Hartlepool By-election: Enter the Northern Independence Party

 

Another fringe party candidate is preparing to enter the fray of the Hartlepool By-election in the form of the Northern Independence Party. That is if they manage to get themselves registered with the electoral commission in time otherwise they will be backing former Labour Party member Thelma Walker as an "Independent".

It seems that Thelma Walker is a former Corbynite MP who: 

On 18 November 2020, almost a year after losing her seat, she resigned her membership of the Labour Party on the evening after Keir Starmer declined to return the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. She later explained that she left because she felt Starmer was being spiteful towards Corbyn, even prior to his suspension, and because she had concerns about the party's positions on the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill and on schools being open during the COVID-19 pandemic."

The NIP selected her as candidate by 69.7% of their members. How many whippets that included is not known at the time of writing.

It seems the Northern Independence Party is just another type of left-wing socialist party as their two-bit website announces:

The Northern Independence Party is a democratic socialist party, who are committed to uplifting the voices of our members. We were founded in 2020 to combat the injustice of the north/south divide. We stand opposed to all forms of ideology based on hatred and bigotry.

Their policy on members use of social media is very much centred around opposition to "transphobia" and women's sex based rights don't get a look in. In fact women don't exist in their statement at all. They oppose racism, fascism LGBTQphobia (that's a new formulation), gender mislabeling and "ableism"  but women don't appear to exist in this "gender" friendly environment.? 

NIP's main aim is to:

To campaign for a referendum on the independence of the North, to be decided by the people of the North.

Reestablishing the old Kingdom of Northumbria it would seem.

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However there may well be trouble with the Yorkshire Party who are seeking autonomy for their county and may not take interference from a Northern Imperialist incursion well.

Meanwhile in other news the right-wing For Britain Party led by Anne-Marie Waters (and backed by Morrissey) has decided not to join the "by-election circus" and is concentrating on running three candidates for thee local authority where it already has an elected presence.

One wonders how these far-left, Corbyn supporters ever hoped to do anything when they can't even agree to join together following their losing control of the Labour Party. Clueless. Labour will be a better place without them.