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I've been drawling through the lists of persons nominated in the councils where Stuart said LU was having candidates (Wigan, Exeter, Norwich, Barnet) and have found that they are standing a grand total of 10 (6 in Wigan, 2 in Noewich, 1 in Exeter, 1 in Barnet).I'll be scutinising the results after 22 May to see if they do better (or worse) than our 4 local election candidates.Incidentally, I noticed quite a few "Labour and Cooperative Party" candidates and wonder how long the Cooperative Party will survive. Also, disappointingly, a Tory candidate in Wigan called Winstanley. Gerrard must be turning in his grave if he wasn't already about Georges Hill in Surrey becoming a gated community for the filthy and jumped-up rich.
Here's what happened (or rather what didn't) in the end:http://www.heart.co.uk/sussex/news/local/brighton-hove-no-council-tax-referendum/
In the end No2EU is standing in 7 of the 11 mainland European constituencies, i.e all except North East, East Midlands, South East and South West. Pity as I thought (and hoped) they were going to disappear. The Scargill Labour Party is only contesting Wales and people in the North West will have a chance to vote for the Trotskyist "Socialist Equality Party".
There are 11 lists in Wales. The others besides us are: Labour, Tory, Liberal, Plaid Cymru, Green, UKIP, BNP, No2EU, SLP and "Britain First" (sounds like a BNP breakaway, anyway another nasty party, whose slogan is "Remember Lee Rigby"). Curiously, none of the candidates of the Scargill Labour Party come from the ex- mining valleys of South Wales, 3 are from North Wales and one from West Wales.
We now know who we're up against. Nominations closed at 4pm and the Returning Officer has just published the list of the parties standing. There are 15 (same as last time, in 2009).Apart from the usual suspects (Tories, Labour, Liberal, Green, UKIP, BNP), there's the Christians Peoples Party, the English Democrats, the Peace Party and the Roman Party (a joke party) who stood last time. New are the Harmony Party, Your Voice, Liberty Great Britain (real "revolutionary" fascists) and "An Independence for Europe" list (rumoured to be a Tory party dirty trick to draw votes from UKIP as they did once before when they put up a "Literal Democrat" candidate).Unlike last time there is no Scargill Labour Party or No2EU list. Which means that we are the only list using the word "socialist", i.e no jokes about the Peoples Front for Judea and the Judean People's Front.
After all, Lenin and the Bolsheviks did completely uproot and destroy semi-feudal Tsarism. Which can't have been a bad thing. A bit like Cromwell here. Nothing to do with socialism, either of them, of course but with clearing the way for the progress of capitalism.
The nomination papers for our list in Wales have just been accepted. So we're off and en route for our first party election broadcast.
Apparently, this new party, based in Petersfield in Hampshire, will be standing in the South East Region:http://yourvoiceparty.org.uk/Can't work out what they stand for if anything. Anybody know?
There is state monopoly capitalism and state monopoly capitalism. It depends where you put the hyphen. State monopoly-capitalism is what the various CPs of the world (whether pro-Moscow or pro-Peking in the olden days) say modern capitalism is. In fact the use of the term is a way of identifying them from an article or a leaflet. State-monopoly capitalism, on the other hand, is what (we say) they stand for.
Actually, it's the person who runs this site:http://bataillesocialiste.wordpress.com/which has a section on "l'impossiblisme anglo-saxon":http://bataillesocialiste.wordpress.com/limpossibilisme-anglo-saxon/which (scroll down) has articles in French, English, Spanish and Italian from us, the Socialist Party of Canada and the Deleonist SLP of America.
