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Niall Warry's avatar

Your keyboard Pete must be melting but what you are writing makes a great deal of sense.

The irony is Lowe is helping Farage toughen his position on immigration.

Keep up the good work!!

JeromeFranklinRyan's avatar

Yes I agree with you completely an astutely written article. And good to see you are still about Naill last time I saw you it was way back in early UKIP days when you stood for NEC election. Hope you are well.

Niall Warry's avatar

Are you there - and it is Niall not Naill !!!

Niall Warry's avatar

Coming up 75 in April and keeping fit with Tai Chi and of course still promoting this!

https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/

John's avatar
Feb 24Edited

Either the centre represses all ethic identity groups to the same extent it does to white British or white British groups will form - shamed or not. The current asymmetrical system where all ethic/ racial groups can exist and politic qua group but not white British is toxic

Dr EC's avatar

What I don’t understand, given you’re absolutely right about this para -

‘If Restore operates a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on ultra far right views, the party will end up tainted. This is still a country that prides itself on the defeat of Nazism. You can see this every Remembrance Day. For sure, the Zoomers might have been brought up in a different moral universe, but it’s only really the YouTube addled boys who go in for vehement antisemitism’

- is how nearly all of the Left has gone all in with the pro-Palestinian/ Islamist cause, which is the last corner of the world still actively pursuing Nazism post WW2. (Cf al-Husseini, Hitler & al-Banna)

As for Restore: I take your points but think it’s far too early to give up on the party. The details have yet to be finely tuned, but the message of ‘millions must go’ including anyone who knew about the rape gangs is spreading like wildfire and is _substantially_ different to what Reform is offering.

Besides which, the public are done with defected Tories.

Orak's avatar

I have seen several stories about how the Iranian revolution panned out. But one such was that the Leftists and the Islamists had a little collab going, to overthrow the Shah. And then the Islamists lined the Leftists up against a wall and ... middle, middle, middle ... and Iran didn't become a socialist utopia and the Leftists were never seen again. Fin.

Dr EC's avatar

That's exactly what happened. I despair of Leftists. They don't seem to do history, evidence, logic, consequences, numbers or facts.

Michel Foucault, the 'father' of postmodernism - which is the 'method'/ ideology via which the New Left does all its other 'thinking' - helped cheer the Ayatollah to power.

Has his work been roundly critiqued and dismissed? Has it hell. He's a canonical figure in every university Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences syllabus and his work is currently working its way into school syllabi too.

George's avatar

The Tories split into 2 parties in one- the wets (globalists) and the right wingers

The wets won. They are as clueless as Labour.

Labour moved to globalism under Blair. They are as competent as the Tories.

Reform are moving towards globalism with Farage favouring ex Tory wets.

The Greens? Globalists.

Lib Dem’s are the original globalists.

Advance? Check out Paul Burgess ‘climate realism’ (You Tube).

The vaunted Advance UK College has lost any power it had, the executive rule. Bens organisation is damaged. Who are the executive? Are Advance infiltrated?

That leaves Restore. Rupert isn’t a globalist, but will Restore be infiltrated? Perhaps Rupert has received inside information on Advances troubles?

John's avatar

Reform are deluded if they think they exist other than as a representative of the indigenous population. If the denounce their support they have as much chance of election as the Tories into whom they appear to be morphing

George's avatar

I doubt the indigenous population are that interested in Reform.

They are waiting for another party with a better portfolio and that looks like Restore.

It won’t take much for voters to move, I think it’s already happening 🤞

John's avatar

It’s not just that mass immigration has been grotesquely anti democratic it has also resulted in a subversion of the natural order where a condition of immigrating ought to be that every immigrant abandons their home culture in order to assimilate into what they have elected for - or they decide that’s not for them and return home

Edmund Eugenius's avatar

Yeah, Lowe and Restore should set some parameters, but at the same time, outflanking Reform on the far-right may force Reform to clamp down on immigration even more so, and hence, push the Overton window to the right and make Reform seem like a moderate party.

Kevin Price's avatar

Reform IS a moderate party. Hence the frustration with them.

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Hoarder of Grain's avatar

Well said Peter, for me the tragedy of the launch of Restore as a 'political party' is not the haphazard, slapdash way in which it is being executed, or rather phoned in (nicely illustrated in your X post on Cyberpunk 2077).

But that it undermines the excellent work he and his team had been doing on the Rape Gangs enquiry, a deeply important initiative, admittedly with a very poor communications strategy,

which of course in its current form will now be dismissed as just being a political gambit by an emergent 'far right' party.

Restore could have remained a pressure group for at least a year, constantly forcing Reform to tack to the right, but now.... Rupert has done Nigel a huge favour without knowing it.

Anyway it is what it is, Reform has one critical initial function:

Tories Delenda Est. Labour Delenda Est.

After that let the dice fly.

JeromeFranklinRyan's avatar

I have agued this point ad nauseam with the more ardend Restore bandwaggon jumpers and it falls on deaf ears.

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Andrew's avatar

Why did you censor the word 'rape'?

The Plucky Welshman's avatar

Very good piece, that being said, ethno-nationalism is not the same as Nazism, every other non western country in the world conducts itself in an ethno-nationalist way, in that the rules, laws, codes of conduct and so on are deliberately made to benefit their own people in accordance with their own way of life and not outsiders, why should Britain or indeed any western nation not do this? Concentration camps are not possible in Britain, our common law legal traditions makes them impossible, we are not Germans, the continentals have a different philosophical tradition that is inferior to our own. That being said if we have another 30 years of Blairism which is an attempt to skin graft continental thinking onto our common law system, anything is possible, Blairism is the scourge of our times and the source of all of our modern ills.

Daniel Thomas's avatar

Restore was doing great work with the rape gang enquiry, and simply by posting online what most people think but can't say.

The Overton window seems to have shifted massively over the last couple of years (I hope that's not just my online bubble speaking) in the right direction.

But yes, as a pressure group Restore is fantastic. As a political party they will split the vote and destroy the original good they have done.

GregB's avatar

Love the X post. I must have missed it first time around.

BTW, according to the BBC World Service, parties like Restore etc are now not just Faah Right but Extreme Faah Right!

Chali’s Food for Thought.'s avatar

I don't think Rupert Lowe is a man who worries about labels he is more concerned with getting things done.

He is a straight talker and just what we need right now to fix the mess.

We do not need a leader who cares about labels or “he said, she said” kind of childish rhetoric.

Lowe is the UK version of Donald Trump and exactly what we need to fix our country.

So everyone can put away their hurt feelings and over sensitive wokeness and knuckle down for some real revolution !

Rebirth Of A Nation's avatar

On a long enough timeline, everyone will have to pick a side. You have to pick the hammer and sickle to march with, or you pick the hooked cross.

So to those reading. Do you choose to stand with capitalism, which is lead by international finance and a worldwide paedophile ring; communism, which is led by dysgenics and actively work against the survival of your people; or do you choose the right hand path, following natural law, working together for the nation and prospering, where the state serves you, not the other way around, weeding out all harmful elements of our society.

You have no other choice.

Martin T's avatar

I thought Lowe Mark 1 was a better bet, a movement and think tank that could produce policies and research, work on a cause like the Rape Gang Inquiry and wait for Tories or Reform or whoever to compete for their policies and supporters. Instead Lowe Mark 2 is a single issue party that will never get past the fringes of the online right and win zero seats, and probably help Labour, Green and LibDems win several more.

The Haeft's avatar

So what do you suggest? Farage will only do Trump Mark 1 - if that. We need Trump Mark III at least. Restore COULD navigate the line by focusing entirely on Islam and the need for assimilation of people already here. Islam is about culture not race. And it needs a massive, illiberal response

Kevin Bennewith's avatar

This discussion is about tactics. The question is, what is the overall strategy? The current infighting and even Pete’s approach are nipping the nascent movement in the bud. If this problem is not solved by political action, then it will be solved by a civil war. Dr Betz believes it is too late to solve the problem politically. I tend to agree with him. And it’s not only in the UK but the entire West, including the Anglosphere. I remember Sir Winston Churchills words when he said “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Nathan Pirt's avatar

I cannot get over how they looked at the dumb "Sir Kier Starmer Project" and copied it for themselves. How many times does one man say "not to put cart before horse" and still do exactly that? Or did they look to the Referendum Party and 1990s and think that is exactly where we want to go to?

Laura Nelson's avatar

Great Russian dolls. I understood that. :-)

Laura Nelson's avatar

PS On another note, I'm sure you know, but I didn't, that in 2009 a vote was taken in Parliament (some sort of bill laid down) to say that there was no such thing as an indigenous Briton. I did not know that legislation made 16 years ago removes my entitlement to be named as indigenous to the British Isles when my DNA has Celt in it and I can trace my ancestors back to at least the Norman conquest. (Therefore, Norman, North European and Celtic.)

How dare they? Even Aborigines had it better than what we are being destined for.