So you want answers do you, Lindsay?

Many thanks to http://davidlindsaywatch.blogspot.com for leading the way on this one. Lindsay has been emailing away, copied here and to various of his allies, demanding to know certain things of Hilary Armstrong and Neil Fleming, including in relation to certain posts here. Roman script below is Lindsay's own words, italics are the answers which we confidently assert that Hilary and Neil would give (as they most certainly should):

In relation to the post What a thing it must be to have power:

Do you believe that I have had the DDC webforum closed down, and that for the reasons stated?

We don’t just believe it, we know it.

Do you believe that I am "practically a member of Labour high command" on DDC, and that the Derwentside Independents are a "non-Opposition" of which I am also "practically a member"?

We don’t just believe it, we know it.

Do you regard that "Labour high command" (including me, apparently) as "statists and syndicalists for their own nationalist and theoconservative reasons", and that "non-Opposition" (including me, apparently) as "nationalists and theoconservatives for their own statist and syndicalist reasons"?

Yes. These are simple matters of fact.

If you are not statists, syndicalists, nationalists or theoconservatives, then what, exactly, are you, and why?

Subscribers to the Euston Manifesto (http://www.eustonmanifesto.org) and the Henry Jackson Society (http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org.uk), and proud of it.

Do you consider that I have "more clout than a dozen or more elected Labour Councillors put together"?

Most unfortunately, we don’t just think it, we know it.

In relation to the post Where This Blog Stands:

Do my views as set out, in particular, on http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com mark me out as "a reactionary Catholic and a Little Briton masquerading as a Socialist"?

Yes.

Am I "much, much more dangerous than [George] Galloway"?

Yes.

Is there a "right-wing Labour machine" which maintains a "one-party fiefdom of County Durham"?

F**k, yes! Everyone knows that!

Can a politician of the Left be pro-life, and if not, why not?

A woman’s right to choose abortion (up to and including partial birth abortion) is a non-negotiable Socialist principle, as is everyone’s right to choose when and how to die. No one who disputes either of these is in any sense on the Left.

Can a politician of the Left uphold the principle that marriage can only be between one man and one woman, and if not, why not?

The right of same-sex couples to marry is a non-negotiable Socialist principle. No one who disputes it is in any sense on the Left.

Can a politician of the Left oppose state lying in the form of the issuing of new birth certificates to transsexuals, and if not, why not?

The right of transsexuals to new birth certificates giving their true gender is a non-negotiable Socialist principle. No one who disputes it is in any sense on the Left.

Can a politician of the Left wish to raise the age of consent to 18, and if not, why not?

The right to engage in post-pubescent consensual sex is a non-negotiable Socialist principle. No one who disputes it is in any sense on the Left.

Can a politician of the Left insist on fact rather than prejudice or fabrication with regard to Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, the Inquisition, condoms and AIDS in Africa, and the life and legacy of Alfred C Kinsey, and if not, why not?

No one who holds Lindsay views on any of these matters is in any sense on the Left.

Can a politician of the Left subscribe to Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism, and if not, why not?

No. There is nothing further needing to be said about this.

Can a politician of the Left refer to "John Paul the Great", and if not, why not?

No. There is nothing further needing to be said about this.

Do my views mark me out as "anti-Europe and anti-American"?

Yes.

Are Britain and the other Commonwealth countries that retain the monarchy lacking in "self-respect"?

Yes.

Are the Catholic Unionist traditions in Scotland and Ireland "dangerous", so that they must be kept "voiceless"?

Yes.

What do you think of Saint Helena and other territories whose people choose to remain British to this day, and does proudly having such a background preclude one from being a politician of the Left?

Yes, it does. That says it all.

What do you think of Mail and Telegraph readers?

The less said, the better.

Are you "afraid, very afraid"?

No. [This is where we part company with Hilary and Neil: they sure as hell should be “afraid, very afraid”.]

Or have we missed something, Hilary and Neil?

What a thing it must be to have power

Congratulations to David Lindsay for having the Derwentside District Council webforum closed down because other contributors had the temerity to question his views and his ambitions. What a thing it is never even to have stood for a Council, and to have been removed as Secretary of the corresponding District Labour Party, yet to be effectively a member of both its Labour high command and its "Independent" non-Opposition.

But then, they are both right up his street: as David Lindsay Watch (http://davidlindsaywatch.blogspot.com -- we certainly don't agree with all of it, mind you!) might put it, the Labour lot are statists and syndicalists for their own nationalist and theoconservative reasons, and the "Independents" are nationalists and theoconservatives for their own statist and syndicalist reasons. No wonder they work so closely together, and no wonder they both work so closely with David Lindsay.

So he has more clout than a dozen or more elected Labour Councillors put together. As this removal of the entire webforum more than illustrates.

Where This Blog Stands

This blog strongly supports the Euston Manifesto (www.eustonmanifesto.org) and the Statement of Principles of the Henry Jackson Society (www.henryjacksonsociety.org.uk). Its particular purpose is to oppose the activities and ambitions of the prophet, apostle and high priest of paleo-Labour, David Lindsay (http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com, http://davidaslindsay.livejournal.com).

Lindsay is trying to supplant Hilary Armstrong, or her chosen successor Neil Fleming, as MP for North West Durham. Both Hilary and Neil are strong supporters of Euston and Henry Jackson principles and policies. Expressions of support should be directed to hilary@hilaryarmstrong.com and FlemingN@parliament.uk, and copied to socialists_against_lindsay@hotmail.co.uk, as well as, that there be no misunderstanding, davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Time is now of the essence.

At first glance, Lindsay is just a younger version of George Galloway. Good-looking, beautifully groomed, charming, and with the gift of the gab. Oh, and a reactionary Catholic and a Little Briton masquerading as a Socialist.

But Lindsay is much, much more dangerous than Galloway.

Unlike Galloway, Lindsay is unimpeachably middle-class, well-degreed, and has a posh English accent. Galloway came out of the rumbustious Labour Party and the multiparty political culture of Dundee and Glasgow, but Lindsay comes out of the right-wing Labour machine in its one-party fiefdom of County Durham.

Like Galloway, Lindsay is frankly opposed to a woman's right to choose. But unlike Galloway (who is ambivalent and cagey about LGBT rights), Lindsay is also frankly opposed to same-sex marriage and to legal recognition for transsexuals, and wants to raise the age of consent to 18. Unlike Galloway's, Lindsay's Catholicism is of the zealous convert variety. He defends Pope Pius XII over the Holocaust. He denies the crimes of the Inquisition. He supports the Vatican over condoms and AIDS in Africa. He undermines sex education by extravagantly defaming the great Alfred C Kinsey. He promotes "Catholic Social Teaching" and lionises the Chesterbelloc. He even talks about "John Paul the Great". Hardly progressive, democratic Left politics!

Like Galloway, Lindsay is anti-Europe and anti-American. But unlike Galloway, Lindsay is obsessed with those old colonies which, like Britain, have not yet found enough self-respect to abolish the monarchy. He sees them as the basis for a British-run rival to both the EU and the Atlantic Alliance. And he is even shaping up to be the voice of previously, and mercifully, voiceless Scottish and Irish Catholic Unionism, which is just as dangerous as it sounds. But then, Lindsay comes from one of the last and loyalest British colonies. He is a true son of a voluntarily subject people, with absolutely no past or present national liberation movement. Hardly progressive, democratic Left politics!

And whereas Galloway only wants a marriage of electoral convenience with Islamists within ethnic minorities, Lindsay is fiercely committed to an alliance with Mail and Telegraph readers. Hardly progressive, democratic Left politics!

Be afraid. Be very afraid.