The Homeland Party: a port in a storm

After careful consideration, yesterday I joined the Homeland Party. I have no use for the Tory party, Reform is a total dead end, and though I have a lot of time for Ukip, and bear no animosity toward them, I think it's time for something new in politics. I've been looking at all the parties since the election and Homeland seems like the obvious candidate for development.

I toyed for a while with the idea of joining the SDP but ultimately, they are what they say on the tin, and I'm just not a social democrat. No part of me is left wing. I also have it from the horse's mouth that the party will not give consideration to remigration of any kind and are thus not serious.

Presently Homeland is underdeveloped intellectually, but that's why I'm joining it at this stage so I can have a hand in firming up its policy base. I've already had some input in their approach to immigration policy. On that subject there is little disagreement.

I do have some reservations about joining, and I think you can guess what they are. I'm not instinctively ethnonationalist. It's just that the civic nationalism of Reform etc. hinges on an idea of "shared British values" which are increasingly difficult to define if they any longer exist at all. The lack intellectual coherence will ultimately be the downfall of Reform, and now is the time to be developing a successor entity.

The reason I'm taking Homeland seriously is because they've shown a willingness to develop policy, and having met the top team, I'm convinced they're intelligent, serious people who have done the thinking. Homeland is certainly more robustly nationalist than the alternatives, and it's speaking to new audiences.

As to the party's legacy links with more dubious organisations, I got a real sense from the recent conference that this is an entirely different animal, but in any case, a new party will become whatever its members develop it into. I'm getting in on the ground floor, and I will have my say to prevent it going off the deep end, as these parties are prone to doing.

As ever, this does not affect my approach to political commentary. I will have my differences with the party, and will speak publicly and freely, and they can either suck it up or chuck me out. I don't care which. More their loss than mine if they do.

Doctrinally, I'm still basically a national conservative, which amounts to being nationalist and conservative in economic and social outlook, but I also believe that radical measures are required to correct a historic mistake in allowing high volumes of garbage immigration that contributes nothing.

I believe this country is in danger of Lebanonisation, and if we allow that to happen then we will cease to be a functioning country and democracy will give way to anarcho-tyranny and sectarianism. We have only a short time to turn the tables. I am not far right except to say that I am far to the right of the metropolitan liberal consensus. I believe what we have is something worth preserving, and the survival of good-faith immigrants is contingent on the survival of the indigenous peoples of these islands.

As such, I am probably on the liberal wing of the party (if such a thing exists), as opposed to Steve Laws who is unrestrained in his approach to remigration. I think a lot of what he says is tongue-in-cheek because controversy is part of the game, and is necessary to spark debate and move the Overton Window. I believe he's basically decent and he can argue his own case with skill.

Since I'm already demonised for having relatively pedestrian conservative opinions (i.e. a nation should enforce its borders and welfare should be strictly limited to those who were at least born here), I don't feel I've got anything to lose by joining Homeland. The left have already tried to cancel me several times and I just keep coming back stronger.

If anything, it's precisely that kind of toxic, censorious anti-democratic bigotry and harassment that prompts me to align with people who are capable of having no-holds-barred debate about contentious issues, no matter who is offended. If this now means I'm a target for Hope not Hate I can live with that. I won't lose any sleep over it because everybody knows who and what they are now. They are communist degenerates.

Basically, my great crime is to run a blog and talk about the issues plainly, and without fear, as I see them. I am always open to debate and and people are free to try and change my mind, but they never even attempt it. They just call me names instead. I'm forced to conclude that these people can't argue their own case and censorship is their only weapon. If I'm what animates the far left then the far right must hardly exist.

If it transpires that Homeland is a crank party, I'll be the first to say so as I'm not one for wasting my time and energy. I just think we need an option other than Reform which can at least be unequivocal about immigration and the necessity to remove those who have no business being here.

I do not believe that is a racist position. Rather, it is a matter of national security and self-preservation. Kemi Badenoch says "The UK is a multi-faith, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural success story, and we believe that many of our greatest strengths derive from the diversity of our population". One can only assume she is not paying attention or smoking something highly illegal. Mass immigration has been an unmitigated disaster for our once cohesive, high-trust, safe country, where machete gangs and suicide bombs were unheard of even in my lifetime.

So anyway, we'll see how this goes. Call me whatever names you like. I'm past caring about labels and I have no desire for the social status that goes with conformity. If ever I did, it's about twenty years too late to worry about that.