I’ve noticed the media are going super soft on Reform now. It’s like they’ve accepted he’s going to win.
Mirage will be long gone before the reins of power are offered to him. It is funny seeing the u-turn the media have made. The racist, evil right-wing reform are now just reform, the people's party and Restore are the evil racists.
Or they don't want Restore gaining any ground and know that Reform and it's "don't split the vote" argument are the best tool they have right now.
I know people are looking at this party as finally being "the answer" but I'd be concerned about this silly internet kerfluffle (the prospect of lawfaring on day 0 is just gross to see). It may always be bad to expect much from "British nationalists" on the mainstream, but how is this not just UKIP/Brexit/Reform in another rollaround minus Farage?
They're not doing the *wink wink* *nudge nudge* bullshit, FOREIGNERS OUT is the agenda, it's not the ha ha he he (((implication))), it's right there in big letters stamped on the front. Nigel and co's MO has always been to slyly imply doing something, without ever actually saying they'll do anything, Restore is breaking the mould here just saying it out loud, it's downright refreshing.
It's very Trumpian, but with a British accent and English sensibility. Like when they get British actors to play ancient Romans.
“I hope he enjoys prison.” Is Lowe Pat posting? Could he really be /our guy/?
He did well in the interview. I wont even qualify it with "for a 17 year old". He needs to tighten up on a few things. Like don't say "we've got lots of pages" say "We have a detailed 113 page assessment of the legality of this." When she asks how voluntary deportations would make a difference say "Our research forecasts 500,000 voluntary departures through our curtailing of benefits and other measures." (Both of these are actually from Reform's public statements). Prepping a few solid facts like that would have helped him significantly. She did as badly as an interviewer as much as he did well because a more aggressive interviewer would have pressed deeper on much of this. And next time, that's what he'll get.
I've been going with "Indigenous Brits" these days. Don't want to be racist against those with Norman, Celtic or Pictish heritage.
Native Briton works well. The problem with Anglo-Saxon is that the majority of the population aren't either, genetically. We're heavily influenced by Anglo-Saxon culture, but we had a thousand or more years of relatively isolation to evolve an entirely independent, native culture of our own, that is a mixture of the Germani, Gaelic, and Brythonic cultures that came before. If we were assessed by the same standard applied to other cultures around the world, we'd be classed as a fully developed native culture that requires preservation. The Maori for example, who only arrived in New Zealand a few hundred years before Europeans, are considered a unique native culture.
Perhaps none.
Aye, it's fairly simple arguments, which I will gladly make again:
It's an argument for people in the real world.
Posting here, I think.
I hope, and this is massive, double-rainbow levels of hope, that Lowe/Restore, select sane members from other parties to push their sane goals.