There's a difference between diagnosis and treatment. The right have been decent at the former and utterly awful at the latter.
I must admit that I used to be pretty gung ho at the idea of leaving the ECHR but your blog, uncomfortable though it can be at times, has swung me away from that absolutist position.
We need something more pragmatic from the right that will appeal to ordinary people who feel that the country's gone wrong even if they can't properly articulate it.
“By setting down an intellectual foundation and a coherent agenda, Reform would look like a serious party by now”
Well yeah and if my aunty had bollocks she’d be my uncle.
All these demands for fully drafted policies come across as concern trolling. At best it’s just tedious. The party isn’t even a month old ffs, and the GE could be more than three years away. What good would it do to come out of the gate with a full suite of policies? Show me another political party that has done that.
The clickbait headline is a bit cheap. Well done, I suppose..
Pete North could also perhaps have a look at the policies of Labour and the Greens and start criticising those. You think they are “basically competent”?
I asked the question in Google, how important is policy as opposed to ideology in politics. Here is the AI answer. “Policy and ideology are both foundational to politics, with ideology providing the framework for beliefs and goals, while policy serves as the actionable, tangible, and often technical method for achieving those goals. While policy is often presented as rational, evidence-based problem-solving, it is fundamentally driven by underlying ideological values. The importance of one over the other often depends on the context: ideology is crucial for defining political identity and long-term vision, whereas policy is paramount for governance, implementation, and, in many cases, winning over moderate voters.” In my opinion, we are still at the ideology stage of the situation. It’s a big thing because the population has been subjected to more than 100 years of ideological brainwashing by the Marxists. So despite the so called “Greens” ideology being toxic and infantile, and if not downright treasonous to the indigenous population, which is still the majority, they were able to win in the local election. Having said that, now is the time to start working on policy at the same time, but I think the main thing is ideology because in order to win you will need lots of money, which you can only get by convincing people of the reality of what is happening to the UK indigenous population at the moment.
This is getting repetitive for you and your loyal readers even so the thing that sticks out for me is that Lowe parted company with Farage for his lack of policy planning - so currently pot and kettle!
However at the moment, against my better judgement, I'm still prepared to wait until the summer to see if Restore Britain under Lowe goes up several gears on the policy front.
Talking to the mainstream right in person delivers just the same observations: plenty of social media skill, very little thought about how to run the country.
This also means, however, that if we made our own policy group and the suggestions were both Based and useful there are very few barriers to rapid adoption by front runners on our side (Restore, Reform, at this point I don't care so long as the lights stay on).
The monetary value associated with getting Britain running again, should we succeed, is surely in the hundreds of billions just for the next few years. Should a means for connecting future value to present circumstances then be found we have ourselves the easy foundations for massive work from competent people to be undertaken to put the country back together.
It's then just typical problems of logistics and management:
Now, these are good questions but they aren't rhetorical. Masses of well sourced papers online serve to check assumptions and ideas. Plenty of money exists, even £1 million might be enough for a far better set of well researched policy ideas then anything else presently on offer in the UK (how many millions is it appropriate to pay to win an election for The United Kingdom I wonder? I venture significantly more than one).
We could get started on basically nothing using the Internet, if the intent is just to fix the economy and make innovation possible here again I think it's much safer than much of the fed posting that happens on Twitter, for example. A group of smart people meeting at a bar with pads of paper and bright ideas isn't impossible to imagine doing, even in the near future.
At this point restore needs recognition, public awareness of their mission and the sentiments behind it, publicity etc.
Without those they’ll never come close to the opportunity to implement anything.
Any policy can be picked apart if you set your mind to it, be it conservative, labour, reform or restore. Mass voter turnout isn’t brought about by policy detail or a good website.
I followed your detailed blogs during Brexit but most haven’t the attention span these days to get to the end of a long post.
No doubt there’s a place for your approach as that policies need to be well thought through but it may be in the background or inside Restore.
Precisely. Totally agree with Sean Tilley. People are really not that interested in the finer details of policies. That has to come later in order to deal with the carping of intellectuals. It can perhaps be thought about in parallel with the main thing, which is getting most of the people on your side. Developing policies that are unassailable is practically impossible anyway. Any policy can be picked apart depending on the ideology of the person picking it apart. The task of changing the mindset of the indigenous people is already huge, given the 100+ years of socialist/marxist propaganda. So it’s good that Pete North is picking this issue up, but I agree with Carl Benjamin. Frame it in terms of trying to be helpful, rather than sounding like the enemy.
You are in grave danger of becoming the new Peter Hitchens, Pete. A lone voice offering genuine thought as to how to address the almost insurmountable problems that we face, and a modern day Cassandra who everyone ignores. I just hope that you don't end up the same way as Hitchens. Disillusioned, writing about the same old 'safe' topics (clock changes, 'British' names for foreign cities, marijuana, etc, etc) and whose only solution is to urge our youth to leave without offering any opinion as to where they might go. Some of us value your critiques of lazy populism and the genuine solutions that you outline on a daily basis. Keep going.
There's a problem with the online Right commentariat and Carl manifests symptoms of it but he's by far not the first person to have a go at you for your attention to detail. Last year the former "Wellington Project" who now call themselves "The Worcester Club" led by Haryan Glaedyy mocked and dismissed you because you wrote that lengthy manifesto..."Too many words" for them, apparently.
Now they're just picking up the crumbs from Carl and the Lotus Eaters' table but they have a few things in common and one of them is that they're heavily influenced by science fiction and fantasy and think that informs modern day politics. Starship Troopers, Lord of the Rings and even Academic Agent's love of the Star Wars prequels these are people living in fantasy land for the most part. You are grounded in history, real history.
I had a saying that I tried to impress on the Online Right: "Get real, think things through". They're not being real and they don't think about the steps required to get to where they want to be.
If the judiciary is sifted to rid it of ECHR supporting judges.
If Ulster is removed from ECHR proclamation.
If the ECHR is not allowed to proclaim on matters relating to the UK.
We can get rid of the ECHR as it is meaningless to the UK.
If we can’t do that then we need to get rid of the ECHR as an organisation with no input from voters of the UK.
If Irish citizens living in the UK want to ensure their citizens living in Ulster are protected, they should show an example by protecting their citizens from criminal migrants let in by their government.
Also it’s about time British citizens alone are allowed to vote in British elections.
Everyone should watch ' dirty business' about the water scandal. It's what happens when you take away too much regulation.
Big business takes advantage
Social care, reason it has gone to private companies from government run. Government Pensions are index linked and vost alot of money. People living longer jut they haven't changed tge system if pensions. They changed to private providers, as no gov pensions.
More expensive short term, less long term, supposedly. It's working out much more expensive and at times badly run because not enough regular checks. Just like the self regulating water companies.
Policy, very boring, unless you recognise the benefits.
Pete is right, its required, gov, never ending paper trials, guidance and policies. It needs people to see in real life, not just do on paper. You need real people for policy not just civil servants. They can actually highlight the issues and can save money by directing money to where average Joe bloggs, says it needs to go.
Wake u guys, noting stuff matters, Pete is doing the work for you and you are sticking your fingers in your ears hoing lalala, boring.
Excellent.
There's a difference between diagnosis and treatment. The right have been decent at the former and utterly awful at the latter.
I must admit that I used to be pretty gung ho at the idea of leaving the ECHR but your blog, uncomfortable though it can be at times, has swung me away from that absolutist position.
We need something more pragmatic from the right that will appeal to ordinary people who feel that the country's gone wrong even if they can't properly articulate it.
shots. fired.
Can people give Restore a chance? They've been a party for about five minutes.
They've been a think tank pressure group for eight months.
But as a movement longer and Lowe left Reform because Farage didn't do sensible policies.
“By setting down an intellectual foundation and a coherent agenda, Reform would look like a serious party by now”
Well yeah and if my aunty had bollocks she’d be my uncle.
All these demands for fully drafted policies come across as concern trolling. At best it’s just tedious. The party isn’t even a month old ffs, and the GE could be more than three years away. What good would it do to come out of the gate with a full suite of policies? Show me another political party that has done that.
The clickbait headline is a bit cheap. Well done, I suppose..
Perfect is the enemy of the good.
It is not perfection that people are looking for, it is basic competence.
Pete North could also perhaps have a look at the policies of Labour and the Greens and start criticising those. You think they are “basically competent”?
I asked the question in Google, how important is policy as opposed to ideology in politics. Here is the AI answer. “Policy and ideology are both foundational to politics, with ideology providing the framework for beliefs and goals, while policy serves as the actionable, tangible, and often technical method for achieving those goals. While policy is often presented as rational, evidence-based problem-solving, it is fundamentally driven by underlying ideological values. The importance of one over the other often depends on the context: ideology is crucial for defining political identity and long-term vision, whereas policy is paramount for governance, implementation, and, in many cases, winning over moderate voters.” In my opinion, we are still at the ideology stage of the situation. It’s a big thing because the population has been subjected to more than 100 years of ideological brainwashing by the Marxists. So despite the so called “Greens” ideology being toxic and infantile, and if not downright treasonous to the indigenous population, which is still the majority, they were able to win in the local election. Having said that, now is the time to start working on policy at the same time, but I think the main thing is ideology because in order to win you will need lots of money, which you can only get by convincing people of the reality of what is happening to the UK indigenous population at the moment.
APPLEBEE’S
This is getting repetitive for you and your loyal readers even so the thing that sticks out for me is that Lowe parted company with Farage for his lack of policy planning - so currently pot and kettle!
However at the moment, against my better judgement, I'm still prepared to wait until the summer to see if Restore Britain under Lowe goes up several gears on the policy front.
This is so tedious
But sadly true.
Talking to the mainstream right in person delivers just the same observations: plenty of social media skill, very little thought about how to run the country.
This also means, however, that if we made our own policy group and the suggestions were both Based and useful there are very few barriers to rapid adoption by front runners on our side (Restore, Reform, at this point I don't care so long as the lights stay on).
The monetary value associated with getting Britain running again, should we succeed, is surely in the hundreds of billions just for the next few years. Should a means for connecting future value to present circumstances then be found we have ourselves the easy foundations for massive work from competent people to be undertaken to put the country back together.
It's then just typical problems of logistics and management:
What's a good platform for such discussions?
How do we keep the quality in check?
Do you have thoughts on such things?
Now, these are good questions but they aren't rhetorical. Masses of well sourced papers online serve to check assumptions and ideas. Plenty of money exists, even £1 million might be enough for a far better set of well researched policy ideas then anything else presently on offer in the UK (how many millions is it appropriate to pay to win an election for The United Kingdom I wonder? I venture significantly more than one).
We could get started on basically nothing using the Internet, if the intent is just to fix the economy and make innovation possible here again I think it's much safer than much of the fed posting that happens on Twitter, for example. A group of smart people meeting at a bar with pads of paper and bright ideas isn't impossible to imagine doing, even in the near future.
He’s definitely not a prat.
At this point restore needs recognition, public awareness of their mission and the sentiments behind it, publicity etc.
Without those they’ll never come close to the opportunity to implement anything.
Any policy can be picked apart if you set your mind to it, be it conservative, labour, reform or restore. Mass voter turnout isn’t brought about by policy detail or a good website.
I followed your detailed blogs during Brexit but most haven’t the attention span these days to get to the end of a long post.
No doubt there’s a place for your approach as that policies need to be well thought through but it may be in the background or inside Restore.
Best wishes from Co Durham.
Precisely. Totally agree with Sean Tilley. People are really not that interested in the finer details of policies. That has to come later in order to deal with the carping of intellectuals. It can perhaps be thought about in parallel with the main thing, which is getting most of the people on your side. Developing policies that are unassailable is practically impossible anyway. Any policy can be picked apart depending on the ideology of the person picking it apart. The task of changing the mindset of the indigenous people is already huge, given the 100+ years of socialist/marxist propaganda. So it’s good that Pete North is picking this issue up, but I agree with Carl Benjamin. Frame it in terms of trying to be helpful, rather than sounding like the enemy.
You are in grave danger of becoming the new Peter Hitchens, Pete. A lone voice offering genuine thought as to how to address the almost insurmountable problems that we face, and a modern day Cassandra who everyone ignores. I just hope that you don't end up the same way as Hitchens. Disillusioned, writing about the same old 'safe' topics (clock changes, 'British' names for foreign cities, marijuana, etc, etc) and whose only solution is to urge our youth to leave without offering any opinion as to where they might go. Some of us value your critiques of lazy populism and the genuine solutions that you outline on a daily basis. Keep going.
I'm meant to be taking a break from interactions on here, but I just wanted to say Pete, you really are special.
That could mean one of two things so I choose to take it as a compliment.
Indeed he is a serious commentator operating as an individual on the smell of an oil rag as my grandmother used to say!
There's a problem with the online Right commentariat and Carl manifests symptoms of it but he's by far not the first person to have a go at you for your attention to detail. Last year the former "Wellington Project" who now call themselves "The Worcester Club" led by Haryan Glaedyy mocked and dismissed you because you wrote that lengthy manifesto..."Too many words" for them, apparently.
Now they're just picking up the crumbs from Carl and the Lotus Eaters' table but they have a few things in common and one of them is that they're heavily influenced by science fiction and fantasy and think that informs modern day politics. Starship Troopers, Lord of the Rings and even Academic Agent's love of the Star Wars prequels these are people living in fantasy land for the most part. You are grounded in history, real history.
I had a saying that I tried to impress on the Online Right: "Get real, think things through". They're not being real and they don't think about the steps required to get to where they want to be.
If the judiciary is sifted to rid it of ECHR supporting judges.
If Ulster is removed from ECHR proclamation.
If the ECHR is not allowed to proclaim on matters relating to the UK.
We can get rid of the ECHR as it is meaningless to the UK.
If we can’t do that then we need to get rid of the ECHR as an organisation with no input from voters of the UK.
If Irish citizens living in the UK want to ensure their citizens living in Ulster are protected, they should show an example by protecting their citizens from criminal migrants let in by their government.
Also it’s about time British citizens alone are allowed to vote in British elections.
Everyone should watch ' dirty business' about the water scandal. It's what happens when you take away too much regulation.
Big business takes advantage
Social care, reason it has gone to private companies from government run. Government Pensions are index linked and vost alot of money. People living longer jut they haven't changed tge system if pensions. They changed to private providers, as no gov pensions.
More expensive short term, less long term, supposedly. It's working out much more expensive and at times badly run because not enough regular checks. Just like the self regulating water companies.
Policy, very boring, unless you recognise the benefits.
Pete is right, its required, gov, never ending paper trials, guidance and policies. It needs people to see in real life, not just do on paper. You need real people for policy not just civil servants. They can actually highlight the issues and can save money by directing money to where average Joe bloggs, says it needs to go.
Wake u guys, noting stuff matters, Pete is doing the work for you and you are sticking your fingers in your ears hoing lalala, boring.
Anyone who is making a very good living from our peoples plight is not to be trusted.
I can't disagree with any of this.
APPLEBEE’S!