Dear readers, dear authors and comment post writers, dear subscribers!
I make this announcement with a heavy heart and great sadness: INDEPENDENCE Daily is going to close from tomorrow.
This decision has not been taken lightly or without pain, but it has been on the cards for months now. Running the site has become unsustainable, not least because the effort we all, but especially Debbie and myself, have been putting in daily is no longer bringing returns, returns in the form of reader numbers, of debates in the comments, of propagating the site elsewhere. After my appeal in June this year, there was a brief flurry of articles but it turned out to be a straw fire, quickly burning out.
What I observed then has become even more evident in these weeks gone by: reading fashions have changed, people are spending more time on watching videos by journalists outside the MSM, people are preferring to listen to podcasts, people are not interested in reading, never mind writing. This fashion has hit other websites and blogs as well – it doesn’t apply only to those who visit INDEPENDENCE Daily. It is simply a fact of that ‘New Normal’ which has been creeping in ever since the first Lockdown.
Add in the fact that, since the beginning of this year, both Debbie and I have had huge health issues. These issues have had consequences: our daily publications of the News Review and the Betrayal Column have become ever more difficult and hard to produce. Those who took up the slack for some weeks earlier this year know how exhausting it is to work to a timeline, day in, day out. Those who have written articles, especially those who sent one in every week, know how much work goes into producing them.
A site without content cannot survive. Moreover, a site, run down to provide just a ‘notice board’ for those wanting to draw attention to videos and podcasts by linking to them, still needs editors who do the needful, who moderate the comments. Our editors have done this ‘for free’, donating their time while having to earn their living. This was fine and was fun as long as articles came in, as long as debates took place. Their efforts would be wasted on just moderating a notice board.
That’s why INDEPENDENCE Daily will close from tomorrow, Sunday 17th October onwards.
There won’t be any Newsletter sent out after that date. I apologise to all the new subscribers who subscribed in the last few weeks – thank you for your interest, and I’m sorry that we’re no longer going to provide you with interesting material.
However, the site will remain accessible – you’ll still be able to read all that has been published in the last three years. You can still comment on the articles published in the last two weeks – comments on single articles close after 14 days.
Moreover, in order to keep the archive accessible, some new items will be published, irregularly, perhaps every month or two weeks. Do bookmark the URL of the site and check in now and then.
It remains for me to say a heartfelt thank-you – that list is long …
My first thanks go to Debbie who has been the mainstay of this site for years and years. Without her I’d have been forced to throw in the towel much sooner. I also thank our editors Mark Angelides and Laura Valkovic who have been duty editors for a number of years. I thank especially our duty editor Lexi Dick who signed up after my appeal in June and has done sterling work. I finally thank Jack Thomas who also signed up after my appeal and has been looking after comments when his time permitted.
Next, my warm thanks go to all the writers, the authors who have sent in their manuscripts over the years. Thank you all for your copy – without your content this site would have folded years ago – nay, it might never have got off the ground.
And last but not least – a heartfelt thank you to all who kept commenting and engaging in debates. You kept the site alive. Do check in from time to time, to see if there’s ‘something new’ on which you’d want to comment.
Thank you all – it’s good-bye for now but not yet farewell.
Viv
What is the “Going postal” site and do you have a link please?
Going Postal – https://going-postal.com
Just read Going-Postal today and saw someone mention that ID was ending. Take your ease, both of you, and consider IndependenceDaily to be a job well done. Look after your health and maybe we’ll see you again doing new things in the future.
With everything going on, especially the wholly unacceptable actions of Boris & Co. with respect to the “Pandemic” and “Global Warming” we need to stick together in our opposition. I’m sure that we all get more than enough email junk already but, given the essential nature of our opposition to government policy, we need to continue to share and discuss.
Perhaps in the short term we could set up a simple email group to share information and ideas which might otherwise escape us? Just a thought…
Sorry to hear your news Viv and Debbie. I’d like to echo the sentiments so warmly expressed in the earlier comments. Thanks and very well done.
Right Viv today is a new day, the crying must be over.
Sorry to appear a little hard hearted, but you have obviously left some if not all of us with a problem.
Some of us are taught a problem is an opportunity.
The problem is you wrote a brilliant “Betrayal” column, unfortunately the betrayal still continues, indeed multiplies, to my knowledge your format is unique ( you should have been snapped up by a courageous MSM years ago).
But your retiral leaves a gaping hole in the market, what i am trying to say as nicely as possible, because I do know the state of yours and Debbie’s health and feelings of burn out is that perhaps your “occasional” forays into print in ID could keep us up to date on the Betrayal Situation.
I write this in all humility and, I hope friendship, but I believe your crockery deserves a rest, as does the wall and TV screen you wish to preserve.
Thank you Viv and Debbie for all that you have done.
I note the web site will continue, so perhaps a change of frequency and content might appeal: how about “Independence Weekly” (or Fortnightly) and focusing on a single topic in the news. A single item would address the argument for and against an issue that you have chosen, and we, the readers, could make our reasoned response. My hope is that contributions would be on the basis of evidence and relevant knowledge. We could comment on how persuasive we found a particular argument.
Also, we could suggests topics.
Once you have chosen the topic and date of publication you would let us know and we could contribute our reasoned arguments on one or more aspects of the issue; you could then use such contributions as you see fit. Thus you, and Debbie, would not have to write the whole thing yourself.
Every Sunday I supermarket shop for my little luxuries , then Lunch whilst reading Sunday DT. I would be more than happy to downgrade The Sunday DT to teatime or Friday, and replace it with ‘ Betrayal ‘.. I also force myself to read one Observer, one Guardian, One Express, one idiot’s Independent, and light comedy with the Mail and particularly the Express which I have read avidly about Rupert Bear and Adam the gardener since 1936.. I would even forego the several of the latter for the benefit of Debbies news on say Wednesday.
Thanks TG. I’ll speak to Viv.
Heartfelt thanks to you & Viv & Co for all you have achieved. Stay safe in these turbulent, confusing times when we need Common sense.
Thank you for all that you have done over the years.
Sad news Viv. I’ve greatly enjoyed ID and would like to express my thanks for all the hard work you have poured into it.
Enjoy your hard earned break.
Your reasoning re reading these days is, alas, a sign of the times. I far rather read than listen because I can skim but then I am older and it’s not what younger folk do these days. I do wish you well and hope to see the occasional article. At least you will not have the pressure of timelines to deal with and in the end we are all frail human beings who must firstly look after ourselves and then deal with the rest.
So many past articles mirrored my own thinking that I usually felt I was reading the words of someone who was as sane as me but expressed it better. I hope Reason will return but I fear not in my lifetime. Education has diminished the youth of today who think, if they think, in preconditioned ways. Universities have gone off the track of objectivity – and here we all are getting ready for climatic doom which of course will not happen but that is of no account.
Put your feet up and have a cup of tea knowing that there are hundreds/thousands who wish you well.
Thank you for your efforts, they are appreciated ; enjoy your break and #1, look after your health !
P.S. Were you “Collie Mum ” in the days when disqus was “free” ?
She still is Colliemum over on Going Postal
Indeed, and I may start returning once I’ve tidied up the admin part of the site.
I was indeed and still am! After all, why would I give up my screen name which I’ve used for nearly a decade …!
🙂
This is sad news. Thank you for all your efforts. The nearest alternative I know is the excellent Daily Sceptic and Unherd. From a more USA perspective The Epoch Times is excellent also the Gatestone Institute……… dailysceptic.org
Thank you Viv. Also Debbie and everybody. .. All of you. You’ve kept me sort of sane , particularly for these last couple of years.
Thank you and good luck.
Glen Spokes
Thank you both, so much. You kept hope alive in the build-up to Brexit. Often you were a light in the darkness when all other lights went out! We’ve been fortunate to have you on our side.
I have read all supporting comments 41 and concur with all. I have been a daily reader going back to when it was UKIP DAILY. Many blessings and many thanks for all you have done and your dedicated Team.
Dear Viv and Debbie, Reading this article today was the worst new I have had in a good while I have been reading UKIP Daily and then Independence Daily since 2014 and it comes to mind that I only have myself to blame, I have drank deeply of information on this site on a daily basis and contributed nothing. I could not believe that anyone would be interested in anything I would have to say. The standard and depth of articles from you Viv and the information from Debbie on the news papers have made think that these people can’t produce this volume of journalism on there own, awesome!
I have carefully read all the comments and felt some affection for all the commenters and certainly enjoyed them all.
I give you sincere thanks for all the pleasure I have received from this site over the years.
Very best wishes.
Robert.
More heartfelt thanks for all your kind words which came in after my earlier comment!
I think I need to clarify a point: this site isn’t gone, vanished into cyeprspace. It is alive and will be kept alive by us publishing an item now and then. Look at it as being in hibernation.
It’s not the case that Debbie or I don’t now have a place where to publish our things when we feel ready to write again – we do, because, to repeat: this site ain’t dead, it’s gone into deep sleep. Also – we’ve done this because we cannot sustain a daily production, certainly not at the moment.
So a monthly might be possible in due course, as might be something every two weeks. We’ll have to see.
At the moment both Debbie and I are burned out. We’ve been ‘at it’ for many years, with no respite. Finding a place for us to publish something when we have got something to write about is not an issue.
Meanwhile, you can all help by posting comments to previous articles (it might take time before they appear – we’re no longer glued to our PCs for the time being) and by checking out the site from time to time. As i wrote earlier – I’d alert readers by email and hope the’ll email others.
So thank you again for your kind words, for your understanding and for your helpful proposals.
Please consider yourselves all virtually hugged.
I’d like to echo Viv’s thanks to all who have sent us good wishes. We are very grateful for your kind words and, more than that, your following and reading the site.
Over the years we have both worked our socks off, Viv putting in 10- to 12-hour days on many occasions and a good deal of time on every single day. I have brought you what I think is pertinent news items seven days a week for something like six years, including Christmas Day (I had Christmas last year off!) and from my hospital bed on a borrowed laptop.
Now we’re both ready for a break. Maybe we’ll be back to publish on Independence Daily in a little while – we’ll have to see.
My best wishes to all readers, writers and contributors.
I am gutted to hear this news but completely understand the reasons behind it. ID arrives late into my inbox which I know is an email provider issue (it doesn’t affect junk mail)! Everything has been said that can be said and I will continue to check regularly for any posts. My heartfelt thanks to Viv, Debbie and all the team and amazing contributors for one of the very few publications around that believes in truth. If a sub-group is formed I am happy for my email to be passed on. THANK YOU to one and all.
Thank you Vivian and Debbie for such a wonderful daily read and theopportunity of connecting with like minded people in now mad world. Best wishes for the future and hope to see you back sometime in the future.
agree with all that has been said, opening my email will not be same without INDEPENDENCE DAILY . wish you all the best
A million thanks to Viv, Debbie and all on ID for their sterling service in the great cause of liberty.
Viv and Debbie and all the team.
As others have said today – Couldn’t you continue by publishing less frequently, like weekly? Could you make us pay for it? Or even allow advertising?
Sorry to be a nuisance. I really do not understand how these things work. And you tried to explain at 3.26pm.
It looks from that as though you will sometimes be there.
Dear Vivian,
ever since Harriet drew my attention to your contributions in ID, I have read them day by day and in this way I had a highly informative connection to the UK. Now that’s over, too – as well as recently a local blog to which I had contributed for years …
All the best to you, and I hope we will hear from each other again from time to time.
Viv and Debbie. I felt very sad when I read your announcement this morning. I understand that you both could not go on and on day in day out commenting on the days news. I will miss ID as I live in France and your comments have helped me to understand better the problems which are daily between the French and British authorities Brexit and the Treaties. Take that well earned rest Viv and Debbie. You are both very special Ladies. It will not be the same without you. Sincerly. Paul
Everything has been said. I have really appreciated your work and have taken a look at ID by nine most mornings for reassurance that I’m not the only person in the country that wonders what has happened to common sense. I will miss your razor sharp insights Viv, the potted news from Debbie, Flyer’s dot joining, Norman’s pithy observations, and all of the other contributors’ thought provoking articles. A huge thank you one and all.
Dear Viv and Debbie,
Thanks for all your hard work over the years and my best wishes for your health and well-being in the future. I will miss ID as others here have said and look forward to a possible resurrection of some sort.
You and your contributors deserve a rest and recuperation time. Once you have had time to reflect carefully on the past and progress of ID I do hope you can keep it going in some form. Perhaps you could also consider if joining or combining with a similarly oriented publication would enable you to continue analysing and writing with all the expertise that you have demonstrated so impressively in this publication but at a more comfortable pace. Then we your followers and supporters could continue to savour your perspicacity and add our comments.
Best wishes.
I would endorse the thanks given to Viv, Debbie and the others behind the scenes by yourself Goerge and all the other commenters. Mornings are not going to be the same.
Could I suggest that Viv, Debbie & Co. contribute to TCW Defending Freedom ( previously The Conservative Woman) and let Kathy there do the heavy lifting and Disqus the drudge of moderating. I have long regarded both TCW and ID to be complementary sites and certainly my goto places each morning.
Our mornings will not be then same. But I fully understand. Your effort has been monumental. You have done wonders. Echoing everything Kim said, I shall miss the regular commenters, yes even Harry, and the obscure links they often provided. Sorry to hear of the health issues. Hopefully some good nights’ sleep and a less hectic routine will help. You so deserve it.
As Pauline says, after yesterday’s horror this is almost a double bereavement, although no way comparable.
My very best wishes to you and the team, and thank you for all you have done.
Let me thank you all who’ve commented here so far – for your lovely, kind words! I treasure every single one.
Also, I want to reiterate that this isn’t a farewell, it is only a good-bye for the time being.
There will have to be ‘items’, i.e. articles, which need to be published to keep the site ticking over. so please do check the URL from time to time. If I publish something, I” try and alert the of you of whom I have an email address. in good old fashion ‘before ‘the web’, you could then alert others via email .. it worked for the Quakers …
Debbie and I will see how we fare in the coming weeks – but in any case: thank you so much for all your comments – today and on previous articles*)!
And do keep writing!
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*) Comments are accessible on this and articles published in the last 10 days – but moderation will be a bit patchy because we’ll not be able to keep an eye on things as we used to – for obvious reasons.
Thank you so much for all your efforts. We never know who influences whom but I feel that your common sense and practical view of events must have had an impact. Well done and good luck, Charles
It won’t be the same without you and my daily fix of commonsense. A huge loss.
Vivian and Debbie,thank you both so much, and thank you to the other contributors too. You have enlightened me to so many of the lunacies of the world, and saved me a huge amount of crockery by warning us of the really crazy stuff in advance. I will sorely miss your wit, wisdom and sheer hard work.
Keep well,
Mark.
A million thanks for the prodigious output produced by you Debbie and others. I fully understand the probs but will miss the practical info and support received.
All the best to you both and other contributors and I hope we shall still get the occasional scintillating analysis of the big events.
I am very very sad over this, but very very grateful for all your hard work Viv and Debbie. and the other people behind the scenes.
I hope these chronicles are preserved in their entirety, to be brought out at a later date when hopefully those who have led us to this catastrophe are brought to account.
I would like to see them read in decades to come also as a lesson for future generations. And preserved as unique literary pieces, a colossal achievement in their own right.
Mary, you “hope these chronicles are preserved in their entirety”. So do I, but Viv says in her announcement that “you’ll still be able to read all that has been published in the last three years.”
From that it looks as if maybe the archive in the years before the last three will not be available to read online. I think UKIP Daily started in about October 2013, and changed to Independence Daily in about October 2018.
It has been a light in the darkness. Many thanks Debbie & Viv, and the rest of the team.
Viv & Bev & All
many helped with Brexit.
But some, such as yourselves, really put their shoulders to the wheel. You can be justifiably proud of the Independence Daily.
Thank you,
Keith
(a Reader).
Dear Viv, I’m so sorry to learn of your decision but can appreciate that the time spent must have been enormous. I along with all the other comments thank you for your outstanding work and hope that perhaps the site can be resurrected for say once a week sometime in the future.
“Independence Weekly” why not?
I could never quite understand how the site could operate without some advertising so there again you must have borne the brunt of the expenses involved.
I hope you can now take it easy and reflect on what the future holds because as the old adage goes ” as one door closes another always opens”.
With my kindest regards,
Geoffrey
PS. I’ve joined the SDP where they also ask for written contributions. Their website gives masses of details on their policy proposals to which I could find little to disagree with. It’s only £10 to join and for that your can share your interests with the likes of Rod Liddle, Patrick O’Flynn, Brendan O’Neill and David Starkey to name but a few. The SDP is pro-Brexit and a real alternative to the LibLabCons.
Sad news indeed. Top website. First goto read. Must say thanks and best wishes to viv and debbie and all those involved writing and commenting. I can well understand the intensity of news analysis on a daily basis but to maintain such an outstanding standard must be relentlessly stressful! Best of British. Regards Matt.
I hope Viv and Debbie realise that they have been appreciated by more than the dwindling band of us that can still read. Changing fashions, an increasing tendency to quick fixes by video on phones and tablets, of headlines only on twitter, is perhaps part of it, but one senses a growing fatalism in politics. I think a lot of people have become unengaged and not just from Independence Daily. It wasn’t just socialsiing that was locked down during the pandemic which squeezed out independence of mind in so many.
I share in everyone’s sense of loss and wish Viv and Debbie the very best for the future.
Totally agree Stout Yeoman, with each of your comments there (1.47pm).
It really seems as though fewer and fewer people now are willing to READ let alone think!
The sense of fatalism about what TPTB do, was there before the ‘pandemic’. The lock downs turned people inward so they watched the T.V. for ‘news’ and swallowed the propaganda they were served.
And now we are to lose this forum!
Tremendously sad news Viv, Debbie and all,
I’ve read the eulogies so far and can only echo their praise for providing us with such a wonderful varied and pertinent commentary and ammunition in the endless fight for Sovereignty of this nation and the protection and preservation of all the freedoms we have the birthright to..
It has been a long journey from the forum on UKIP, through UKIP Daily originating with Brian (? Sorry forgot his name), your taking over as E-I-C and the full flowering of this veritable rose among the thorns Independence Daily.
You, your team and it has provided us all with a voice in all affairs, which is probably unobtainable elsewhere.
I have regarded ID much as a club and too have valued all contributors as fellow members and friends and supporters in their comments, widening my thoughts, knowledge of affairs and thus my own comments..
I echo the wish that we can all stay in touch if we want to, I and am sure many of the others value the “leads and Windows” Flyer and many others have drawn our attention to, I wish this service to continue. WHERE NOW WILL I FIND IT?????? Beginning TODAY (I certainly would never have heard of the absolute rebuttal of Global Warming that turned up on a Bruges Group Blog)
On reflection I think what I am trying to say Viv’s news is an absolute disaster, where else are we to find such a forum which is so part of our lives?
Finally a truly personal thanks to Viv, she is the lady who coached me into the ability to write articles and to find myself on the Internet as Roger Turner AUTHOR, for that I am absolutely chuffed!!!
One final final note though, in this accessible Archive, I know I will be able to find articles I have written,but over the years I have made comments on other folks articles, will there be an archive with my name on it where these have been stored? Or are they lost forever.
Roger Turner at 1.40pm. You are one of the people on here that I would really like to keep in touch with.
You have talked so much good sense about the global warming scam and the idiotic measures to overcome it. They so much need to be rebutted. And I believe I have seen you try to get your voice heard on other sites too.
Any way:-
MESSAGE FOR VIV:- If Roger Turner is willing, please let the 2 of us have each other’s email address.
Yes Pauline, I’m fully in agreement with that,in fact I would be happy for anybody with agreement to have access to each other, it might be a way of a nucleus of us keeping in touch behind the scenes and passing on leads we have found useful or interesting and being able to keep together?
So please Viv if you would action this request, I would be grateful,but if any of our “club” friends wish to be part of an Internet circle and read this so we are all cc,d (cc-red as it were) perhaps they will let you know
“It has been a long journey from the forum on UKIP, through UKIP Daily originating with Brian (? Sorry forgot his name)”….. His name was Brian Otridge, Roger.
Thanks Ralph, of course Otridge
Any news of where we are for gathering in the interim?
I’m suffering terrible withdrawal symptoms, bereft in fact
Thank you for the high quality of your articles which always made interesting reading. Your site closure should be seen as a conclusive victory for the accomplishment of your patriotic message, a message which can only grow in strength.
I hope you Viv, and all the team are well and having a deserved rest hope to see you all again one day.
Thank you so much for your hard work over the years, and never think that it wasn’t appreciated – it was, tremendously.
I entirely agree with all the comments posted. It is a sad day, but times move on.
Viv and Debbie will be sorely missed – but perhaps we can coax them back in another form on occasion ?
For those who would like to keep writing (regularly or occasionally) for an outlet of not dissimilar style and viewpoint, I invite you to consider writing for http://www.freecitizen.uk. I can’t speak for reach – I’ve only been going for a year so it’s relatively tiny, but it’s time to start thinking of it as a team effort rather than as my own personal site. There is simply so much that could do with intelligent comment these days, not to mention creative destruction.
Email me at jimm@freecitizen.uk if you would like to talk about it (or you can email me from any of my web-pages – if you are using a phone then you could have to scroll down a long way!). All constructive conversation invited.
Jim
Glad I looked back on here Jim Makin. I’ve written down those links and will definitely look into it.
I’m having computer problems at the moment.
O.M.G. Just as I was wondering how much worse life was going to get.
You probably can not imagine how bad I feel at the moment. And of course, no body owes me anything.
But the fact is coming onto this site each day has been just about the only scrap of pleasure available to me.
Viv and Debbie,*
For evil to triumph all that is necessary is for good to be silent. You not only spoke, you gave a voice to others, me among them. The good you spoke and wrote is out there in the words of all who learnt from you and your work.
In the days of Bulletin boards I got friendly with a fantasy writer who one day suddenly said that she felt her life had been without achievement or purpose. This was wrong, gshe had encouraged and helped dozens of aspiring writers, but she wouldn’t be comforted.
So I gave her a parable.
As you walk down a midnight street with just a few lights holding back the shadows, sometimes you will pass a pitch black alleyway
There are people in those alleyways, marooned in the dark. They will see you, hear you whistling or singing quietly and they will see the light and feel the lift of the heart. They will no longer feel alone.
You, collective you *the whole team, did that for your readers through some very difficult and depressing times. For that light, that quiet singing, that whistling into the dark, thank you.
JF
Dear Viv and Debbie
Thank you very much for the work that you have carried out in producing Independence Daily.
The 2016 Referendum gave people like me, like thousands of other British Subjects, a political voice, the first one since the UK became a part of the EU. The so called ‘Common Market’ referendum was carried out by a pro EEC government that was no better than a confidence trickster.
I consider that non of the UKParliament had any right at all to make the UK a part of an alien organisation. The UK Parliaments have shown that they more often than not they have no respect for the UK voter and even hold him/her in contempt.
At least the UK has Boris Johnson and Lord Frost instead of Mrs. T (Appeaser) May and Oily Robbins to defend the UK with the so called law abiding EU that negotiates by making threats and allows a member country to make threats against the UK.
Thank you for your inspiration, knowledge and work you have carried out. You will be missed. Enjoy your new found free time.
Highest Regards
David T.
Thank you David. It’s been great fun working on Independence Daily and it’s predecessor UKIP Daily although Viv has worked far harder than I – it’s been almost a full time job for her. But it’s good to know our efforts were appreciated and you never know, after we’ve had a rest for a bit, we may just come back and start up again. Keep an eye out!
I ‘d like it if you came back.
Perhaps as a weekly, much less work for you.
For once HA, I agree with you.
Many many thanks and very best wishes. We will all miss your insights and the sheer quality of the contributors.
I’m very sorry to hear this Viv. I will really miss your analysis of the mainstream media which I used to look forward to every day. Thank you so much for your tireless efforts over the years. I wish you the very best for the future.
I would like to add my sincere gratitude, thanks and, enormous admiration to Viv + Debbie + friends n team for all, its, to numerous headings/titles/subjects/observations of the past. I have always stored each days contribution since first becoming aware(512 copies) and have made some “Replys” also.
I have always thought, when reading each day, that these people should be ‘Heading’
a political party. Its never to late eh?
A daily ‘Treasure’ by Angels of common sense.
I wish you all, the very best of comfortable good health and warm happiness.
Viv I am so sorry that it has come to this. You and Debbie have worked your socks off for this site and have served the people who have read and commented, superlatively! You did warn us all that it was becoming difficult to carry the burden of production day after day. We did not listen! Although, some of us have commented from time to time that the work that you put, in ploughing through endless grim and depressing MSM sites and elsewhere, to bring our attention to the dastardly dealings within the Establishment must be taking a toll on your mental if not physical health!
Personally, I have made reading the contents of the daily news, daily betrayal and other articles my first ‘go-to’ source everyday. I have enjoyed commenting and interacting with other commenters on matters of mutual interest.
I have also enjoyed writing my ‘Grumpy Old Woman’ articles (sadly diminished in recent weeks due to my ‘caring’ duties for my husband) and loved reading and responding to the comments resulting therefrom! I shall be sorry to lose the opportunity to write more in the future.
I sincerely hope that it will be found to be possible for a way to be found for the site to be resurrected. Clearly, to do this there will have to be more and regular help and input from others rather than just the ‘faithful few’ carrying the daily burden.
So to close, I wish to say a heartfelt thank you to Vivian, Debbie and all the back-room boys and girls who have given us all such a solid and interesting focus on the affairs of the Country and the wider World over the years. I wish you all the very best for the future and a genuine hope that your health and happiness can improve with the time to rest and recuperate. Don’t be strangers! Let us all hear from you occasionally to know how you are getting on! It has been a stoical but determined band of pilgrims passing through Independence Daily over the years, Let us not lose sight of each other nor the great cause of freedom for which we all strive!
The UKIP Daily and latterly the Independence Daily has for me been a terrific support and interest for a number of years. Even so I am a relative late comer. Although I seem to spend most of my time behind the loop the continuous flow of information put onto this site over the years has kept me informed and supported my convictions.
The quality and service provided by the ID team is not lost, it will never be lost. The effort and work that has gone into this site has been a part of my political evolution and understanding. Understanding the past as we know is important in making the best of the future.
Nothing is for ever and this time was surely going to come eventually. We may all be facing another big step in the rate of change in the years to come which we will have to deal with.
In employment I saw very little of colleagues which in a way suited me. But over many years you get to know people just by the occasional contact, and friendships are established with seemingly little tangible support and knowledge of those friends. That is how I feel with many of the commenters and writers on ID. If there was a way to keep in touch then I for one would be pleased to do so.
Another loss for me is the ability to express myself. The comments I make have not only enabled me to respond but also get things off my chest. Not being a wordsmith or qualified meant that the articles written took a lot thought and care and I never once regretted the effort. This for me puts into perspective the amazing ability of Viv, Debbie and others who have written such clever and informative work.
In the end it has not only been the topical content of ID. The spirit of those who campaigned for their country’s independence survived in UD and ID. The ethos of those involved rose above party politics and the destructive ideologies. We doubt, we question and we value our Independence. Therefore my heart is heavy too. But I can only say thank you for so much and hope that the ID team can catch up on all those things that must have taken second place for so long.
I can entirely empathise with you Kim. This site has given us all the opportunity to ‘get things off our chests’ and it will be greatly missed. Chatting with you all on here has been cathartic. I hope we can all meet again one day in hopefully, happier times. Let’s hope that life for us all takes a happier and less threatening turn for the better.
This news is a huge loss to me but I fully accept the understandable reasons outlined above by Viv. I don’t think any expression of gratitude from me can sufficiently reflect the enormous energy, time and committment the team at Independence Daily have selflessly given over the years of its publication. . I thank you all most sincerely – you are indeed very special people deserving our eternal thanks for all you have done.
Don’t be too sad Viv, yours, Deb’s and others writings have helped more people than you will ever realise. I’d even say you helped Brexit get done. With the ammunition from the pieces you wrote we could convert the uneducated to our way of thinking.
Good luck for the future.
Chris.
Thank you for your tremendous efforts.
I concur with all supporting comments. Thank you! Ernie
+1 from me. I fully Agree with the sentiments expressed, far better than I could muster. many Thanks