John Allman

In the run-up to the 2005 general election, I proposed a novel method of challenging the power of the Lib Lab Con Trick that I called The Alliance For Change. I couldn't muster enough interest to mount a credible attack, but at the general election (fighting three seats) and the first two by-elections afterwards, we did run a small pilot scheme that proved that the upwardly scalable method I developed was entirely feasible.

The Alliance For Change approach uncouples three processes that are normally quite unnecessarily integrated, being undertaken (always unsuccessfully in the case of minor parties) by a single monolithic and legally registered political party. The three processes that we uncoupled from one another, and how we undertook them separately from one another, are as follows:

(1) I sought to recruit prospective candidates from (e.g.) issue groups, faith communities, charities and minor political parties, none of these sources necessarily having to be registered political parties for them to be able to suggest candidates.

(2) I promoted publicly a single brand image for all the "franchised" candidates, The Alliance For Change, even though there was no registered political party of that name.

(3) I registered three different paper political parties with the Electoral Commission, none of which had any members and none of which had names the public ever learnt about. I used these non-existent paper parties, perfectly legally, to nominate the Parliamentary candidates who stood, requesting "Alliance For Change - <candidate's slogan here>" as the wording on the ballot papers. In a much larger-scale operation using this method, the alliance could potentially earn the right to up to six party political broadcast slots per channel, compared to the absolute maximum of one per channel that a traditional, monolithic political party like UKIP or Respect can earn by fighting enough seats nationwide.

Details of our badly under-publicised exploits during this unusual but 100% successful experiment are to be found on website www.AllianceForChange.org.uk. Please don't judge the "book" by its "cover". The website is very amaeurishly produced, I admit, even though the verbal content is quite sophisticated, although I say so myself. Instead, please delve inside the website, and evaluate the highly original method used by three poorly funded no-hopers, to demonstrate to more able future dissidents from the Lib Lab Con Trick hegemony, the only method ever likely to succeed in challenging the con trick's monopoly of political power, an analogy of the last US presidential election that was satirised as the "Skull -v- Bones" election - whereby whichever party the people vote for, the same "shadow government" retains power.

Some of the speeches I made and/or printed election addresses spelled out the point: No conventional minor political party can ever defeat the Lib Lab Con Trick; only engaging in a new kind of electoral warfare, such as we Alliance For Chage trail-blazers (members of the underclass to a man) successfully piloted that year, stand the remotest chance of ever bringing about real change. I would like to place myself at the service, as a consultant retained for the first few days of any future larger-scale operation, of any politically dissident millionaires and/or intellectuals who admire the novel concept of which I accomplished proof of concept on a small scale in 2005, and who would like to take and adapt the original Alliance For Change approach, for deployment in a future general election, to offer the public an electable alternative to the Lib Lab Con Trick, for a change.

John Allman

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Thing is, you need to flesh out what "change" means. It is a very nebulous term, that doesn't really mean much.

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