It is certainly true that the 'Left's' thinking has influenced all politics, with the Overton Window now way to the left of where it was 50 years ago.
Its tentacles have spread far and wide into Law and Order, education, charities, museums, National Trust, business, entertainment and even regrettably our armed forces.
The tragedy is that I'm convinced there are more of us than them but we are far too busy struggling on with life making ends meet and have always lacked the dedication necessary to form a collective body to fight back.
The fight back will come but it will be violent and then if we are to keep the 'Left' in its place we will need to fight for these reforms which would give the silent majority real power turning our politicians into our servants instead of our masters.
I made a comment many years ago that what separates the average right winger and the average left winger is that we have lives outside of politics, they don't. Right wingers tend to be more devoted to their families, have hobbies and switch off from politics. That's why we're the sane ones. The Left, by contrast, only has one hobby: Activism. They may permit themselves to watch 90 minutes of a football match but they never switch off, they are activists every waking hour of their lives.
Rupert Lowe has a piece in today’s Telegraph. Deporting entire communities, plus anyone who doesn’t speak English, capital punishment (Stefan Cisko anyone? Lucy Letby?), usual. No nuance or description of how the judiciary could be circumvented, and if other countries refused our deportees. The frothers in the comments told me to go read Restore’s many and detailed policy papers. Yeah, right. I might, but the average voter will not.
Nothing wrong with a starting point. What is needed is an action plan to refine it. However publishing reams of reams of detailed policy is just like reams and reams of requirements documents in engineering. Completely superfluous and just bogs us down in bureaucracy.
There should be a referendum on capital punishment. The last time it was legal, juries were still very reluctant to use it. There already are checks in society. Or would be if we were more homogenous.
Compare and contrast how the BBC's Today or PM programmes cover an issue and how GB News does to see how this works in action:
BBC: "To discuss this issue we have a spokesperson from the Institute of Important Things and expert in their field joining us in the studio."
"Thank you, Jim. We're pressing for radical and immediate change on this issue and have been working with the Ministry of Stuff to get the law changed."
And now GB News:
"And now the government wants to introduce this CRAZY law on us all, taking away yet another of our ancient freedoms. Joining me in the studio is our friend here at GB News...commentator, broadcaster and writer who hosts the excellent "You Have To Be Joking" podcast. Mate, this is terrible stuff."
"Indeed it is terrible stuff. Once again the government has caved in to the lawyers and people over at the Institute of Important Things. It's terrible and yet another nail in the coffin of this country."
I read Donna Rachel's excellent analysis of the Gorton and Denton by-election result on TCW but hadn't realised she also has a Substack. Thanks for drawing it to our attention. I will now plough through her back catalogue!
Absolutely correct. As much as I wish it was a slam dunk win for the right, we're just nowhere near where we need to be.
The leftists have been 'Marching through the institutions' for decades, over six decades. It is naïve hope to assume they can just be claimed and taken over.
It will take a long march back. And it won't be easy.
The 'System' is entrenched and has no desire to give up its power just because we don't like it. The establishment have been feathering their nests at our expense (socially and financially) for years and are not going to walk away because we may win a vote.
I liken it to those old fantasy films/games where the noble warrior, intent on bringing peace to the land, enters the evil lords kingdom to find the fields and roads littered with the rusting armour and corpses of those who tried to do the same, but just didn't know what they were really up against.
Reform/Restore can just as easily become a decaying corpse of rusted armour as a warning to the rest of us.
Correct again.
It is certainly true that the 'Left's' thinking has influenced all politics, with the Overton Window now way to the left of where it was 50 years ago.
Its tentacles have spread far and wide into Law and Order, education, charities, museums, National Trust, business, entertainment and even regrettably our armed forces.
The tragedy is that I'm convinced there are more of us than them but we are far too busy struggling on with life making ends meet and have always lacked the dedication necessary to form a collective body to fight back.
The fight back will come but it will be violent and then if we are to keep the 'Left' in its place we will need to fight for these reforms which would give the silent majority real power turning our politicians into our servants instead of our masters.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
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I made a comment many years ago that what separates the average right winger and the average left winger is that we have lives outside of politics, they don't. Right wingers tend to be more devoted to their families, have hobbies and switch off from politics. That's why we're the sane ones. The Left, by contrast, only has one hobby: Activism. They may permit themselves to watch 90 minutes of a football match but they never switch off, they are activists every waking hour of their lives.
You are spot on but I have to believe that when the shit seriously hits the fan the silent majority will awaken and demand change.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Rupert Lowe has a piece in today’s Telegraph. Deporting entire communities, plus anyone who doesn’t speak English, capital punishment (Stefan Cisko anyone? Lucy Letby?), usual. No nuance or description of how the judiciary could be circumvented, and if other countries refused our deportees. The frothers in the comments told me to go read Restore’s many and detailed policy papers. Yeah, right. I might, but the average voter will not.
Nothing wrong with a starting point. What is needed is an action plan to refine it. However publishing reams of reams of detailed policy is just like reams and reams of requirements documents in engineering. Completely superfluous and just bogs us down in bureaucracy.
There should be a referendum on capital punishment. The last time it was legal, juries were still very reluctant to use it. There already are checks in society. Or would be if we were more homogenous.
We definitely need the discussion.
Pakistan deported thousands of Afghanis recently. There didn’t seem to be a civil war
They aren’t a democracy and don’t follow the rules.
We don't seem to be a democracy any more so why should we follow the rules?
I'm coming a bit late to this but spot on.
Compare and contrast how the BBC's Today or PM programmes cover an issue and how GB News does to see how this works in action:
BBC: "To discuss this issue we have a spokesperson from the Institute of Important Things and expert in their field joining us in the studio."
"Thank you, Jim. We're pressing for radical and immediate change on this issue and have been working with the Ministry of Stuff to get the law changed."
And now GB News:
"And now the government wants to introduce this CRAZY law on us all, taking away yet another of our ancient freedoms. Joining me in the studio is our friend here at GB News...commentator, broadcaster and writer who hosts the excellent "You Have To Be Joking" podcast. Mate, this is terrible stuff."
"Indeed it is terrible stuff. Once again the government has caved in to the lawyers and people over at the Institute of Important Things. It's terrible and yet another nail in the coffin of this country."
"What can we do?"
"Vote Reform!"
"VOTE REFORM AND SO SAY ALL OF US!"
So who do you think gets their way?
I read Donna Rachel's excellent analysis of the Gorton and Denton by-election result on TCW but hadn't realised she also has a Substack. Thanks for drawing it to our attention. I will now plough through her back catalogue!
Absolutely correct. As much as I wish it was a slam dunk win for the right, we're just nowhere near where we need to be.
The leftists have been 'Marching through the institutions' for decades, over six decades. It is naïve hope to assume they can just be claimed and taken over.
It will take a long march back. And it won't be easy.
The 'System' is entrenched and has no desire to give up its power just because we don't like it. The establishment have been feathering their nests at our expense (socially and financially) for years and are not going to walk away because we may win a vote.
I liken it to those old fantasy films/games where the noble warrior, intent on bringing peace to the land, enters the evil lords kingdom to find the fields and roads littered with the rusting armour and corpses of those who tried to do the same, but just didn't know what they were really up against.
Reform/Restore can just as easily become a decaying corpse of rusted armour as a warning to the rest of us.
The problem as I see it is that the 'right' are generally individual in their outlook and desires while the left are 'the hive'.
Herding cats really is impossible.
You only really get right wing government after a military coup.