This is a welcome, calm cool acknowledgement of the sheer scale of the job ahead. The forces and temptations are driving good people towards the short term spectacle so incentivised by social media. Great piece of work.
Isn't that what politics has become? The short term spectacle, as you put it. It's all about sound bites and so called personalities. Pete's attempts at policy development are just not welcome.
The ingredients of success are all in your post....invest time in the hard policy work, align messaging to that, with iron discipline, plan for a 10 year mandate and know where the blob's landmines will be. Habib's amateur powerpoint slides show how far away we are from a serious proposition.
If we do not leave the ECHR how do we stop all these immigrants? I feel there is no point in having armed forces to protect us against foreign invasion when we have 50k young men.... mainly... from all over the world who we know nothing about invading us now.
Lowe's diligent work in Parliament has shown his eye for detail and work ethic. It may be that this has taken the majority of his time. He and Restore now have no option but to produce policy and they don't even have to try hard to produce something better than Reform.
The Left (or globalists) feel they are entitled to rule.
Any non globalist party gaining Government has to face them down.
Fail to do that and the left will regain confidence and do the very thing you fear, laying traps and constitutional land mines (that are almost certainly wrong) in order to slow the disintegration of their holiest of policies (ECHR being one of them).
As Recusant on all his posts says ‘do not fear them’.
That is what I’m getting from your posts - reticence.
A party that gains government needs confidence and an attitude of ‘bring it on’.
Thatcher and Blair came to power confident in their aims and ignored all who opposed them.
They didn’t sway over what might go wrong, they went for it.
We now hear Starmers actions in giving away the Chagos Islands was based on a lie as there was no power of the UN able to remove British sovereignty. That shows you how the globalists will work to stop a ‘right’ leaning government.
To think that slow slow catchy monkey will achieve our goals is wrong, blow them out of the water.
The government must realise there will be political warfare from day one. The more attacks the government has the less time the left will have to oppose.
Knowing you as I do I will readily state that nobody has worked harder, for little to no reward, on all the necessary policy details a party needs to adopt to set our country on the long hard road to recovery.
I also accept Restore UK has had time, while a movement, to develop some policy details but even so I still believe they deserve six months grace before detailed criticism ensues!
My final point is if criticism becomes warranted then some thought should be given to the best way to deliver it. Should one go in all guns blazing or adopt a more subtle approach. IMO there are arguments for both approaches but which is most likely to achieve the best results is open to debate.
Don't we have to recognise that politics are no longer about detailed policy but about personalities, media exposure and sound bites. The age of TV personality politics is upon us, sadly.
Yes, but I definitely understand that to GOVERN you must have DETAILED policies worked out or you end up attempting changes which fall after the barrage of opposition in parliament but also on the ground.
All these tools that they used against us, In particularly ECHR MUST as priority be ripped out from every corner of government and restore our rights to self determination without any interference from any outside agencies. Especially that shower of Marxists at the EU!! No No No!!!
This is the reverse of the case. Reform is all adlib and sound bytes. In stark contrast Restore has already prepared draft legislation that has won respect for its legal thoroughness.
Restore has the ability to hold Reform to account on the right, which is good, but in the long run this could be beneficial for Reform's electability. MSM still describe Reform as Far Right, well how are they going to describe Restore... Far Far Right or Further Right or Even More Right! Whatever, it allows Farage to take the centrist position, which he'll be comfortable with as the "safe" alternative option. I know centerist mediocrity isn't what the country needs, but it is the most likley to get elected.
Policy follows an overarching vision of where the country should be.
I don't think Reform or Restore have landed yet on what that vision should be, other than "not like the last 30 years", so not really surprising there isn't policy detail. Farage is a lost cause, he's had decades to think about it, but Yusef and Lowe are still political Freshers, so both have the ability to come up with some sort of vision.
Will they?
I don't know, all we can do is to keep on nagging to get that vision and hopefuly then policy will follow.
Good content Pete - as almost always. There's a paradox in play here in that you're fundamentally right. We need boring, mechanical stuff to be done in the background and some serious policy, but 1) that tends not to be very popular with the rabblers and 2) populists, by their very nature, are unlikely to engage in such work or even embrace it when others put that work in. Populism is the political equivalent of junk food, it's convenient and makes you feel good in the moment of consumption. But it won't nourish you in any meaningful way.
Great article, but I was expecting you to offer an opinion as to whether the launch of RB as a political party is going to jeopardize the chances of either RB or RUK forming the next govt.
This is a welcome, calm cool acknowledgement of the sheer scale of the job ahead. The forces and temptations are driving good people towards the short term spectacle so incentivised by social media. Great piece of work.
Isn't that what politics has become? The short term spectacle, as you put it. It's all about sound bites and so called personalities. Pete's attempts at policy development are just not welcome.
The ingredients of success are all in your post....invest time in the hard policy work, align messaging to that, with iron discipline, plan for a 10 year mandate and know where the blob's landmines will be. Habib's amateur powerpoint slides show how far away we are from a serious proposition.
Well I'm persuaded. It's all lost, hopeless. Let's pack up and go home 💀
If we do not leave the ECHR how do we stop all these immigrants? I feel there is no point in having armed forces to protect us against foreign invasion when we have 50k young men.... mainly... from all over the world who we know nothing about invading us now.
Poland and Hungary are in the ECHR, they don’t seem to have a problem with immigrants…
Lowe's diligent work in Parliament has shown his eye for detail and work ethic. It may be that this has taken the majority of his time. He and Restore now have no option but to produce policy and they don't even have to try hard to produce something better than Reform.
The Left (or globalists) feel they are entitled to rule.
Any non globalist party gaining Government has to face them down.
Fail to do that and the left will regain confidence and do the very thing you fear, laying traps and constitutional land mines (that are almost certainly wrong) in order to slow the disintegration of their holiest of policies (ECHR being one of them).
As Recusant on all his posts says ‘do not fear them’.
That is what I’m getting from your posts - reticence.
A party that gains government needs confidence and an attitude of ‘bring it on’.
Thatcher and Blair came to power confident in their aims and ignored all who opposed them.
They didn’t sway over what might go wrong, they went for it.
We now hear Starmers actions in giving away the Chagos Islands was based on a lie as there was no power of the UN able to remove British sovereignty. That shows you how the globalists will work to stop a ‘right’ leaning government.
To think that slow slow catchy monkey will achieve our goals is wrong, blow them out of the water.
The government must realise there will be political warfare from day one. The more attacks the government has the less time the left will have to oppose.
Rupert Lowe knows that, thankfully.
Knowing you as I do I will readily state that nobody has worked harder, for little to no reward, on all the necessary policy details a party needs to adopt to set our country on the long hard road to recovery.
I also accept Restore UK has had time, while a movement, to develop some policy details but even so I still believe they deserve six months grace before detailed criticism ensues!
My final point is if criticism becomes warranted then some thought should be given to the best way to deliver it. Should one go in all guns blazing or adopt a more subtle approach. IMO there are arguments for both approaches but which is most likely to achieve the best results is open to debate.
Don't we have to recognise that politics are no longer about detailed policy but about personalities, media exposure and sound bites. The age of TV personality politics is upon us, sadly.
Yes, but I definitely understand that to GOVERN you must have DETAILED policies worked out or you end up attempting changes which fall after the barrage of opposition in parliament but also on the ground.
But isn't that exactly where we are with Labour? The barrage of opposition is from its own back benches.
It's a broken system, not fit for any purpose.
We need a party with a plan and balls to enact it and THA!
There's no lack of parties to choose from but whether any fit the bill, I have little idea. (Probably not so what do we do?)
I note that there are:
Advance UK
Your Party
Restore Britain
Reform
UKIP
Green Party
Lib Dems
Labour
Conservative
Workers Party of Britain
SDP
plus 81 "notable minor Parties" including
Reclaim
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
National Front
Homeland Party
Heritage Party
British National Party (BNP) etc etc
All these tools that they used against us, In particularly ECHR MUST as priority be ripped out from every corner of government and restore our rights to self determination without any interference from any outside agencies. Especially that shower of Marxists at the EU!! No No No!!!
This is the reverse of the case. Reform is all adlib and sound bytes. In stark contrast Restore has already prepared draft legislation that has won respect for its legal thoroughness.
Here is how to leave the ECHR - that work is already done
https://youtu.be/P-N6CxlgXeo?si=QBDTTh5IHJ8oZww_
Restore has the ability to hold Reform to account on the right, which is good, but in the long run this could be beneficial for Reform's electability. MSM still describe Reform as Far Right, well how are they going to describe Restore... Far Far Right or Further Right or Even More Right! Whatever, it allows Farage to take the centrist position, which he'll be comfortable with as the "safe" alternative option. I know centerist mediocrity isn't what the country needs, but it is the most likley to get elected.
Policy follows an overarching vision of where the country should be.
I don't think Reform or Restore have landed yet on what that vision should be, other than "not like the last 30 years", so not really surprising there isn't policy detail. Farage is a lost cause, he's had decades to think about it, but Yusef and Lowe are still political Freshers, so both have the ability to come up with some sort of vision.
Will they?
I don't know, all we can do is to keep on nagging to get that vision and hopefuly then policy will follow.
Good content Pete - as almost always. There's a paradox in play here in that you're fundamentally right. We need boring, mechanical stuff to be done in the background and some serious policy, but 1) that tends not to be very popular with the rabblers and 2) populists, by their very nature, are unlikely to engage in such work or even embrace it when others put that work in. Populism is the political equivalent of junk food, it's convenient and makes you feel good in the moment of consumption. But it won't nourish you in any meaningful way.
Restore Britain.
The voice for deportations and legislation against political islam.
Great article, but I was expecting you to offer an opinion as to whether the launch of RB as a political party is going to jeopardize the chances of either RB or RUK forming the next govt.
Is Rupert Lowe really Rupert Lowe or a spoof character invented by Harry Enfield?
That is what I been saying- Rupert is a fantasist.