RUSSELL DAVID
Will Reform UK win the next general election? It’s possible, not probable. Between now and then the Establishment – chiefly the liberal political and media class – will throw everything it can at Reform to stop them (witness The Guardian’s pitiful attempts to smear Farage for his schoolboy behaviour). If they do manage to gain power, the Blob will strain every sinew to stop the party governing effectively. This is all presuming Labour don’t cancel the election on the pretext of some emergency or other.
If Reform do somehow manage to enact the policies the country desperately needs they will be met head on by the professional activist class. There will be protests up and down the country every weekend, amplified by the BBC and other broadcast media. Musicians and actors will make foul-mouthed verbal assaults on the government at awards ceremonies, Gary Lineker will tweet that Farage makes Hitler look moderate, trade unions will take their members out on strike more than they are at work. It’s going to be grim; it will make the 1980s look like a walk in the park.
Adding to my gloom on this front, I also contend that Britain is now too wrecked to be saved – and we still have three years of this hateful socialist government to go. The 21st century has seen the UK Uniparty make one suicidal decision after another, the chief one of course being the open borders policy, followed by the unhinged delusions of Net Zero, the sadistic, senseless and sinister lockdowns, the deliberate fertilisation of an unaffordable welfare state and the reluctance to stem the spread of the crazy, authoritarian creed of Woke (“What’s wrong with Woke?” fat liar Boris Johnson said.)
Take Net Zero. Over the next three years, Milliband will make decisions which will affect Britain long into the future: a Reform government will be able to do little to stem the rollout of windmills and solar farms, while getting drilling in the North Sea and fracking in Lincolnshire will be fought at every turn by well-funded lawyers and NGOs.
Stepping back from the potentially rocky future for a moment, the immediate prospects for Reform seem rosier – perhaps. I guess it depends on whether you think home being given to several Tory defectors is a good thing or not. For me, Braverman, Jenrick, Kruger and Rosindell are more than welcome. Not so much Berry, Dorries and Zahawi, respectively a Net Zero advocate, an Online Safety Act architect and a ‘vaccine’ zealot. Reform is walking a tightrope here. Yes, they aren’t going to let in the likes of Joker Johnson or Priti Useless (if they did, I would simply not vote for them ever), but taking on many more Tories with terrible records will wreck the party, probably forever. They need to tread cautiously; according to Farage, they are.
Should we instead hope that Labour MPs come over? I’m not sure about that either. With strong doses of neo-Thatcherism required in the 2030s to give Britain any chance of avoiding full economic and social collapse, how many ‘former’ socialists would be wise and brave enough to vote for policies that will be needed?
Reform’s ideal candidates might instead be people untainted by association with any political party previously, perhaps those successful in the business world or sport or entertainment. But it could be a struggle to get such folk to enter the political bear pit, one that is sure to get more violent in the coming decades.
Some of my friends on the Right aren’t happy with so many prominent Muslims in the party, such as Zia Yusuf and London Mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham. I say: ‘we are where we are’. We should have never reached this point but we have. And is not better to have such people ‘on-side’? (Also, they appear to be secular Muslims.) Rather like being at the point where it would be unkind and silly to never offer parts in TV, film and theatre to non-white actors, we can’t deny access to the top of political parties to ethnics, it would be absurd.
I can’t defy my natural instincts. I would cheer to the rafters if the superb Matt Goodwin won the Gorton and Denton by-election on 26 February. If you’re in any doubt as to why that would be a brilliant thing, google a few of the above words in this paragraph to see how the regime types are putting him down. It would be fabulous to see him win just to see them made miserable.
Reform are imperfect. But then how could they not be? All political parties ever are. You have to vote for the least worst party in any election. And who else would you vote for if you have any semblance of rationality and patriotism? It is impossible to vote Tory ever again. Lacerating your testicles would be preferable to voting Labour. Lib Dems, Greens, Your Party – of course not.
The Uniparty has to be destroyed, it must never be allowed to rear its foul head again – so that means voting Reform. Yes, they’re not flawless, yes, they may disappoint, yes, they might be thwarted anyway, but surely it’s best to try them because they are different. They are not the Uniparty. They represent the most electable party we have that might – might – be able to save the country, or at least parts of it.
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Russell David is the author of the Mad World Substack.
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