A week ago I wrote about the future of INDEPENDENCE Daily, describing the current situation and the alternatives available if things were left to drift. I asked for your opinions and proposals. You can read that appeal here.
Before I report on your proposals, let me thank all of you who wrote comment posts or sent me private emails: thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Summarising your thoughts, there was a general consensus that INDEPENDENCE Daily should keep going. A few of you suggested that turning the site into a weekly or twice-weekly publication might help to do so if there were no changes in providing content.
This is not a feasible option. Firstly, there’s the title: it says ‘Daily’ on the tin, so turning it into a weekly issue means publishing under a wrong label. “You could change the title”, you’d say. Yes – but INDEPENDENCE Daily is not a personal blog. Such change would involve a huge amount of behind-the-scenes fiddling with various web design issues. This would require a competent webmaster who’d need to spend hours if not days on tweaking everything which this change would imply. Thanks to covid and lockdowns, we don’t have such webmaster any longer.
“Going weekly” would also leave dangling the many subscribers who expect their daily email-newsletter. It would not attract writers who’d have to wait even longer to see their manuscript published. Above all, it would lose us occasional readers: who’d want a weekly confection of news that had become stale by the time of publication. Comment posters would have to wade through more and more comment posts accumulating below the articles: that quickly becomes off-putting.
It’s a good suggestion which would apply well to a personal blog but not to a site based on the appeal of a ‘Daily’. This leaves the problem of content: the articles which INDEPENDENCE Daily has relied on and must rely on to keep going.
Let me say here that I was and am deeply moved by the alacrity with which so many of you took to your typewriters, ahem: PCs, and sent in manuscripts. Thank you all! It is you who will keep the site going. I hope that those who’ve sent in their first or first few manuscripts will have noticed that writing isn’t as daunting as they thought and that we editors don’t bite but are here to help.
INDEPENDENCE Daily relies on you, the grassroot writers – we always have! So my plea to you is to keep writing and sending us your thoughts: this is the only way to keep INDEPENDENCE Daily afloat.
There were other proposals regarding the content, one of which was that a daily MSM-bashing wasn’t very productive. That is true, up to a point. It is eminently feasible to go from a ‘Daily Betrayal’ to a ‘Betrayal’ which looks at the most egregious scandals once, twice or three times a week. However – such change only helps if we have a sufficient number of your manuscripts we can publish every day. I know you all love Debbie’s daily News Review – but a site which has only that and perhaps the odd article is not attractive to old and new readers or writers!
In the end, it all boils down to this point: INDEPENDENCE Daily relies on your input, on the input of you grassroots who are as good at looking at issues as the ‘experts’, if not better – because you, not the ‘experts’, are most affected by the decisions made in Westminster.
There’s another aspect to be considered: many of you are campaigning on local issues. We’ve seen during the lockdowns that these aren’t ‘just local’. Think of the pop-up cycle paths which have suddenly ‘popped up’: local councils everywhere have suddenly ‘found’ the money to do so, what coincidence! Your local issues turn out to be national ones – but how would you know, how would others know unless they can read about it in INDEPENDENCE Daily!
Here’s another thing: many of you are keen letter writers, sending letters to your local MPs. Publishing those and the MPs response – if any – in INDEPENDENCE Daily demonstrates better than any learned article that our peacocks are the ones who are ‘in it together’, not we. This is food for any of your campaigns. Also consider that your manuscripts, once published, provides you with a link to which you can refer in your campaign leaflets or in your letters to MPs.
And finally: thank you all who have started to promote the site in comment posts or in your social media accounts. Please don’t stop! There are already new subscribers – welcome to you! I’d appeal to you especially to post comments and perhaps think of writing for us.
We can keep INDEPENDENCE Daily going provided that you, the grassroots, create the content which we are happy to publish. This makes it worthwhile to put in all the work, to promote the site to attract new readers and perhaps more grassroots writers. Let’s see how we fare in the coming months.
Thank you all – readers old and new, comment posters old and new and above all writers old and new: you’re the grassroots. INDEPENDENCE Daily is for you and by you. Without you all, without your input and effort, it doesn’t deserve to be kept alive. So let’s
KBO!
So, maybee instead of slanging off politics, we should slag off the thing which we object to or its cause ? And the Price of fish. ?
Hi Vivian,
Scroll down to the bottom of your comments site and you will see that the site is managed by CWD. Could they help you to delete
the word “daily” from the web design, that will possibly automatically change the terms of the newsletter from a daily to just
Indepemdemce.
© 2021 INDEPENDENCE Daily | Site managed by CWD TERMS OF SERVICE LINK DISCLAIMER PRIVACY POLICY COOKIE POLICY
No, because they’ve gone out of business and the one web master who has kindly helped when we had emergencies is not available.
Dear Viv,
You said: “Going weekly” would also leave dangling the many subscribers who expect their daily email-newsletter. It would not attract writers who’d have to wait even longer to see their manuscript published. Above all, it would lose us occasional readers: who’d want a weekly confection of news that had become stale by the time of publication. Comment posters would have to wade through more and more comment posts accumulating below the articles: that quickly becomes off-putting.
How about just dropping the word “daily” from the title, just “Independence” with everything remaining as before. Whoever designed this newsletter style can simply erase that one word “daily”, and you could post anything at any interval, that could be related to the situations of the four nations of the UK, even asking if Scottish independence is morally right or wrong? Paying too much into the EU’s Pension pot is totally detrimental to our poorer workers, especially with the ending of the furlough scheme and the £20 a week extra benefits, these are all worthy causes for UKIP to fight for, as is the government allowing giant European trawlers to decimate our seas – a veritable kick up the backside of redundant fishermen, whose livelihood had been sold down the river by EU Common Fishery policy. Instead of getting government help to reinstate their jobs, these fishermen are having their place of work, British Waters, trawled and vandalised by free-for-all EU boats, likened to Angela Merkel’s call for all economic migrants worldwide, to come and work in Europe.
All these topics if covered properly will stir any patriotic heart to join in UKIP’s new-found voice!
Thank you, Jean – but dropping ‘Daily’ from the title would not change any of the arguments I listed and which you quote.
Yes, but it would mean you, Vivian and Debbie, are not Tied to producing the newsletter daily, if no events of importance occur. Two Or three round-ups per week is better for your busy schedule than seven daily search for items to include, that will leave you time to research topics of national interest to rally round those keen to see more of “Believe in Britain” attitudes. A new vibrant voice Could bring back readers serious in getting the UK prosper outside the EU. Many UKIP leaders have not contributed to this newsletter for a long time. They need to be brought back into the fold, to be needed to contribute to incite enthusiasm for candidates to stand for local council elections, to build up a bigger followers before members left to join the Brexit Party, now the Reform Party. This newsletter need to be spelling out what we need to do to be electable, serious in taking on responsibility if elected. Serious stuff. Criticism alone cannot, cannot get the UKIP Party to represent electorates. We need the nation to see we are doers, able to take on government responsibilities and.do what is necessary on Council levels.
T G Spoke, you said that “politics was universally ignored politely”; could that be because in polite society, no one must bring up the subject of Religion or Politics? Well, Religion seemed to have taken a back-seat in our daily life, may be politics is also on the wane for many people, not ignored but simply forgotten. So long as there are people interested enough in the money and position to take on the job of governing the nation, most contented folks just sit back comfortably with families and friends after their one political act of voting, regardless of whichever Party won.
This is why the EU was able to hoodwink not just some of the people some of the time, but almost all of the people and the government for over 45 years to hand over large sums of taxpayers’ money to build the European bureaucracy at the expense of our poor and lower-paid workers. How many of us noticed British fishermen’s livelihoods were slowly being decimated? Sold or burned their boats and went on the dole?
Not until housewives realised that fish was becoming more expensive than steaks! And the nation did not realise we all had to obey EU rules even when only 8% of businesses trade with them! And many politicians and Parliamentarians didn’t realise all our laws were not made by the British Government. Even former Prime Minister David Cameron thought he could simply go to an EU summit and ask for tax concession on female sanitary towel! Such was the inertia of contentment, there was no urgent “need to know” moments until it was too late. Now, five years after voting NO to remaining in the EU, we seem to be content with paying then over £41 billion to take care of European Union’s future pension and bonuses. Spare a thought for those of us in Britain who retired from low-paid jobs without any pension or savings and Food Banks were their safety nets. That’s when they paid attention to what UKIP had to say. Thank goodness for people like Nigel Farage, Mike Hookhem, Ray Finch and many UKIP MEPs.
Viv, I can appreciate your hard work keeping ‘Independence Daily’ going, and I thank you for it. Many years ago my husband and I belonged to a Canal Cruising Club and were persuaded to edit a monthly newsletter, which was supposed to keep club members informed about everything and anything to do with the Club, and mooring and cruising on British Inland Waterways. The Newsletter was fairly successful initially as there was quite a lot going on at that time in respect of new rules and regulations to do with boat safety etc, but we gradually found it more and more difficult to produce an interesting publication on a regular basis without the input of other club members; and this in spite of inviting people to become involved. We gave it up in the end and, interestingly, no one else volunteered to carry on where we left off.
I too am relieved to hear that the site will be continuing for now and will try and persuade some like-mined souls to subscribe too (thankfully there are still some of them out there willing to put their heads above the parapet). I am also thinking about an article a may write too so looking forward to KBO.
Very pleased to read this. So glad it is going forward. I agree about not reducing the output. The best way is to be brave and maintain or increase output imho. But promotion is essential. Given a flow of material (the blue touchpaper) promotion will be the flame.
Viv. I’ve often wanted to make this comment. Now I will. I frequently read the ‘Related Posts’ that appear under articles. They are very useful and informative.
That is yet another reason for keeping Independence Daily alive in it’s present form.
Good-on-yer, Viv!
Seconded
I am, among others, one of those who often posts ‘off topic’ (off the topic or tenuously linked to that days’ write up anyway). This is never intended to ignore the days’ topic, always so patiently deconstructed by Viv and other commenters.
It is just that, with I think justification, what I might call the regular reader community or the Leaver community shares interest in not just the Brexit aftermath but every aspect of ‘betrayal’ by our masters; the non-demic fraud, the non-vaccines, the climate non-emergency and the very real emergency at root of all these, that is the Great Reset. Personally I think the latter will all to soon dwarf the man-man Covid crisis. Ironic, is it not, that the man-made climate crisis is not man made, nor a crisis, whilst a genuinely man-made crisis for humanity is being engineered in plain sight.
So ID offers the opportunity to spread observations, information and links revealing truths on all these subjects to like-minds who hopefully will widen that spread.
Bombshell is an over-used term, but I have two links that I shall post tomorrow. Spoilers: What company could patent a treatment before the ‘accidental’ escape of a ‘novel’ agent that it was designed to treat, and the work on which was ‘top secret’ in any case? And did you know that the Spanish Flu was neither Spanish nor flu, and you will never guess who was behind it?
Perhaps, alongside the usual daily write-up, there could be a forum for posting ‘off-topic’ but very much ‘hot-topic’ discussion and links?
Just a though for the mix.
The items in your second paragraph do warrant particular investigation and publicising far and wide. A catalogue of pertinent references and those in opposition might be useful to have, particularly to those of us who might write the odd article….or find other means to oppose the government narrative.
Great idea! But well referenced to put the detail at one’s fingertips.
Thanks Viv/Debbie/administrators and all the writers/contributors for your decision to keep the show on the road.
Dear Viv,
Obviously, I am not a story writer…Though I do love to read them. Also, I prefer textbooks. But the best books are those which combine facts with a story line. I am not alone, as demonstrated by the success of such books as ” The Arcanum ” or ” Longitude ” or whatever. , and the huge popularity of Science Fiction post war., whose aim was to keep to fact except for ONE scientific conjecture… A craze that started by collections of short stories ( Astounding ) of what would be nowadays be rejected on length grounds, since the modern book market demands at least one and a half inch thick ( 3 cms ?).
I have also trawled over your past articles from years ago, and theres some brilliant By persons of stature..
T. G. Spokes. Historical Fiction books, are supposed to combine Fact with a Storyline. I think Ken Follett is an excellent author. You may enjoy him.
Douglas Adam was an excellent example of Science Fiction. You can probably still get his work.
You may not be a story writer but you frequently comment. Viv has said that helps too.
Speaking for myself I have found ID to be a unique educational tool for politics. Starting in 1993 at a lecture by some bloke drumming up business for a political group and from whom I bought 50 little gold £ badges. I went to various lecture or meetings held by all sorts of peopleamongst whom I only remember Kilroy Silk and his vengeful ‘Verity ‘ or ‘Veracity or ?
Anyway, until I retired,, living in nice hotels, sought out by hopefuls, bored out of my skull, avoiding the most beautiful of females, I took to going to meetings of the wierdest causes for entertainment . Anyway I discovered certain similarities in all these meetings, protest groups, lectures, speeches etc certain pecularities. Oneof which was that they were all like secondary schools children, but with lots of seperate structures. And during play times, differing strataemerge. I noticed this first by playing football in breaks. I you bully a footballer, you will suffer.. There were hundreds of shifting relationships, Stamp collectors, Ice sliders in winter, obscure local games, Conkers, and sooner or later everybody is good at something. Except funnily enough Politics which was universally ignored politely. And nearly everybody tries most of them at some time.
Could this energy be tapped into in someway. for example as I have previously suggested in some way offering educational benefits et al.
One thing to bear in mind at all times. INNOVATION IS INCFEDIBLY EXPENSIVE. Which is why cars have not evolved fota hundred and twenty years. When did you last see a different laptop or a new keyboard etc.
( Astounding )I sold a story to Analog, the title that a revamped Astounding took. My best sale by far — and last.
JF
Wow.. I can only applaud
Could this be an example ? of strategy for Viv. to consider eg..Re -merge with a new UKIP. New constitution. A new Advisery Committee, . Keep what remains of value , ditch the rest, re-organise to allow those who actually want to be independent. ID has assets UKIP has assets many are compromised by individuals actions. Mend them. When approached by supporters do not bully into submission as do ukip, help them help you.
You could save each other. Their website is derisery ans just another wall.and letter box for money.
Interesting point TG. Is UKIP still run by a bunch of lawyers? Definitely not the sort of people I would support now.