Northern Independence Party

[DotCommunist]

Does north Derbyshire count as the north to the NIP?

Also, the anthem should be Jerusalem and anyone who disagrees is just wrong.

they did a boundary map of old northumbria the other day that somehow included northamptonshire, which is a reach imo

 

[lazythursday]

Does north Derbyshire count as the north to the NIP?

Also, the anthem should be Jerusalem and anyone who disagrees is just wrong.

I think they're including some of north Derbyshire, eg High Peak, but their position is that in those borderlands areas it should be up to people to decide if they think they're north or not.

Find the whole discussion about where north starts and stops increasingly tedious (in general, not just here), it's like a discussion of poverty getting overtaken by nitpickers about exactly how poverty should be defined. Ditto the endlessly repeated point about intra-northern rivalries meaning an independent north wouldn't work, when England as a whole, or the UK as a whole, is chock-a-block with division in the first place.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I'm not really interested in those arguments, I just want to know if i might one day get to vote for them in chesterfield (I definitely would if I got the chance)

 

[WouldBe]

I'm not really interested in those arguments, I just want to know if i might one day get to vote for them in chesterfield (I definitely would if I got the chance)

Ditto.

 

[WouldBe]

they did a boundary map of old northumbria the other day that somehow included northamptonshire, which is a reach imo

Change the name to Hamptonshire then to avoid confusion.

 

[Cerv]

Something by The Fall would best surely.

Scenes at the Commonwealth Games.

is Hit The North too obvious?

 

[Cerv]

Wonder what the NIPpers would have to say about this proposal?

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when Johnson's magic bridge isn't even the least probable part of our plan, that's ambitious

 

[two sheds]

Everywhere north of Hatfield I thought

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Wonder what the NIPpers would have to say about this proposal?

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Where are you from?

Scotland. Rochdale, Scotland

 

[Favelado]

Surprisingly decent interview with the NIP guy on Novara tonight (so far at least, I'm only halfway in)

He is excellent. I am fully on board.

 

[PR1Berske]

They are, as of searching just now, still not on the Register of Political Parties

Search - The Electoral Commission

 

[lazythursday]

Am sure I read they applied in January, seems absurd it would not be processed in time for May.

 

[PR1Berske]

Am sure I read they applied in January, seems absurd it would not be processed in time for May.

Yeah, I can't imagine it's entirely down to a short staff at the EC situation. Who knows.

I assume they will stand as an independent candidate? They're not just going to stand with the name. I thought principles would trump branding.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

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[killer b]

Who are these people who's tweets you're quoting and why should we care what they think?

 

[PR1Berske]

Who are these people who's tweets you're quoting and why should we care what they think?

Tweets about the subject that take my fancy. Just adding to the debate, is all.

 

[DownwardDog]

Corbynista Entryism! The NIP project is dead on arrival.

 

[ska invita]

Corbynista Entryism! The NIP project is dead on arrival.

Other way around imo, now tapping into a active constituency of Northern socialism... That is what NIPs politics are after all.... And may be able to do so free of the usual negative connotations (for a time)
I've not actually seen NIP even mentioned in the mainstream media.
Some chance to break through to hard to reach voters.

The opposite of entryism , its a formation finding it's base

 

[killer b]

Tweets about the subject that take my fancy. Just adding to the debate, is all.

I'd rather hear what you think than some random views by some guys off twitter in that case

 

[bmd]

Great piece in Red Pepper today - defo joining up.

Red Pepper Magazine - Red Pepper

Red Pepper magazine is a quarterly publication and website of left politics and culture. We draw on feminist, green and anti-racist politics.

www.redpepper.org.uk

Yeah, well, we're going to have to talk about the fucking name. Northumbria! No chance.

 

[killer b]

Yeah, well, we're going to have to talk about the fucking name. Northumbria! No chance.

Its as good as anything else tbf. I don't really care anyway, I'm more interested in policy and that seems nailed on so far.

 

[bmd]

Its as good as anything else tbf. I don't really care anyway, I'm more interested in policy and that seems nailed on so far.

I have no idea what Policy looks like tbh. Is it all that stuff about why it's a good idea to break away from London? It all seems really sensible and makes sense but I'm not sure what would be funding us until we get our finances sorted?

 

[ska invita]

Its as good as anything else tbf. I don't really care anyway, I'm more interested in policy and that seems nailed on so far.

are there policies published yet?

 

[A380]

are there policies published yet?

Free whippets on the NHS?
A tax on people not wearing flat caps.
MDMA to be made legal but only if taken by oral lipid absorption.

(Southern paternalistic nonsense with a light vaneer of irony to try to hide it I know)

 

[killer b]

are there policies published yet?

you're right - the politics then. I'm not very interested in the name of a fantasy northern state or the fact they have a whippet in their logo or the fact that the founder lives in Bath. I am interested in the conversation a northern independence movement could open up about the north/south divide & inequality in general though

 

[bmd]

you're right - the politics then. I'm not very interested in the name of a fantasy northern state or the fact they have a whippet in their logo or the fact that the founder lives in Bath. I am interested in the conversation a northern independence movement could open up about the north/south divide & inequality in general though

Same. I like that the statement of intent sets out very clearly why the north is disadvantaged etc.

 

[WouldBe]

Free whippets on the NHS?
A tax on people not wearing flat caps.
MDMA to be made legal but only if taken by oral lipid absorption.

(Southern paternalistic nonsense with a light vaneer of irony to try to hide it I know)

Sounds good to me.

 

[killer b]

well, this is disappointing (the detail seems to rely on context-free receipts from some private forum, but whatever the context some of it doesn't look great)

 

[chilango]

It's sadly inevitable that there will be wrong 'uns getting involved. Question is, as a Party, will they deal with it?