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By my use of Electoral Calculus, that might translate to Lab 476 Commons seats (overall majority 302), Con 68 (official Opposition), LibDems 62, SNP 13, Reform UK 4, Plaid Cymru 4, Greens 2 (Northern Ireland 18, Others 3).
What kind of “democracy” is it, though, when a party (Labour) might get 39% of the popular vote, yet get about 72% of the seats in the House of Commons (476 seats)? A strict 39% of seats would be 253 seats.
Another party (Conservatives) might get 19% of the popular vote, meaning, on strict mathematical equivalence, about 124 seats, not the mere 68 conferred by FPTP voting.
As for Reform UK, its present or forecast 17% should confer (under proportional voting) about 111 seats. The forecast under FPTP voting— a mere 4.
There again, the LibDems, with only 10% of the popular vote, are forecast to have 62 seats, almost the same as under a strict proportional allocation (65).
Can such an electoral system even be called “democratic”? Open question.
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The DDR was a strange little country, in which I spent a couple of days in 1988; actually, not quite as small a country as commonly imagined: about 42,000 sq. miles, as against England’s 51,000, but with an overall density of population about a third of England’s (the UK as a whole has about 94,000 sq. miles).
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Interesting both in itself and re. the tactical voting point.
Incidentally, my 2019 (but several-times updated) piece about Therese Coffey (from my Deadhead MPs series) has proven popular; thousands of hits to date. https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/16/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-therese-coffey-story/.
Britain 2024
“Two men have been jailed for a total of 67 years for shooting and stabbing to death an 18-year-old in east London.
Awadh Saleh and Rio Burton-Devine, both aged 25 from east London, were found guilty of the murder of Abubakar ‘Junior’ Jah, 18, at the Old Bailey today.
Judge Mark Dennis KC sentenced the pair to 36 years and 31 years respectively for the ‘brutal and cowardly’ attack in 2021.”
What will London be like in 2034 or 2044?
The System parties have no real answers.
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By my use of Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], that actually puts the Cons in a marginally better position than other recent polls, by reason of the slip in Labour’s position, but it still means Lab 466 (overall majority 282), Con 70, LibDem 70, Reform UK 4, Greens 2.
Were Labour to recover to 40%, the number of Con MPs would reduce to 51; were Labour to rise to 41%, the number of Con MPs would be a mere 42.
Penny Mordaunt is campaigning not so much for the Conservative Party as for her own political career (in fact, her career full stop, for she has no other). It seems 50-50, at best, that she will be re-elected anyway.
Labour is as dull as ditchwater, as witness its pathetic Manifesto for the General Election, but I do not think that it much matters now. The main aim of 80%+, maybe even 90%, of the electorate is to get rid of the Conservative Party not just for the next 5 years but permanently. Starmer and fake Labour will only fail to sweep all before them —by default— if something so devastating happens to their campaign that it is hard to imagine what.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Your question answers itself. By any measure, Britain is not a genuine democracy in that we have an unelected Head of State (one must marry into the House of Windsor in order to have a chance of obtaining that position), an unelected upper chamber of Parliament called the House of Lords and a lower house of Parliament with an truely archaic, severely out of date, unfit for purpose, electoral system which FAILS CONSISTENTLY to achieve THE PRIMARY PURPOSE of any sane electoral system ie produce an electoral outcome that can be called REPRESENTATIVE by accurately translating votes into seats.
Your tweets above graphically illustrate the big discrepancy between the votes for parties and their seat shares. That can only be fixed by scrapping this absurdly out of date system and replacing it with some form of Proportional Representation/fair votes so seats will broadly match votes at long last.
There should be a Labour-led coalition government on those figures above not a Labour majority government with a ridiculous, unearned, landslide ‘false majority’ gifted to them by the grotesque inefficiency of the electoral system translating votes into seats.
This country is a European laughing stock as far as real democracy is concerned. With the greatest respect to the people of Belarus (Putin’s only real friend in the world) we should not be sharing the same profoundly undemocratic electoral system of stand alone, ‘pure’ FPTP with them. We can and must do better than that.
In a REAL democracy, the voters should have an EQUAL vote not one which has a different value placed upon it by the electoral system depending upon whether a voter lives in a ‘safe’ seat or a ‘marginal’.
https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk
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In addition to being fairer and more democratic, a proportional representation election system is also desirable because it will be possible for small Pro-White patriotic parties to gain representation in parliament.
For example, in the 2010 UK election, the British National Party got 564,000 votes, but received no MPs. Under a proportional representation system, the BNP would have received several seats in parliament.
From a White Nationalist perspective, a proportional representation system (preferably pure proportional representation with no minimum threshold) would be very beneficial, because that would make it a lot easier for a White Nationalist political party to break into the mainstream and have a chance at obtaining power.
If Weimar Germany had a British-style first-past-the-post system, Hitler and the NSDAP would never even have become a major political force, much less get into power.
It was Weimar’s proportional representation system (with no minimum % threshold) that allowed the NSDAP to win a few seats in the Reichstag, and then build on that to become a major mainstream party due to protest votes in 1930, and finally become the biggest party with the most seats in 1932.
A proportional representation system will make it considerably more feasible for a Pro-White party such as the BNP or Patriotic Alternative to start winning seats in parliament (thus bringing Pro-White views into mainstream political discourse), and become a credible political force.
That’s why all Pro-White British people should be working to get rid of the first-past-the-post system, and replace it with proportional representation.
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The Liberal Democrats should be getting LESS seats this time NOT MORE since their vote share has FALLEN from the last general election. It is a truly irrational and absurd electoral system where there is no explicit link between a party’s popularity/unpopularity with the electorate and its seat share.
A party that becomes more popular should ALWAYS get more seats whilst a party losing support should ALWAYS LOSE seats.
With our silly, undemocratic system this doesn’t happen. It is more of a lottery than a sane way to represent the people’s democratic will.
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An overly large, UNEARNED majority effectively gifted by the grotesquely inefficient workings of an archaic electoral system doesn’t usually lead to a good government especially because as your tweet above indicates when this happens the Opposition will be too weak to oppose them.
The converse of a huge, unearned majority is an overly weak Opposition hit on the head by the stupid, undemocratic electoral system. This leads to an Opposition being unable to hold the government to account.
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On the bright side, if the Tories get electorally annihilated, that will open up space on the right for a truly patriotic party to compete for the votes of disgruntled former Tory voters.
Having Labour in power might also help to wake up some of the braindead Tory-voting morons who think that everything is fine as long as the Tories are running the country.
Combined, the two above factors (Labour in power, and the Tory party destroyed with fewer than 50 seats in parliament) will hopefully cause rightwing patriotic voters to look for a new political party to support.
The (((establishment))) is promoting Farage’s Reform Party for that very reason. But the Reform Party doesn’t have the institutional strength, the vast nationwide organization, or the long history of the Tories.
It will be much easier to convince Reform voters to abandon their party, than it will be to convince Tory voters who have been voting Tory for generations.
Once the Tory Party is gone, it will be much easier for the Pro-White movement to defeat and supplant the Reform Party, which is much newer, weaker, and smaller.
That’s why the destruction of the Tory party will be very beneficial to White Nationalists, and present an opportunity for a Pro-White party to win support from fed-up patriots who used to vote Tory.
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Why would any self-respecting Liberal Democrat or, for that matter, Green Party voter vote Labour, even tactically, to get rid of Therese Coffey?
Their parties wish to dump the seriously undemocratic, stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post electoral system and Labour under that budding dictator, Keir Starmer, doesn’t.
Why ‘lend’ your vote to a party that DOES NOT view you as an EQUAL CITIZEN deserving of an EQUAL VOTE and only wants to USE you as voting fodder by you tactically voting for them for evermore? That, to me, is NOT a good deal.
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John:
The answer, surely, would be “to get rid of Therese Coffey”, which many would applaud. Is that not enough? She is nasty, useless, freeloading, and ignorant.
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To be replaced by a Zionist fanatic, Keir Starmer supporting nodding dog who will vote to put this country into a completely unnecessary war with Iran on behalf of Starmer’s sinister Zionist Lobby financial backers.
That isn’t a good swap. This country should have learnt by now that voting Tory or Labour is akin to the ‘choice’ some convicted Americans get on Death Row ie do you wish to have a lethal injection or the ‘short, sharp, shock’ of the electric chair? The end result is the same.
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No doubt the same could be said about very large numbers of Labour candidates and perhaps the one in her seat as well.
Yvette Cooper has a habit of freeloading off the public yet she will soon be Home Secretary.
Labour and Tory couldn’t run a successful whelk stall on Clacton Pier together as surely many decades of their collective misgovernance has proved. They are both utterly useless. As George Galloway might put it, they are “both cheeks of the same arsehole”.
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John:
That being so, I prefer to shoot them down one by one: Conservative Party first, and Labour Party in due course. The “2-main-parties” scam has to be unbalanced and destroyed. The only immediate way to do that is to wipe out the Con Party in terms of seats and MPs (and donors).
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“To be replaced by a Zionist fanatic, Keir Starmer supporting nodding dog who will vote to put this country into a completely unnecessary war with Iran on behalf of Starmer’s sinister Zionist Lobby financial backers.”
This presents an opportunity for British patriots. Since Starmer is a hardcore zionist, it will be possible (with the right messaging) for British patriots to tie zionism to Labour in the minds of rightwing voters, thus hopefully causing those voters who hate Labour to also oppose zionism and the j*wish lobby.
British patriots can even use psychological tactics on cuckservatives to herd them into opposing zionism.
For example, if you encounter a mindless Tory voter who supports zionism, you can say something like: “Starmer and New Labour are hardcore zionists. You must be a huge Starmer fan and a huge Labour supporter. You must have voted for Labour in the last election. Did you vote for Blair and Brown too?”
Relentlessly portray zionism as leftwing, un-British and un-patriotic.
Make supporting [REDACTED]/zionism synonymous with treason.
At every opportunity, mention that Starmer, Blair, and Labour are fanatical zionists.
Make rightwingers afraid to openly voice support for [REDACTED]/zionism, for fear of being called a Labour-supporting, anti-British, liberal, traitor.
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Despite banging on for decades about being the ‘party of fairness’ the Labour rabble STILL don’t want to put that alleged principle of theirs into action in a place where it is most needed ie at the BALLOT BOX.
Still, when did Labour ever really understand the concept of democracy? It never has been a genuinely democratic party.
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So a paltry 39% of people intend to vote for the no real fresh ideas Labour Party but 61% of people are not going to do so. Put simply, such a low percentage of support should disqualify a party from ruling the country with 100% of the power. In a REAL democracy, it would.
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From what I have seen of them, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens have better manifesto proposals for disabled people than the Labour Party. Labour doesn’t care about disabled people as, of course, the despicable Tories don’t either.
The globalist, profoundly undemocratic Labour Party only cares about illegal immigrants, obviously fake ‘asylum seekers’, PC middle-class values and the continual international law defying Zionist entity.
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Harold Wilson once remarked that the ,”the Labour Party was a moral crusade or it was nothing” well I can’t see how the Labour Party of 2024 could be described as a moral crusade when it fanatically supports a continual international law defying Zionist state with the brutal IDF murdering countless men, women and children whilst giving disabled, British people a mere four paragraphs in its manifesto. What a truly perverse set of values they have as a party.
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How much money is the ‘cultural enricher’ costing us to lock-up for that length of time? He should be executed instead. Money is not an inexhaustible commodity and money spent on incarcerating murderers etc would be better spent on deserving people such as the disabled.
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John:
For me, the point is that a vast and growing population now exists in the UK, especially in the large cities, that is in every way alien— ethnically (in most cases), ethically, culturally, socially etc. A kind of feral underclass.
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Indeed. The social dislocation and lack of social cohesion caused by ‘diversity’ is causing crime to explode not just from the aliens themselves but also it is helping to create a lack of a united ‘we’ sentiment in society from natives and therefore increasing OUR crime rate too.
There is a reason why the USA has a large murder and violent crime rate despite having some of the world’s toughest crime policies of the death penalty in 27 states and a marked enthusiasm for very long prison sentences.
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Many of them resort to crime because they are not truly integrated into our society as the ever wise Enoch Powell predicted. In essence, they can’t be. We know it and they know it. Enoch said only very strictly controlled numbers of immigrants could ever be integrated. Needless to say, no one paid sufficient heed to his justified warnings and so here we are.
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When the Pro-White movement is in power, the diversity can be deported en masse. Revoke their citizenship and deport them to any country that will take them. If necessary, the British government can pay off some third world leaders to take in those who are deported from Britain.
Maybe make exceptions for the few immigrants and their descendants who have been very, very well-behaved and have never committed any crimes and have never accused White people of racism.
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https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org
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Well, I hope all those people who have given the Scouse Commie a heart shape on his well-argued tweet are not intending to vote Labour because the simple fact is Labour offers NOTHING of any real value to the British electorate least of all to those who really do need a change of government.
All they ‘offer’ is yet more mad PC values, more open borders, more crime, more social dislocation/less social cohesion because of more ‘diversity’. There is NO real fresh thinking and no inspiring vision , folks, from Mr No Imagination and even if Mr No Imagination had a positive, different policy agenda he would scrap it after a few weeks if it came under attack from the Tory press. He isn’t known as Mr Flip Flopper extraordinaire for nothing. I have heard of caution in politics but Starmer takes the piss!
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I see that the ever dim witted, fake Conservatives are putting out the TOTAL LIE in their manifesto that only by preserving the archaic, unfit for purpose, wildly unrepresentative and therefore undemocratic, stand alone, ‘pure First Past The Post electoral system do you get a ‘local link’ to an MP.
This is TOTAL RUBBISH. Proportional Representation CAN maintain local constituencies and therefore a ‘local link’ to an MP.
Indeed, one type called Mixed-Member Proportional Representation as used in both Germany and New Zealand actually uses First Past The Post constituencies as we have here.
Evidently, the lying and disingenuous Tories have not seen these Wikipedia pages describing Germany’s and New Zealand’s electoral systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldctoral_system_of_New_Zealand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-Member_proportional_representation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
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Wouldn’t that be quite something if the Liberal Democrats could obtain one more seat and emerge as His Majesty’s Official Opposition when they have 4% LESS support than the fake Conservatives?
How is that fanatical defence of stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post voting going for you, Tory MUPPETS?
They are not called ‘Britain’s Stupid Party’ for nothing!
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I see that the ever more pathetic fake globalist Conservative Party devoid as they are of any positive agenda for the country or real intent to keep manifesto promises is now resorting to blatant electoral blackmail by saying if you vote for Reform UK you will be giving Keir Starmer a blank check.
No, it is YOU who have done that by your abject poor performance in government most notably on the subject of mass immigration and your fanatical unwillingness to change our archaic and fundamentally undemocratic electoral system of stand alone, ‘pure’ First Past The Post.
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John:
As things are, Labour would win by a mile even were Reform UK not in existence at all. The Con Party might then end up with 150+ MPs instead of ~50, but the result would not be very different in big picture terms. The Labour majority might then be 50 or 100 or 150 instead of 300+, that’s all.
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Indeed. The Tory share of the vote is at historic lows in all of the polls. Only they are responsible for that. It is the inevitable consequence of dumping every tenet of social conservatism overboard whilst adopting, in its place, a weird mixture of support for open borders PC globalist values, hatred for the poor and particularly benefit claimants, PC mania generally like gay ‘marriage’, incompetence and leaders who may as well be aliens from Outer Space for all of their ability to connect with ordinary folk.
Put simply, PC globalist libertarianism is NOT popular in the main and never will be. It only appeals to a small segment of very wealthy people.
They should have remained a traditional conservative party and argued strongly for that philosophy then, in time, the people would have responded and come back to voting for them. Getting rid of traditional social conservatism only blurs what should be the fundamental dividing line between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and gives the idiots and PC globalist misfits of New Labour Mark 2 credibility when they don’t deserve it.
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John:
Bottom line is that the people need things: material goods and services (houses, decent pay, State benefits, pensions etc, health services, transport services, fair and effective policing etc) and non-material things as well (a feeling of being part of a people —Volksgemeinschaft; the feeling that there is more to society than atomized individuals motivated by money and lower mentality; group-ethical feeling etc).
As Cicero said, salus populi suprema lex este— the welfare of the people is the highest law.
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I see that James O’Brian has had a go at Nigel Farage for alleged ‘dog whistles’. Isn’t he the most terminally annoying radio presenter in the UK today?
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John:
James O’Brien thinks that he is so very clever. I think not.
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The PC globalist is a turd that will just not flush away to the obscurity it should be in.
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I don’t either. He strikes me as your typical middle-class PC globalist left-liberal with their condescending air of supposed moral superiority. I think he needs to get out more into the real world.
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The latest idiocy from the BBC is that people are only intending to vote for Nigel Farage and Reform UK because they have been influenced by ‘online bots’.
Ha, ha, try a bit harder, PC globalist morons, why not go the full distance and blame the rise of Reform UK on a grand plot by President Putin!
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John:
The System drones are becoming seriously alarmed, not by Farage and Reform UK as such, but because the Farage/Reform rise has opened Pandora’s box, has shifted the Overton Window.
If Reform UK and Farage have a point, maybe real social-national thinkers and proponents have a point (increasingly say the voters)…
The fact that a Reform UK candidate (ironically himself part-Jew) has said that WW2 in Western Europe could have and should have been avoided has opened another box, if you like. A taboo has been broken, even if the individual was weak enough to “apologise” for having spoken the truth.
The System (pervaded by the influence of “the you know who”) wants to keep a binary “choice” between two basically similar “parties”, effectively a “uniparty”. Even limited success by Reform UK, and especially the trashing of the time-expiored “Conservative” Party, has unbalanced the mechanism.
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The value and importance of shifting the Overton Window in the Pro-White direction cannot be overstated.
Before Trump started his run for president in 2015, in the American conservative movement it was basically forbidden to support restrictions on legal immigration.
You could complain about ILLEGAL immigration, but opposing legal immigration was taboo. And the (((powers that be))) silenced discussion of the violent crimes that immigrants commit.
Trump changed all that, when he called Mexicans “rapists and criminals” in his election announcement speech in June 2015.
Due to Trump’s speech, the Overton Window was shifted and the debate over immigration finally entered mainstream conservative discourse.
That’s why the j**s hate Trump even though Trump is an obedient zionist.
Trump made it possible to publicly discuss issues that the (((system))) had censored for decades.
All nationalists and patriots, whether in Britain, the USA, or elsewhere, should relentlessly and constantly work to move the Overton Window in the Pro-White direction.
As even the grifter Nigel Farage pointed out, “if you speak the unspeakable, people will begin to think the unthinkable.”
That is what our (((enemies))) are afraid of: if Pro-White views become publicly acceptable to discuss, the vast majority of White people will start to espouse and believe in and support the Pro-White cause.
That is why relentlessly moving the Overton Window in the Pro-White direction is of extreme importance.
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John:
I saw this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1335nj316lo
by Marianna Spring, the “disinformation” supposed expert at the BBC. Ironic, she herself having falsified her CV in order to get employed in the first place, a fact not mentioned on her Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianna_Spring
Marianna Spring seems to worry about “foreign interference” in the UK election, but strangely enough that seems to be Russian interference, not the embedded and indeed blatant Israeli/Jewish interference.
Looking at her photos and a few of the available facts, I think that she may be “you know who”, or partly so, but I cannot say for certain.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/18/bbc-disinformation-correspondent-marianna-spring-my-approach-to-fear-is-to-try-to-make-sense-of-it
See also:
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Yes, to any remotely objective person, Russian political influence in this country is practically non-existent whereas Pro Israel Zionist Lobby influence is quite strong. In particular, the Labour Party under Starmer is a sick joke for this and may as well be called Likud. That is a good enough reason all by itself to not vote Labour. British governments should be exclusively motivated by the best interests and welfare of this country not foreign states.
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I am awaiting the day when the BBC investigates the Zionist Pro Israel Lobby in this country in general and in particular its influence within the Conservative Party and the BBC’s beloved Starmer-led Labour Party. I have a feeling that will be a very, very long wait.
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It all depends on who controls the government. When the Pro-White movement is in power, the TV and media will say whatever we tell them to say.
We will also pass laws making it a criminal offense to express anti-White views. It will also be a criminal offense to express support for our enemies.
The evil people who have harmed the White race will be put on trial for their crimes.
And of course the Pro-White activists who remained steadfast during the dark years, will be greatly rewarded.
In order to secure the wellbeing and the future of the White race, we will need to restructure society and replace the current traitorous elite with a Pro-White elite.
That new Pro-White elite will be drawn from the ranks of the Pro-White activists.
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