There’s a lot of sometimes justified criticism aimed at some of the challenger parties such as Reform from those who don’t believe that Reform goes far enough with regards to migration control and the alleviation of the problems caused to Britain by decades of unwanted mass migration. Online I’ve seen supporters of Rupert Lowe MP’s new ‘Restore Britain’ party heavily laying into Reform as being ‘weak’ on matters pertaining to migration with the more tin foil hatted supporters of Restore calling Reform ‘controlled opposition’.
I do have criticisms of Reform not just over their migration policies, which I admit do look less than what might be needed to sort out Britain’s migration related problems, but also of their seeming lack of detail when it comes to Reform’s policy plans in general. However I do also know that success in politics depends on working out how much of what you want to do is actually possible and working to apply that policy in the real world.
People who want to see radical change in areas such as migration, the negative influence of identity politics, the growing problem of religious extremism and Britain’s sclerotic economy must not expect this radical change overnight. Should Reform win the next General Election with a healthy workable majority we are not going to see remigration planes on the tarmac at Heathrow on the Friday morning or even for a fair while after. Neither are we going to see the religious extremists put back into the dark box they deserve to be in nor will the economy suddenly perk up. All this sort of stuff takes time. It takes time to create the political and administrative conditions to allow Britain to remove unwanted and burdensome migrants, make the economy more market oriented whilst also keeping a semblance of balance by protecting the rights of employees for example and it’s going to be a massive job dealing with the religious extremism that the legacy parties have pandered to or deliberately ignored.
Those who want to see the demographic problems that Britain has being tackled or the economy improved or the religious nutters taken care of are not going to get what they want on day one. No challenger party is going to be able to do that. To achieve even a part of these sorts of aims is going to be a hard fought fight and it’s going to need politicians who can think their way through problems and maybe recognise what is possible and achievable and what is not. It’s not going to be possible to destroy all the Quangos for example because some Quangos might be useful, such as those responsible for food or medical safety or those protecting natural national assets and some consideration is going to be needed to decide what can be dispensed with and what cannot. Do we really want to do away with those in charge of food safety just to have one over on the Quangocrats? I doubt it.
Similarly with legislation such as the Human Rights Act and the Equalities Act, these cannot be removed until there is something in place to replace them. There must be a generally accepted Bill of Rights for Britons and anti discrimination legislation should return to being individual acts to cover sex, racial and disability discrimination matters.
All this is going to take time, maybe more than one period of government to achieve. Any new alt party government is going to face a lot of issues in even attempting to get their policies over the line. Firstly there’s going to be the problem of finances to fund projects such as remigration, rebuilding the economy and tackling religious extremism. Whichever alt party wins (if it does) the next General Election they are going to face a decimated economy and an energy supply and distribution system that is in absolute tatters due to the utter lunacy of Net Zero. We won’t be able to greenlight the building of AI data centres or get back into heavy industry without reliable and affordable energy. We cannot immediately rebuild the coal generation facilities that were lost due to the Establishment’s Net Zero kick. Also those members of the public who have bought into Net Zero nonsense are going to kick up a massive fuss if the taxpayer subsidies that have paid for their heat pumps, solar electricity and electric car charging points that they’ve installed are removed in order to pay for a more sensible energy policy. They are going to have to pay the real market price for their Net Zero baubles and they are not going to like it one bit and will most definitely make a big fuss about it. I can’t remember who said it but when those who are privileged are made equal with others then it will look like discrimination to them and that is likely to be the reaction of those members of the public that have bought into Net Zero who have their subsidies taken away.
Any incoming challenger government is also going to face highly organised resistance from both within government and outside of government to their policies. They are going to have to face an Establishment adminisphere that would be recalcitrant and which has been steadily stuffed full of members of the middle class Left along with hand-wringing from the dozens of taxpayer funded NGO’s. Remember we’ve had approximately forty years where the Left has been to a large extent on the ascendant in education, healthcare, policing, social services, HM Treasury, the energy sector and much much more. It’s likely that many of those working in or managing these entities might see the democratic writing on the wall and go along with the policies imposed by an alt party government, but there will be many others who will obstruct or obfuscate and do whatever they can to protect the current status quo either for personal venal reasons or for more ideological ones.
Any alt-party led government after 2029 is going to face an awful lot of problems that are not going to be solved immediately and some might not be solved for decades so deeply embedded in societal structures are these problems. It’s taken years to overcome for example the propaganda and the activists of the Trans movement in British society and we are still not at the point where women and children could be said to be completely safe from this ideology despite the political class starting to turn against it and with Britain’s higher courts ruling in women’s favour. The trans problem is but a very minor one when compared to religious extremism and sectarianism, an energy sector that seems to have been planned by an inattentive toddler, along with massive levels of public and private debt.
I don’t believe that many British people comprehend the sheer massive scale of the problems facing the UK. They are not the sort of problems that can be sorted out with populist vibes but are problems that need to be examined carefully and have solutions to these issues properly thought out and implemented in such a way as they cannot be effectively attacked by the opposition whether that opposition is within Parliament or without.
It worries me that there are so many on the Right in the UK who are starting to descend into a political purity spiral just as Leftists do with their political current. The massive defections from Reform to Restore Britain are clearly to me an example of this purity spiral in action. There are people who think that there are quick fixes to Britain’s problems and Restore Britain seem to be hoovering up these sort of people at a high rate of knots. Even Restore Britain’s flagship policies (which they’ve had months and months to formulate) such as legalising pepper spray and free hospital parking would face issues. The pepper spray one would require the re-legislating of significant parts of the 1968 Firearms Act and subsequent legislation along with imposing changes on police procedures as people are bound to be stopped and found to be carrying pepper spray, whilst the free hospital parking one fails to take in to consideration that in many hospitals, especially city centre ones, there is barely enough land to provide charged for parking as it is let alone free parking. Neither of these policies seem to be properly thought out and like an army’s battle plans could fall apart when confronted with the reality of battle or governing.
Many of those abandoning Reform in favour of Restore Britain seem to be those who want badly thought out quick fixes but those quick fixes might not work or might themselves create more problems. However those who’ve made this political journey from Reform to Restore might end up disappointed when, should Restore get anywhere near power, fall over.
Whilst my political alignment is more towards the Social Democratic Party than anywhere else. I can also recognise that this party is unlikely to build up enough support to give it a realistic prospect of government. Reform on the other hand do have such a large groundswell of support and are therefore the most likely of all the challenger parties to do damage to the uniparty of LibLabCon.
Beating the uniparty and an emergent far left is in 2029 going to have to be a primary imperative for British voters because after all it is this uniparty that through its various policies that has wrought so much damage for so long on British society. This is why come 2029 if it looks as if Reform are the favourites in my local seat to beat the Tories and also see off Labour along with the challenger parties of the Islamists and the Left such as the Greens, then I will be voting for Reform even if the party of my choice, the SDP, is on the ballot paper.
The Left in all its forms needs to be beaten back at the ballot box and it’s not going to be an easy task but it will be made all that more difficult by people who have got on the political purity spiral train and jumped ship to Restore Britain or some other nationalist groupuscule because Reform are not pushing this or that of their pet or chosen policy ideas. At this point in the electoral cycle it looks as if Reform, despite their many faults, might be the best bet to rid ourselves of the current tranche of politicians who have misruled us for so long. Reform might be better set up than some of the smaller groupuscules of the nationalist Right to weather the electoral storms that will undoubtedly come Reform’s way between now and the General Election in 2029. The period between now and 2029 is likely to see Reform both lose and gain in the by-elections that they may contest. However, with many senior and sound ex-Tories now in Reform these setbacks and triumphs might be managed better than they might be in some of the other challenger parties because these ex-Tories will have experience of dealing with the between General Election vicissitudes that governing or primary opposition parties have to accept. It might be a hard fact to swallow but at present Reform, despite its faults, might be the best bet for at least some of the change that many Britons are longing for.
Those who have abandoned Reform in order to join Restore because they are a party that they see is not compromising their own views might be making a mistake. This is because they are seeking a political vehicle that is perfect for them but as many of us know the obsessive search for the perfect is often the enemy of that which is good. Imperfect as it is, if the electorate want to put into power something better than we’ve been landed with over the last four decades then Reform might be, if not perfect, but the best that we can get.
Those who are pointing to high levels of online sign ups and online support for Restore might be kidding themselves about how much support this new party will garner with the normie electorate. Online activity doesn’t always transfer itself to votes in a ballot box. Also there is a long history of Britons not voting for what they might think are extremists to any significant degree. There were a few Communists elected during the interwar years and some MP’s aligned themselves with Fascist groupings in that period but extremists of any sort have generally not been favourable to the British people when it comes to Parliamentary elections in particular on the mainland of the UK. If Restore start to be seen by the public as ‘extreme’ then they might not do as well as some might think. Reform might be better placed than Restore Britain or Advance or any of the other broadly nationalist groupings to pick up large numbers of votes and they’ve so far picked up quite a bit of momentum.
Like many others I want to see our current crop of terrible politicians replaced with those who might be a bit better but I know I’m going to have to make compromises in order to see that change and as far as I’m concerned Reform might be the more effective party to help to bring about this change. I’m not going to rush off and stick my name or my electoral cross next to a party that is doing little more than putting out populist slop because I know that Britain’s problems are so great and so deeply ingrained that populist slop is not the answer. I’m going to look at who is standing in my local constituency and work out firstly who can beat the Labour Party and the Islamist-Left monster that the Greens have become and secondly who can dislodge the current Tory MP. I might even hold my nose and vote Tory at the next GE if that’s what it takes to stop the socialists and the Islamo-Leftists but beating this political current is going to be essential.
We’ve got to vote for the party or the candidate who stands the best chance of doing something better than what we’ve previously been given whilst avoiding helping the Leftists and the Greens who are doing well in snapping up the low information voter and sectarian contingent. If I have to vote for an imperfect party like Reform in order to do that then I will. As I said in the beginning of this piece politics is the art of the possible and I want politicians who understand that as that’s the best way of getting more than we are getting from the political class at the moment and voting for Reform looks like the least worst way of achieving that aim.