I’ve Been Selected as a Brexit Party Election Candidate
This post is unusual because it’s aimed specifically at people who know me personally. However, I hope that others of you who don’t know me personally will read on anyway. I’m writing this post because I’m a little anxious that some of my family and friends might feel moved to alienate me: either for misunderstanding who I really am, ie what makes me tick, or for misunderstanding my motives for becoming a politician (potentially). You see I’ve been selected as The Brexit Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency of Moray in Scotland.
Now, Brexit in Scotland is about as welcome as a turd in a swimming pool, so people like me will have their work cut out in the coming weeks and months. Indeed, it’s no secret that the majority of Scots are no friends of Brexit and, indeed, Scotland’s Scottish Nationalist government would prefer to see Scotland governed by the European Union (strangely referred to as ‘independence’, but that’s another story).
Half-and-Half
Statistically, roughly half of the people who know me will be anti-Brexit and, therefore, quite likely to be suspicious of, if not outright hostile to members of The Brexit Party, ie hostile towards people like me. In this post I want to pre-empt and counter that hostility if I can.
The Candidate Selection Process
The Brexit Party election candidate selection process has been rigorous and, in my case, has lasted for about three months. One stage involved me being interviewed in London by a couple of polite but rather ferocious young ladies who started the meeting by saying, ‘How do you counter the fact that you’re obviously a fascist and a racist just like Nigel Farage?’ I knew the interview would be tough and that politics was inherently brutal, but I hadn’t quite expected that question as the opening gambit. My adrenaline level rose slightly, I adjusted my mindset and proceeded to handle the meeting in line with my own considered thoughts about what Brexit and The Brexit Party were really all about – and they’re not about fascism and racism. So, I pushed back hard on Lucy and Lucy (yes, they really were both called Lucy) and adopted that strategy for the remaining intense 20 minutes of my time in the room.
The Received Wisdom about Brexiteers
One could easily be forgiven for pigeon-holing somebody like me, indeed anybody like me who aligns themself with Brexit and The Brexit Party. Here’s the received wisdom, acknowledging that this is not necessarily the view of all, if any of my pro-EU family and friends – but it is no doubt generally the received wisdom about people like me:
Stupid Idea
Leave voters (I’m one of the them, of course) didn’t know what they were voting for. Leaving the EU was always going to be far more comprehensively complex than could be justified by allowing idiots like me to cast their vote in such a profoundly unwise way. Leaving the EU was and remains quite simply a stupid idea.
Xenophobes
Leave voters are xenophobes: people who have a dislike of, or prejudice against people from other countries. People voted Leave to stop Johnny Foreigner from invading Great Britain.
Nationalists
Leave voters are nationalists: they identify strongly with their own nation, the UK (or England, more like) and vigorously support its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. In other words, leave voters are narrow-minded, insular types who fail to recognise the untold advantages of subscribing to a multi-national, politico-economic bloc like the European Union.
There may be other similar characteristics projected on to Leave voters like me, but those three characteristics above are the ones with which I’m most familiar and which I come across most frequently.
Voting Leave Wasn’t Such A Stupid Idea
It won’t surprise you to know that I don’t think voting for the UK to leave the European Union was a stupid idea at all. The UK has never been a comfortable still less a compliant or enthusiastic member of the European Union. After years of rumbling concerns about the trajectory of the European Union and the UK’s place in that ‘ever closer union’, the decision to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU was (a) probably inevitable and (b) approved unanimously by Parliament. The question on the EU Referendum ballot paper was unambiguous: should the UK Remain in or Leave the EU, ie leave the Customs Union, the Single Market and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice? Not rocket science; just do we stay in the club, or do we leave the club?
The pre-Referendum debate was thorough and vigorous and, believe it or not, all the facts needed to make an informed decision were in the public domain if one chose to look for and listen to them. Facts were presented by both sides. Both sides told some porky pies (rhyming slang for lies for my overseas readers). However, I have a quaint faith in the astuteness of the British voter (I don’t accept that, by and large, a critical mass of the peasants are numbskulls) and I believe that voters saw through the propaganda designed to scare us all fartless into remaining in the EU. Consequently, a majority of British people voted for the UK to leave the European Union. Indeed, one could argue that a majority of British people voted to become poorer in order to recover the nation’s sovereignty. In a democracy, when a majority of people vote for something, the idea is that that something is then made to happen.
Regrettably, as far as the EU Referendum was concerned, the UK governing and political classes, the Establishment, ‘big business’, academia, the BBC and much of the mainstream media, the European Union, Uncle Tom Cobley and all simply could not accept that the majority of the British electorate had indeed been so stupid as to vote for the UK to leave the European Union and, by all the evidence put before them, vote to have the country descend into chaos and penury.
Sticking My Head Above the Parapet
Notwithstanding, more than three years after voting for the UK to leave the European Union, the UK remains a member of the European Union. This is a shocking indictment of our democracy. Prime Minister Theresa May promised on over 100 occasions at the Despatch Box in the House of Commons that the UK would leave the EU on 29 March 2019, with or without a Withdrawal Agreement. She was lying; indeed, she had probably been lying since the day she was anointed as leader of the Conservative Party and, as such, became the Prime Minister. The UK did not leave the EU on 29 March. Our democracy was hanging by a thread, and still is.
So, on the morning of 30 March I decided to do something in the name of democracy. I’d always sworn that I could and would never become a politician. However, on that morning I decided that since an armed uprising wasn’t the British way, I would have to get into Parliament and fight for the cause of democracy. I terminated my membership of the Conservative Party. I joined The Brexit Party. I ticked the box declaring that I was prepared to be considered as a Brexit Party election candidate. I filled in a form asking me a number of personal and political questions. I attached my CV. I sent the information to HQ Brexit Party. Frankly, I didn’t expect much to happen knowing that The Brexit Party was by then receiving thousands of applications for election candidacy – at £100 per application, as it happens.
A Sunday Morning Phone Call
A few weeks later, on a Sunday morning, the work telephone extension rang in my basement kitchen. The screen on the telephone said, ‘Number Withheld’ and I was reluctant to pick it up – but I did so. ‘Hello’, I said, ‘this is Moraymint’1. ‘Good morning Moraymint!’ said the voice at the other end, ‘this is Nigel Farage here. Have you got time to speak?’.
For ten minutes or so Mr Farage and I discussed politics, life, the universe and everything. In case you’re wondering, he’s just like you see on the TV or listen to on his LBC phone-in radio show: he’s articulate, forthright and jocular. At the end of the call he said he wanted to put my name forward to the next stage of the candidate selection process to which I agreed. Fast-forward to 6 August and I received a call from Louis Stedman-Bryce MEP who is The Brexit Party coordinator in Scotland: Louis told me that I’d been selected as a Brexit Party election candidate. Subsequently, on 12 August, I was told by The Brexit Party London team that I had been assigned to stand as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Moray.
My Personal Political Manifesto
The question is, what did I say about my political views that resulted in me being selected as a Brexit Party election candidate? Did I say things that made Nigel Farage and the selectors think, ‘Now, Moraymint is clearly just the sort of dim-witted, xenophobic, nationalist that we need to fit with The Brexit Party culture in order to appeal to the more stupid voters such that we can make Brexit happen?’
I exaggerate for effect of course, but you know what I mean. Were the selectors looking for evidence of the received wisdom about Brexit voters, or were they looking for other political views? Well, here is the personal political manifesto that I shared with Nigel Farage and the selectors which resulted in me being invited to stand as a Brexit Party election candidate:
Libertarian
If I’m anything at all politically, I’m more of a libertarian than anything else. Libertarianism, from the Latin word libertas, means freedom. It’s a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle. Libertarians like me favour maximising political freedom and autonomy. We argue for freedom of choice, voluntary association and individual judgement. We share a scepticism of authority and state power. I’m probably not a purist Libertarian because I believe that the state does have important responsibilities, not least in terms of meeting, wholly or partially, certain fundamental needs of society such as defence, law and order, the provision of energy and fresh water, certain parts of national infrastructure to name but a few, and also in terms of protecting the weakest in society. However, I’m permanently wary of government (national and local), of the state generally and of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos).
Democrat
Next, I’m a democrat; I believe in universal suffrage and the sovereignty of the voter; the sovereignty of the people over Parliament. To be honest, I’m angry that our politicians have led with some considerable energy, enthusiasm and disingenuity the process of spitting in the face of democracy since June 2016 when the EU Referendum result didn’t go the way the British political class expected and wanted. More than any other group in society at the moment, our politicians have the most to answer for in terms of having set out systematically to subvert democracy in the UK and, consequently, to create the appalling division that now cleaves our country. In a democracy, the idea is that the losing side accepts the outcome of the vote and then, within reason, both sides work together to honour the result. When this doesn’t happen, the risk is that anarchy ensues.
I’m reminded of the words of Andrew Roberts the historian who points out that:
‘Since the mid-seventeenth century, it has been the People whose will has been sovereign in this country, as almost every political philosopher has agreed since the days of John Locke and David Hume. The Civil War was fought to establish that very principle, overturning Charles I’s Divine Right of Kings’ concept in the process. In the Civil War, the sovereignty of the People was championed by the Parliamentary forces of Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army – the victors in that struggle. Today the People’s will, when clearly expressed comprehensively, trumps that of the Crown, both Houses of Parliament, and even that of the BBC.’
Wealth Creation
Socialism only works if somebody, somewhere creates wealth that can be taxed, and those taxes can then be used for the wider public good. The paradox is that socialists tend to be wary of, if not despise outright people who create and, inevitably, retain a certain amount of their wealth despite being taxed. I don’t want to write here a critique of socialism. However, Margaret Thatcher probably got it right when she said, ‘The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money’. So, I’m in favour of facilitating a society where the creation of wealth is encouraged and celebrated; but, please read this sentence in the context of the previous two paragraphs. To my many socialist friends I would say this: without national wealth and a cultural desire to create it, there can be no meaningful national compassion.
Other Political Views
Of course, I have other views on politics, economics, the environment, technology, culture and society which go beyond the scope of this particular post. Indeed, perhaps most important at the moment, I have views on the perceived threat posed by Brexit to the union that is the United Kingdom. No doubt I’ll feel moved to comment on some of these topics in the fullness of time.
So What?
I’ve conveyed the essence of my political philosophy to Brexit Party colleagues and candidate selectors in recent weeks. Like I said at the top of this piece, the reason for me putting up this post is to dispel any misconception that I might fit with the received wisdom about the Leave side of the EU Referendum vote and what it takes – it is wrongly thought – to be a member of The Brexit Party or, in my case, to be a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate. I hope you don’t see much of a link between my politics and the received wisdom about those of us who want the UK to leave the European Union.
Should I ever be elected as a Brexit Party politician, I have two priorities: first, I want the democratic decision of the EU Referendum to be carried out; second, I want our patently dysfunctional British politics to be changed for good.
For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not a fascist, nor a racist, nor a xenophobe, nor a nationalist, nor anything such like. In the last three years or so I’ve met many people who voted the same way as me in the EU Referendum and I can’t think of one encounter when I’ve recoiled from the person in my presence because of their dodgy, still less vile attitudes or opinions. Indeed, the same can be said for those people I know and have met on the Remain/pro-EU side of the fence. The overwhelming majority of Brits are peaceable folk who know how to conduct civilised discourse even within our currently strained democratic arrangements.
For sure, the social media universe is a different kettle of fish (sorry to mix metaphors). We all know about the inane and often abusive screaming and shouting at each other that appears on Facebook, on Twitter and on other media channels. But social media is not the real world. Well, it is and it isn’t the real world, I suppose. However, what really matters is what we say and do in the company of each other and what actually gets done in politics and society.
Nailing My Colours to the Mast
So, I hope very much that by nailing my colours to the mast in this fashion the next time we meet you’ll be more inclined to share a beer with me than to push a beer glass into my face – metaphorically speaking, of course. I want to be able to discuss with people like you this profound issue of the future of our United Kingdom now that we’ve decided – reluctantly to a certain degree – to cast off the shackles of the European Union and chart a national course into the big, wide world. You may be anxious if not horrified at this prospect, but it’s going to happen.
In the past, for a fifth of a century, I served my country as a soldier in the profession of arms. Should I ever be elected into Parliament, or some other political office, my mission will be to serve my country by upholding freedom and democracy through word and deed, recognising at all times the sovereignty of the British electorate. If I get a chance to serve you personally in this respect, then all the better.
See you down the pub.
1. Er, guess what: I used my real name when answering the call from Mr Farage.
Postscript
I disagree with the notion that Members of Parliament should detach themselves from reality and do nothing other than politics. I’m self-employed and have a few work interests; I control my own diary and I intend to maintain my work obligations. This will rely on a high degree of personal organisation, but that’s one of my strengths.
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Congratulations MM!
I dearly hope your fellow Scots choose to stay with the UK following Brexit and with level headed, clear thinking, forward looking people such as your good self leading the way there is every chance they will!
Wishing you the very best of luck and willing good fortune as your companion through these times
One of your many English fans and followers
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Mark – if my ancestors had not been enthusiastic participants in the 1776 revolution in North America, I’d be an active supporter of your candidacy. Since the 1776 “unpleasantness” made me ineligible to vote for you, I’ll just yell encouragement from the sidelines. All the best!
What’s going on in the UK closely parallels what’s going on in the USA.
Alex Dade
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Excellent, and well done, sir. Good luck to you, and to the Brexit Party!
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Thanks Old Goat; much appreciated …
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Absolutely brilliant and bang on. My 27 year old daughter called me a Nazi because I agree with some of Nigel Farage’s views. Check out Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism.
I wish you the best of luck in your new venture and if I lived in Moray you would get my vote.
Onwards and upwards.
Yours aye
PS Starting an MA in War Studies in September. >
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Thanks very much Warwick. See you at the Regiment Dinner in October?
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Well done, MM. Personally, having read your well considered blog posts for some time, and knowing your background, I would have been very surprised had the Brexit Party passed you by as a candidate. However, the hill that all BP candidates will have to climb, given the unfairness of the FPTP system which disproportionately favours the long-establish parties, in order to get elected to Westminster is very steep, and as you rightly point out, in Scotland verging on mountainous-like inclines. It will be very much harder than it was in the European elections, but at least the success there does give some indication of the support that still exists for Brexit and that should offer more than a little hope. I suspect much will depend upon the timing of the election, and if Brexit has not been fully delivered on October 31st, as is once again thanks to parliament looking more and more likely, then a subsequent election could well turn very ugly for all the main parties that have been complicit in such betrayal of a democratic vote. It will certainly result in my turning to the Brexit Party with my vote despite my own Tory MP being a committed leaver; I simply will not offer support any longer to a political party which has knowingly (and apparently willingly) allowed members of its parliamentary party to work openly against its own manifesto. Enough is enough.
Should you succeed in arriving on the green benches, and if you do from Moray then it is certain that you will not be alone there as a BP member, then I will follow your career in politics with interest. I hope that you will continue to write your blog posts here because they are thought-provoking and very enjoyable. I doubt anyone, including Nigel Farage himself, really expects the Brexit Party to be able to form a government by itself, but given sufficient support could well be the difference between a continuance of the present, corrupted political attitude in parliament and a new (or perhaps return to the old) respect for the electorate and its wishes. Sometimes the king-maker can be more powerful than the king himself! It is certain that we can continue as we are and still claim to be a democracy.
Best wishes for the election and thank you for being one of those willing to put his head (and money) above the parapet. I hope that it doesn’t, as you seem to fear, cause you personal difficulties in your social circle, but if it does, it says far more about your political opponents than it does about you.
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Thanks. You’re a wise old bugger, Bill …
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And of course I meant “cannot” continue as we are.
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Congratulations MM, on your selection.
You would/will make a first-class MP. The next few months are likely to be unusually confused and difficult, but you will cope with that better than most.
When you need a break, come down here (Jersey) for a few days and do a bit of pistol shooting.
Good luck.
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Many thanks Derek!
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MM, good luck on getting selected, now comes the hard part!
Writing as someone who was a senior backroom toiler for the Conservatives in London for many years (and someone with the highest regard for Toby Vintcent), I would say that politics really needs people like you but be constantly careful, please. Almost everyone striving for top positions (with a handful of exceptions) has not just two faces but probably four or five – learning who can be trusted (on your own side!) is an ongoing process.
Given the total ferocity of all the media nowadays, please watch everything you both say AND write – I note you write “it could be said that the British voted to be poorer…”. That will be seized on, the ‘could’ will cease to exist, and you will be cited as the candidate who wants the UK to be the waif on Europe’s doorstep. Say goodbye now to the concept of rational and thoughtful discussions (sorry if that seems depressing, but it’s true) – you will now be fighting short, sharp battles that have to be won with knock-outs, not on points.
I wish you great good fortune (and health!).
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Excellent advice and noted. Thanks very much Sonia …
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Well done and congratulations
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Congratulations Boss on being selected , now Ive known you for a very longtime and following your blogs ,faceache ect and while you are passionate about what you believe in you are willing to listen and discuss other peoples sometimes totally opposite points of view in a rational and measured manner.I think ,no know , you will give everything to this and most probably succeed so as a brother in arms and a friend I wish you all the best ,and if we win the Lottery Andy and Debs will move back North and give you our vote
PER ARDUA
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Thank you very much, Rocky. Stay tuned!
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Congratulations MM, it’s a huge step to make and one my own partner was considering. She’s settled to be a constituency campaign organiser instead (@brexitbanbury).
The Party needs individuals such as yourself who are in command of their brief and not tainted by a career in politics, we need members of the public with the time-served life experiences that are so vital when creating policies.
I wish you all the best and will be following your progress.
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Thanks very much, Paul, and all the best with your local campaigning …
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With you 100% Do not hesitate to proud of supporting The Brexit Party! There’s plenty of us Scot’s who want out of the EU but remain part of the UK. If we are not out properly by 1st November my vote will move from conservatives to TBP.
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Excellent, thank you Edward …
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Congratulations, I wish you well in pursuing the democratic cause for our country, as a Brexit candidate. Below are a couple of my ideas about different methodologies, which demonstrate why we need to be out of the EU.
I recall that during the referendum very little was said by those supporting remain that could be construed as positive, many made the point that the EU had many faults but we would be better off reforming it from within. There were spurious statements about security and European peace that were thrown into the pot, but on balance the bulk of their argument was for economic continuation of the existing set up, a status quo, in their perception.
To use an analogy I imagine the remain idea as a bitmap, in that all the points can be aligned to give a picture which they see as a good representation of how things should be and progress in the future. The Roman Law method of the EU, a classic example of their fixed (bitmap)) top down system which works well for certain established procedures, but it collapses in the face of dynamic life events. The Euro is a good example of a fixed system which has done massive damage to many of the countries within the eurozone. A system devised by bureaucrats with a top down methodology and mentality.
The opposite of the bitmap which represents real life, in my view, is a vector which is a point with direction operating in a four dimensional framework of space + time, Common Law fits this analogy driven by precedence. At present the natural order, vectors, are constrained by the bitmap structure in the EU. To keep countries locked in this mechanism will require as has been the long term objective, a single uniform federal entity.
The UK before being encapsulated in the stultifying mechanisms of the EEC then EU was operating in the “vector” but has been hammered into the “bitmap”, largely due to the insecurity of the UK governments post empire and WW2. We need to re-establish our natural flexiblity, even with a difficult start brought about by “No Deal”, in short order we will flourish again as a nation.
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Excellent, thank you parlington …
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Hi MM,
well I am glad that you have been accepted by TBP as a candidate. I’ve followed your blog from the first day that you set it up, and have always found that I agree with 99.99% of your comments. Also I like the way that you present your thoughts. So I’ve always thought that if you took the plunge, I would definately vote for you. As I live around 400 miles south of you, its a tad difficult.
The thought of taking the same route as you has gone through my mind for some years, but I lack the eloquence to properly present my thoughts. And in the last year I have become a carer for my wife, so its definately out now. The comments I could make on our experiences with the NHS woiuld make your hair curl!
I have been wondering how you were getting on with your application to TBP, but felt it was not something that I wanted to ask on your blog.
So good luck…
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Thank you very much Malcolm, and I wish you and your wife well …
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Congratulations Mark 🍾 All the best.
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Congratulations Moraymint and well done; good luck in the elections, I suspect they may come sooner rather than later
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Well done, good to hear. I know you will fight your corner well.
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Proud of you but not surprisedat your selection! X
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Well done Moraymint for putting your proverbial money where your mouth is, and good luck in any forthcoming election.
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Well done Moraymint …
Hope it goes well – but my guess is that you will now be in for a world of complications and “issues”
If the selection process landed on multiple candidates of your calibre, the BP will do well.
Next few weeks are going to be interesting, to say the least. We now have the bloody backstop being discussed in US politics. I fear that Trump will be poison in this particular debate…..
Hey ho – all the best
Mark
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Excellent news Mr Mint … and congratulations- I think !!
All the best
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You do indeed have your work cut out.
You point out the extra difficulty of your candidacy in having voters both anti Union and pro EU, who will not always be the same person, not to mention candidates from other parties.
Knowing your stance on the Conservative Party of the recent past, I would be interested to know your position on the potential, in certain seats, to work with the Tory party so as not to split the leave vote?
The potential still for the law of unintended consequences to be proven remains.
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Yes, good point Stuart and, obviously, I have given considerable thought to the impact of me standing against a Conservative MP and potentially splitting the Brexit/Right vote. More to come on that, sir …
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Excellent news, MM. Congratulations an the best of luck.
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Dear MM, you don’t need to either justify or make excuses to anyone for your decision to stand as a PPC. I was on the frontline for UKIP as their most successful PPC from 2014>2016 & at times a major spokesperson for them. Most of the MSM & political opponents aren’t interested in discussing ideas; they just want to denigrate anyone or any party that’s anti EU, anti mass uncontrolled immigration & anti State governance.
I’m not fighting on the front line anymore (not since Batten was appointed UKIP’s leader). I tell anyone who cares to listen to read UKIP’s 2015 manifesto. It’s what I’d call a Thatcherite manifesto & the BP would do well use it as a basis for their own manifesto. All the best & good luck. Nigel can be a pain to work with but he’s a patriot & a winner!
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I’ve been following your blog (and your comments in the DT) for several years now. Thank you for standing up for democracy and putting yourself forward as a candidate for the Brexit Party. The fight isn’t over yet, not by a long way.
Good luck.
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Excellent news! The very best of luck MM.
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Good luck MM I have followed your comments since the halcyon days of the Daily Telegraph where the very thought of actually escaping the EU seemed a pipe dream. You will definitely have your work cut out in Scotland. However you have always been able to define the benefits of leaving the EU in a calm persuasive manner.You are a real asset to the Brexit Party. I have been chuckling at the EU’s current response today to Boris Johnson. From the Daily Express… “The European Commission called on Britain to outline how it planned to move Brexit forward if talks between the UK Government and the bloc are ever to progress. Vanessa Mock, a European Commission spokeswoman, told a regular media briefing in Brussels, moments after Boris Johnson delivered his latest no deal threat to Brussels, that the British Prime Minister had to “respect commitments” made to the European Union by his predecessor Theresa May.”…. They really don’t get it, they haven’t grasped there is a new sheriff in town. The BP needs to maintain the pressure on Johnson though, we wont countenance backsliding.
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Although I’m not in your part of the world & therefore ineligible to cast my vote in your favour at the next GE, if I could, I would. All the very best for the battle to come !
Kind regards
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Congratulations on being selected and good luck! I wish I could vote for you – I live in Islington where Jeremy Corbyn always wins even though I never vote for him (the Referendum was the first time for many years that I felt my vote counted).
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