Oldham West and Royton by-election result. A view from Robert Craig of The Saxish Home Rule Party.

Being an English patriot I obviously do not support Robert Craig of The Saxish Home Rule Party/League when he calls for the breakup of England into 3 regions; Saxland, a London Region and an English Region confined to an area north of a line roughly from The Wash to the Mouth of the Severn.

Be that as it may, Mr Craig's analysis of the Oldham West and Royton by-election, published in the Letters column of the Western Daily Press on December 5th,  makes interesting reading, especially his comments on UKIP. 

UKIP failed because it's a one-trick pony.
In the Oldham West and Royton by-election on Thursday, Labour swept to a conclusive victory defeating the Ukip challenge with massive majority in the first poll test of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership.

It was a convincing endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership following the Commons vote on air strikes in Syria and an overwhelming defeat for Nigel Farage’s party which came in as a poor second.

Ukip has passed its sell-by date and is on its way out. It is a one-trick pony and that trick has a fatal flaw which is revealed in its name. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland receive largesse from the EU, the City of London is intimately involved with the EU and depends on EU membership to convince overseas investors to trust it.

It might be possible to cobble together a small majority to leave the EU within England, but not within the UK as a whole. The English Democrats’ aim of extracting an independent England from the EU is just about achievable, Ukip’s aim of taking the UK out of the EU intact is not. That flaw is why Ukip will fail.

Robert Craig

The Saxish Home Rule Party