Carl Benjamin, on the Lotus Eaters, recently compared the right-wing ecosystem in Britain to the Middle Ages, with various dukes and barons now expected to declare for either Restore Britain or Reform UK.
Farage just wants to be welcomed to the Tories table after being scorned by them for many decades. Rupert Lowe won't tolerate any Tories who are culpable for the situation that Britain finds itself. Rupert Lowe is out there to change Britain and that makes all the difference.
If there is anything to be criticized in this piece of yours, Mr. Morgoth, it is that - unlike all your other work - what you explain is all-too-obvious or, more correctly, _should_ be all-too-obvious. And yet the mere fact that there is a controversy around it demonstrates that it needed to be spelt out. Thank you for that.
The Ofcom dynamic is interesting. They find themselves forced to bless Farage in order to instal unspoken guard rails into his new containment operation. Their plans have had to adapt to new circumstances following the collapse of both of their masters in the Blairite parties, and they must now lead a "valiant rear guard action" if they are to keep alive "the end of history".
Back in the days when GB news were supposedly just one weak sauce - slop piece away from being shuttered, Ofcom were playing the hand of supporting the Tory containment option until their preferred Fabians in the Labour party took power in the '24 election. Now that only the most perverted of cucks still support the "based Nigerian", and their real masters have imploded, they must switch sides to allow the "plucky" new containment media to support Farage's painfully obvious containment rescue operation.
Ofcom ideologues know just as well as we all do that Reform equals more of the same. There is certainly no formal agreement in place, but Farage, Ofcom and GB news all know what is expected of each other to keep the music playing. Just like in the convid debacle where "the science TM" made up farcical stories to support the lockdown fanatics and the experimental jabber freaks, Ofcom and GB news have locked in together in an unspoken alliance to support Farage and the Tory reincarnation. They are working hand in glove right up inside Farage and all expect to see him anointed PM. As long as Farage stays within their limits they'll help him ride a "green wave" all the way to number 10 switching reds for anyone else who stands in their way.
Three years is a long time in politics and thankfully the coronation of Farage is getting less likely with each passing day. I sincerely hope that our people will once and forever finally recognise him for what he really is - the pied piper. He is nothing more than a thief come to steal our children's future for his own selfish vanity. All he cares about is keeping the music playing long enough for him to have one more round of political containment to grasp that sweet precious ring of power and be loved and praised as Farage the great by the sycophantic system. He's so close to it now but he's anxious because he knows that time may soon betray him. He's aging out soon and he knows it. You can be certain that this thought has weighed heavily on him many times in the wee small hours of the night and has twisted up his stomach into knots of frustration. He is the Gollum of our age, a selfishly obsessed shell of a man who knows that this is his final shot. Nothing else matters to him, especially not us or our children. I despise him for his treachery.
TBH, basically the only person/show from GB News that I followed in any capacity was Neil Oliver in the good old Covid days. I thought he put out very solid work on that topic at the time. I haven´t been able to find anything from him on the Reform vs Restore question. From what I understand he´s still with GB News. Maybe he´ll have something to say on this topic.
That sphere seems to prefer David Kurten and Heritage Party, who I genuinely have a good deal of respect for. Alas, they just don't have that X Factor.
It's actively depressing discussing this stuff with normies. They just cannot see the frame at all, and I don't know why. They cannot see the Punch and Judy show, it's like it's been performed in front of them for so long that its seeped into their subconscious as the correctly ordered 'way things are'. "Of course you vote for the least-worst option, that's what democracy is!" says the normie, with a knowing chuckle, for he 'knows' that your naivety of attempting to vote for actual change is folly. "Better the devil you know!" he wryly smirks, as he puts the mark in the box of Backstabby McBackstabber for the 100th time.
It shouldn't shock me that the normie can't see the Punch and Judy show. It was created precisely because it was effective. I have a more emergent phenomena view than most in our circle, so it seems to me that such things arise organically to meet the dual demands of power and the psychological need of the lumpen to not have the unveiled face of power shoved in their face. It has arisen and stuck around precisely because it's effective at serving these two ends, so it really shouldn't depress me as much as it does that it's effective -- that's why it's here.
I don't think Farage started Reform in its current incarnation as a cunning plot hand-in-hand with the Tories, frankly I don't think he has the farsightedness or impulse control for such a thing. Rather, I think he is a weak, vain man and the various rats feeling the sinking Tory ship saw Reform as a good opportunity to further their own duplicitous careers. In short order, Reform goes from being an ill-controlled, uninspiring populist rabble to being a vehicle for failed Tories. It was always going to be captured by subversive elements of the Punch and Judy right precisely because of its unseriousness.
But that's also why anyone who can see the Punch and Judy show should agree with your tweet, Morgoth. It doesn't matter if we win or lose in '29. What matters is destroying the uniparty: destroying the Punch and Judy show. This is simply a continuation of the motivating factors behind Zero Seats. If Restore solely serves the purpose of fragmenting the attempt of the Punch and Judy right to reassemble itself then it will have done a sufficient job. If that means more Labour, or Labour with a Green spin, so sodding be it. Until the traitors on our side of the aisle are purged to extinction there can be no political solution, so I care not a whit what else comes to power in the interim.
The reality of “beautiful losers” is a very real problem to the right in Anglosphere elections.
However, after hearing a past interview with a former UKIP senior official, Gerald Batten, on Farage’s self sabotaging behaviour and Conor Tomlinson’s commentary on what appears to be UK intelligence penetration of the BNP and UKIP, I’m left thinking there is something far more nefarious going on with Reform. Possibly something even worse than the standard kayfabe of political show, coupled with the so called “right” side politician always being willing to play the heel.
Similarly, 14 years of Tory Treason followed by potentially 5 years of the same with Labour will have knocked two decades off the recovery time the country has been deliberately denied since the New Labour project. Each parliament represents a lot of lost time. If the next election fails to deliver anything better than re-heated Thatch-Blairism it'll be a sad day.
Just had a read of Jack Hadfield's article. Admittedly all I know of him is his coverage of the riot in Southport, but I think he's sincere. His argument boils down to 'Trust Reform because they are actually based, but they have to play the political game'. I don't dismiss everything he says, but I share your scepticism of Reform and look forward to Jack jumping over to Restore at some point (or trying to).
I reject Jack's notion that Farage (or anyone really) has been pushing public opinion against immigration over the years, rather it's been driven by events and conditions on the ground. The 'pink ladies' weren't out protesting in Epping because of anything Nige said. In fact the electorate appears to be way to the right of the political class on immigration. Though at the same time they're unsure of what they actually want to be done, I thought this quote from Jack was good:
"Instead, they have vague desires to see undefined sensibilities reflected: yes, they want a lot of people removed; no, they can’t define precisely who that is; no, they are not comfortable with the prospect of indiscriminate deportations." I've heard AA bring up this point too, the 'I'm fed up with all the immigrants...apart from my mate X, don't want them deported'. Have you got any IRL experience of that from your normie circle?
I was likely going to be a reluctant Reform voter, but not now. Impossible to know where the political landscape will be in 2029, my thinking is spoiled ballot if there are no decent options on there where I live. If anything I'm resigned to the country becoming ungovernable, the election in Manchester today is a template. One constituency spilt in to two parts which appear unreconcilable politically - btw I predict Greens or even Labour holding on somehow over Goodwin getting elected. I don't share the view that Reform need to win in 2029 or its over. I'm resigned to the Gavin Boby view that the whole thing is going to fall apart at some point and it's going to be painful, before hopefully getting better.
I think you underestimate how tired working-class people are of being bled white, paying taxes for people on benefits. It's true of course, that they're being ripped off in all manner of ways, but they actually see people on ''PIP'' living it large while they graft day and night.
Sorry but this simply isn't true and comes across as Jeremy Corbyn idealism.
Everyone knows people gaming the benefits system. I was very poor at it and suffered.
I understand where you're coming from with your left-leaning anti-neoliberalism, but I think you've swung too far in lionising ''the poor''.
I of course totally agree that immigration is used to flood the jobs market, but that doesn't change the fact that there are millions out there taking advantage. Indeed, it was when I realised the jobs agencies and dole were in cahoots that the last vestiges of belief in the system evaporated.
There is a strong case to be made that people should simply grab what they can.
I worked as a functional assessor dealing with new claimants and those up for review for 6 months after leaving clinical nursing. The system is having the tits milked off it. In my experience, those that were honest struggled to reach the required amount of points. I got feed up with people lying to my face, usually those that had done their homework looking at all the info on how to claim from online forums etc. During the 5 week training the “claimant experience” was always mentioned. The contractors SERCO and INGEUS are nothing but bottom feeders.
I don’t doubt it. My sister’s husbands parents were on the dole for decades before reaching pensionable age. These folk lived in Teeside, but having worked in the South in A&E departments for 25 years, there was no shortage of people on benefits who had frequent A&E attendences or “regulars” as they are known. Meanwhile, you have some poor individual on chemotherapy still trying to work because they have to, to avoid penury. Successive governments of all stripes have promised welfare reform for decades. They never succeed because they are liberal and don’t have the bollocks for it.
Farage just wants to be welcomed to the Tories table after being scorned by them for many decades. Rupert Lowe won't tolerate any Tories who are culpable for the situation that Britain finds itself. Rupert Lowe is out there to change Britain and that makes all the difference.
If there is anything to be criticized in this piece of yours, Mr. Morgoth, it is that - unlike all your other work - what you explain is all-too-obvious or, more correctly, _should_ be all-too-obvious. And yet the mere fact that there is a controversy around it demonstrates that it needed to be spelt out. Thank you for that.
We're seeing who has and has not got stakes in the system, and I've genuinely been surprised.
What have been your biggest surprises (if you think it proper to share that)?
GB News seems to have a pass to simply be a Reform propaganda outlet, despite being hounded by Ofcom in the past for bias, that's fine now, it seems.
The Ofcom dynamic is interesting. They find themselves forced to bless Farage in order to instal unspoken guard rails into his new containment operation. Their plans have had to adapt to new circumstances following the collapse of both of their masters in the Blairite parties, and they must now lead a "valiant rear guard action" if they are to keep alive "the end of history".
Back in the days when GB news were supposedly just one weak sauce - slop piece away from being shuttered, Ofcom were playing the hand of supporting the Tory containment option until their preferred Fabians in the Labour party took power in the '24 election. Now that only the most perverted of cucks still support the "based Nigerian", and their real masters have imploded, they must switch sides to allow the "plucky" new containment media to support Farage's painfully obvious containment rescue operation.
Ofcom ideologues know just as well as we all do that Reform equals more of the same. There is certainly no formal agreement in place, but Farage, Ofcom and GB news all know what is expected of each other to keep the music playing. Just like in the convid debacle where "the science TM" made up farcical stories to support the lockdown fanatics and the experimental jabber freaks, Ofcom and GB news have locked in together in an unspoken alliance to support Farage and the Tory reincarnation. They are working hand in glove right up inside Farage and all expect to see him anointed PM. As long as Farage stays within their limits they'll help him ride a "green wave" all the way to number 10 switching reds for anyone else who stands in their way.
Three years is a long time in politics and thankfully the coronation of Farage is getting less likely with each passing day. I sincerely hope that our people will once and forever finally recognise him for what he really is - the pied piper. He is nothing more than a thief come to steal our children's future for his own selfish vanity. All he cares about is keeping the music playing long enough for him to have one more round of political containment to grasp that sweet precious ring of power and be loved and praised as Farage the great by the sycophantic system. He's so close to it now but he's anxious because he knows that time may soon betray him. He's aging out soon and he knows it. You can be certain that this thought has weighed heavily on him many times in the wee small hours of the night and has twisted up his stomach into knots of frustration. He is the Gollum of our age, a selfishly obsessed shell of a man who knows that this is his final shot. Nothing else matters to him, especially not us or our children. I despise him for his treachery.
TBH, basically the only person/show from GB News that I followed in any capacity was Neil Oliver in the good old Covid days. I thought he put out very solid work on that topic at the time. I haven´t been able to find anything from him on the Reform vs Restore question. From what I understand he´s still with GB News. Maybe he´ll have something to say on this topic.
That sphere seems to prefer David Kurten and Heritage Party, who I genuinely have a good deal of respect for. Alas, they just don't have that X Factor.
It's actively depressing discussing this stuff with normies. They just cannot see the frame at all, and I don't know why. They cannot see the Punch and Judy show, it's like it's been performed in front of them for so long that its seeped into their subconscious as the correctly ordered 'way things are'. "Of course you vote for the least-worst option, that's what democracy is!" says the normie, with a knowing chuckle, for he 'knows' that your naivety of attempting to vote for actual change is folly. "Better the devil you know!" he wryly smirks, as he puts the mark in the box of Backstabby McBackstabber for the 100th time.
It shouldn't shock me that the normie can't see the Punch and Judy show. It was created precisely because it was effective. I have a more emergent phenomena view than most in our circle, so it seems to me that such things arise organically to meet the dual demands of power and the psychological need of the lumpen to not have the unveiled face of power shoved in their face. It has arisen and stuck around precisely because it's effective at serving these two ends, so it really shouldn't depress me as much as it does that it's effective -- that's why it's here.
I don't think Farage started Reform in its current incarnation as a cunning plot hand-in-hand with the Tories, frankly I don't think he has the farsightedness or impulse control for such a thing. Rather, I think he is a weak, vain man and the various rats feeling the sinking Tory ship saw Reform as a good opportunity to further their own duplicitous careers. In short order, Reform goes from being an ill-controlled, uninspiring populist rabble to being a vehicle for failed Tories. It was always going to be captured by subversive elements of the Punch and Judy right precisely because of its unseriousness.
But that's also why anyone who can see the Punch and Judy show should agree with your tweet, Morgoth. It doesn't matter if we win or lose in '29. What matters is destroying the uniparty: destroying the Punch and Judy show. This is simply a continuation of the motivating factors behind Zero Seats. If Restore solely serves the purpose of fragmenting the attempt of the Punch and Judy right to reassemble itself then it will have done a sufficient job. If that means more Labour, or Labour with a Green spin, so sodding be it. Until the traitors on our side of the aisle are purged to extinction there can be no political solution, so I care not a whit what else comes to power in the interim.
Quite, it reaches a point where you just have to consider which option won't keep you awake at night.
The reality of “beautiful losers” is a very real problem to the right in Anglosphere elections.
However, after hearing a past interview with a former UKIP senior official, Gerald Batten, on Farage’s self sabotaging behaviour and Conor Tomlinson’s commentary on what appears to be UK intelligence penetration of the BNP and UKIP, I’m left thinking there is something far more nefarious going on with Reform. Possibly something even worse than the standard kayfabe of political show, coupled with the so called “right” side politician always being willing to play the heel.
Nigel "the Orc-simp" Farage is as a greater danger to any pro White or pro-Nationalist movement as any Tory or Labour MP.
If Farage won a healthily sized mandate, he would annihilate any true Right Wing movement, forever, and he would be commended for it.
He has spent his entire career "destroying" and persecuting White men, while White children have been mercilessly raped and murdered.
Farage is extremely dangerous to the existence of our country and people.
RESTORE must win, or Farage will nail our coffin shut.
Very true. He counts it as his proudest achievement that he destroyed what he likes to call the Hard Right in this country.
Similarly, 14 years of Tory Treason followed by potentially 5 years of the same with Labour will have knocked two decades off the recovery time the country has been deliberately denied since the New Labour project. Each parliament represents a lot of lost time. If the next election fails to deliver anything better than re-heated Thatch-Blairism it'll be a sad day.
Sober and judicious. Very good!
‘Cowslips Warren’ genius analogy!Great article thanks
Thanks, I'm reading the Watership Down book at the moment and might do a lengthy article or video on it in the future.
Just had a read of Jack Hadfield's article. Admittedly all I know of him is his coverage of the riot in Southport, but I think he's sincere. His argument boils down to 'Trust Reform because they are actually based, but they have to play the political game'. I don't dismiss everything he says, but I share your scepticism of Reform and look forward to Jack jumping over to Restore at some point (or trying to).
I reject Jack's notion that Farage (or anyone really) has been pushing public opinion against immigration over the years, rather it's been driven by events and conditions on the ground. The 'pink ladies' weren't out protesting in Epping because of anything Nige said. In fact the electorate appears to be way to the right of the political class on immigration. Though at the same time they're unsure of what they actually want to be done, I thought this quote from Jack was good:
"Instead, they have vague desires to see undefined sensibilities reflected: yes, they want a lot of people removed; no, they can’t define precisely who that is; no, they are not comfortable with the prospect of indiscriminate deportations." I've heard AA bring up this point too, the 'I'm fed up with all the immigrants...apart from my mate X, don't want them deported'. Have you got any IRL experience of that from your normie circle?
I was likely going to be a reluctant Reform voter, but not now. Impossible to know where the political landscape will be in 2029, my thinking is spoiled ballot if there are no decent options on there where I live. If anything I'm resigned to the country becoming ungovernable, the election in Manchester today is a template. One constituency spilt in to two parts which appear unreconcilable politically - btw I predict Greens or even Labour holding on somehow over Goodwin getting elected. I don't share the view that Reform need to win in 2029 or its over. I'm resigned to the Gavin Boby view that the whole thing is going to fall apart at some point and it's going to be painful, before hopefully getting better.
Beautiful Losers predates Francis. It’s the title of Leonard Cohen’s second novel published in 1966.
I’m picturing Rupert Lowe in the place of the unnamed protagonist, with Oliver Cromwell as his Kateri Tekakwitha.
Plenty of people will take a better-than-0% chance of victory with Restore when seeing Farage in No.10 is no win at all.
If that makes us “beautiful losers”, well?
I think you underestimate how tired working-class people are of being bled white, paying taxes for people on benefits. It's true of course, that they're being ripped off in all manner of ways, but they actually see people on ''PIP'' living it large while they graft day and night.
Sorry but this simply isn't true and comes across as Jeremy Corbyn idealism.
Everyone knows people gaming the benefits system. I was very poor at it and suffered.
I understand where you're coming from with your left-leaning anti-neoliberalism, but I think you've swung too far in lionising ''the poor''.
I of course totally agree that immigration is used to flood the jobs market, but that doesn't change the fact that there are millions out there taking advantage. Indeed, it was when I realised the jobs agencies and dole were in cahoots that the last vestiges of belief in the system evaporated.
There is a strong case to be made that people should simply grab what they can.
I worked as a functional assessor dealing with new claimants and those up for review for 6 months after leaving clinical nursing. The system is having the tits milked off it. In my experience, those that were honest struggled to reach the required amount of points. I got feed up with people lying to my face, usually those that had done their homework looking at all the info on how to claim from online forums etc. During the 5 week training the “claimant experience” was always mentioned. The contractors SERCO and INGEUS are nothing but bottom feeders.
My wife's best friend has never worked a day in her life. Neither have my brother's friends.
So, you know, real.
But again the question is, why bother?
I don’t doubt it. My sister’s husbands parents were on the dole for decades before reaching pensionable age. These folk lived in Teeside, but having worked in the South in A&E departments for 25 years, there was no shortage of people on benefits who had frequent A&E attendences or “regulars” as they are known. Meanwhile, you have some poor individual on chemotherapy still trying to work because they have to, to avoid penury. Successive governments of all stripes have promised welfare reform for decades. They never succeed because they are liberal and don’t have the bollocks for it.