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“We are about to enter the era of the “Far right.” Kids are going to be taught to read rather than imagine they are born in the wrong body. Being white skinned won’t be a mark of the devil. TV and film will be about plot and casting rather than how many non binary lesbian people of colour and girth you can cram into a drama. We will stop worshipping the sun god and perhaps take some time to get to know the actual one. Victimhood will be frowned upon. Health services will be expected to stop dancing for TikTok and do what they are paid to do. The police will be asked to get off their knees and regain public trust again. Fear will be replaced by hope. It’s going to be much nicer than the woke period, where men had periods. The homophobic trans crap will be done. Content of character will matter more than colour of skin. It’s going to be good. And to those of you who don’t like it. Tough. We have had enough.”
For once, I agree with everything Fox has written.
Whatever one may have thought about Sinn Fein and its military wing (the IRA) in the past, at least it was an honest and clear expression of political will. Now, it has become not dissimilar to the other fake Celtic “national” parties such as the SNP and Plaid Cymru, in other words a farrago of “anti-racism”, “anti-sexism”, pro-mass immigration, hostile to any true expression of European culture. Result? Most Irish people have turned against it, and those who are still voting for Sinn Fein are doing so mostly for reasons of misguided nostalgia, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in
Again, for once (?) I agree with what Jayda Fransen says here. Farage is indeed a System stooge, but sometimes things have to work out in particular, and sometimes unexpected, ways.
Yes, Farage and Reform UK are not social-national and, yes, the existence of Reform UK is blocking the emergence of anything new that is social-national.
Reform UK is channelling popular discontent into “safe” “Parliamentary road” diversions, but at the same time the existence of Reform UK —and the hoo-ha around it— is moving the “Overton Window”, changing the public’s idea of what might be possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window.
Also, it is to be hoped that Reform UK will help to destroy the now useless and hopeless Conservative Party, and thus destabilize the existing rigged System which depends upon the illusion of a basically binary “choice”.
Faragist diversion (UKIP) did destroy the rise of the BNP under Nick Griffin in and after 2005, and especially after 2009.
2024 is not 2015, when UKIP got 12% of the national vote but no seats. Why? Because the governing party, the Conservatives, were still riding fairly high in 2015. This year, the Conservative Party looks all but washed-up.
That may or may not mean that Reform UK gets Commons seats, but it does mean that a large number of Con seats are going to be lost because 10% or 15% of people, maybe even 20%, are going to vote Reform. That does also mean that Labour will thereby benefit, but most voters for Reform UK will be willing to accept that as the price for both destroying the Conservative Party and making a loud protest.
“Not far right just conservative
Who believe in family
Strong borders and not thousands of young men from opposing cultures storming our borders
Believe in law and order
Believe in good education
Believe in science
No woke Marxist pedophillia normalising agendas
Who believe individual countries should be the only ones to have a say how they are governed
Who think it’s good to be patriotic
Who believe in western Christian cultures
Who think our military should be rewarded and revered
Who are against regressive damaging socialism
Who are against big brother government
Who are against the tentacles of globalists poisoning everything they touch
Who believe in small government and low tax
And
Who know what the hell a woman is!!
Nothing far right
Just decent and strong“
I have previously mooted, on the blog, the idea that there may be a bloc of “secret” Reform UK supporters who will not reveal, even to polling staff, their potential General Election voting intention.
I do not know whether such a bloc exists, or how large it is if it exists, but if it does indeed exist in any but marginal size, it could be a gamechanger.
Reform UK has been polling between 13% and around 17% recently. If the “secret” Reform voters exist and number the equivalent of one-tenth of the known Reform voters, then the Reform vote might be anywhere between 14% and 19%. Add on the possibility of polling errors, and that might result in anything from 12% to 21%. We shall only know for sure on and after 4 July. Three weeks and three days from today.
An intention to vote Reform UK perhaps has not the level of what might be called “socio-political embarrassment” (for people living in a conformist situation) that an intention to vote, say, BNP or National Front used to have, but I think that the constant Matthew Parris-style “oh my goodness, look at those hillbillies!” msm propaganda directed against the “left behind” areas (such as Clacton), and against so-called “racism” etc makes some people both reticent in expressing their anger at what has happened and is happening but, at the same time, more determined to do something about the situation, such as voting in a way not approved by the System puppets, the scribblers, the talking heads etc.
Jewish. Of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein#Family.
Remarkable: I even agree with Tim Stanley today. Stars or planets must be in some unusual configuration.
As for that “Conservative” nonentity (apparently one Andrew Browne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Browne_(politician)), I am not sure that I had even heard of him until today.
Browne has already jumped ship and is not standing for re-election in the redrawn seat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Cambridgeshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s], which seat may well fall to the LibDems if there is enough tactical voting, but has decided to stand in the new and neighbouring seat of St. Neots and Mid-Cambridgeshire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Neots_and_Mid_Cambridgeshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)].
Browne seems to be saying there that the Conservative Party will do OK in the election because it always did, in elections since 1945. How do people with such limited mentality ever become MPs, well-paid journalists (as he was) etc?
As for his assertion that the present-day Conservative Party embodies “small-c conservative values“, hardy ha ha… Look at what it has done in the past 14 years alone.
Tim Stanley was right to state that “the [Conservative party] brand is…gone” and that no-one even likes the Conservative Party any more. Also, that Starmer is “not socialist” (and, he added, is therefore not the frightening figure the Cons pretend). I tend to think that Starmer is alarming, but not because he is in any way “socialist”. Just that Israel-lobby and Jewish-lobby repression comes naturally to him.
One Catherine McKinnell, hitherto also unknown to me. A prime candidate for the Diane Abbott Clueless Prize for this year. True Labour-style cluelessness.
Here she is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_McKinnell. MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North, and a vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
Talking point
Clacton
More tweets seen
As I blogged three days ago, I do not really blame Sunak for not giving a tinker’s cuss about the Normandy Landings commemoration. After all, the bastard is not really British, is only (posing as) Prime Minister until 4 July 2024, about three weeks from now, and is (as I blogged) part of a transilient bloc of cosmopolitan wealthy Indians who are not rooted in the UK, or even in India, and whose natural (temporary) home is in places such as Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, Westchester etc.
The reason is obvious. VAT raises a huge amount of money, and does so from everyone in the country, from the rich, the affluent, the less affluent, and the downright poor. The only way for an individual to avoid paying it is to be gifted the goods or services in question or (in the case of goods) to steal them.
Naturally, the wealthy prefer VAT to income tax, or capital gains tax.
Late tweets
That Chairman of the Conservative Party, Richard Holden, has now blagged himself a “safe” seat at Basildon and Billericay.
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-big-tory-lie
“While they’re losing support to Labour and Reform, they’re also now losing an even larger number of their 2019 voters to something else — apathy.
Many people in Britain are simply giving up on politics, no longer convinced any of the big parties can fix the big problems facing the country. And this is especially true for people who voted Conservative at the last election.
Most of the people who have abandoned the Tories in recent months have not gone to Labour or Reform. Instead, they now say they will not vote at all, do not know who to support, or simply refuse to answer the question from pollsters. And the number who now say this is not small. About one in three of them now say this.“
[Matt Goodwin on Substack].
“One in three” of those who have stopped intending to vote Conservative during 2024 adds up to about, very roughly, a third of a half, i.e. about 1/6th of the whole electorate that voted in 2019 (67.3% turnout), so —again very roughly— about 1/9th of the whole eligible electorate. Call it just over 10%. Of those who would prefer to vote, maybe 15%.
Very speculative, I admit, but there is no doubt that many are anyway in that “politically homeless” position. Anecdotally, I have heard people say it, and heard them say it of others. It is a widespread phenomenon, no matter what may be the exact numbers.
An “error“? No. Deliberate importation of non-Europeans into Europe, including the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
The two sides of “Boris” Johnson…
Electoral Calculus may not be infallible, but —by my use of it— those figures give the Cons only 21 seats in the Commons (Lab 538, LibDems 55, Reform 1, Green 1, Plaid Cymru 4, and the SNP a mere 12).
Others calculate a Con bloc of 24 MPs. Whatever.
Effectively the end of the Conservative Party as it now is, if accurate.
As I guessed some time ago, the Cons are really only supported now by “habit-voters”, those who have all their lives turned out to vote Con, no matter what, no matter even how they themselves benefit or not. They are almost all now aged in their 80s and 90s.
Interesting to see all age groups from 18 to (?) 70 starting to look for radical and maybe (soon) social-national alternatives.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Reform UK is not doing all that well. According to its main cheerleader, Matt Goodwin, they are only averaging 13%. Really, they should be on at least 15% if not nearer to 20%.
What are their policies exactly? The fake Conservatives haven’t just been utterly appalling, disgustingly treasonous and plain old downright useless on immigration during what will probably be their last term of majority government but also on another important issue ie law and order. Does Reform UK want to get the police to do their real jobs again instead of concentrating as they do under the PC globalist Conservative Party on mean tweets? Is Reform UK in favour of modelling Britain’s criminal justice system on that of well-governed countries like Singapore with its executions of drug dealers etc?
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime
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John:
Policies are essential but the System parties all have many carefully-presented policies, most of which are either not implemented at all or with major changes.
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Sensible Germany and Austria! Yes, the Alternative For Germany (Afd) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) are better than than our ‘choices’.
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Mr Farage shows more concern for the Zionist colonial settlers of the Zionist entity than he does for the original indigenous people of Palestine whose ancestral homeland has been taken over by the Zionists.
Our own situation and that of other Europeans is rather akin to that of the Palestinians in that our ancestral homelands are also being taken over by settlers from foreign lands. Farage should therefore oppose Zionist displacement of Palestinians and our own displacement.
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John:
Farage is pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby. Owned. Tice is the same, as is “Tommy Robinson” and as would be (were he of any importance) Laurence Fox etc.
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Isn’t it curious how these, now, former tory voters are turning to ‘Reform’ and the Farage fraud as something / someone to vote for who ‘sees the danger’ of mass immigration from the Third World.
These same fools had, for years and years, the BNP to vote for, who would have (if in office) prevented the invasion and race replacement of the native British people from taking place.
But they didn’t as it was, in their tiny minds, the Tories who were going to protect them from mass immigration of blacks and browns. And besides, the Daily Mail told them that the BNP were ‘racist’ and ‘beyond the pale’. ‘Managed’ immigration of non-Whites was fine to them. But now that the situation is reaching the state which the Tories were always pushing (even under Macmillan) for, those same fools only now realise that the Tories have been taking them for a ride all this time.
Only now they opt for another form of fake opposition in Farage and his cronies.
Still, if it destroys the Tories then there will at least be that satisfaction; albeit it being only a (though not insignificant) consolation when considering the Labour tyranny to come.
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HennyPenny:
Yes. The BNP, as a serious party of social-nationalism, was *the* major target of (UK) System disinformation from the 1990s through to, even more, the period 2005-2010, when it started to look like really getting somewhere, when it had Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons elected as MEPs etc.
As you say, Reform UK is fake opposition but, as you also say, it can potentially destroy a major part of the century-old binary choice which underpins the whole political system in the UK.
Labour will be more repressive yet, but that repression in itself gives validity to rebellion.
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You are right about that bastard of Farage. Although I am not British and I do not live in the UK, my sympathy was always with the BNP. I remember that Farage boasted several times of “destroying the BNP”. Well, here is one of them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ukip-has-done-more-than-any-other-party-to-destroy-the-racist-bnp-9102471.html
Your observation about the stupidity and cowardice of the majority of the British voters is also spot on. I remember chatting with my wife, who is English, and both getting mad at the lack of support for the BNP. I asked once a cousin of my wife why didn´t she vote for the BNP, since she was whinging about the immigration/invasion and the stupid woman said: “Well, they are racist…” That was all that the idiotic woman had to say. The majority of the British people were terrified to be seen as “non-respectable” people (a pathetic Victorian trait) who supported a party of “racist thugs”.
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Claudius:
Exactly. “What the neighbours will (or might) think” is still a powerful disincentive to independent thought in much of England.
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A stupid woman indeed. Any party proposing a credible and genuine plan to reduce immigration is going to be called that infantile, and so often used to the point of utter tedium, leftwing political swearword ‘racist’ by the PC globalist mob and by Zionist PC globalist hypocrites in particular (they don’t have a problem with the Zionist entity’s ultra-nationalist and ‘Jews only’ immigration policy stance)
I bet that silly woman doesn’t realise that ‘racism’ can cut both ways. She seemingly didn’t have a problem with the Labour and fake Conservative Party’s soft stance on immigration which could be described as a form of the anti-British/anti-white racism that is so prevalent in this country.
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The ‘far right’ shouldn’t necessarily believe in ‘small government’ as that is a libertarian principle. Instead, it should believe in a ‘good /enabling/effective’ government that helps people to achieve in life and reach their full potential as individuals and for the good of their families, communities and society/nation as a whole. Such a government can be either big or small. Taxes should ideally be low but the level should also aim to sufficiently finance good/enabling/effective government and decent public services.
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That ridiculous Conservative poster claiming that they are “tough on crime” needs some correction, where it says “down” you should put “up”, then the statistics will be believable!
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Who claimed the Tories are tough on crime? They are not. Certainly, they like to spout tough-sounding RHETORIC as they do on immigration to gain the votes of the easily deluded but, sadly, the REALITY is very different. One of the FIRST actions of this particular so-called ‘Conservative’ government was to sack thousands of police officers many of whom were the more experienced and non-PC kind and to close hundreds of police stations in the name of austerity.
Mrs Thatcher, by stark contrast, DID control immigration to a fairly reasonable extent and one of her first actions upon becoming PM in May 1979 was to protect the police from cuts and give them a deserved pay rise. Her government also faced economic difficulties when it came to power.
This ‘conservative’ government could and should have put the quasi-Marxist McPherson Report from the last Labour government into the shredder as it has helped to ruin the police and embroil them in loony political correctness but it hasn’t done so and so the result is that the police are as PC as they were when Labour was last in office if not more so.
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One good thing that Farage has come out with today is that he says his party believes that the political system in this country is not working and needs reform starting with introducing a genuinely democratic voting system that actually turns real votes into real seats in proportion to a party’s popularity ie Proportional Representation/fair votes.
It is crazy that we still use the same, unfair and thus profoundly undemocratic and wildly unrepresentative voting system as the very authoritarian state of Belarus (Putin’s only real friend in the world).
With the greatest respect to the people of Belarus we here in the United Kingdom should be doing much better than that.
So, if you want a modern, genuinely democratic democracy in Britain vote Reform UK, or if you are more centrist or leftwing inclined vote Liberal Democrat or Green as they also back Proportional Representation/fair votes.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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Capital Gains Tax could be reduced. Now we are out of the EU, it should be possible to say to wealthy people if you invest in shares in British companies particularly those involved in new technology sectors like batteries or artificial intelligence we will reduce the amount of capital gains tax you will pay but if you invest in the shares of foreign companies you will have more CGT.
The tax system can be used imaginatively to encourage what we want eg investment in British companies and discourage what we want to see less of ie pollution and environmental degradation.
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John:
In principle, I prefer the *idea* of variable-rate purchase tax or VAT to both income or capital gains tax, but when it comes to issues of taxation, the devil is very much in the detail. Bottom line is that government needs sufficient resources but, by the same token, people generally need an incentive (material or other) to work or engage in business.
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Only the fake Conservatives would think that PC globalist open borders libertarianism would make for a popular political philosophy. They are not called ‘Britain’s Stupid Party’ for nothing!
Mrs Thatcher deep-down knew her libertarian economic policies were not inherently popular with the broad masses of the population but she was politically astute enough to realise that she needed to ‘sweeten the pill’ of these policies with a dash of social conservatism such as a a reasonable attempt at immigration control, support for the police and some hardline law and order policies, Section 28 and anti-LGBT rights ect.
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