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Jun 12·edited Jun 12

I also agree, and whilst I understand Rome was not built in a day. It needs to have a beginning. At the moment the destruction of the Tories seems like a good option in order to build from the rubble. I simply, maybe naively, see Reform as a wrecking ball. If the Tories are not destroyed the media will constantly prop them up as our only alternative and squash any other right leaning party. I like the idea of trade union involvement, but People like Parvini seem to think a grass roots movement is not viable. When you refer to Tommy I think the underlying momentum is from a leak in the media blockade that is facilitated by social media. Not everyone supporting Tommy is a die hard Tommy supporter, but he is the tributary with the strongest current in the UK. The anti-immigration 'intellectuals' such as yourself Parvini, Goodwin, Benjamin, Whittle et al seem to be at odds and unable to form the kind of principled foundation on which to build. I have only just started viewing your work and am not aware if you are on the left or right in relation to other areas of politics. The point is there are a lot of people like you talking and no-one with enough gravity to bring you all together in to an entity that is actually doing anything other than provide commentary. Some of you need to stop talking and start doing!

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It's the start doing what, that is the difficulty.

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Plausible but the alternatives may be worse albeit for different reasons.

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I agree with your analysis as you only need to see how Nigel Farage abandoned UKIP without a moments thought for the grassroot branches and movement that support him for 20 odd years.

We need to now educate the public that they alone must wake up and form local groups and campaign for the reform of our system of governance.

Niall Warry

Director

The Harrogate Agenda

https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/

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If they keep going as they have, they could be a serious force in politics eventually.

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I think the media have buried the SDP. My worry, based on a hunch, is that only someone with the momentum of Farage can break through the media firewall. He is too big an entity to hold back. My guess is there is also the financial/political aspect. Farage is more on the right economically and so people like the owners of GB news give him airtime. The SDP fall in between the cracks, to the right of the left wing media on issues like immigration and patriotism, and to the left of right wing media on business.

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