller parties to be still standing.  Our long period of campaigning does give us the advantage of having both experience and understanding of the tasks ahead of us and of what is required to achieve success. 
In that time many of the other parties that started have either disappeared or all but disappeared, whether that be Liberty GB, the National Front, British Democrats, British Freedom, UK First, the Jury Team, Christian Party, Respect, the BNP. 
What almost all those parties had in common was that they were focussed on Britain and Britishness.  We are still waiting to see what happens with UKIP after March next year, but we should never lose sight of the fact that we are the only campaigning English Nationalist Party. 
It is we English Democrats that have kept the flame of English nationalism burning in the dark days when it was flickering under the impact of the EU sponsored attempt to break England up.  In those days we had with ministers, such as John Prescott, denying that there even was such a concept as English nationality.  We had the then Leader of the Conservative Party, William Hague, claiming unsmilingly that “English nationalism was the worst form of all nationalisms”. What is more even when Hague made a pathetically limited nod in the direction of the existence of England, by proposing English Votes for English Laws, his initiative could then be described in all seriousness in parliament by a Scottish Lib/Dem as Hague having descended into the “gutter of English nationalism”! 
So there you are Ladies and Gentlemen back then the concept of our nationhood didn’t even exist, but if it did it was the worst form of all nationalisms and it was a “gutter”! 
Now on the other hand our opponents increasingly hate us because not only do they continue to dislike what we are saying but they fear that it is we who “are the future now”! 
The famous Italian philosopher of government and author of the books “The Prince “and” the Republic” recommends that “it is better to be feared than loved”, especially of course by our opponents!
An expression of that is that some within Labour are now anxious about their all too obvious anti-Englishness and this had led to the setting up of the English Labour Network.  This Network led by the former Cabinet Minister, John Denham, has had a lot of success in publicising the issue.  John Denham has even just recently gone so far as to call for an English Parliament although his plan is to use existing MPs part time and so not acceptable or workable.
In the meanwhile the Conservatives initiative in changing the procedures of the House of Commons to provide for a system of English Votes for English Laws or EVEL has shown itself to be almost completely useless in empowering English MPs, let alone in providing a proper forum for the voice for the English Nation to be heard.
The English Question meanwhile becomes more and more of practical significance. We now have negotiations occurring about Brexit issues, such as fishing rights in our territorial waters, in which the English fishermen are not represented at all by anyone that cares for their particular interests, whereas the Scottish fishermen not only have the Scottish Government, but also the British Government.   This has led to the British Government not arguing effectively for English fishermen and also giving preferential treatment to the Scottish fishermen, who of course are having their corner very well fought for! 
There are many other similar instances of this.  In some ways the most significant of which is the fact that further cuts have had to fall on English services in order to pay for the extra money to be given to the Democratic Unionist Party’s pet projects in Northern Ireland to get them to continue to prop up the Conservative Government.
Also of course England continues to be discriminated against by the British Government on spending – This was confirmed recently yet again by House of Commons Library Service which published a paper in November last year which was brought to my attention recently.  
Things seem to have changed since Churchill’s famous wartime colleague quipped:-
“There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons”.
The report has the figures for the financial year 2016/17 of the Barnett Formula.  The Barnett Formula determines the differential spending on UK citizens depending on which of the UK countries those citizens live in. 
The summary of the House of Commons research paper shows that England has the lowest national average spent on every man, woman and child.  This was £8,898 in 2016/17.  In Northern Ireland by contrast, it was £11,042 for any man, woman and child.
If you live in the English “Regions” of the South East, East of England, East Midlands, South West or West Midlands you get less spent on you than even the average of England.  
It is only in London that the British Government spending is more than even any one of the other Nations of the UK.  It is slightly more than Wales!  London has £10,192 for every man, woman and child, instead of the Welsh average of £10,076!
This Barnett Formula spread in payments, which advantages Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is only for so-called “identifiable expenditure”, which is about 88% of the total public spending of the UK.  The costs of the Foreign Office and of the membership of the EU, and of Foreign Aid and of the Defence parts of the 12% of total public spending are not covered by the Barnett Formula. Also no allowance is made for the policies under which the British Government has headquartered British State agencies in Scotland and Wales, as for instance the DVLA and HMRC.  This is of course a yet further method of increasing the British State subsidy to those nations. 
It is worth pointing out that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland get yet a further method of subsidy at the moment.  This is through the EU.  The contributions to the EU which come out of English Taxpayers’ pockets (as that is the only part of the UK for which there is a net tax revenue) are funnelled back to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as EU payments, under the so-called “Conduit Effect”.
Some of the additional subsidy to London is not part of the Barnett Formula but is explained by the British State spending money on the security of its political class with its large expenditure on armed police to guard the State’s buildings.  Notably is also spent on the provision of diversity barriers and all the other paraphernalia of running the multi-culturalist British State. 
The other aspect of this of course is that London is now in John Cleese’s words “no longer an English city”.  The subsidy coming into London is from the predominantly English Regions to the predominantly non-English communities within London.  This is the fiscal background to the anti-English, metropolitan, inter-nationalist, multi-culturalism of the Labour Party’s predominance in London. 
In the last few weeks The Scottish Conservative Party under their multiculturalist Leader, Ruth Davidson, have been gloating again about Scotland’s “Union Dividend”.
Here is a quotation of part of their press release:-
“Scotland now raises eight per cent of UK total revenue, while receiving 9.3 per cent of spending.
Total spending per person in Scotland for 2017/18 was £1576 per head higher than the rest of the UK, compared to £1448 per head the previous year.
Scottish Conservative shadow finance secretary Murdo Fraser said:
“If Nicola Sturgeon wants to continue her threat of her second referendum, she has to come out and explain where she would find £13 billion to fill this deficit.
“Assuming that can’t be done, the prospect of another divisive and unwelcome vote must be removed for good so Scotland can focus on what really matters.
“Yet again, the union dividend has been made clear.
“By being part of the UK, Scotland received an extra £1576 for every man, woman and child last year above the UK average. For a family of four, that’s more than £6000 in additional public spending.
“If Scotland was to be ripped out the UK, this spending would be slashed drastically, meaning schools, hospitals and infrastructure would be hit.
“Any Scottish Government would also have to massively increase taxes and borrowing to help make up the difference, something the hardworking public simply wouldn’t accept.
So looking around us at the political scene today we have the Conservative Party in obvious turmoil over Brexit.  This matter has now reached a point where if they continue on their current trajectory they may well wind up destroying themselves permanently as an effective political party of government.  If Brexit is not properly delivered I do not think there is any exaggeration to say that the Conservatives will have destroyed their reputation for competence, for honesty and for being patriotic.  If that really happens then the Conservatives will be finished as a serious contender for Government. 
In a middle of a battle it is often impossible for any onlookers or most participants to understand the plans of the commanders on each side.  That is even more the case in a political battle where all sides puff out stories like chaff out of a Second World War Lancaster Bomber to confuse the political radar of opponents and often also of supporters!
In the case of Brexit, this is a complete reversal of the British Establishment’s foreign policy in the last 40 years. This means that it is the most significant reversal of British foreign policy in almost the entire careers of all the parliamentary participants – so the chaff deluge Ladies and Gentlemen is huge!  
Brexit is also a direct challenge by the voting public to the British Political Establishment.  Which is part of the reason why the Remain elite have got themselves into such a state of hysterical denial over the situation. 
At the centre of the conundrum as to what is happening is of course Theresa May.  All those who have met her and know her, whom I have met, have assured me that she is not especially intelligent and certainly not any sort of an intellectual.  She is however apparently very devious and controlling and a vengeful and obsessive micro manager. 
In Jonathan Foreman’s article “Theresa May is a failed Home Secretary and a bad choice for PM (http://reaction.life/theresa-may-failed-home-secretary-bad-choice-pm/) published in “Reaction” on the 2nd July he wrote and I quote:-
Few who follow British politics would deny that she is a deadly political infighter. Indeed Theresa May is to Westminster what Cersei Lannister is to Westeros in “Game of Thrones”: no one who challenges her survives unscarred; the welfare of her realm is a much lower priority than her craving for power.”
Foreman also wrote that:- 
There is also little evidence that Mrs May has paid much attention to the failure of several forces to protect vulnerable girls from the ethnically-motivated sexual predation seen in Rotherham and elsewhere. Nor, despite her proclaimed feminism, has Mrs May done much to ensure that the authorities protect girls from certain ethnic groups from forced marriage and genital mutilation. But Mrs May managed to evade criticism for this.”
Foreman continues:-
“When considering her suitability for party leadership, it’s also worth remembering Mrs May’s notorious “lack of collegiality”. David Laws’ memoirs paint a vivid picture of a secretive, rigid, controlling, even vengeful minister, so unpleasant to colleagues that a dread of meetings with her was something that cabinet members from both parties could bond over.
Unsurprisingly, Mrs May’s overwhelming concern with taking credit and deflecting blame made for a difficult working relationship with her department, just as her propensity for briefing the press against cabinet colleagues made her its most disliked member in two successive governments.
It is possible (Foreman says), that Mrs May’s intimidating ruthlessness could make her the right person to negotiate with EU leaders. However, there’s little in her record to suggest she possesses either strong negotiation skills or the ability to win allies among other leaders.”
So that article was right, Ladies and Gentlemen, Theresa Mayis now certainly the Conservative’s version of Gordon Brown as I predicted in 2016.
So it was to me rather doubtful that when Theresa May repeated her tedious mantra that “Brexit means Brexit” that she necessarily meant us to understand what she was thinking.  I wondered whether that was simply a smokescreen to deflect criticism or analysis of her position?
Given that she had a parliamentary majority before she called her unwise General Election it seemed to me likely that in doing she wanted to reduce the influence of Brexiteers so that she could do whatever she wanted to do with Brexit, which I felt was very likely not to be what anybody who really supported Brexit would want. 
Some corroboration to my suspicion was given by Jeremy Hosking when he said that he thinks she is deliberately trying to sabotage Brexit. Such an approach certainly seems to be consistent to what we know of her character. 
Jeremy Hosking said that:-
GOVERNMENT “incompetence” over the Brexit talks is part of Theresa May’s strategy to keep Britain tied to the European Union.
Jeremy Hosking, a City financier, alleges that one of Mrs May’s aides frustrated his attempt at last year’s general election to donate hundreds of thousands of pounds to Tory candidates under a “Brexit Express” campaign. In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Hosking said: “Those who think the Government is vacillating or making a mess of Brexit due to incompetence are wrong.
“It is part of a strategy. It’s going to plan and the inference from the experience of Brexit Express is that the Prime Minister herself is probably implicated.”
Mr Hosking offered to give £5,000 to 140 Brexit-backing Tory candidates to fight pro-Remain candidates at the last election through “Brexit Express”.
He said: “Brexit Express’s offer was spurned by the Conservatives.
“It was made as difficult as possible to contact the constituencies that had been (easily) identified, let alone give Tory candidates the money. It was indicated to us by high-ranking party officials that the roadblock to our £700,000 Conservative Party donation lay within No 10 itself.
“We were allowed to assume the blocker was Fiona Hill, Theresa May’s chief of staff [who has now departed]. The layman’s presumption that the purpose of the last election was to strengthen the position of the Government externally in the exit negotiations is therefore false. The real purpose was for the Government to face down its core of Brexiteer MPs internally.”
Unfortunately there is very little that any of us, who are not within the inner circle of the Conservative Parliamentary Party, can realistically do about this situation It may therefore be worth considering what her position will be if Brexit is actually betrayed as suspected.  In this respect I cannot do better than quote the opinion of one of the key architects of the Brexit vote, Dominic Cummings who wrote:-
“On the referendum: a letter to Tory MPs & donors on the Brexit shambles
Further, lots of what Corbyn says is more popular than what Tory think tanks say and you believe (e.g nationalising the trains and water companies that have been run by corporate looters who Hammond says ‘we must defend’). You are only at 40% in the polls because a set of UKIP voters has decided to back you until they see how Brexit turns out. You only survived the most useless campaign in modern history because Vote Leave killed UKIP. You’re now acting like you want someone to create a serious version of it.
Ask yourselves: what happens when the country sees you’ve simultaneously a) ‘handed over tens of billions for fuck all’ as they’ll say in focus groups (which the UK had no liability to pay), b) failed to do anything about unskilled immigration, c) persecuted the high skilled immigrants, such as scientists, who the public wants you to be MORE welcoming to, and d) failed to deliver on the nation’s Number One priority — funding for the NHS which is about to have a very high profile anniversary? And what happens if May staggers to 30 March 2019 and, as Barwell is floating with some of you, they then dig in to fight the 2022 campaign?
If you think that babble about ‘the complexity of the Irish border / the Union / peace’ will get you all off the hook, you must be listening to the same people who ran the 2017 campaign. It won’t. The public, when they tune back in at some point, will consider any argument based on Ireland as such obvious bullshit you must be lying. Given they already think you lie about everything, it won’t be a stretch.
Yes there are things you can do to mitigate the train wreck. For example, it requires using the period summer 2019 to autumn 2021 to change the political landscape, which is incompatible with the continuation of the May/Hammond brand of stagnation punctuated by rubbish crisis management. If you go into the 2022 campaign after five years of this and the contest is Tory promises versus Corbyn promises, you will be maximising the odds of Corbyn as PM. Since 1945, only once has a party trying to win a third term increased its number of seats. Not Thatcher. Not Blair. 1959 — after swapping Eden for Macmillan and with over ~6% growth the year before the vote. You will be starting without a majority (unlike others fighting for a third term). You won’t have half that growth — you will need something else. Shuffling some people is necessary but extremely far from sufficient. 
Of course it could have worked out differently but that is now an argument over branching histories for the history books. Yes it’s true that May, Hammond, Heywood and Robbins are Remain and have screwed it up but you’re deluded if you think you’ll be able to blame the debacle just on them. Whitehall is better at the blame game than you are, officials are completely dominant in this government, ministers have chosen to put Heywood/Robbins in charge, and YOU will get most of the blame from the public.
The sooner you internalise these facts and face reality, the better for the country and you.
Every day that you refuse to face reality increases the probability not only of a terrible deal but also of Seumas Milne shortly casting his curious and sceptical eyes over your assets and tax affairs.
It also increases the probability that others will conclude your party is incapable of coping with this situation and, unless it changes fast, drastic action will be needed including the creation of new forces to reflect public contempt for both the main parties and desire for a political force that reflects public priorities.
If revolution there is to be, better to undertake it than undergo it…
Best wishes
Dominic Cummings
Former campaign director of Vote Leave”
Cummings’ letter is particularly interesting considering that the leading commentator on voting patterns, Professor Sir John Curtice, has recently pointed out that now it is 70% of the Conservative Party’s electoral support that are Leave voters. 
If the Conservative Party betrays the Leave vote they will also reveal, what many patriots have long known, that the Conservative Party is not a genuinely patriotic party. 
The Conservative Party elite is part of the globalist establishment and thus fundamentally hostile to nationalism or patriotism.  It will therefore be good for the political prospects of genuine patriots and nationalists if the Conservative Party wrecks itself on Brexit!
I think the public reaction is a function of the extent to which the public have taken notice of the issue of Brexit.  I heard it once put this way, that most people don’t think about politics at all, they rarely watch the news, they don’t read a newspaper and so if you manage to get them to think about politics at all it’s rather like people seeing politics out of their peripheral vision of the corner of their eye.  If you think of it that way then most people never look directly at any political issue or person or politician.  To get them to actually look even out of peripheral vision.
If somebody actually manages to get the public to look directly at them then politically that is a game changer. 
So this means that the current parliamentary parties of the British Political Establishment and, in particular, the Conservative Party, which I want to talk about in this article, have lived their whole careers, up until the Brexit vote, in at most the peripheral vision of the voting public.  This has always meant that as long as politicians are looking as though they are going to say the right things whenever they come into view in the public’s peripheral vision, the public’s gaze flicks away from them and they are allowed to get on with it unchecked.
It is because of this lack of attention that the public does not hold Establishment Politicians properly to account and does not put any serious effort into thinking critically about the politicians that are being elected.  This is the situation in which the current generation of parliamentarians have grown up and in which they have developed their careers.
So if, for example, you take Theresa May, she is a politician who has basically been able to get away with lying about what she stands for throughout her whole political career.  Thus in order to get selected by the Conservative constituency party, any Conservative MP who is not genuinely a Eurosceptic has had to lie to claim that they are a Eurosceptic otherwise they would not get selected by the predominantly Eurosceptic Conservative Party membership.   Once selected, in order to get elected, they have had to continue lying and pretending that they are Eurosceptics, because in most Conservative seats they would not get elected if they said that they were Europhiles. 
Theresa May, for example, when she became Home Secretary, on any objective basis she did an appalling job of being Home Secretary. On almost every promise that she and the two Conservative Governments that she got elected but she failed to deliver on almost any of the policies that had been promised.  The most glaring of which of course is on immigration, where they were elected on promises to keep immigration down to the “tens of thousands”.  In fact, she presided over the biggest influx of mass immigration in the history of England, with, in her last year as Home Secretary, more immigrants arriving in that one year than had come to England in the entirety of the thousand years before 1939!
However whenever the public’s political vision flicked over her, there she was saying that was what she wanted to try and achieve a dramatic reduction in mass immigration.  That was enough to satisfy the public so that their gaze moved on and so no critical analysis was brought to bear in holding her accountable for her actual lack of achievement!
This current generation of parliamentarians might have continued to live out their whole political careers just as previous ones had done, without there being a moment where the public would be willing to make any effort to properly hold them to account.  That would however have been without the Brexit vote! 
As a result of the EU referendum on leaving the EU, the public, for the first time in at least a generation, really focussed on a political question and gave an unequivocal answer based upon the largest turnout that has occurred for decades.  The unequivocal expectation of voters was, and is, that the public’s decision would be implemented. This is where trouble has occurred for our dishonest and deceitful Remainer MPs, who had comfortably expected to be allowed to continue making decisions that suited them and their agendas without any proper accountability to the electorate for the rest of their careers. 
Theresa May is just one of those parliamentarians who had expected to be able to carry on lying her way out of any inconvenient situation. 
It is in that context that she has dishonestly conducted her own hidden Brexit policy which she unrolled to the startled gaze of her Cabinet colleagues at Chequers. 
Theresa May’s Chequers’ proposal is not only completely contrary to the public’s expectations following the Brexit vote, but is also directly contrary to Theresa May’s Lancaster House speech about her “red lines” when she was still repetitively chanting “Brexit means Brexit”. Now the public is turning its eyes towards Theresa May and is focussing and so is noticing that she is a dishonest and incompetent Remainer, who is, in Jacob Rees Mogg’s words “a Remainer who has remained a Remainer”.  This is despite the public’s vote and despite her pledge to implement it in her otherwise ill-judged General Election manifesto.
This leaves me somewhat torn between two conflicting feelings! 
For the country, and as a patriot, I think that what Theresa May is trying to do is a travesty and a terrible missed opportunity, but as the Leader of what The Times newspaper was recently kind enough to call an “insurgent party”, I cannot help but relish the prospect that the parliamentary Conservative Party led by Theresa May could well be now heading irrevocably in a direction in which the public will clearly see that the leadership of the modern Conservative Party is composed of dishonest, incompetent, and unpatriotic Europhiles.
When the public truly realises what the modern Conservative Party leadership stands for, I think it likely that the public will regard them as unfit to hold Government Office ever again. 
It may well be that many of the seventy plus per cent that Professor Sir John Curtice of Strathclyde University has identified as being “Leavers” who have been voting Conservative will decide not to come out to vote for the current alternative Establishment party (i.e. Corbyn’s Labour) but that does not mean that they will vote again for a Conservative Party that has so clearly and now noticeably betrayed the trust that was placed in them. 
The purging of the Conservatives from being a Party of Government is the first step required for a reconstruction of our national politics. 
We need a politics more in line with the two opinion blocks of real voters.  These are for the patriotic, anti-mass immigration, pro-Brexit, pro-traditional values and pro-welfare and NHS nationalists.  Against this block is the internationalist, pro-EU, anti-patriotic, liberal values, pro-mass immigration, individualistic cosmopolitan block. 
The current mishmash of views is one in which the Establishment parties are at cross purposes with most voters.  Most of us like some of what Labour has to say and also some of what the Conservatives have to say but we don’t like all of what either of them have to say. So, at the moment, voters have the awkward and unappetising choice at elections of having to choose between the least worst party, rather than being able to choose a party they actually fully agree with. Changing that ladies and gentlemen would be a reform of our politics well worth seeing!
Theresa May was then anointed as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister on the back of promising to implement Brexit with her opaque slogan of “Brexit means Brexit”.  Since then we have been treated to a series of broken promises on top of her longstanding track record of claiming to support reducing immigration to the tens of thousands, when in fact allowing the largest influx of immigrants since Blair swamped us with millions of Eastern Europeans! 
Here are just some of Theresa’s whoppers
“There should be no general election until 2020.” General election: 8 May 2017.
“There should be no decision to invoke Article 50 until the British negotiating strategy is agreed and clear.” Article 50 triggered: 29 March 2017. Cabinet Brexit strategy agreed: 7 July 2018.
“If before 2020 there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases since they would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.” NHS spending increase, funded by “us as a country contributing a bit more [tax]” 17 June 2018.
In her 2017 party conference speech May made the promise again: “With our economic foundation strong – and economic confidence restored – the time has come to focus on Britain’s next big economic challenge: to foster growth that works for everyone, right across our country. That means keeping taxes low.”
“I will therefore create a new government department responsible for conducting Britain’s negotiation with the EU and for supporting the rest of Whitehall in its European work. That department will be led by a senior Secretary of State – and I will make sure that the position is taken by a Member of Parliament who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU.” Theresa May takes personal charge of Brexit talks: 24th July 2018.
“The Conservative Party can come together – and under my leadership it will.” 
Labour on the other hand have a different set of problems.  Brexit is one as they did of course stand on the promise that they were going to support Brexit properly, whereas a large proportion of their MPs do not want to do so.
Many of these Remainiacs are heavily involved in the campaign to get a second referendum vote in order to overturn the Brexit vote. 
Such a second vote does run the risk of causing a breakdown of the civil order because of course the message is that voting doesn’t count and we will get told to re-vote until we get the answer that the Establishment wants.  That message is a message guaranteed to call forth the resort to force. 
What the campaign to overturn the Brexit vote has shown is not only that the political Establishment is not at all the democratic entity which they were trying to pretend they were, but instead they are only democratic when they are getting their way.  As soon as they are not getting their way they are not democratic at all.  
What it also shows, as also does the Conservative Government’s failure to properly deliver Brexit, is that in the British State, the central apparatus has degenerated to the point that the British State and British Political Establishment seem to be actually incapable of re-emerging from the EU as a fully functioning sovereign state.  From the point of view of insurgent English nationalism that of course is great news in the longer term, since it makes the dissolution of the UK inevitable.  Or as Willian Hague put it in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday:- “The United Kingdom could be headed for a major constitutional and political crisis”.
Labour has of course been for the last six weeks or so been besieged with allegations of anti-Semitism.  It is however worth bearing in mind why these allegations have been suddenly given prominence.  The principle cause has been the aggressive lobbying by pro-Israeli Jews to adopt the Israeli drafted definition of anti-Semitism, which would make it impossible to argue with pro-Israeli Jewish politicians or other lobbyists to point out that conflict of interest would be obvious if it was pointed out.  This of course gives Israel a particular advantage in lobbying which no other state would have and is on the face of it a wholly unreasonable demand.  
Imagine that this is the demand of Russia’s lobbying for Russia.  Imagine what a kerfuffle we would have to put up with from the MSM and British Establishment politicians! 
Labour have of course now given way on this, but having taken so long over it the Jewish lobby is still pushing for yet more concessions and privileges.
Despite all this controversy I think it likely that if the Conservatives do actually mess up Brexit that we will wind up with a Corbyn Government come the next General Election. 
In the meanwhile the Liberal Democrats, the party of open Euro-fanatics, continues to bump along at low levels of support.  It now looks like Vince Cable, their current leader, is seeking to change his Party’s rules.  He is apparently angling for a Labour MP to come forward and to defect in order to become a candidate to be Leader.  It will be interesting to see what happens there!
The SNP in the meanwhile has got itself into some difficulties with Nicola Sturgeon having been so keen to tick the ‘#metoo’ box after the Henry Weinstein scandal in Hollywood that she introduced a complaint system for sexual behaviour complaints which does not allow the accused to know very much at all about what the complaint is, or who the complainant is, let alone complying with the traditional legal rules of natural justice or indeed even the European Convention on Human Rights which requires the full disclosure of the complainant and the opportunity for the accused to challenge them and subject them to cross-examination and to see and challenge all the evidence. This had led to a split between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, with Alex Salmond raising by crowdfunding more than double what he needed to bring a claim in the Scottish Court of Sessions against the Scottish Government based on their unfair treatment of him.  I have offered my support to him which he thanked me for with the salute “Yours for England”!   From what I have heard from him of the case I would fully expect him to win, with yet further embarrassment for Nicola Sturgeon.
UKIP has had a bit of a bounce in recent times with it seeming to become more likely that we might not leave the EU.  This is I think a mistake by people and indeed some journalists to think that this would happen.  At the moment we have the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty expiring at midnight on the 29th March next year.  That is the full two years from the service of the Notice under Article 50 and which is set out in Article 50.  As you know I am a lawyer so you may like the story of the Judge who said to the accused “have you anything to say before I pass sentence? “ Accused “Yes Guv – for Gawd’s sake keep it short”!  But before you get your hopes up you know that we lawyers never do!
1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.

2. A Member State which decides to withdraw shall notify the European Council of its intention. In the light of the guidelines provided by the European Council, the Union shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with that State, setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union. That agreement shall be negotiated in accordance with Article 218(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It shall be concluded on behalf of the Union by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament.

3. The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, unless the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, unanimously decides to extend this period.

Ironically the Remoaners are now in a constitutional bind.  They were keen to celebrate when Gina Miller sued the Government over Article 50, but what she achieved was a ruling from the Supreme Court that the Government cannot deal with Article 50 under the prerogative powers of the Crown, but requires a full Act of Parliament to do so. 
This now means that any extension to the notice period would require a full Act of Parliament.  I think that is highly unlikely.  Also I don’t think the European Union actually wants us to remain in after the Article 50 notice has expired because they are worried that we may then return an exceptionally large proportion of Eurosceptics but the EU Parliament election in May 2019. 
In all circumstances I think it is virtually certain that we will be out of the EU by the 1st April and at that point UKIP will no longer have any MEPs or any of their money either.  UKIP had an NEC meeting last weekend and have blocked their forthcoming conference from voting allowing Tommy Robinson to become a member.  So this goes to show that despite the potential prize of further mass membership and new role for UKIP under Gerald Battan’s leadership, who after all is a man who is sincerely opposed to Islamism and indeed Islam itself, UKIP has decided as a quiet life so clearly come the 1st April, UKIP will be a redundant party.
There are two other parties which I think are worth mentioning in this round up.  One is the For Britain Party led by Ann Marie Walters.  She made a fundamental tactical error in standing in Lewisham East and getting a derisory vote which was a tiny fraction of what she had when she last stood there for UKIP.  The principle issue focussed on by the For Britain Party is fighting back against Islamism. 
Whilst I think most of us English Democrats would agree with that as an issue, it is of course mainly a subset of the wider issue of mass immigration.  In a sense properly thought of is simply totemic or a symbol of that threat to our English culture of the uncontrolled and unchecked mass immigration which the British multi-culturalist Establishment has forced on England over the last 20 or 30 years. 
Instead of confronting that issue fully For Britain instead focus on Islam.  
The Islamic question also has an impact on, not only our culture, but also our traditional values, which of course multi-culturalists are opposed to.  The For Britain campaigning position is however to support the multi-culturalist opposition to traditional values and call for people to oppose Islam because Islam’s opposition to gay rights and gay marriage rather than because of Islam’s opposition to traditional English values. 
Ann Marie Walters is of course personally not interested in Englishness or English culture because she is of Irish origin.  This of course leads her to support the multi-nationalist British position.
There is then an even smaller party, the Democrats and Veterans Party who is led by John Rees-Evans the former UKIP leadership candidate.  This Party has a strong link to former soldiers particularly ex-paras. In my experience of them they are refreshingly decent but the Party does have a curious positon on policy making which means that they don’t propose to set out their own policies from a centralised policy making approach, instead they propose to use a direct democracy approach so that members can make policy.  In principle this sounds fine but of course it does lead directly to the kind of situation that the then Green’s Leader, Natalie Bennett found herself in when she was being interviewed by Nick Ferrari on LBC and also Andrew Neil on the BBC, which was that she was forced into the position of having to try to defend a policy that she hadn’t approved herself or indeed understood and she was made to look a complete fool and had what she called a “brain fade”! 
Personally I wish the D & V Party good luck but I would expect them to find it hard to make progress where they haven’t got a central point to what they are campaigning about or an identity.  
There was an attempt to create a very similar party by Sir Paul Judge with his Jury Team on which he spent over £½ million of his own money trying to set up but for it only to get nowhere. 
Steve Bannon, formerly Donald Trump’s leading election campaign organiser, says that in the modern world it is the nationalists against the internationalists.  The trouble for any British nationalist party is that Britishness is of its nature internationalist.  Therefore any British party which is also talking about nationalism is on both sides of the divide with the obvious mixed messages that is bound to create. 
Englishness on the other hand is a proper nationalism so we English Democrats have no such difficulties in being proper and consistent nationalists!  Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen for being such good listeners.

My speech to the English Democrats Conference on 16th September 2017


My speech to the English Democrats Conference on the 16th September 2017


Ladies & Gentlemen

Welcome to Leicester and to the English Democrats 14th Annual General Meeting. We are now into our fifteenth year since our launch in August 2002. Fourteen is an important birthday for a young person. They are on their way to adulthood but not there yet. Not only are they likely to be fully into the toils of puberty, but also a fourteen year old is more likely to be found criminally responsible if prosecuted. Make of that what you will ladies and gentlemen!

Last year we were of course exultant at the results of the EU referendum, although not so sure about the results of the Tory Party Leadership election. If you remember I said that I thought that Theresa May had the sort of obsessive, control freak, uncharismatic personality that could well make her the Tory Party’s Gordon Brown. I rather think that history has proved me right. What do you think ladies and gentlemen?

In many ways it would appear that Theresa May is even worse than Gordon Brown, as on top of everything else she makes very stupid and obvious mistakes, like calling the General Election and scheduling it when the universities were still in term time so that the National Union of Students would be able to gather the maximum number of students to vote against her, which explains the loss of several of the Conservative’s former safe seats!

Also she came out with probably the most politically unwise manifesto that I can remember the Conservatives ever producing in all my increasingly all too long period of interest in politics.

So bad was the proposed attack on the interests of old people, who after all are more inclined to vote than any other category, that my mother rang me up to ask me if I thought that she really could safely vote for the Conservative Party! Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen that that would have been a turn up for the books!

But then not only is Theresa May dogmatic, she is also all too politically correct. Not only was she the prime mover behind gay marriage, but we have seen several instances recently where she has said the stupidest things. That is from the point of view of anybody who is making out they are Conservative.

Not only does she drop a colleague immediately if they say something politically incorrect, but then she supported the antifa thugs in attacking what she uncritically accepted were neo-Nazis. Actually they were mostly simply protestors objecting to historic Confederate statues being removed across the Southern United States. Such a person as Mrs May could well next be found agreeing that Nelson should be removed from Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square!

I have heard it said that some of Theresa May’s Cabinet colleagues think she is simply a “Blairite in very expensive trousers”. Maybe that is the explanation for why she shows every sign of not being actually somebody who cares about our country and its history and its culture.

One thing is certain. Theresa May is an outright enemy of English Nationalism!

Her Government is pressing ahead with its attempt to categorise anybody who doesn’t believe in her so-called “British values” as an extremist.

The Government’s position is now that anybody who doesn’t subscribe to their definition of fundamental “British values” is automatically an extremist. So let’s examine what you have to sign up in order not to be an extremist according to the Gospel of Mrs May. Here is their definition of fundamental British values:-

The fundamental “British values” are:- of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”

Ladies and Gentlemen let us just go through this carefully with a lawyer’s eye to analysing the definition. Obviously by definition any English nationalist such as all of us here in this room will not subscribe to fundamental “British” values.

Ignoring the point that naturally if you were a Scottish nationalist or a Welsh nationalist in Scotland or Wales it wouldn’t be suggested that you should have to subscribe to British values, since they are allowed their own Nations! We are not!

But the definition Theresa May’s so called “British values” goes further than that. This definition means that you couldn’t even be a biblically inspired Christian because you couldn’t subscribe to these fundamental British values if you believe what Christ says:- “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” then they define you as an “extremist”.

Now you may ask what it is we should do about this Government plan? I do not particularly wish to model myself on Winston Churchill, although I think stomach wise I am probably not dissimilar. Churchill’s defiant call for “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender” but that would be the sentiment that I would wish us all to be taking to heart.

One of the problems for England over recent years has been the lack of any other leadership for England or for English values, or the English Nation or almost any aspect of England. We in the English movement need to focus on making sure that we build up our leadership cadre. One way we can do that is by letting people know that there are some groups out there who are prepared to stand up for English people and to fight our opponents through the official system, whether it be complaints or bringing court cases. The Prevent Strategy which British values is part of gives us a way to do this.

There is a case that I advised on, which is relevant.

As part of the case we reported a Leftist troublemaker to the police. He was visited by the relevant police Prevent Team and has now been put on the Prevent “Watch List” as an Extremist! 

What that means is that if that Leftist now takes part in any activity in the future which is hostile to, for example, English nationalists, then the police are far more likely to crackdown on him than they would have been hitherto.

From now on he will be on the “Watch List” and will be flagged up as somebody whose activities ought to be disrupted.

It is the same with reporting anti-English so called “Hate Crimes”. These always ought to be reported. If a police officer shows any reluctance to accept it as a “hate crime” then a complaint should be made against the officer concerned. The complaint should be taken as far as it can be up the Police Forces’ complaints system – so that it gets into the records that a lot of the “hate crime” is perpetrated against the English rather than by them.




Equally no opportunity should be lost to insist that you are “English” on ethnic monitoring forms rather than permitting yourself to be put down as “British” which is a legally invalid category and therefore waives your rights and your community’s rights under the Equality Act.

In the last few days we have had the publication by a group which calls itself “The Community Security Trust” which has launched what it has described a joint initiative with what they call a leading British Muslim support group to offer advice for victims and witnesses of hate crime.

This guidebook, written in collaboration with the Tell MAMA organisation and backed by the Crown Prosecution Service, also includes details of how to navigate the criminal justice system and understand the law and processes of the UK court system.

The Community Security Trust said it was an “important tool” in tackling a rising tide of antisemitism and Islamophobia in the UK.

The Community Security Trust though the guide has a focus on antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred, its advice can, be used by anybody who has suffered any kind of hate crime, which can occur due to race, religion, sexuality, age, disability, gender or any other characteristic.”

This guidebook sounds as if it is encouraging their client groups to take exactly the sort of approach that we ought to be taking for our people and for anybody who is in anyway picked on or victimised for being an English Nationalist. We also need to use the same arguments to advance the interests of our People as against any other minority groups.

One of the great things that has happened around us over the last eighteen months is that the Left have dropped the mask of being nice and instead have revealed just how hateful they are.

Hateful that is in both senses, both full of hate and worthy of being hated. Just listen to this from one of them called Emily Goldstein published in Thought Catalogue under the heading“Yes, Diversity is About Getting Rid of White People (And That’s A Good Thing)

This is what Emily Goldstein wrote:-

One of the more common memes that I’ve seen white supremacists spread around recently has been “diversity is a code word for white genocide”. The concept here is that diversity is only promoted in white nations, and that the end goal is to eliminate white people altogether by flooding all white countries with non-white people until there are no white people left. Well, guess what, white supremacists? That’s exactly right. Diversity IS about getting rid of white people, and that’s a good thing.

First off, I am a white person myself, so allow me to get that out of the way. I’m extremely glad that the white race is dying, and you should be too. White people do not have a right to exist. Period. That may sound like a bold statement, but it’s entirely true. Any white person with even the faintest knowledge of history should curse themselves every single day for being white. Throughout all of recorded history, whites have engaged in oppression, genocide, colonialism, imperialism, and just plain evil on a massive scale. White people have denied every other race the right to exist, and have – at some point in history – oppressed every single race on the planet.

Why, then, should whites now be allowed to live in peace when whites have historically been the world’s #1 source of conflict and oppression? Whiteness is racism. Period. Whiteness is the source of all oppression in the world. Whiteness is racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and heteropatriarchal capitalism. Eliminate whiteness and you eliminate every single form of oppression that the world currently faces. No white people means no oppression. White people are like a cancer and oppression is a symptom of the cancer. Cut out the cancer altogether – with the cancer being white people – and you get rid of all of the oppression which white people cause.

I have dedicated my life to fighting racism, and I have determined – based on all available evidence – that the only way to really eliminate racism is to eliminate whiteness. Whiteness is the ocean from which racism flows. Get rid of whiteness and you get rid of racism. Despite what white supremacists often claim, white people do not have a “culture”. White “culture” consists of nothing more than oppression, genocide, and the disenfranchisement of minorities. White “culture” is racism and nothing more. When white supremacists talk about “white culture”, what they’re really talking about is racism. Over the course of history, white people have built a massive empire based entirely on the hard work of oppressed and disenfranchised minority groups. But guess what, white people? That empire is finally coming to an end now, and its demise is music to my hears. To quote the great anti-racist activist Tim Wise: “Do you hear it? The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently? Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.”

Descendants of Holocaust survivors can personally attest to the evil that white people are capable of when they hold the reins of power. Thankfully, whites won’t be holding the reins of power for much longer. When white people die out, so will racism, sexism, queerphobia, and all other forms of oppression. The only way to eliminate racism, white privilege, and white supremacy is to eliminate whiteness altogether. When I teach my students about human rights, critical race theory, and the role of whites in worldwide oppression, my white students often ask me how they can “atone” for the evils of whiteness and how they can make up for centuries of white oppression. And I tell them: you can do that by not having any children and ensuring that the white race does not live to oppress anyone ever again in the future.

Thankfully, white birthrates are indeed very low, while the birthrates of minorities are much, MUCH higher. Within our lifetimes, whites will be a minority in a significant number of formerly white countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to name just a few. To white supremacists yearning for the days when whites could rape and pillage the world with impunity, this is incredibly frightening. To people on the right side of history, however, this looks like progress. Whites are finally getting their just desserts – and it’s about time. I sincerely hope that, when the white power structure finally comes crashing down, whites will receive no mercy from the minority groups that whites have spent centuries oppressing. We certainly don’t deserve any mercy or kindness, as we have given nothing of the sort to others.

Whites should also know that, when they do become a minority in formerly white countries, they will NOT be receiving affirmative action or any of the other benefits meant to assist the minorities that whites have historically oppressed. Why? Because whites don’t deserve those benefits. It’s as simple as that. One can look to South Africa, where whites are only about 8.4% of the population, but blacks continue to receive affirmative action because blacks in South Africa have historically been disenfranchised by whites. The same thing will happen when whites become a minority in North America, Europe, and Oceania, because whites have historically oppressed minorities in all three of those continents. Not to mention, why should whites receive any kind of benefits when the ultimate goal is to get rid of whites altogether? Finally, laws against hate speech will serve to prevent whites from complaining about this, as any white person who complains will be arrested, given a long prison sentence, and made an example of for the rest of the remaining white population. Speech that attempts to justify the white power structure and perpetuate white oppression of minorities is not freedom of speech, and it has absolutely no place in modern society.

As white people, we all need to recognize that we no longer have a place in the world. This world now belongs to the minorities that us whites have spent centuries oppressing, and there is absolutely nothing that any pathetic white supremacists can do about it. In order for a better world to be created, white people need to be exterminated. Period. It’s as simple as that. We should simply be thankful that our death will be accomplished through mass immigration and declining birthrates. When whites have exterminated other races, it wasn’t nearly so peaceful – it was done through violent genocide. But other races are not as evil as whites are, and it’s important to remember that. The world belongs to minorities now, and they will make a much better, more peaceful world with what they’re given. Only when white people have ceased to exist will a peaceful and progressive society – free of racism and hatred – be possible. The only way to eliminate white privilege, white oppression, white racism, and the oppressive white power structure is to eliminate white people altogether.

So, yes, white supremacists: diversity is indeed white genocide. And white genocide is exactly what the world needs more than anything else.”

Forgive me that was quite a long item but consider this. If one of us wrote an article in which you imagine changing “white” for any other group we would no doubt be under arrest.

In this case some people must have at least complained because Thought Catalogue has removed it saying “the article you are trying to read has been reported by the community as hateful or abusive content”!

We now need to pursue Emily Goldstein in the same way that she would be pursued if she wrote something for example anti-Semitic. Ladies and gentlemen what do you think?

So ladies and gentlemen turning to the English Democrats, what do we need to do to help focus people on the English Cause?

As I have said on previous occasions, politics is more of a war than an argument. We need to build up our resources and our fighting skills and all things needed to fight this war.

Just consider this information from the Daily Mail:-

“Businesses and wealthy individuals ploughed £24.8million into Theresa May’s coffers – compared to Jeremy Corbyn’s £9.4millions, funded largely by the unions.

The Prime Minister’s decision to call the snap election in April led to the humiliating loss of 13 seats two months later. Labour surged, denying the Conservatives a majority despite their much smaller election war chest.

Electoral Commission data shows the election prompted parties to raise a record £40 million in donations in the three months between April and June.

The Liberal Democrats received £4.4 million and the Scottish National Party £600,000.

UKIP, which was boosted by a £1 million donation from businessman Arron Banks ahead of the 2015 election, was much less well-funded in 2017, receiving just £150,000.”

Ladies and gentlemen I can tell you here and now that, in my view, if we had just half a million pounds, let alone all the millions that the Establishment Parties have, together with all their years of brand recognition etc., I would expect us to make that great breakthrough for England!

If we had just one MEP come over to us we would be entitled to three Party Political Broadcasts a year. But when you turn to look at the party that is most likely to break up in the near future, UKIP, what do you see?

Ladies and gentlemen what you see is a party that hates the very idea of England amongst almost all its leaders. There is only one leadership candidate in the UKIP leadership election who has said he supports an English Parliament and that is David Kurton, one of their two London Assembly members. What an irony for a party which sometimes claims to be campaigning for England that there should only be him among the contenders that supports any English Parliament! The most openly hostile one was David Coburn, UKIP’s Scottish Leader, who openly says he hates English nationalists.

The one thing you can be sure of is that whoever of their candidates wins this leadership election then there are some MEPs who have already said that they will be leaving UKIP if that person wins!

So UKIP is in the process of fragmentation. It has probably now reached the stage that it is irreversible and, although it has got further to fall than the BNP had six or seven years ago, it is worth remembering that the BNP is now virtually non-existent and probably would have completely disappeared if it were not for the fact that every now and again they get a substantial legacy from elderly supporters who have lost the mental capacity to be allowed to make a new Will since the BNP’s collapse.

Every now and again I get the opportunity to quote a bit of the ancient Chinese Philosopher of War, Sun Tzu, “Master Sun”, and so far as we are concerned he has words of political patience to offer us, which are:- “If you sit long enough on the riverbank, the body of your enemy will float past”!

So ladies and gentlemen what is the future of the English Democrats and of the English Cause I hear you ask. Ladies and gentlemen is there anybody out there asking that question? Thank you!

Well the first thing to be said is the question of English nationalism and of what should happen for England has now been recognised even by one of our academic groups of enemies in University College London in the form of their Constitution Unit.

Those who are particularly interested in the constitutional question may remember that the Constitution Unit was founded by Gordon Brown and his circle with the principal objective of undermining any calls for a united England!

Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the academics in the Constitution Unit are in any sense our friends, nevertheless they have now reached a point where they think that this is an issue that they need to address and they currently have a project in place to look options for an English Parliament.

Whilst that is not as powerful an indicator of the importance of the issue as large numbers of people demanding it on the streets would be, it does show that amongst constitutional thinkers it is becoming clearer and clearer that the arguments that we have made all along are more and more difficult for the anti-English British Establishment to dismiss.

Of course they still want to break us up into “Regions”.

Of course they want to criminalise people that stick up for England, but just think of Gandhi’s famous saying “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”. Just think where we are on that scale.

I recently had a meeting with a former Labour MP who said the disconnect between the British Establishment and the English People is now so great that the UK Constitution is like a very badly loaded brick lorry driving along the road. You can see that the bricks are going to start falling off soon but you can’t be sure exactly when or exactly what the damage will be!

We have come a long way but we do still have a great challenge ahead of us to make the breakthrough that we need to do for our Party, for England and for the English Nation. We need to build up our Party and to do our best to energise our local organisations and the facilities, our political candidates to maximum the opportunity.

Ladies and gentlemen I hope we will go forth from this conference with renewed determination to win a united national future for England.

England has been one of the great countries of the world. It can be a great country on earth again. The English Nation has been great and can be great again.

Just let’s take a leaf out of Trump’s campaign book, let’s Make England Great Again! Let’s make our slogan “Make England Great Again! MEGA, ladies and gentlemen, we want a MEGA future. What do you say? Make England Great Again!

CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH AT THE ENGLISH DEMOCRATS CONFERENCE 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016

CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH AT THE ENGLISH DEMOCRATS CONFERENCE 17TH SEPTEMBER 2016
Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen for your welcome.
May I say welcome to you to Leicester and the English Democrats 14th AGM?
Since we last met, in our Spring Conference at Huntingdon, there has been a dramatic change in English politics crystalized by the strong showing in the vote to Leave the EU by, in particular, English voters.  
In the UK as a whole, the overall the result was a 51.9% majority on the 72.2% turnout. 
In England however our people voted for Brexit by 53.4% or 15,188,406 Leave votes as against 46.6% or 13,266,996 Remain voters.
Ladies and gentlemen not only did we English Democrats campaign actively for Leave, and were registered with the Electoral Commission to do so, but also we predicted that England would vote to Leave.  Indeed, at least one of our national council members made a significant amount of money betting on it! 
I thought that it was obvious that England was going to vote to Leave; Also that Scotland was going to vote to Remain and so was Northern Ireland.  The only surprise outcome in the referendum was Wales voting to Leave.  In Wales opinion polls had said it would vote to Remain and it is a big net beneficiary of the EU. 
Now let’s turn to BREXIT – As a lawyer let me confirm the legal procedures.
There are two constitutional legal procedures required to put into effect the democratically expressed Will of the People to Brexit.
One is the external requirement, under EU constitutional law, of activating Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.  Article 50 is simple to activate and it is entirely in the hands of the UK as a Member State to do so in accordance with UK constitutional arrangements.  The “Royal Prerogative” gives that power to the Prime Minister.
Once Article 50 has been activated there is a compulsory 2 year period of negotiation managed by the EU Commission but if no agreement is reached, then the UK’s membership of the EU lapses automatically.  (Bad luck Scotland, but nice try Nicola Sturgeon!).
The second constitutional procedure is internal.  There must be a substantial repeal by the UK’s Westminster Parliament of the European Communities Act 1972 (perhaps with some saving provisions).
If Scotland held the threatened second Independence Referendum and voted to go, a third possibility would arise because if the UK, which is the EU Member State, was dissolved then all parts of the former UK State would be automatically outside of the EU.
In the meanwhile, legislation based upon the EU has lost the privileged status which Lord Justice Laws gave it in his judgment against the Metric Martyrs in 2002. Laws LJ held that the Referendum in 1975 gave the People’s democratic consent to the European Communities Act 1972 and thus conferred special status upon it as a constitutional statute. That consent has now been removed and with it the special status of all that strand of law!
So at the moment Ladies & Gentlemen we have one cheer for the vote to Leave but are not yet in a position to cheer for the process of Brexit being activated by notice being given under Article 50, nor, with the best will in the world, will we actually Leave until sometime in 2019.  Then we can have our full three cheers!
In the meanwhile as English nationalists we have seen an improvement of the political environment. 
Consider Dr Russell Foster, who is now Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Kings College London, researching about:  “EU, symbols, borders and European identity politics”.  He was recently Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.  No Steve! This Dr Foster did not go to Gloucester instead he wrote in his article: “‘I want my country back’: Emotion and Englishness at the Brexit ballotbox” that we have “a multi-party establishment which may soon discover that, like in Scotland in 2014, once the genie of nationalism has been released from its bottle, it turns on those who released it.  And it cannot be easily put back”.
What do you say to that Ladies and Gentlemen?  Are you the genie of English nationalism?
Are we going to be put back into the bottle?
Ladies and Gentlemen let me also remind you of Kipling’s “The English Way”:-
After the fight at Otterburn,
Before the ravens came,
The Witch-wife rode across the fern
And spoke Earl Percy’s name.
‘Stand up-stand up, Northumberland!
I charge you answer true,
If ever you dealt in steel and brand,
How went the fray with you?’
‘Hither and yon,’ the Percy said;
‘As every fight must go;
For some they fought and some they fled,
And some struck ne’er a blow.
‘But I pray you by the breaking skies,
And the first call from the nest,
That you turn your eyes away from my eyes,
And let me to my rest.’
‘Stand up-stand up, Northumberland!
I will that you answer true,
If you and your men were quick again,
How would it be with you?’
‘Oh, we would speak of hawk and hound,
And the red deer where they rove,
And the merry foxes the country round,
And the maidens that we love.
‘We would not speak of steel or steed,
Except to grudge the cost;
And he that had done the doughtiest deed
Would mock himself the most.
‘Sleep you, or wake, Northumberland-
You shall not speak again,
And the word you have said ‘twixt quick and dead
I lay on Englishmen.
‘So long as Severn runs to West
Or Humber to the East,
That they who bore themselves the best
Shall count themselves the least.
‘While there is fighting at the ford,
Or flood along the Tweed,
That they shall choose the lesser word
To cloke the greater deed.
‘After the quarry and the kill-
The fair fight and the fame-
With an ill face and an ill grace
Shall they rehearse the same.
‘Greater the deed, greater the need
Lightly to laugh it away,
Shall be the mark of the English breed
Until the Judgment Day!’
Ladies and Gentlemen what do you say?  Is this still true of us English today in the post Brexit world?
I think it is.  How many English have you seen boasting about what we have done?
The two questions for us that now arise are what happens for England and also what the consequences are for that very much more expensive Union than the European Union, namely the Union of the United Kingdom which costs English taxpayers over £49 billion a year (whereas the EU, at most, costs English taxpayers £19 billion a year). So which party will answer those questions?
What about UKIP?
I can’t start answering this question, which relates to the political future of UKIP, without mentioning the legal Latin expression “Functus Officio”. 
Functus Officio means a duty completely finished, or to quote from Black’s Legal Dictionary:-  “Latin: Having fulfilled the function, discharged the office, or accomplished the purpose, and therefore of no further force or authority. Applied to an officer whose term has expired, and who has consequently no further official authority; and also to an instrument, power, agency, etc. which has fulfilled the purpose of its creation, and is therefore of no further virtue or effect.”
The words of the second verse of that great Victorian funeral hymn “Abide with Me” also seems very suitable too.  Here they are:-
“Swift to its close, ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.”
It is however fair that I also mention Nigel Farage’s and UKIP’s highly significant role in getting David Cameron to make what for Dave was the greatest political mistake of his life.  That role was in bluffing him into calling a referendum on our continued membership of the EU. 
Andrew Marr writing in the New Statesman on 1st July reported that:- “According to one of those involved, this all started at a pizza restaurant at Chicago O’Hare Airport at the time of a Nato conference in 2012, when David Cameron and his closest political allies decided that the only way of scuppering Ukip and the Euro-hostile Right of the Conservative Party was to give the British people a referendum.”
We English People, and our Nation, will always owe a debt of gratitude to UKIP and its role in getting us the opportunity to democratically vote to Leave the EU.
But perhaps, rather like an effective catalyst in causing a chemical reaction, in doing all this UKIP may have caused its own destruction.
While UKIP has elected Diane James what will be left of their Party once they have finished fighting over its constitutional structure and political direction?
Nor is the general political context completely clear, since we do not know for sure what will happen to Labour.  We can however hazard a few guesses.
So let’s turn to Labour. 
It seems highly probable that Jeremy Corbyn will be re-elected as Leader of Labour next week and then he and his “Momentum” group will set about the same task as Lenin applied himself to in reconfiguring the Russian Communists.  Momentum want to turn the Labour Party into a hard-Left party in which the Bolsheviks squeeze out the Mensheviks. Whether the de-selected Menshevik Blairite MPs will thereafter go on to form a new party or join the Liberal Democrats we cannot be sure at present. 
What does however seems clear is that there really is no future in Labour for anyone who takes a pride in England or in being English.
 Since those whom Labour has in recent times called the “white working class” are very likely to also call themselves “English” that will amount, in historical terms,  to a decision by Labour to cease to be a serious contender for Government (at least through democratic means!). 
Instead the “Momentum Labour” will no doubt seek to use their dominant position to infiltrate all aspects of our society, seeking to be the catalyst for socialist revolutionary change, however much such a change may be against the wishes of the majority of our country. 
For my part I wish them nothing but ill in that endeavour, but by doing so Labour will have given up any serious attempt to lead the English, just has Labour has already lost any serious claim to lead the Scots!
UKIP has also, without I think fully realising it, taken an historic decision not to represent the English. 
They did so in the way that often happens in history where a key individual, for personal reasons, takes a decision not to get involved. 
In UKIP’s case the decisive moment was when Paul Nuttall announced that he was not going to stand for their leadership.
Paul was the only potential UKIP Leader who either had any interest in the English Cause or could credibly claim to be an English nationalist.  This in a party which all serious commentators have noted is predominantly made up of people who are, to all intents and purposes, English Nationalists, albeit a Party which to most commentators is quite strangely led by people who are actually British Nationalists. 
In any case,  UKIP, as Paul Nuttall has since made clear, has lost the only “glue” that held them together. That was the glue of campaigning against the European Union. That was the sole purpose that UKIP was founded for and the sole purpose of being in politics for most of its leaders and officials. 
Nigel Farage is charismatic and he is a very able public speaker and debater and he is also personally very good company.  He has however been a very dominant figure in their Party and has prevented any other potential leader emerging and, indeed, he has worked very actively to prevent that happening.
In trying to understand what is happening to UKIP it is significant, to my way of thinking, that when Nigel Farage resigned for the second time as Leader, on a whimsy after the General Election, he had done nothing to plan how the succession to the leadership of the Party would work.  On the contrary Nigel Farage announced, without it seems even clearing it with her first, that he was appointing Suzanne Evans to be UKIP’s interim Leader, despite Paul Nuttall’s long-standing position as their Deputy Leader and therefore despite Paul being the obvious person to pull the Party together in the interregnum. 
Nigel Farage’s third resignation, again apparently without any planning about who would the next Leader, has been followed by him making highly aggressive and disparaging comments against members of UKIP’s NEC, who are after all volunteers giving up their own time and effort to their Party’s Cause and also who have been elected to their position by the membership of the Party in accordance with UKIP’s constitutional structures. 
These, I would remind you Ladies and Gentlemen, are the same constitutional structures which of course Nigel Farage had personally been involved in creating and apparently had approved.  Just, of course, as he had personally approved UKIP’s previous manifesto which, when he was caught out in a radio interview, he suddenly claimed was over 400 pages of “utter drivel”!
Here is what he wrote in his article “UKIP Needs to Play The Long Game, And Bypass The Total Amateurs On The National Executive Committee” which was published on Brietbart on 1st August. 
He wrote and I quote:-
“But the barrier to radical change and the modernisation of UKIP was implanted in the mid-1990’s. It is called the National Executive Committee. Many of its current crop are among the lowest grade of people I have ever met. To them, being a member of the governing body of Britain’s third-largest political party is the equivalent of scaling Everest.
People with no qualification in business or politics make the ultimate decisions of whom should be our candidate at a by-election. Or whether the former disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton should be given a route back to public life via being elected as an Assembly Member in Wales. It may sound odd to many but I have been a moderniser in UKIP. I have been fought at every step of the way by total amateurs who come to London once a month with sandwiches in their rucksacks, to attend NEC meetings that normally last seven hours.” (By Nigel Farage MEP)
In short Nigel Farage’s behaviour since deciding to resign again, without making proper provision for his succession, has been very strange and almost inexplicable to anyone who thinks that human behaviour is either rational or reasonable. 
I suspect the answer to this particular jigsaw puzzle is the piece that identifies Nigel as an “Egotist”. 
As soon as egotism is factored in his behaviour becomes fully explicable.  Only an Egotist would relish the idea that the very Party which has actually been so important to him achieving his political life’s work would collapse without him.
Whatever the reason however, UKIP is now in turmoil and would also seem to have necessarily chosen a course in which it does not represent those that consider themselves to be English and who are concerned about England’s future. 
Let’s turn now to the Conservative and Unionist Party.
They have emerged from the EU Referendum on the surface undented but let’s just look beneath the surface. 
The Conservatives have pretended for all my adult life (and I know that I am getting on!) to be a mainly Eurosceptic led Party.  That was exposed in the referendum, by most of their Ministers and MPs, as a downright lie!
In contrast apparently about 60% of their ordinary members and supporters voted to “Leave”.  Also the Conservative Party’s elite Establishment shenanigans have now given their Party a replacement Remainer Leader and the UK a Remainist Prime Minister. 
Theresa May, according to Jonathan Foreman, is apparently a vengeful and obsessive micro manager. 
Jonathan Foreman is an editor and writer based in London.  He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute for the Study of Civil Society and a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times and Saturday Telegraph. 
In his article “Theresa May is a failed Home Secretary and a bad choice for PM (http://reaction.life/theresa-may-failed-home-secretary-bad-choice-pm/) published in “Reaction” on the 2nd July he wrote and I quote:-
“In the run-up to the 2015 election one of the handicaps David Cameron had to finesse was the fact that net migration to the UK was three times as high as he had promised it would be. Remarkably, none of the opprobrium this failure provoked brought forth the name of Theresa May, the cabinet minister actually entrusted with bringing migration down. Then, as now, it was as if the icy Home Secretary had a dark magic that warded off all critical scrutiny.
The fact that her lead role in this fiasco went unmentioned reflects Mrs May’s clever, all-consuming efforts to burnish her image with a view to become prime minister. After all, Mrs May’s tenure as Home Secretary has been notably unsuccessful. Its abundant failures include a succession of derelictions that have left Britain’s borders and coastline at least as insecure as they were in 2010, and which means that British governments still rely on guesswork to estimate how many people enter and leave the country.
People find this hard to credit because she exudes determination. Compared to many of her cabinet colleagues she has real gravitas. And few who follow British politics would deny that she is a deadly political infighter. Indeed Theresa May is to Westminster what Cersei Lannister is to Westeros in “Game of Thrones”: no one who challenges her survives unscarred; the welfare of her realm is a much lower priority than her craving for power.”
Foreman also wrote that:- 
“The reputation for effectiveness that Mrs May enjoys mostly derives from a single, endlessly cited event: the occasion in 2014 when she delivered some harsh truths to a conference of the Police Federation. Unfortunately this was an isolated incident that, given the lack of any subsequent (or previous) effort at police reform, seems to have been intended mainly for public consumption.
In general Mrs May has avoided taking on the most serious institutional problems that afflict British policing. These include, among other things, a disturbing willingness by some forces to let public relations concerns determine their policing priorities, widespread overreliance on CCTV, a common propensity to massage crime numbers, the extreme risk aversion manifested during the London riots, and the preference for diverting police resources to patrol social media rather than the country’s streets.
There is also little evidence that Mrs May has paid much attention to the failure of several forces to protect vulnerable girls from the ethnically-motivated sexual predation seen in Rotherham and elsewhere. Nor, despite her proclaimed feminism, has Mrs May done much to ensure that the authorities protect girls from certain ethnic groups from forced marriage and genital mutilation. But again, Mrs May has managed to evade criticism for this.”
Foreman continues:-
“When considering her suitability for party leadership, it’s also worth remembering Mrs May’s notorious “lack of collegiality”. David Laws’ memoirs paint a vivid picture of a secretive, rigid, controlling, even vengeful minister, so unpleasant to colleagues that a dread of meetings with her was something that cabinet members from both parties could bond over.
Unsurprisingly, Mrs May’s overwhelming concern with taking credit and deflecting blame made for a difficult working relationship with her department, just as her propensity for briefing the press against cabinet colleagues made her its most disliked member in two successive governments.
It is possible (Foreman says), that Mrs May’s intimidating ruthlessness could make her the right person to negotiate with EU leaders. However, there’s little in her record to suggest she possesses either strong negotiation skills or the ability to win allies among other leaders.”
So if that article is right, Ladies and Gentlemen, Theresa May may well be the Conservative’s version of Gordon Brown. 
In any case she and the Conservatives also are locked in, by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, into having the next election in May 2020 by which time both they and she may be hugely unpopular!  This will be especially true if she doesn’t fully implement Brexit. 
This is also a risk for us all because she is a classic backroom EU operator.  It was Theresa May after all who was the main driver behind the gay marriage campaign and she used the EU’s systems to force this through not only here but also in other countries too.
It does appear however that Theresa May may have more of a sense of humour than the seemingly totally humourless Gordon. 
After all she and her team had made her leadership rival, Andrea Ledsom, turn on the waterworks and surrender her leadership challenge in tears and blubbing, having usefully knocked every other Leaver out of the running. 
Ladies and Gentlemen Theresa May has appointed Andrea Ledsom as the Minister in charge of waterworks and floods at DEFRA! 
I ask you has Mrs May got a sense of humour or what?
There is also the fact that the EU referendum showed that there are basically two main types of people who are Conservative MPs (except for a small and usually totally uninfluential number of mavericks).
These two types are either Liberal Globalists or Liberal Europhiles.  Neither of these two types care a hoot for England!  Both of them also actively hate the very idea of English nationalism.  This means that the Conservatives too have ruled themselves out of being the party for England.
I am sure that no-one here is unaware that I think there is a political answer ready and waiting for all those who care about England’s future!
That answer is the only campaigning English nationalist party:- The English Democrats.  Ladies and Gentlemen – Are we the Party for England?
Ladies and gentlemen there is no reason why the English Democrats might not prove to be as successful in the long run here in England as the Scottish National Party are now in Scotland except that we do need to remember that politics isn’t just about having the best arguments – which I might add that I am fully confident we do!
The famous Prussian military theorist Carl Von Clausevitz writing in his justly famous book Vom Kreige i.e. On War wrote that: “war is politics carried on by other means”. 
Consider the analogy Ladies and Gentlemen – war is merely politics carried on by other means. 
How is politics like war you might ask?  I would draw your attention to a few key similarities that are important to us. 
One is that wars are won and lost based at least in part on resources, but just like a war, it is not necessarily the most well-resourced side which wins, although it usually will be, particularly if it is a long war, as was demonstrated in both the First and Second World Wars where the economically weaker Central and Axis powers lost out in the end to the richer Allies. 
War also seems to be, at least in part, to be about ideas and arguments.  Of course it is important for a side to be able to put forward good arguments for their side to encourage others to join them as allies and also to motivate their own people with the justice of their cause. 
War also, just like party politics, may simply get people to rally around their side even where it is obvious that their side hasn’t got the better case.  It is not at all unusual for the side with the less good argument to win in a war. 
The result of a war is also often vital for a nation’s future.  Just like our campaign.
Last, but not least, the outcome of wars depends on the quality of each country’s armed forces. 
So Ladies and Gentlemen so far as our “war” is concerned we need to get more resources, both money and members, and to build up our party as an effective fighting force and we need to boost morale by winning a few skirmishes. 
I offer you therefore the first skirmish that we need some help with.  This is the Batley & Spen by-election where we are the only Leave campaigners standing in a local authority area where in a turnout of 70.8% in the EU referendum 118,755 that is 54% of the whole registered electorate voted to Leave. 
That not only gives us a chance to shine, but in fact may offer us a reasonable chance to do better than that.  I would very much like to introduce our candidate, Therese Hirst who got over 20,0000 votes in West Yorkshire’s Police Commissioner elections earlier this year.  I hope that, even if she doesn’t turn out to be our Margo MacDonald who delivered a surprise to the British Political Establishment by winning the SNP’s first major by-election back in 1973 in Glasgow Govan, but at least Therese makes more people sit up and think about our Cause.
Remember it was the victory at Glasgow Govan which put the SNP on the map and gave it morale and credibility, but of course the SNP was still not in a position to win overall either in the General Election which followed, although they won seven seats, or even more significantly in the referendum which followed in the late 70’s. 
We however Ladies and Gentlemen, just like the SNP were, are in this for the long haul!  We are in this for England.  We are in this for the future of the English Nation!  That is truly heroic when so much is up against us!
In another War long ago it is said that there was a famous heroic resistance about which the poet MacCauley wrote:-
“Then out spake brave Horatius
The Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this Earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, and heroes, what are we in this war for?  England!  Louder Ladies and Gentlemen!  We are in this war for?  England!