Robin Tilbrook's speech at the English Democrats Party Spring Conferance in Huntingdon.

In part of his speech on the 10th March to the English Democrats’ Spring Conference in Huntingdon, Robin Tilbrook gave his view of the current state of the Conservatives and Labour.  Here is the relevant section on Labour:

"Turning to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, the massive majority of Blairite  Remainiacs in the Labour Parliamentary Party has fully pushed Jeremy Corbyn into adopting a more pro-EU position that is on remaining within the Customs Union.

 

Coming out of the Customs Union is vital if there is to be any agreements with any other nations.  If we are in the Customs Union, not only can we not reach agreements with other nations on trade, but also the other nations wouldn’t even be interested in talking to us because they would know that they can trade with us by dealing with the EU and we would have to obey what the EU decides. 

So this is a troubling change of position on the part of Jeremy Corbyn but it illustrates something that has been happening within Labour for a long time, which is that Labour’s elite has been losing touch with its core traditional vote, or, as they call it the “White Working Class”, or as I would call it “English Workers”.  Our candidate for the South Yorkshire Mayoralty, David Allen, memorably and pithily put it in a recent BBC interview that Labour are “traitors to the English working class”. 

 More and more English people are realising that Labour is outright hostile to England and to English interests. 

 Labour now is an internationalist and increasingly metropolitan, statist and multi-culturalist party.  This is the same trajectory as all the Social Democrat parties across Western Europe.  The result across Western Europe has been that Social Democrat parties are no longer supported by their country’s working class.  So, for instance, in the recent French elections, we saw that French working class voters mostly supported the Front Nationale and not the middle class ideological obsessives of the French Social Democrat parties.  As the Doncaster MP, Caroline Flint put it that Labour’s “Sister Party” in France was reduced to 6%.

 I fully expect that, with the Blairites in Parliament, and with Jeremy Corbyn’s small parliamentary support group of Far-Left MPs, and with their middle class supporters in Momentum etc. that the divide between the Labour Party and its traditional support will grow eventually into an unbridgeable chasm.  We can only look forward to that day!"

For Robin Tilbrook’s speech in full, here is a link:

https://robintilbrook.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/my-speech-to-english-democrats-spring.html

My own view is that left wing parties such as the Green Party and the smaller Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition seem to be haemorrhaging support to Labour, or perhaps that should be Momentum/Labour.  Be that as it may, it does seem to me that Labour is obsessed with promoting ‘diversity’ and ‘multiculturalism’.  Such a stance goes hand in hand with their relaxed policy on immigration.  

Meanwhile the Tories' cavalier attitude to immigration provides an everlasting supply of employees for their friends and supporters in business while keeping wages down into the bargain. 

In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that the interests of the English working class take a back seat.

The Conservatives, as far as I can see, do not seem be very conservative.  I can’t think of anything they are actually conserving except perhaps the riches of the financial elite.  If the Conservatives were a product I would report them to the Advertising Standards Agency!

Incidentally, Robin Tilbrook summed up the Liberal Democrats as having: "Shrunk into almost a total permanent irrelevance" - who could argue with that?