I was in Bradford yesterday. From the looks of it you would never guess there was a general election going on. At one time there would be election signs and posters all over the district. But there's nothing. It's very different if you go through a Pakistani area though. You'll see Palestine flags everywhere. It's become their Swastika. Every Muslim candidate contesting the seat has adopted it.
From this we learn two things. White natives have stopped engaging with party politics. The Tories have abandoned the very winnable, mostly white, Bradford South constituency because. They've written it off as a Muslim city. They don't know anything about the North and they don't care. There is no local branch structure. They've allowed it to collapse.
As such, that makes entryism difficult because there is nothing to enter. If conservatives want a local branch, they will have to build one from scratch.
What it means, though, is that the seat has been surrendered to third world tribal politics, where the concerns of white natives will no longer be represented in parliament. Tribal politics in representative democracy is all about enrichment of the tribe, and the winner takes all. So not only are we looking at the collapse of party politics, we are also looking at the collapse of representative democracy. Urban politics is being colonised by squatters to represent foreign concerns and minority interests. This should be viewed as a national security threat, but the establishment hasn't noticed, and it doesn't really care.
As far as the media is concerned, the story of this election is Reform UK and Nigel Farage. But the real story is that our cities are falling to Islamism, and they will have more MPs than Reform UK. As such, UK foreign policy could end up being dictated by minorities who are, to all intents and purposes, foreigners, counter to the national interest. These are people who haven't integrated, and don't even want to. We know nothing about who is funding them, and for all we know, they're being funded by Saudi Arabia or Iran. The tail is wagging the dog.
This especially dangerous since Starmer is a weak man who takes to the knee for communist agitators and his deputy grovels at the feet of Pakistanis. When his majority is threatened in 2029, the Islamists will own him. Labour has no interest in the white native vote. Muslims make up less than ten percent of the British electorate, yet they will be calling the shots in government.
As such, Britain has to learn how to be electorally racist. The bottom line: if you are white, no not vote for a Muslim under any circumstances. They will not represent you, your constituency or your country. They are in it to promote Muslim concerns. Muslim MPs are delegates who only serve so long as they do instructed by their tribe.
This is largely happening because native Brits have given up on party politics. Even those who join parties don't meaningfully get involved for the most part. Muslims have been able to wear our parties as a skinsuit because there was nobody there to object. They operate in uncontested space.
As such, the "vibrant" electioneering we see in urban areas between various ethnic minorities, is tribal factionalism and sectarianism, where power at the ballot box is just gaming the demographics. The idea of becoming an MP and representing all constituents is an alien concept to them. As such, white working class people living in our cities will have no political representation in parliament.
This, ultimately, is multiculturalism in action. Multiculturalism isn't the happy mixed-race families you see in insurance adverts. It's Pakistanis wearing Shalwar kameez chasing candidates down the street in northern towns, shouting obscenities at them about Gaza ceasefire amendments. Make no mistake. We have been invaded, we are losing our cities, and there's no voting our way out of this. Either we get busy with mass deportation, or we cease to be a governable country and the clock starts ticking on civil war.
This is what our politicians will not talk about. They don't know or understand what is happening, and most of them don't even care. They will continue to lie to your face and tell you that immigration is good for us, and nobody in the media will report what is happening, not least because they don't give a toss about local politics, especially in the North. They're only concerned with Westminster gossip and can't get past their obsession with Nigel Farage, who won't meaningfully talk about any of this either. Our politics has collapsed, we're being invaded, and the political class couldn't be less interested.
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One of the reasons the Tory party is so easily swept away is because its local roots have rotted away. There is nobody left to defend it at the local level and its activist base has evaporated. To a large extent this is also true of the Labour party, except where there is sectarian competition for the candidate nomination. That's why Labour still has "vibrant" membership organisations in London. Everywhere else, any paper candidate will do, which is why they turn out to be dross.
Meanwhile, the Muslim Vote operation has a serious ground game and is well organised. That is why they are able to wear our political parties as a skinsuit. Party politics has quietly died. Muslims are the only ones using the legacy system to its political advantage, but only in the interests of their tribe. They are showing us how it is done.
This informs my antipathy towards Reform UK. We saw in the Blackpool South by-election, when 10,000 Tory voters stayed at home, that Reform without Farage was not able to capitalise on the disaffection.
With Farage, Reform has momentum a mile wide, but only an inch deep. Reform under Tice did not build local branch infrastructure, not least because the party is not a party or a membership organisation as such. Like the Tory party, it is managed from the centre, and not managed very well. Farage outsourcing candidate vetting tells you everything. There is no real intention to build a party machine. As such, it will we swept away with similar ease once Farage moves on.
This is why I recommended ot Ben Habib that the party created an NEC, a party constitution containing its values, and a policy unit. The change Britain needs is extensive, and can only come about by way of a strong national movement. But that won't happen, especially under Farage. Perhaps he believes there isn't time to build a national organisation. But we can't afford not to.
Party of the reason the Tory party flopped is because it came to power with no policies to speak of. There was no Brexit policy bible, thus no instructions to issue to civil servants. Instead, Tory ministers barked orders at civil servants to make things happen when they became politically urgent. There was no programme for government thus they were easily thwarted by civil servants. They never made a plan thus never anticipated the nature of the resistance or understood what obstacles would need to be addressed first.
The absence of all this foundational work means that Reform has no long term future, and it certainly isn't a serious proposal for government. Thus, I am told that Reform is just a means to an end - to destroy the Tory party. But in every sense, there's no much left of it to destroy. Like Reform, the Tory party is a shell company.
As such, I no longer think entryism is a viable way forward. It's not even useful as a means to deselect candidates as that game is anticipated. Joining means we might have a say in who leads the party next time, but we're still left to choose between medicrities and our influence lasts only as long as their tenure - meaning we could end up back at the point, about the time when Farage retires from front line politics.
This plan to destroy the Tory party in the belief that something better will come along is hopelessly naive, unless we are prepared to build that "something better". It won't just fall out of the sky, and we can't wait around for yet another bored millionaire to set up a pretend political party.
Admittedly, Farage has limited uses, but as I illustrated earlier, there is a real and urgent threat of sectarianism in our politics that will be the end of Britain as a governable country, and even Farage isn't talking about that. To a large extend, Farage himself has become the story. And that is not helpful. Reform might bag three or four seats. The Muslim Vote is poised to win several sooner or later.
My point here is that all of this Reform hype, even if it is of momentary utility, is a complete waste of energy if at the end we have nothing to show for it and we're still a long way from any real power. Sure, you can get Farage elected, but if that does not result in a well grounded movement with a local base, then all we have is a professional noisemaker.
From what I can see, the SDP is the only party that's actually building something, and by the looks of it, making a good go of it. I have become convinced that strong local roots, and building over the long term, is the key to winning. I have some points of disagreement with the SDP, but now it's looking like the only game in town, unless anyone has any better ideas. The bottom line is that centralised political activity without grassroots will fall apart. We know this because we are seeing it in real time with the Tory party. We have to build something from the ground up, and it will take as long as it takes. There are no shortcuts to movement building, and since Reform does not recognise this, it is an obstacle and part of the problem.
Excellent post and as I've said since 2012, at the birth of The Harrogate Agenda, the reform of our governance will take time but hopefully not as long as the 276 years,from the Levellers to the Chartists, it took for men over 21 to get the vote!
I agree with your current thoughts that the next 10 years are critical but if anything is going to happen the public need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Finally on Farage he is a good professional 'noisemaker', as he was over the EU, but as to bothering with working out a plan to leave he was simply not interested and so history is repeating itself - lots of noise oin immigration and Ukraine but no plan.
As I'm fond of saying if you think Farage is the solution you are asking the wrong question.
Another great piece Pete.
I don’t like to say it and, in many ways, I hope to be proven wrong but the current political situation is not only “the quiet death of party politics” but also the quiet death of democracy and the nation state.
It would appear to me the Globalist Elites (GEs) are ruling the roost. They’re pulling out all the stops to terminate democracy and the nation state. To that end, it would come as a surprise to me if they weren’t financially backing, directly and, more significantly, indirectly (via ourselves), the Islamic takeover of the West.
The GEs have the money and the ability to control the levers of power via their subjugated pyramidal hierarchy. Our governments, effectively part of this hierarchy, are having their strings pulled to enforce virtual self-destruction upon our societies; and we’re powerless to stop it. No wonder disillusioned “white natives have stopped engaging with party politics”.
On the other hand, our governments are having their strings pulled to support the Islamic take-over of the West; the Islamists, it would appear, can do no wrong.