NIALL MCCRAE
The local elections next week should deliver a crushing blow to the Labour Party, while the Conservatives will stay in the doldrums. Their alternatives of the Green Party and Reform UK will surge, taking whole councils as well as hundreds of seats each.
This is a big moment for Nigel Farage, but would he really reform Britain’s broken system, or would it be another promise broken? Many people will hail the likely landslide from the traditional two large parties to the upstarts as a positive change, but this would be naïve. Both the Greens and Reform are fully on board with the globalist agenda, albeit from different angles.
Let’s consider two party leaflets delivered to my door during the election campaign. One was from the candidate in my area of East Sussex, and the front page is as revolutionary as a flyer for a church hall fete. A chart compares average council tax rises between the parties, wherever they are in control. Labour councils increased the tax by 4.71%, the Tories by slightly more and Lib Dems higher still. Reform boasts of the lowest at 3.94%. So, Reform-led councils do some economising, but are still inflicting on residents a rate above general inflation.
There’s the usual focus on potholes, the leaflet claiming that councils do cheap and tardy repairs that don’t last. Rather than protecting the green belt, this reformer pledges better roads into new housing estates.
Nothing on Net Zero, despite the damage this is causing to shopping, travel and household bills. Councils are waging war on motorists, and their punitive regime of parking fees and fines is driving people away from the high street, leaving a scene of desolation in a once-thriving hub. A proper reform would be to reject the pseudoscientific climate crisis and to denounce Net Zero policy as an extortion racket.
Nothing on immigration, despite the local area having experienced the scare of a proposed large camp for illegal migrants (Northeye), abandoned after local protest.
Nothing on councils spending taxpayers’ money on ideological propaganda such as Pride, or giving money to minority ethnic groups in a way that would be deemed racist and illegal if given to poorer white folk. The latter are subtly insulted by council funding for ‘left-behind’ areas, which really means that there’s too much traditional British culture and not enough ethnic diversity.
The second leaflet featured Nigel Farage, presenting himself as a serious politician with a serious mission. But it’s more of the same – giving an intended impression that Reform is a safe pair of hands for your vote, rather than a radical departure from tired old politics. It’s just another establishment party.
Some red meat is thrown to the crowd by Farage’s leaflet. Reform has ‘fought to stop local hotels from being used to house illegal immigrants at taxpayers’ expense’. That’s fine, but the influx of foreigners in this seaside town is relentless, such that you might as well be in Croydon: men in sandals jabbering away on their mobile phones in some Asian lingo, and African women who don’t seem very appreciative of their new surroundings. But you can’t expect Reform to stand up for the put-upon white Britons: indeed, the party is fielding dozens of black and Asian candidates (presumably to negate accusations of being a xenophobic party).
‘Why are we paying more, but seeing less’, Farage’s leaflet asks. The question is not answered, though. The reason is that government and councils are fleecing the public, as demonstrated by the billions spent on Covid-19, Net Zero, Ukraine, and now major military expansion. The fuel crisis sucks more tax, as does all inflation. Soon councils will tax homeowners for having a garden shed, water butt or a driveway – everything must be monetised into an income stream from the ruled to their rulers.
If Reform can’t be honest with the people about why we are paying more and getting less in return, while omitting mention of the authoritarian creep on our privacy, rights and liberties, what chance of a democratic solution to our problems?
Nonetheless, millions will vote for Reform, many of them frustrated life-long Labour or Tory voters. But they’ll soon discover that Farage and crew have no interest in meaningful change, If Farage gets to 10 Downing Street in 2029 (or earlier), there will be no end to mass immigration, to digital surveillance and censorship, to Net Zero, to gender ideology and other Cultural Marxist subversion, to vaccine coercion, to the military industrial complex, to supporting Zionism or to globalist finance.
But you might get a smaller council tax rise of 3.94%.
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