TALK ABOUT a depressing end to the week for all who saw 2029 as our last hope to rescue our sick and dying land. The dream of a Farage team swinging into office on a ticket as radical as Trump 2024 has all but evaporated.
I thought that I would be celebrating TCW’s eleventh birthday yesterday, bucked this year by the return of Trump, the death of woke and the end of the catastrophic war in Ukraine at last in sight.
But no, I couldn’t clink the glasses. Not with the country going backwards. Not when we at TCW suddenly find ourselves manning the last defence, when we should be on a forward charge. This is all because of Reform UK’s suicidal public purge of Rupert Lowe MP.
‘Well, there’s certainly not too much professionalism going on in Reform. What an utterly chaotic public show of mismanagement and incompetence. Looks like a set-up, smells like a set-up – it probably is a set-up,’ one of our regular writers emailed me.
Indeed so. When I read Rupert Lowe’s rebuttal to the allegations on Friday afternoon, I tweeted that it could not have been written more forcefully. When I read the Reform UK statement that came from Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Chairman, and Lee Anderson, its Chief Whip, I had just one thought: they have just added their signatures to Britain’s death warrant, the fools.
A classic of its genre, every line ‘read’ of the very things they should be fighting. A woke ‘offence culture’ declaration.
Oh no, I thought, this is ‘Hope not Hate’, ‘Me Too’ and ‘subjective hate crime’ rolled into one! Suspending an MP for ‘bullying’ who had allegedly made rude or disparaging comments about women? Reporting an alleged verbal threat to the police from a colleague? I mean, grow up! This is the waste of police time that they should be condemning! And frankly if Rupert Lowe did do any of this, who cares? I don’t. All in all, it’s a testament to what’s wrong with our political culture – the culture that Reform UK should be standing up against. Are they blind?
Petty allegations versus Lowe’s extraordinary hard-working performance as an MP and his brilliant no-holds-barred communications on what’s wrong with Britain. The things they should be angry about. Where’s the balanced judgement?
What does the now holier than thou Lee Anderson – the victim of exactly the same sort of complaint – think he is doing? Referring to his own suspension by the Conservatives, he said that he found it ‘unpalatable’ that he had been disciplined for ‘speaking my mind’. If I didn’t laugh, I would cry. Farage himself is hardly a stranger to politically correct attacks; the times he has been accused of racism are legion.
What the hell is his party doing, climbing aboard this woke bandwagon?
Either they just don’t understand, or they are just not up for the genuine free speech fight; little better, in fact, than the EU politicians and officials whom JD Vance berated for their censorship and free speech oppression three weeks ago.
Ever hopeful of Reform UK (it was our only hope – and it still may be) and always wanting to be supportive (it ain’t easy being an insurgent), I’ve previously ignored signs of woke weakness – like Richard Tice ditching Reform candidates the minute offence archaeologists from Hope not Hate (or whoever) dug up the dirt. No longer.
As to that poisoner in our midst, Niall McCrae emailed me last week to tell me that we are both named and shamed as far-right activists on page 57 of Hope not Hate’s latest vicious report! (They are really no better than the Ku Klux Klan in their vendetta against Tommy Robinson). ‘OMG,’ I replied, ‘I call it a badge of honour! The highest accolade I could get is to ruffle their feathers enough to be mentioned!’ If they hadn’t noticed my fight for freedom and condemnation of Two-Tier Keir’s tyranny, I would have been disappointed! But it made me think. Does that label make me persona non grata in Yusuf’s and Anderson’s new Reform world?
Which brings me to the rest of the guff in their statement about upholding ‘standards in public life’. For heaven’s sake, don’t they know that there are none in public life any longer? What are they exactly, as Parliament sinks to extraordinary lows? Drawing a line at Labour MPs who’d kill off grannies? Isn’t it the across-the-board grotesquely low moral standards of greedy, cheating, lying, Labour (but a follow-on from the Tory crew and Boris Johnson’s amorality, casual lying and exploitation of public office for future personal gain) that deserves attention?
It is this collapse (of public service and duty – the ethos that Lowe ironically has become a shining example of) that Reform needs to target. That, and the creeping politicisation of the judiciary – the Sovietization – of a legal system that is happy to have Tommy Robinson rot in prison. Today, by the way, is the 132nd day of his eighteen-month solitary confinement sentence – unprecedented for a journalist for contempt of court. 22 hours a day, locked in a cell for a non-crime of showing the public a documentary he was banned from showing. On Wednesday, I was alerted to the disturbing mental health report his legal team commissioned, described as mental torture. The clinician who assessed him with ADHD and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) warns that ‘solitary confinement is directly related to the reactivation of past C-PTSD due to the similar environment.’ She says, ‘he has difficulties coping […] exacerbated by ADHD, he is deteriorating’.
His legal team have launched an emergency court challenge due to this deterioration in mental health, highlighting the Government’s multiple human rights violations. You can read more here.
I have said it before and I will say it again: love him or loathe him, this is wrong, wrong, wrong and a stain on our country. He needs our prayers.
If a week is a long time in politics, four years is definitely longer; we have to stay positive and cling on to hope. It should be time enough for Reform UK to get over its first major suicide attempt, stop fighting, take a leaf out of Trump’s leadership book and start some teamwork. Trump has proved that men as different and as equally strong as he and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can come together in common cause. The longer Reform’s ‘pile in’ continues, the more Starmer’s stranglehold on the county tightens and the harder it will be to drain our swamp.
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