It’s almost a year to the day since I launched manifestoproject.org. It feels like an eternity ago. It’s evolved quite considerably since I started it. As a political endeavour, though, it has been an abject failure. Perhaps it is down to my lack of powers of persuasion, but the point that political parties should have a firm intellectual foundation and stress tested policies has not landed with any of them.
All the same, it is a useful thought exercise in its own right and one I will continue with for its own sake. But I must confess, I am totally done with party politics. I have only ever devoted time to analysing them in the hope that one of them might eventually present as a serous party - and I think we can put that notion firmly to bed now. I could very easily wash my hands of it all.
Events over the weekend, though, have changed the mood. We saw a paramilitary styled protest in Dover and a much larger mobilisation in Portsmouth last night as the RNLI brought in hundreds more migrants.
This has the Slop Right parties falling over themselves to capitalise on it (while also taking the time, quite bizarrely, to condemn it). I suppose that is just the nature of politicians. For Reform it serves as an immediate distraction from Donor-gate, but they’re away with the fairies if they think that one is going away any time soon. These dinghy migrant stories have a tendency to drop out of the news within a day or two, whereas a corruption scandal will run and run.
The Portsmouth incident, however, changes things up a gear. It’s put a new player on the map. Danny Tommo has shown exceptional leadership skills in putting it together and ensuring it passed without any major incident. The blockade eventually dispersed after the police issued a Section 14 notice, and Tommo explained, quite correctly, that there was no point in getting his men arrested for no useful purpose. He explained that the migrant coaches could have been stopped, but he would need a lot more men to do it. That was essentially a call to arms - and one that has not fallen on deaf ears.
It is clear now that there is no party political solution to this. The right cannot unite on the basis of a political ideology (which is necessary for a functioning political party) but it can unite on the streets if there are very specific objectives. That’s where we’ll win this.
Already there’s already a lot of sniping on X at @RealDannyTommo, not least because of his colourful criminal background, but let me be clear. I don’t care. This is the first sign of genuine leadership I’ve seen for a very long time, and if he calls for British men to rally for an actual purpose, I will be there.
I am not interested in any more family friendly jamborees in London. I am done with bullshit micro parties and slopulist chancers. I have had it with party politics. We have endured insult after calculated insult. I am not waiting until 2029 so I can meekly drop my ballot paper in a box and hope for the best. We have made our feelings known to the government and we heard their reply. Now we have to make them understand who is actually in charge here. It’s not them. We own the streets.
I concur with Danny Tommo that this movement must be non-violent, but at the same time, they have to know we are serious. Each of us must be prepared to step outside our comfort zone and put something on the line.
What I can tell you is that we cannot do this through individual actions. They can pick us off one by one - arresting us, confiscating our assets, jailing us if needs be. But they can’t come after all of us, and we only win if we mobilise. What’s at stake here is the future of our country and the safety of our people.
But democracy is also on the line here. The state is already beefing up its policing and surveillance, because they would rather go to war with the British people than enforce the borders.
None of us wants this. We’d all rather just be left alone to live our lives in peace - but the British government is removing that option by the day. Soon even the remotest parts of Britain will wake up to discover they are no longer safe in their own communities - and will realise they’ve sleepwalked into a dictatorship. We cannot let them do this to us. The line must be drawn here.
There was never going to be any peaceful way out of this. Too many egos and emotions on the left were responsible for far too many mistakes, with far too deep and far too lethal implications for the heritage British population (by whom I mean those who can trace their history back to before 1945).
There comes a point where all that people on the Left will consider doing is doubling down on what, in any rational, sane world, would now be recognised as appallingly misguided mistakes. That is where we are now. They have made far too many mistakes, and there is no scenario in which they can admit them. In Germany's case, it was Merkel opening the borders in 2015. In the UK, the rot goes far deeper and can be traced back to both the initial Windrush invasion and the rejection of Enoch Powell, and then the Blair regime really opened the borders deliberately to rub people's noses into it. The replacement by Cameron and Osborne of the old Conservatives with Liberal Democrats, with a different logo, merely twisted the knife.
I realise that you're based in the UK and therefore have to be very careful to avoid any potential offences, however contrived, because the regime in power would do anything to make an example of you and even if acquitted, "the process is the punishment". There have been far too many examples from the trans-freak, cross-dressing, mutilation of children cult for there to be any doubt that, if one dares to contradict the prevailing orthodoxy, the criminal justice system can be weaponized to destroy you.
I've said for some time that I can only see one of two ways out of this:
1. Continued inexorable degradation of the status quo, with ever more third-worlders entering legally and illegally, the fabric of society being torn asunder, and a balkanisation of the United Kingdom gradually but inexorably taking place, destroying the legacy which those of us who served in the military and our forefathers risked all for. And balkanization is the correct term. There is no such thing as multiculturalism or diversity. It is an invasion that will lead to a new Lebanon or a new Iran. Eventually, it is just a matter of time. The degradation of society, the stabbings, the rapes are simply punctuation along that route.
2. A civil war. Whilst I was an Army officer, David Betz of King's College London was my tutor. I have watched with interest as he has anticipated, on many podcasts and YouTube videos, the risks of a British civil war. I agree with him in some respects that there is a risk, but where I depart from him is that I think the British population is largely old, weak, and cowardly. The population has also been deliberately diluted by invaders and traitors, and therefore I fear it will be too difficult to mobilise patriots in sufficient numbers using sufficient force to apply sufficient direct action to achieve decisive effect. But I hope I am wrong. In Spain in the 1930s, Franco successfully destroyed the communists, and kept them out for half a century. In Chile, Pinochet achieved similarly for almost two decades from 1973. Both made mistakes, which allowed left wingers to return (e.g., at the tail end of the Spanish Civil War, many leftwingers escaped, only to return decades later in the 1980s), but they set excellent examples. The best example by none is Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore. In Operation Coldstore, he successfully suppressed all left-wing opposition, but that was when enemy numbers were small and could be contained easily.
I realise that you must necessarily be studiously neutral for legal reasons, and therefore I address the following encouragement to those actually deployed on the ground in the future: good luck, god speed, you are defending a civilisation which has been betrayed by traitors and fifth columnists.
I don’t want to see violent paramilitary style operations on the streets of Britain but to an extent we already have this in parts of our great cities where our police enter and manage by consent with local leaders. What happened in Dover and Portsmouth are inevitable reactions from the indigenous people to this inequity and the unfairness of mass legal and illegal immigration. We know whose side the police are on. If push came to shove, what side would our military be on? Their leaders are woke but it’s the men who matter.