I have finally voted in this bore of an election. I call it a bore because it feels like the sort of dental operation that is supposed to take fifteen minutes, but feels like a month. This campaign has been six weeks, and every week has dragged. But I have voted. Though I did say I would vote for the Workers Party, I have now voted for the Reform Party.
I have not changed my mind about the Reform Party. It is holding open house for any “dissident” Conservative who feels inclined to leave his own sinking ship. It already has Anne Widdicombe, who supported the hunting ban, and Neil Hamilton, who benefited from an amendment to the Bill of Rights to enable his failed libel case against Mohammed al-Fayed. Over the next few months, the dribble of defections will become a flood – all of slimy politicians in search of a new vehicle from which they can rake in their accustomed financial and sexual bribes. The Reform Party has no future, and deserves none.
It has my vote for one reason – and this is the obvious reason. The Conservatives betrayed us, at least after 2010. Their consistent strategy has been to talk loud about whatever will harvest votes from libertarians and traditionalists, while leaving the country to be governed by the authoritarian left. This has made them rich without the sort of trouble the Thatcherites had to face from the media and administration. When the electors rumbled them in 2019, and went on strike, they came back with promises of future good behaviour. They were rewarded with the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980s. in return for that, they gave us a fake withdrawal from the European Union, two Lockdowns, war with Russia, Net Zero, and a set of semi-compulsory vaccines that have murdered or crippled at least seven people of my own acquaintance.
This only excitement this election has to offer is the chance of a punishment beating for the Conservatives – that we will go through with the implied threat made in 2019. They have betrayed us one last time, and they must now be destroyed. The fewer seats they get, the better. If Labour comes out of the chaos with a majority of five hundred, so much the worse. I doubt it will make much difference to how the country is governed. I also suspect that Labour is being given its own last chance. Since it too will fail to deliver, and since its core vote may not be so easily roped in next time with scare talk of what the Conservatives might have promised, the Starmerites will find themselves on borrowed time.
But this is beside the point. What does matter is that, if there is to be a punishment beating, it will be useful for the blows to be counted. Just about every vote given today for the Reform Party would normally have gone to the Conservatives. In lost seats all over the country, people need to be able to see that the combined vote of the Reform and Conservative Parties will be larger than the winning Labour vote. I prefer the Workers Party. It has a programme that may make the country slightly better than it is, and is led by men who understand power and how to get and use it. Even so, this time round, it must be the Reform Party.
As said, however, the Reform Party neither has nor deserves a future. It is the stick with which the Conservatives will be dealt their punishment beating. So far as it is a useful stick today, the Reform Party will simply become the Conservative Party v.2. No thanks. Libertarians and traditionalists need a new party. This must be our work from tomorrow.
The policies of this party? These are pretty obvious, and need no present discussion. There will be policy conflicts between libertarians and traditionalists in some areas, but these are best left until they need to be settled. My present suggestion is less to do with policy than with personnel. I suggest – I urge with all the earnestness that I can gather – that membership must be closed to anyone who has ever had a significant relationship with the Conservative Party. This includes everyone who has been elected as a Conservative. But, for every one of them who has been elected, there are hundreds of simpering, patronising frauds, all with expensive shirts and real or fake public school accents, all with their eyes fixed on the promised land of Parliament. Sniffing these out may be difficult. Even so, they too must be excluded.
Then there are the policy institutes. These present themselves to the world as academic enterprises, offering dispassionate advice to advance the public good. Really, they are just marts for corruption. They work by getting some underpaid drudge to churn out a pamphlet on privatising the cracks between the paving stones, which is then published as an excuse for politicians and businessmen to meet over lunch for the usual trading of money and favours. I will not give the names of these organisations. But anyone who has ever had a significant relationship with them must be excluded.
I will also urge – though this comes close to discussing policy – a similar bias against anyone who has ever studied in America. The chances are that he is a paid or compromised agent of the American secret state. I might as well add anyone who has had a significant relationship with the BBC and the other big media companies.
The idea is to put a quarantine about our new party of the right. It must be a completely new party, and it must be of the right. All risk of contagion from the fake right must be avoided. No particular ability will be missed. There are many now outside politics who can give a better public speech than the common run of Conservative politicians. As for governing, should this party succeed at the polls, those excluded have no particular record of success to be courted. Under their stewardship, the pound is heading towards a farthing of its 1914 value; the vast bureaucracy they have raised up is riddled with petty corruption and is an agent of greater moral corruption; they have taken us into a war with Russia that should never have begun and that we are losing. They are talking up war with China. They are cheering on a genocide in the Middle East.
All this should have happened after 1997. Sadly, the Conservative defeat then was not great enough to be final. The Conservatives pulled in every favour they could find with the Blairite Establishment, and waited for the opinion polls to turn against Gordon Brown. We now have a second chance. I doubt if there will be a third.
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Oh, the election is a bore all right. Like the Severn Bore – a wave that sweeps away anything in its path.
Reform will indeed founder, if it accepts any more Tories from now on. Ann Widdecombe I can accept, because of her vote against the climate change bill. Lee Anderson is a far more difficult case, but I can understand the logic: To bring down the Tories, we must energize the red wall.
And I have said already that I will leave Reform as soon as it gets power. My objective in working with Reform is to administer to the Tories, and to Jeremy Hunt in particular, what you call a “punishment beating.” Though I would prefer a terminal beating.
Yes, and Labour and the Dim Slobs are next up for beating. And it won’t take five years. I can foresee “Jarrow Marches” inside a year from now, but from all over the country.
When you next go to visit Dr Gabb in his care home (and I hope it is soon), would you please explain to him the difference between “right versus left” and “right versus wrong?” He has come a long way towards recovery, since he grasped that the Tory party is not to be trusted any more than the rest of them. If he can now re-grasp Edmund Burke’s “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny,” I think he may reach the verge of recovery.
Dr Gabb is sat in his urine stained armchair, cackling over his knitting needles.
I’m afraid Dr. Gabb’s cover was blown long ago. My sources tell me that the location of Deal GHQ is common knowledge in Whitehall, especially amongst the spooks at Five and Six. Apparently, they even have a mole ‘on the inside’ (nod, wink) who is giving them tips and sent an advanced draft of Dr. Gabb’s recent defiant statement issued on behalf of the Military Council of the National-Libertarian Revolutionary Command. It could hardly be otherwise, given that ‘The Doctor’ (as insiders call him) walks round wearing an eye patch and a very distinctive facial scar picked up at a knife fight in a back alley in Istanbul in the 1970s.
I tore up by poll card. A futile gesture, yet strangely satisfying.
Reform kindly stood an African gentleman in my constituency. I kindly refrained from voting at all. At least my conscious is clean. Labour will win a large majority, the Tories wiped out, but personally I’m still holding out for a hanged Parliament.
Mr Bickley, I am appalled at exit polls showing the Conservatives got 131 seats. I hope to goodness that is not the case. This would be at the very upper end of Sunak’s hopes for this election, but the same exit polls showing 13 seats for Reform also exceed recent polls. It is a gut punch that Sunak has already announced that Theresa May is to be given a peerage. Not arrested for treason, mind you, but given a peerage. That party is full of determined traitors and this last act proves it. They don’t deserve a single seat.
She should be arrested for treason. So should they all. But this result may be the start of a revolution
Oh, and good news that Steve Baker will be out. That alone is worth a Labour government
Yes, Steve Baker made great play of his Brexiteer credentials – and then when offered a ministerial portfolio suddenly became a propagandist for EU rule of Northern Ireland. Clear treason.
I am watching the night unfold and I am dismayed but unsurprised that the Conservatives are projected 130 or so seats. I was hoping for less than 100, as I think that would finished them off for good. If the projections are accurate, they will have a basis for recovery.
Yes, Reform’s 4 MPs have little hope of taking over the 120 MPs of the Conservative Party (note: result in South Basildon and East Thurrock still awaited – Reform may get a 5th MP there), unless a good leader of the Tories emerges who sees they will never recover without uniting the Right under proper conservative values. I am dismayed to see Reform did not even meet the low bar of the exit poll and get the predicted 13 seats.
The loss of expected seats over the last few days may well have been down to the fall-out from the Channel 4 racism incident. If that proves to have been a set-up as we all expect, things could get very interesting.
No, it was the Neil Lock’s in the Reform Party that caused the poor handling of the “racism” incident and lost the election for Reform. You openly peddle the Far Left racism trope – and Farage, under pressure from Tice (who like Neil Lock is a peddler of the racism trope) was left trying to bleat that Reform was diverse etc. It needed to be handled differently: so what if someone said something mildly offensive? This is nothing compared to us losing our country, to the crime, the terrorism, the rape gangs, the inculcation of hostility towards us in the incomers, and the psychological effects on English children of being taught to hate themselves. We need to get rid of the Tices and the Locks, who belong in the Socialist Workers Party, and start highlighting the fact that we now face a struggle for our very survival. Only 57% of live births in England and Wales are “White British” (ONS figures). That is horrific.
Come now. Sharpness of comment is never unwelcome. But we should aim to avoid personal unpleasantness.
David, it is Channel 4 you should criticize, not Richard Tice or me.
But Nigel was only telling the truth. Reform is a racially diverse party. For example, one of our candidates in Surrey is named Mayuran Senthilnathan. The battle we’re fighting at Reform is about a lot more than skin colour, birthplace or received religion. It’s about freedom, justice and prosperity. For everyone in these islands who measures up to human standards.
“For example, one of our candidates in Surrey is named Mayuran Senthilnathan”. That is the problem. You are not even trying to secure us our country. And no, this country is not for everyone, just the same as your family home isn’t for everyone. Unless Reform breaks with the Far Left on this point, it won’t win ever.
I think you are missing the point here a bit, Neil, or maybe you do just accept the premise that any expression of a view contrary to the shibboleths of the socially radical Left always wrong and unacceptable for a candidate? Nigel Farage had the option to say that every candidate enjoys freedom of expression, just like the rest of us, and he need not necessarily agree with every specific detail of what candidates utter.
The excuse is sometimes made for Farage that he has no choice, but he does. I listened to the comments of the party official accused of ‘homophobia’ and it seems they were made in a private context and were pretty mild, the sort of remarks an ordinary person might make. I do also wonder why, if the comments are so offensive, the media would make them freely available for sensitive snowflakes like me to listen to?
Yesterday, Farage gave a press conference and an interview and in both he genuflected to the demands of the media that he “clean up [his] party”. I couldn’t listen to it for very long because it was clear what he meant. He doesn’t half talk rot.
On the other hand, I suppose Reform UK have broken the mould with five MPs (six if you count the Northern Ireland independent), and it’s a start – but the problem is, it’s no more than that. I can’t help but wonder if a better organised campaign could have won more seats and even killed off the Tories. Farage uses the excuse that the election was called unexpectedly, but he knew there was an election coming. No doubt Farage is not the only one culpable in this, but he comes to me as the type who is a great frontman/party speaker type, but not much of an organiser, nor a detailed-oriented person.
He also comes across, at least in his public persona, as a bit simple, the type whose public utterances consist of stringed-together talking points and barroom clichés. I think he has had a bit of a privileged life and has never had to really think too much about the issues he pronounces on. His instincts are business-like rather than for people and nations, as such.
One of the things that put me off him and his party recently is his eagerness to castigate the unemployed. He seems suspicious of anybody claiming disability or sickness benefits, imagining that they may be workshy shirkers. Not that this affects me personally, and I am sure there is something in it, and I’m sure that lots of people agree with him, but it just for me reinforced my general impression of him as somebody who is a bit lazy and ignorant, and intellectually a bit dim. The type of middle class person that England produces in abundance: private education, left at 18 for a City job despite being academically mediocre (try getting such a job if you’re a working class mediocrity – good luck!), well-spoken with plummy accent, southern England bias,, disdain for ordinary people, disdain for intellectuals, etc., etc.
I don’t know much about the benefits world, but it strikes me as quite likely that the type of people who manipulate the benefits system to live off it will often have deeper problems than just being workshy or lazy. If you stop and think about it properly, nobody is workshy or lazy. Not really. Work isn’t the problem for the most of these people. It doesn’t occur to people like Nigel Farage to think about it properly. They just rush to their lazy, pre-prepared, ready-made opinions that are tuned in to the Daily Mail.
I would much rather see a figure on the Right who is more intelligent and that bit more in touch with ordinary people’s lives and problems and not so keen to punish people for being misfits or poor.
Mind you, our friend Hugo Miller, despite having been disowned by the Reform party, still took 6,116 votes, and the Lib Dems toppled the sitting Tory by 2,500 votes.
My own efforts as campaign manager were, unfortunately, not as successful as Hugo’s as (non?) candidate. We got 4,815 votes, but Hunt scraped through against the Lib Dem by less than 1,000. Still, I hope I’ve taken a lot of wind out of his sails.
Both you and Hugo did well, Neil. You were unlucky not to unseat Jeremy Hunt. Hugo was unlucky with the media but still achieved a good vote. Plus we got to see some of his car collection.