ANOTHER terrible week. Not even a chink of light at the end of the tunnel, I thought. The shocking sectarian disaster of the Gorton and Denton by-election result so powerfully analysed for us by Daniel Jupp and brutally symbolised by the desecration of Churchill’s stature in Parliament Square was all but obliterated by yesterday’s outbreak of war between the US and Iran. Talk about wake-up calls – it seems that Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t heard his. His response, ‘I don’t want wider regional conflict’, was pathetic and shameful. Even his friends at the EU have cottoned on to the fact that Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes, along with its support for terror groups, threaten global security. That’s not to mention the Ayatollah’s monstrous regime, murderous execution of thousands of brave dissidents and oppression of all its people. Good for Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch giving their uncompromising support to Donald Trump and to what now seems perilously like an overdue US attack. I read yesterday that China and Iran are close to a deal for missiles that can sink aircraft carriers.
The terrifying prospect of external war and the very real threat to the West posed by Iran and China shouldn’t divert us from the perilous internal state of this country – the Islamo/far left/Green anti-democratic threat. I have little doubt there will be people across this country cheering on Iran’s missile attacks on US airbases and military installations in the Middle East and on Israel. Not least in Gorton or amongst the Greens who enabled this sectarian win for fundamentalist Islam. That should indeed be a wake-up call for the divided right, and a lesson in unity, as YouTuber Paul Thorpe advocated on Friday morning.
The wider problem that all on the right must face, as my colleague Professor Norman Fenton reminded me, is the blindness, apathy or sheer stupidity of the British public who didn’t vote, people who the inane women of ITV’s Loose Women represent and influence. What were they doing in their programme on Friday morning? Celebrating the arrival of Hannah Spencer in Parliament: ‘A breath of fresh air’. The fact that this female plumber was voted in by a Muslim demographic – cynicism is not a strong enough word to describe it – a demographic that would put the Loose Women behind the veil (or worse) and off the airwaves for good did not even occur to them. That so many of their Muslim sisters had their votes decided for them by their husbands, brothers or other men, passed them by entirely.
Their sheer political ignorance, lamented by Kim Rye in TCW earlier this week, was stunning. Oblivious to how the hypocritical Greens bought their vote, including young Hannah’s monstrous allegation that it was people like Matt Goodwin who caused the Manchester Arena terrorist attack, set out in these pages by Bruce Newsome today.
This is the diet of dangerous stupidity those non-voting Brits of Gorton and Denton and elsewhere are fed. What’s worse, it transpires, by the woke Electoral Commission itself.
What stole Gorton and Denton from Reform’s Matt Goodwin was not just apathy and stupidity but straight criminality and voter fraud. ‘Concerningly high levels’ of ‘family voting’ were witnessed by accredited electoral observers – shockingly notput a stop to there and then. (Something I warned of on X on Thursday and, in an example of the current insanity, I was called a misandrist for!)
Heaven forfend we should offend any cultural sensitivities. The Telegraph revealed on Friday that electoral observers, the people who are meant to help keep elections ‘transparent, accessible, impartial and secure’, are instructed to respect the UK’s ‘cultures and customs’. All of them except our once established culture of democracy. To sign up to this role you must be conscious of people’s traditions . . .
Meet the people responsible for this hogwash – the Electoral Commissions ‘executive team’ here, and their ‘senior leadership team’ here. Six of them women. All proud feminists, no doubt.
Are they aware of, or do they care about, the history of postal voting in this country, I wonder? How in 2001 the Blair administration quietly passed a law enabling anyone on the electoral register in Great Britain to secure a (permanent) postal vote without providing any reason? Of warnings as far back as 2014 that postal voting in the UK was open to fraud on an industrial scale? How Richard Mawrey KC has been proved right?
Tragically, in all that time no one in the UniParty listened or did anything about it.
If ‘family voting’ happens in full view at polling stations, imagine the potential for coercion with postal votes, Nigel Farage said on Friday. The Electoral Commission must be made to investigate the validity of the by-election result and deal with postal voting fraud, he said. He is right and everyone should back him.
I will be encouraging Advance UK to put its weight behind this. It was the opportunity to press for such principled issues that, last year, I decided to accept Ben Habib’s invitation to engage in politics and become a member of his College. He’s been the first and only politician to take seriously TCW and the knowledge and thinking we have to offer politically. It was an invitation I couldn’t refuse. I found we were on the same page on all the things I care so passionately about: our Christian-based democratic culture and ‘once’ values, the centrality of the family, the frighteningly fast growth of the managerial and process-addicted state in which, as Gustavo Jalife so brilliantly describes in these pages today, the individual is dispensable, just a bureaucratic number – plus the existential threat of Islam and rapidly changing demographics.
It certainly would have been the easier option to stay on the sidelines. The waters of politics are muddy and sadly they have got muddier in the last few weeks since Rupert Lowe announced his new political party. It was suggested to me that for the greater good (in the absence of a response from Mr Lowe to Advance UK’s offer to merge with Restore) that we at Advance UK, a registered party (which Restore Britain is not yet), with a formal constitution (which Restore does not yet have) and with detailed, truly reforming and restorative policy work in the bag (policies that are already shifting the Overton window) should just dissolve ourselves. I don’t think this is reasonable. Our work is principled and important. On a personal level, the more I have become aware of the ‘ethno-nat’ beliefs of the ‘Young Turks’ who seem to be calling the shots at Restore, the more I have doubted the viability or judiciousness of such a merger. I have a principled objection to aligning myself with a party for whom ethnicity and ancestry or race risks becoming the main issue or discriminating factor, rather than anti-democratic belief and behaviour where policy should be directed .
So yes, I am continuing with the important work of Advance UK and the important work of TCW, where our fight for the truth does bear fruit.
