If You Live Or Work In Wessex … SHOP LOCAL!
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IT’S probably fair to say that Distributism is one of the main influences on National Liberal economic thought. Distributism itself has been accurately described as the “widespread private ownership of housing and control of industry through owner-operated small businesses and worker-controlled co-operatives.”
With this in mind, it’s easy to understand why the NLP is such a passionate supporter of local shops, small businesses and the self-employed.
Regular vistors to this site will know this – for we’ve recently been heavily promoting local shopping in London. This is just one part of our campaign to support Upkar Singh Rai, the NLPs prospective candidate for 2016 London Mayor.
However, it’s not just in London that we want to support local shops, small businesses and the self-employed. We promote this idea throughout the whole of Britain. For instance, the latest in our line of local shopping e-posters relates to Wessex.
Although Wessex isn’t a modern county, it has deep – and significant – cultural and national roots. For as the Encyclopaedia Britannica – http://www.britannica.com/place/Wessex-historical-kingdom – notes:
“Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset. At times its land extended north of the River Thames, and it eventually expanded westward to cover Devon and Cornwall. The name Wessex is an elision of the Old English form of ‘West Saxon.’”
Those National Liberals who want to find out more about Wessex should check out the following sites:
Wessex Society: https://www.facebook.com/Wessex-Society-52768355504/
Wessex Regionalists: https://www.facebook.com/groups/90008616582/
Wessex Rising: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wessexfuture/
CHECK OUT our previous Shop Local! e-posters, all of which promote localism – a preference for local smaller shops and a move away from the multinationals:
• If You Live Or Work In Yorkshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-yorkshire-%e2%80%a6-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In The West Riding of Yorkshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-the-west-riding-of-yorkshire-%e2%80%a6-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In South Yorkshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-south-yorkshire-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In The North Riding of Yorkshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-the-north-riding-of-yorkshire-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In The East Riding of Yorkshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-the-east-riding-of-yorkshire-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In Worcestershire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-worcestershire-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In Wiltshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-wiltshire-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In Wigtownshire … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-wigtownshire-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In Westmorland … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-westmorland-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In West Lothian … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-west-lothian-%e2%80%a6-shop-local
• If You Live Or Work In The West Midlands … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/if-you-live-or-work-in-the-west-midlands-shop-local
CHECK OUT all of our previous Upkar’s London/Shop Local! e-posters here:
• Upkar Says … If You Live In The London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley and Brent … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/upkar-says-%e2%80%a6-if-you-live-in-the-london-boroughs-of-barking-dagenham-barnet-bexley-and-brent-%e2%80%a6-shop-local
• Upkar Says … If You Live In The London Boroughs of Bromley, Camden, Croydon and Ealing … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/upkar-says-%e2%80%a6-if-you-live-in-the-london-boroughs-of-bromley-camden-croydon-and-ealing-%e2%80%a6-shop-local
• Upkar Says … If You Live In The London Boroughs of Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney and Hammersmith & Fulham … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/upkar-says-%e2%80%a6-if-you-live-in-the-london-boroughs-of-enfield-greenwich-hackney-and-hammersmith-fulham-%e2%80%a6-shop-local
• Upkar Says … If You Live In The London Boroughs of Haringey, Harrow, Havering and Hillingdon … SHOP LOCAL! http://nationalliberal.org/upkar-says-%e2%80%a6-if-you-live-in-the-london-boroughs-of-haringey-harrow-havering-and-hillingdon
Date: October 27, 2015
Categories: Party News