It’s in a blogger’s best interests to keep up a regular presence online but as regular readers will know, I am occasionally beset by periods of gloom when I can’t bring myself to say anything at all.
I can only share your opinion and concern about the state of British politics. Many of the indigenous people have been almost completely brainwashed by the prevailing globalist/leftist/islamist alliance. I frankly don’t see any way out short of civil war. I live in Australia which is almost as bad. As Gad Saad wrote, this is suicidal empathy. We are being subjected to genocide and replacement. We need to get the people to wake up and start defending themselves before it’s too late.
Totally agree with all that. We don’t have a real democracy. I remember reading once that Benjamin Disraeli once said that we would be very surprised if we knew who behind the curtains has the real power in the country. Apart from that, the powers behind the curtain have the media in their pocket. It also looks like the Fabians have managed to infiltrate ALL the institutions of the state. Nigel Farage was once someone who I thought could be trusted, but in recent years he has morphed into just another puppet. I can’t see a peaceful off-ramp and I believe that Dr David Betz is correct when he predicts a civil war. Maybe things have to get really bad before any change is possible. There are people in the UK, and Australia, who are traitors.
At the moment I’d say it’s impossible to be serious about British politics without being depressed. Reform and Conservative were the only even allegedly rightwing options on my ballot so I voted Reform. At least in my area they are led by a working class actual Brit. Oddly, the only hope that Reform might do anything worthwhile lies in the extent to which the media and Establishment parties still so obviously hate them, but your criticisms are accurate. For what it’s worth on my Substack with my small reach I’ve said that any rightwing party that’s serious should properly engage with you.
More important was: Why was this "LOCAL" election turned into a type of USA style mid-term election? It should have been about local issues. Sadly, there was not a single Independent on my ballot paper.
(I know the answer to my question is that it was the only opportunity that we have had, to vote against the incredible damage that Starmer and team have done to this country and its small businesses.)
I can understand why you might feel that Reform's approach is a betrayal, but it really is the best strategy politically and pragmatically. It can be summed up as throw out the bad ones, but if you're willing to join our culture and adhere to our values, then you can stay, and this is demonstrated by the number of people from minority backgrounds who Reform have running for office.
What most people don't get is the sheer number of people who don't fit this criteria. There are nearly 1 million people living in the UK that don't speak English at the level that they can have a basic conversation. People who are here illegally and haven't registered for asylum, or are here and have already been rejected, was 700-900K back in 2017 according to Pew, and it's a fair assumption this figure has grown, possibly as high as 1.5 million (the supermarket/food 80 million figure doesn't have empirical backing with evidence). Maximum UK population by food consumption is around 71.5 million.
Then there are foreign national criminals. There are foreign nationals on the terror watchlist. There are individuals with histories of affiliation with extremist Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood or hostile foreign powers like the IRCG. There is the fact that households in receipts of benefits are significantly higher for foreign national households than British households, even more so, when one considers they way we count statistics, with the component made a part of the aggregate. Our social contract of paying into the system as a form of social insurance shouldn't apply to people who have never paid in.
Then there are smart ways to use civil compensation for past offences to compensate victims for lost earnings through trauma suffered. Past offenders who the police and courts treated as though they were merely customers of underage prostitution rings could suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of civil compensation claims which force them to surrender their property and 40% of their future earnings, and with little choice but to flee the UK for their country of origin, if they want to keep the money they've built up since coming here.
Finally, there are factors like obtaining the legal permission to remain in the UK via fraud. I looked at the feasibility of reallocating a part of our overly bloated civil service to administer lie detector tests. It wouldn't take a monumental effort to screen everyone who has been allowed to stay over the past 10 years to make sure their claim was legitimate, they don't have a criminal past or criminal associations, and aren't potential terrorists.
People on the Left think these figures are low. They are not. Depending on country of origin the figure could be as low as 10% for some of the better national origins, but for some national origins it would be in excess of 50%.
People with what one might describe as BNP legacy views are relatively rare on the so-called Far Right. It's only about 10% of people voting for Reform or splinter parties, or 3% of the UK population as a whole. X tends to make it seem as though this figure might be higher, but that's just the algorithm and the fact that X tends to attract people from the poles of the Overton Window. They also tend to engage more. Back in the Jack Dorsey days only around 10% of the US population were progressive, but in terms of posts and comments on Twitter the content they produced was around 50% of volume. Now that X is freer, the same thing is happening on the Right.
Recent polls might suggest that 27% of people support remigration policies, but my strong suspicion if that one asked people whether they would make a distinction between hardworking people who have made an effort to fit into our culture and adapt and those who, for any number of reasons, don't deserve the privilege of being in this country only a small percentage would support remigration under most circumstances.
Here's the thing. That's not a problem from your perspective. Once one looks at the numbers and even account for the fact that many of the problem groups overlap, in all probably that's still over half of people who have come here over the past 10 years.
That's right. Over 50%. And that's without some of the additional measures I've proposed. Benefits without contribution, crime, terror watch list, extremist affiliation and here illegally without registering puts the figure over 50%.
It should be noted that when I was writing this I was focusing specifically on non-EU migration to the UK over the past 10 years. It should also be noted that prior to the mid-2010s, non-EU migration was of a much higher calibre. Unfortunately the UK has been the victim of two factors. First, the UK is seen as a soft touch, both in terms of welfare/asylum and in terms of a failure to enforce laws against antisocial behaviour (particularly towards women) from migrants. This acts as an attractor. Second, because we are often at the end of a very long process of failed asylum applications, with other previous countries drawing off doctors, engineers, and dentists, we have been left with influxes with a high composition of people who have failed 5-6 more rigorous asylum application processes, often on grounds that most Brits would find disturbing, to say the least. It's also true to say that migrant quality varies widely by country of origin. Indian, Nigerian, East Asian, and Ukrainian influxes have all proved themselves to be of higher quality by a number of metrics.
OK. I will make it quick. Basically, from a policy perspective Reform's approach is likely to deliver the types of levels of returns to countries of origin that the hardliners want. However, there is a huge caveat. It all depends on enforcement, logistics, follow through, institutional resistance, and whether the resistance is able to mount a well-resourced and mass legal civil challenge, clogging the system with individual cases and appeals. The first thing Reform should do is restrict taxpayer funded legal aid as much as possible in asylum cases, particularly appeals. It's a tricky needle to thread, because even if we strip out the ECHR, we still need to adhere to UN51. It is possible. Australia and Denmark have done it. We should copy them, where possible. The other problem is the up to 1.5 million who are here illegally and not in the asylum system. They aren't going to volunteer themselves for deportation.
I know well the feeling of despair, at the (apparently successful) dumbing-down of much of the indigenous population that has taken place, in tandem with the foreign influx of people who are obviously allowed to stand for positions of administrative or political leadership of this country. We are acting like dodos, and are on course to suffer the same fate.
By the way, your description of Rayner as "a rancid skank with the IQ of a potato" is wonderful and I will borrow it, if I may.
Low IQ? Probably. Rancid? Indubitable. Not classically attractive either and has limited charisma.
On the other hand she definitely gives me those sorta vibes that tells me she'd be unspeakably filthy in the fart-sack, and so I hold her in higher esteem than the likes of Thornberry or Cooper-Balls
Why don’t you make life easier for yourself Pete and accept that we aren’t going to get the pure solution you and many others crave? The days of the 50s and early 60s have gone not just in the UK but all over the Western world. Once you’ve accepted this inevitability you’re left with the twin questions of who can arrest our decline and can they win power? There’s only one party that can stop things from getting worse and start the recovery process of making things better. Get behind Reform and it’ll give you some realistic hope.
This is a copy of my post on Pete's father's blog, Turbulent Times, this morning,
Assuming the chief results are big gains for Reform and losses for Labour and the Conservatives, while indicating a deserved move away from the two main parties, I cannot see this changing the lives of the 'people' but it is a small step along the road to a shake up of our politics and a chance to begin the slow hard slog out of the pit our politicians, starting with the charlatan Blair, have dug and continue to dig us into.
The people need to wake up, as the Chartists did back in 1838, and demand these changes to our governance and democracy which gives them more power and governance closer to the people which would turn our politicians into our servants instead, as they are now, our masters.
This is my favourite post of yours yet. Though I appreciate the others, I’m totally aligned with just doing something else you enjoy for a while. So I’m in France for two weeks reading a novel from an author I don’t know but am enjoying. I’m sitting in shade under a tree in back garden drinking a cold beer. I’ve just had a nice walk with the dogs. Honestly sometimes you just need a break from all the chaos and nonsense. I’ll catch up on what’s happened at some point. Maybe. Thanks, Pete. Great post.
I can only share your opinion and concern about the state of British politics. Many of the indigenous people have been almost completely brainwashed by the prevailing globalist/leftist/islamist alliance. I frankly don’t see any way out short of civil war. I live in Australia which is almost as bad. As Gad Saad wrote, this is suicidal empathy. We are being subjected to genocide and replacement. We need to get the people to wake up and start defending themselves before it’s too late.
Re-reading the pamphlet by Richard North I see that THA are agenda for discussion, hence "Agenda", not "Declaration". There would need to be a build-up of people (not yet "The" people) discussing these agenda.
Now is the time to start acquiring batteries. USB power banks. Blankets. Wind-up torches. Candles and a multipack of lighters. Rolls of bin bags. A camping stove and gas canisters. Bog roll. Tinned & dried food to last a couple of weeks. A water filter. A good multi-tool. Painkillers & other essential meds. All that sort of thing that the lockdown prepared us for. Just keep an eye on Amazon and grab bits & bobs whenever they're on offer. And be discreet about it. Learn how to repair a broken window & throw a half-decent punch. Get your teeth fixed. Lose excess weight & get fitter.
As the old joke goes, you don't have to run faster than the bear.
This is actually illegal under our constitution, however, politicians desperate to destroy us native Brits! It’s outrageous that foreigners can be elected or even in our once safe once homogeneous country!
You do have an impact Pete. You are adding weight and insight to right wing thinking. Sometimes the world turns slowly.
Agreed. Maybe not on those that you were trying to reach, but there is a wider, better informed audience.
I can only share your opinion and concern about the state of British politics. Many of the indigenous people have been almost completely brainwashed by the prevailing globalist/leftist/islamist alliance. I frankly don’t see any way out short of civil war. I live in Australia which is almost as bad. As Gad Saad wrote, this is suicidal empathy. We are being subjected to genocide and replacement. We need to get the people to wake up and start defending themselves before it’s too late.
These six demands are what people need to wake up to:-
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Totally agree with all that. We don’t have a real democracy. I remember reading once that Benjamin Disraeli once said that we would be very surprised if we knew who behind the curtains has the real power in the country. Apart from that, the powers behind the curtain have the media in their pocket. It also looks like the Fabians have managed to infiltrate ALL the institutions of the state. Nigel Farage was once someone who I thought could be trusted, but in recent years he has morphed into just another puppet. I can’t see a peaceful off-ramp and I believe that Dr David Betz is correct when he predicts a civil war. Maybe things have to get really bad before any change is possible. There are people in the UK, and Australia, who are traitors.
At the moment I’d say it’s impossible to be serious about British politics without being depressed. Reform and Conservative were the only even allegedly rightwing options on my ballot so I voted Reform. At least in my area they are led by a working class actual Brit. Oddly, the only hope that Reform might do anything worthwhile lies in the extent to which the media and Establishment parties still so obviously hate them, but your criticisms are accurate. For what it’s worth on my Substack with my small reach I’ve said that any rightwing party that’s serious should properly engage with you.
More important was: Why was this "LOCAL" election turned into a type of USA style mid-term election? It should have been about local issues. Sadly, there was not a single Independent on my ballot paper.
(I know the answer to my question is that it was the only opportunity that we have had, to vote against the incredible damage that Starmer and team have done to this country and its small businesses.)
NOTA was an option!
Cheer up Pete, there's always, um, there's...er...ok, no, you're right.
As you were.
💀
I can understand why you might feel that Reform's approach is a betrayal, but it really is the best strategy politically and pragmatically. It can be summed up as throw out the bad ones, but if you're willing to join our culture and adhere to our values, then you can stay, and this is demonstrated by the number of people from minority backgrounds who Reform have running for office.
What most people don't get is the sheer number of people who don't fit this criteria. There are nearly 1 million people living in the UK that don't speak English at the level that they can have a basic conversation. People who are here illegally and haven't registered for asylum, or are here and have already been rejected, was 700-900K back in 2017 according to Pew, and it's a fair assumption this figure has grown, possibly as high as 1.5 million (the supermarket/food 80 million figure doesn't have empirical backing with evidence). Maximum UK population by food consumption is around 71.5 million.
Then there are foreign national criminals. There are foreign nationals on the terror watchlist. There are individuals with histories of affiliation with extremist Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood or hostile foreign powers like the IRCG. There is the fact that households in receipts of benefits are significantly higher for foreign national households than British households, even more so, when one considers they way we count statistics, with the component made a part of the aggregate. Our social contract of paying into the system as a form of social insurance shouldn't apply to people who have never paid in.
Then there are smart ways to use civil compensation for past offences to compensate victims for lost earnings through trauma suffered. Past offenders who the police and courts treated as though they were merely customers of underage prostitution rings could suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of civil compensation claims which force them to surrender their property and 40% of their future earnings, and with little choice but to flee the UK for their country of origin, if they want to keep the money they've built up since coming here.
Finally, there are factors like obtaining the legal permission to remain in the UK via fraud. I looked at the feasibility of reallocating a part of our overly bloated civil service to administer lie detector tests. It wouldn't take a monumental effort to screen everyone who has been allowed to stay over the past 10 years to make sure their claim was legitimate, they don't have a criminal past or criminal associations, and aren't potential terrorists.
People on the Left think these figures are low. They are not. Depending on country of origin the figure could be as low as 10% for some of the better national origins, but for some national origins it would be in excess of 50%.
People with what one might describe as BNP legacy views are relatively rare on the so-called Far Right. It's only about 10% of people voting for Reform or splinter parties, or 3% of the UK population as a whole. X tends to make it seem as though this figure might be higher, but that's just the algorithm and the fact that X tends to attract people from the poles of the Overton Window. They also tend to engage more. Back in the Jack Dorsey days only around 10% of the US population were progressive, but in terms of posts and comments on Twitter the content they produced was around 50% of volume. Now that X is freer, the same thing is happening on the Right.
Recent polls might suggest that 27% of people support remigration policies, but my strong suspicion if that one asked people whether they would make a distinction between hardworking people who have made an effort to fit into our culture and adapt and those who, for any number of reasons, don't deserve the privilege of being in this country only a small percentage would support remigration under most circumstances.
Here's the thing. That's not a problem from your perspective. Once one looks at the numbers and even account for the fact that many of the problem groups overlap, in all probably that's still over half of people who have come here over the past 10 years.
That's right. Over 50%. And that's without some of the additional measures I've proposed. Benefits without contribution, crime, terror watch list, extremist affiliation and here illegally without registering puts the figure over 50%.
It should be noted that when I was writing this I was focusing specifically on non-EU migration to the UK over the past 10 years. It should also be noted that prior to the mid-2010s, non-EU migration was of a much higher calibre. Unfortunately the UK has been the victim of two factors. First, the UK is seen as a soft touch, both in terms of welfare/asylum and in terms of a failure to enforce laws against antisocial behaviour (particularly towards women) from migrants. This acts as an attractor. Second, because we are often at the end of a very long process of failed asylum applications, with other previous countries drawing off doctors, engineers, and dentists, we have been left with influxes with a high composition of people who have failed 5-6 more rigorous asylum application processes, often on grounds that most Brits would find disturbing, to say the least. It's also true to say that migrant quality varies widely by country of origin. Indian, Nigerian, East Asian, and Ukrainian influxes have all proved themselves to be of higher quality by a number of metrics.
That's a very long 'Finally' and I be grateful if you could summaries you point in one paragraph!
OK. I will make it quick. Basically, from a policy perspective Reform's approach is likely to deliver the types of levels of returns to countries of origin that the hardliners want. However, there is a huge caveat. It all depends on enforcement, logistics, follow through, institutional resistance, and whether the resistance is able to mount a well-resourced and mass legal civil challenge, clogging the system with individual cases and appeals. The first thing Reform should do is restrict taxpayer funded legal aid as much as possible in asylum cases, particularly appeals. It's a tricky needle to thread, because even if we strip out the ECHR, we still need to adhere to UN51. It is possible. Australia and Denmark have done it. We should copy them, where possible. The other problem is the up to 1.5 million who are here illegally and not in the asylum system. They aren't going to volunteer themselves for deportation.
I know well the feeling of despair, at the (apparently successful) dumbing-down of much of the indigenous population that has taken place, in tandem with the foreign influx of people who are obviously allowed to stand for positions of administrative or political leadership of this country. We are acting like dodos, and are on course to suffer the same fate.
By the way, your description of Rayner as "a rancid skank with the IQ of a potato" is wonderful and I will borrow it, if I may.
Low IQ? Probably. Rancid? Indubitable. Not classically attractive either and has limited charisma.
On the other hand she definitely gives me those sorta vibes that tells me she'd be unspeakably filthy in the fart-sack, and so I hold her in higher esteem than the likes of Thornberry or Cooper-Balls
That's a pretty low bar, Lord S. It's like saying you prefer looking at a turd to diarrhea. :o)
I'm not ashamed, though I admit that one is definitely a double-bagger
xx
( I'm female, by the way - I just thought your comments are fun.)
Why don’t you make life easier for yourself Pete and accept that we aren’t going to get the pure solution you and many others crave? The days of the 50s and early 60s have gone not just in the UK but all over the Western world. Once you’ve accepted this inevitability you’re left with the twin questions of who can arrest our decline and can they win power? There’s only one party that can stop things from getting worse and start the recovery process of making things better. Get behind Reform and it’ll give you some realistic hope.
This is a copy of my post on Pete's father's blog, Turbulent Times, this morning,
Assuming the chief results are big gains for Reform and losses for Labour and the Conservatives, while indicating a deserved move away from the two main parties, I cannot see this changing the lives of the 'people' but it is a small step along the road to a shake up of our politics and a chance to begin the slow hard slog out of the pit our politicians, starting with the charlatan Blair, have dug and continue to dig us into.
The people need to wake up, as the Chartists did back in 1838, and demand these changes to our governance and democracy which gives them more power and governance closer to the people which would turn our politicians into our servants instead, as they are now, our masters.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
This is my favourite post of yours yet. Though I appreciate the others, I’m totally aligned with just doing something else you enjoy for a while. So I’m in France for two weeks reading a novel from an author I don’t know but am enjoying. I’m sitting in shade under a tree in back garden drinking a cold beer. I’ve just had a nice walk with the dogs. Honestly sometimes you just need a break from all the chaos and nonsense. I’ll catch up on what’s happened at some point. Maybe. Thanks, Pete. Great post.
The Bangladeshi lost- and the Anglos were elected. Perhaps Reform will learn something here...
You once again you reflect that political wilderness that so many of us (mainly on the right) are wandering around in.
I can only share your opinion and concern about the state of British politics. Many of the indigenous people have been almost completely brainwashed by the prevailing globalist/leftist/islamist alliance. I frankly don’t see any way out short of civil war. I live in Australia which is almost as bad. As Gad Saad wrote, this is suicidal empathy. We are being subjected to genocide and replacement. We need to get the people to wake up and start defending themselves before it’s too late.
Suicidal empathy from far too many people needs the people to support these six demands:-
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Re-reading the pamphlet by Richard North I see that THA are agenda for discussion, hence "Agenda", not "Declaration". There would need to be a build-up of people (not yet "The" people) discussing these agenda.
I agree and I virtually alone have tried to keep THA flame alight.
The people will hopefully wake up as things get worse which they will and THA will be there waiting!
Now is the time to start acquiring batteries. USB power banks. Blankets. Wind-up torches. Candles and a multipack of lighters. Rolls of bin bags. A camping stove and gas canisters. Bog roll. Tinned & dried food to last a couple of weeks. A water filter. A good multi-tool. Painkillers & other essential meds. All that sort of thing that the lockdown prepared us for. Just keep an eye on Amazon and grab bits & bobs whenever they're on offer. And be discreet about it. Learn how to repair a broken window & throw a half-decent punch. Get your teeth fixed. Lose excess weight & get fitter.
As the old joke goes, you don't have to run faster than the bear.
This is actually illegal under our constitution, however, politicians desperate to destroy us native Brits! It’s outrageous that foreigners can be elected or even in our once safe once homogeneous country!
Sorry to hear it Pete, many of us were onto Reform a long time ago.
I actually suspect Kemi could have the last laugh here, mad as it sounds...
You most certainly aren't alone in your despair Pete....but please don't give up, articulate voices like yours are essential....
For us serfs if not for our so-called political masters....