Local People Working For Local People

As a time-served Nationalist it becomes increasingly difficult to accept how far down the road this once great nation of ours has declined and continues to decline and how the majority of the population, even if it recognises this decline, fails to rise from it’s slumber to do anything about it.
Even when there are those who join together to challenge this decline, there seem to be endless wrangles with regards to how the resistance should be organised, resulting in seemingly perpetual splits and disputes. It seems to me that whenever the chance of a breakthrough into the mainstream is imminent, there is an incident which halts this, with the regularity of such an incident being such that one can’t help but feel it is orchestrated in some way, in order to contain any challenge to the mainstream political parties.

On top of this, at national and particularly at local level , where politicians gain any level of authority, the “power” that comes with such a position, more often than not results in politicians with over-inflated ego’s whose main aim changes from their wish to make this land a better place , into one where their own self-importance is the primary consideration.

If this doesn’t cause enough disillusionment then there are those lost chances where political capital could be made but for whatever reason, is not. Take, for example, the recent Crewe and Nantwich parliamentary by-election which was won by the Conservative party with a massive vote swing from the Labour party. This election, coming so soon after abysmal local election results for the Labour party, was seen as a major test of how the electorate would vote for a parliamentary seat and as such, received a massive amount of publicity. This by-election was only ever going to be won by the Conservatives but even assuming the deposit for standing was lost, the resultant publicity for any of the parties standing would be well worth the money and would allow the smaller parties to gauge the strength of support that might be expected. It was particularly pleasing to note that UKIP received just 2.2% of the vote. However they did make the effort and ensured the party name was kept in the public eye.

Similarly it was disappointing that the BNP did not stand in Swindon at the local elections despite standing 3 candidates last year and 1 candidate the year before. This, together with the elections next year would have been the ideal investment in preparation for the Euro-elections later on that year. The party needs to be kept in the public eye or any progress made will come to nothing. Sadly for the BNP, UKIP did stand and may well have taken votes that the BNP had worked for in previous years. As a consequence UKIP did pretty well and as a result has since seen, almost on a daily basis, letters of support being published in the local Swindon Advertiser to the extent that it could be argued the paper is supportive of the party. Despite UKIP being on the verge of collapse, this can only be seen as a very successful move in it’s build-up to its Euro election campaign.

This time should, like no other, provide an ideal opportunity for smaller, radical parties to do well. The leaders of the main parties are a disgrace, Conservative leader David Cameron has no real backbone for tackling the real problems of society and is seen as a Blair-clone, the Lib-Dem leader, has made so little impact on the political scene that I just can’t currently seem to recall his christian name but whose surname is Clegg and then there is the leader of the Labour party Gordon Brown, that excuse for a politician who is currently in charge of this country, but who I wouldn’t leave in charge of my children. Gay Gordon should be tried for treason for the damage he has done to Britain.

The time has never been better for there to be a radical change in this country, so disillusioned are the electorate with what is happening, and if the smaller parties cannot take advantage of this and provide the alternative the public want which ought result in increased numbers making the effort to go to the polling stations, then the whole political system needs turning on it’s head.

Those at the top of political parties are out of touch, they can never understand what is happening at local level nor respond in the way local people need them to do in a timely and effective manner to the issues of the day. Rather than political parties operating in a top-down manner, perhaps they should work in the opposite way with those at local level taking action, making decisions and formulating policy to suit the needs of their local communities first, with the upper echelons of the party being there only to offer support to those doing the work on the ground. In my discussions with local people and politicians it seems there are others who see this as the way forward and with the right support and the right backing I predict that we can turn the general political apathy and mis-management into a better solution to the problems we face.

Local people working for local people.