OH DEAR. Poor old Nigel Farage. For all his trips to America for Trump’s election campaign and inauguration, he hasn’t learnt much about the secret of the man’s success, what I call the crucial Trump playbook.
Offence archaeology (trawling up past racist crimes etc), I think I said last week, is the left’s favoured weapon. It pierces the right’s defence every time. Look at how Reformer after Tory has crumbled under it, throwing colleagues under the bus if need be. Only Trump has a blueprint for dealing with it. Why the ‘right’ here can’t learn it, I just don’t understand.
You all know what I am talking about – Farage’s alleged schoolboy racism which is still dominating the headlines. How his ‘offence/whataboutery/defence’ angry reaction hasn’t managed to kill the story. How the left are revelling in it and milking it for everything it’s worth. And how, once again, it takes the public’s eye off Starmer’s crimes, the step-by-step creation of a British Maoist/fascist State (yes, there are elements of both). If you think I may be exaggerating, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Starmer, like Hitler, uses the legislative route to achieve total control.
But back to Nigel and allegations that can only ever be allegations because no one had a recorder or video camera in his Dulwich College classrooms and memory plays false – from non-existent to selective to creative. I cannot be the only 60-plus person who has been racking their memory for anything mean or nasty I may or may not have done at school all those years ago.
I have to say I hit a blank. What I do remember from our all-white classroom typical of 1960s Britain is that girls aren’t always nice. Exclusion of the ‘you can’t play with us’ variety has nothing to do with race or any ‘ism’ but everything to do with adolescent behaviour. Even that isn’t the point. The point for the politician is just don’t get into it. Don’t rise to the bait. If you do, to toss it to one side or attack the messenger.
That’s how Trump does it. He would never have indulged in the outrage, witness denial and boycott threat that the needled Mr Farage resorted to. He takes the wind out of everyone’s sails, like telling New York mayor Mamdani that it’s all right if he calls him a fascist.
That’s just one tactic he deploys to deal with the constant attacks. Another is to shift the news agenda on to his terms. Another is to use insults. Joe Biden, known for ever now as ‘sleepy Joe’; calling a journalist or politician a ‘retard’. Take his response to the full-on Epstein aspersions of recent weeks and his ‘Quiet, piggy!’ response. That became the headline. Unlike Farage, Trump just doesn’t care what people think about him. Then there’s Neil Dixon’s very funny grandad observation. He’s got a point: he can get away with it on account of age.
That’s Trump’s genius – a combo of straight denial, calling out his attackers as ‘bad actors’ and, most importantly, showing up the attack for what it is: a partisan issue that he dismisses with ‘my people know I am telling the truth’. Then he simply claims he has won – and keeps repeating he’s won. And boycotts the main US networks.
It’s not so much a question of who is so badly advising Farage as of the man’s instincts and confidence – why can’t he bat these smears away, reverse the insult and move on?
So the left wins again and diverts the right’s attention from what matters, which is the evil of Starmer’s administration as brilliantly articulated by Sean Walsh last week: ‘In less than 18 months this government has given away territory, introduced randomised policing, vaporised our borders, (further) nationalised childhood, cancelled elections, made a cult out of genuine environmental concern, introduced de facto infanticide, is proposing medical experiments on children and has criminalised prayer.’
Sean is right. Starmer has not just ‘systematically dismantled the traditional mechanisms by which it can be held accountable’ through the regulation of speech (hate crime and Ofcom etc), but also through its contrived anti-racism, Islamophobia and transphobic threats. Those who counter this control agenda are treated as all but criminals and a threat to the state. With the fast-moving digital revolution there will soon be no place to hide. This is how we are being silenced into accepting what looks to be a carefully planned migration invasion to change the very fabric of our democracy and Christian culture. No wonder the exodus to escape is already in full swing, as Alp Mehmet reported last week.
Sean’s metaphor of the state as an abusive partner who’s got his name on the lease is brutally apt. Look at how the state is abusing the people of Crowborough, reported by Madeleine Gillies (a new TCW star). It could have been written as a case study for Sean’s thesis. Bruce Newsome details more lying and gas-lighting from the ‘delusional’ Starmer. His article today on the PM’s China policy gives a further exegesis of his lies and contradictions.
Is anyone else out there as vigilant as TCW?
Starmer’s state tyranny agenda doesn’t stop there. Whether we live (or are born at all) and how and when we die is the latest and most fundamental trangression of liberty. The Assisted Dying Bill which Labour has so wickedly lied about is not about choice but coercion. So, too, abortion to birth. Both are a state licence to murder.
Then there’s Starmer’s move to control property, land as well as house ownership. They are being cut from under our feet through another expansion of state control and regulation. Look at the new powers to commandeer land, primarily through Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs). ‘Reforms’ in the Planning and Infrastructure Act (enacted early 2025) and updated CPO rules make land acquisition faster and cheaper for ‘public-benefit projects’. The policy erodes property rights and sets the stage for bulldozer tactics on farmland for solar/wind sites.
All in all, this is a revolutionary agenda in the worst sense of the word.
President Trump, who as Daniel Jupp says is right about everything that everyone attacks him on (including Venezuela), is also right that Europe faces civilisational erasure. More on the progress of that decline in these pages today from Gustavo Jalife. Starmer has a clear programme to achieve it here.
The good news is that Donald Trump exists and is not only challenging this Marxist/fascist nightmare but is showing the way out of it, this week banning migration into the US from 19 countries. We need unashamedly to follow suit. Trump is the West’s lifeline and we should thank God for him daily.
