There has been much talk in the media and on line about the apparent decline of Change UK the new party formed by MPs breaking from both the Labour and Conservative parties. Despite strong initial showings in the polls the Change UK share of the vote has declined across a number of polls as the Liberal Democrats attempt to mop up the "Remainer" vote.
It's hardly surprising that the Lib Dems are enthusiastic about their prospects following their huge successes in the local elections. Change UK did not contest these as the organisation remains somewhat in limbo having only formally been registered as a political party barely a month ago. It still has no actual members, branches or structures. The effort has been concentrated on the European elections.
As a "remain" party, Change Uk had hoped to establish itself and may still poll well enough to get one or two MEPs for what they are worth in what is seen by most as a wasteful election when there is so much else to spend money on. However the remainers don't want to leave the EU despite the referendum result.
The push for a second vote has divided the major parties. Labour is both pro-brexit and pro-remain at the same time though Corbyn has been ideologically committed against this "capitalist club" since the beginning. As a result of this mess a single issue populist party under Nigel Farage has established itself as the potential winner of the Euro-elections with the Tories being pushed into third place.
Change UK has committed itself to a divided cause and has ended up competing with two well established and organised parties. Both the Lib Dems and the Greens are doing better and that is unlikely to change in the next week or so as we head towards the actual vote.
I will be voting for Change UK. This blog will support Change UK. I would have preferred to stay in the EU but have consistently said I accept the result of the referendum. I will support Change UK not because of Europe it's because I want an alternative to the Labour party which is what has been needed since Labour was hijacked by Corbyn and his three quid disciples.
Sky News reports that former Labour MP Bridget Prentice quit labour:
On a "Corbyn cult", Ms Prentice wrote: "I joined the Labour Party, not a cult. Singing 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn' might be mildly amusing, but the inability to countenance any criticism of The Leader is not.
"Never in my life in the party has a leader not been criticised, questioned, asked to justify a position - and rightly so.
"But that's not allowed under the Corbyn cult. Anyone questioning the leadership's position is vilified; complaints sent in to the disciplinary panel like something out of a North Korean rulebook that disloyalty to the leader is a criminal offence."
Labour is no longer fit for purpose. Riddled with intolerance, racism (in the form of anti-Semitism) and abandoning women in face of the censorious trans -agenda which saw Lord Moonie quit the Labour Party this week the comrades have created a Stalinist monster of an organisation that will lead to misery, repression and poverty if ever elected.
I want Change UK to become the home for disgruntled Labour activists and the thousands that have quit since Corbyn's ascendancy. One nation Tories would also be welcome as the like of Rees-Mogg takes their party back to the eighteenth century.
There remains much enthusiasm amongst a layer of people I see daily on the three Change UK discussion groups. Some Liberal Democrat activists have been trolling these groups but they should be ignored. We are not "Liberals" and frankly neither are the Lib-Dems. There still is a Liberal party, small but committed to the old ethos of radical liberalism that the merged party abandoned.
Change UK is co-operating with the small but reasonable Renew Party has endorsed it's candidate in the Peterborough by-election next week. After the election we have been advised that the work to set up the new party on the ground will begin. It is then the slow process of building an alternative to not just Labour but our broken political system can begin.
Watch this space.
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