In an ideal world we would be a united opposition that was not capable of being deflected by these side issues, but there are too few people prepared to be active and there is a massive shortage of people with the political nous to move forward and make us electable.
We haven't even agreed, after all these years, on which are the best elections to fight and what our manifesto should be. In some parts of the country UKIP is busy trying to win, in others (where I live) there is no real interest in winning. Certainly the lack of progress in Oxfordshire could have been the catalyst that drove Burgess to seek direct action, although the branch of which he was chairman didn't fight any seats last year. Oxford branch have no candidates in one of the most politically vibrant cities in the UK. It's not an excuse to do nothing and then say nothing is being done.
I was prepared to stand, leaflet and canvass, but am told I'm not wanted because I made a cheap joke about aarable calling me Illuminati to my face and extending that to mean I am a lizard since an American writer says so. Effectively I am not a candidate because I have a different sense of humour and aarable can't understand irony. Imagine how frustrated I am, but I'm not about to get a whole load of out of date laws and make myself look silly.
I want to win and I would like to be re-elected, but nobody around here wants my experience or knowledge. I don't want to go to the barricades, but whilst I am surrounded by people who don't want to work I often think that we should be taking to the streets. Then I realise how silly that would be since we couldn't muster more than 100 people in any event.
I actually think that until the public are ready to listen to us we should bide our time. We should be building up branches and fighting elections as I said before. There will be a few successes along the way, if we work at it, so that when the public finally realises how bad things have got there will be a local 'leadership' ready to rally behind.
These isolated actions of 'fruitcakes' will ensure that nobody joins our cause. The public are not as stupid as some people here seem to think. Most people expect their leaders to be educated and informed. The Russian revoloution was led by intellectuals not workers - men who were literate and numerate and could write political tracts. Look at Stalin (highly ediucated for his day), Lenin and Trotsky - orators, thinkers and leaders of men. Our political 'revolution' will not be led by the semi-literate or the inarticulate, these people will drag us down.
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When in Woking do as the Wokes do.
"I do not wish to form my opinions by thoughtlessly quoting others; I wish others to support their opinions by sensibly quoting me." Paul Wesson (Aardvark) 13th April 2008
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