WHILE the MSM’s soap-opera production house couldn’t get enough of the ongoing Tory-to-Reform defection drama, we at TCW were getting on with reporting the stuff that really matters. Undistracted by the antics of pipsqueak politicians like Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch that mainstream journalists cannot apparently get enough of. It’s a sort of addiction. And as with any addict, their preoccupation displaces reality. You would not think the Westminster trivia could wipe out news of the brutal silencing of the Iran protests, a death toll that has passed 3,000 as the West stood by, but it did.
The Iranian uprising has proved to be yet another of the MSM’s moral blind spots; the silence of the Palestinian activism-loving ‘slebs’ over the incredibly courageous young Iranian protesters beyond shameful. Bepi Pezzulli (a new TCW writer acquisition!) explains this moral inversion and distortion quite brilliantly here.
Back to the dire state of this country that also got forgotten in this wall-to-wall pleasure in and indulgence of the politics of cynicism and opportunism. I noticed the Daily Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey at one of Reform’s press conferences positively enjoying herself. All of them, laughing and smiling.
To say I am deeply disappointed in Nigel Farage would be an understatement. Long-term readers will know I stood as ‘cheerleader’ for him for many years. Of course it was to be predicted that Tories who positioned themselves to the right of the party might defect. But not that Farage should never demand a price – at the very least an admission of Tory wrongs or an apology from them. It was not just the failed Tories clambering aboard the Reform bandwagon, each more cynical and opportunistic than the one before, that finished me. It was Zia Yusuf seemingly calling the shots too, banning grassroots ‘never-Tory’ members from standing as councillors or MPs – ironically, the same ‘sanitising’ drive that once had Cameron disparaging Farage and Ukip. A reverse takeover of the Tories was never what I hoped for. Nor does Farage’s apparent strategy of winning over ‘moderate’ Muslims convince me; appeasement politics doesn’t work. Now we have both tactics with knobs on.
I don’t need to rehearse the anger engendered by Farage’s oh-so-public embrace of the pro-lockdown, pro-vaccine-mandates, owner of the ‘cash for questions’ YouGov money-spinner, Nadhim Zahawi. It’s all there on X, the free-speech social media platform our dear leader threatens to ban. And no one, but no one, should have any time for turncoat Robert Jenrick. His record on immigration is neatly summarised here. Yet no soul-searching is demanded of him by Nige. No admission from the former Minister’s part in the Boris Johnson migrant wave. No ‘mea culpa’ either. Just smirks.
Reconciliation without truth is cheap. Thus Tory duplicity glides into the very heart of Reform UK.
Yes, I have heard the arguments for political pragmatism and the need to get Labour out. It’s the same old argument there was about continuing to vote Tory. It’s misguided. However active and organised Reform are in the sticks – and there is good reason to believe they are – all their energies are going into a party that will be more of the same if it does get in. The ability to mount a good campaign for an election that is still more than three years away cannot, and does not, justify this crushing of principle. All it beckons is our country slipping further and further away from the possibility of rescue. To save Britain we have to bite the bullet now. This is our last chance at the O.K. Corral. And Nigel has missed the opportunity, I am afraid, ‘because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work’, as Thomas Edison said. Not the sort of work, I might add, that involves flying first class to Davos to attend the WEF. How speedy is the truth pill of power!
The sort of principled work I am talking about is what Christian Concern dedicate themselves to: the pursuit of justice and truth and not letting go. Without them, the Darlington nurses would have been thrown to the wolves. After a two-and-a-half-year battle, Christian Concern lawyers last week won their case against the Darlington NHS Foundation which was found to have unlawfully discriminated against and harassed the nurses by requiring them to share female-only changing rooms with a biological male. They all deserve a big shout out. They are the shining beacon of the moral renewal we so badly need in this country.
Hard slog and reverse lawfare. That’s what we need, not endless expensive talking shops that the upcoming ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) jamboree is. I actually got an invitation this year – pro forma of course – telling me how much they would like me to attend. At a 70 per cent discount it would only be £450. Especially for me! Seriously? How many alt media and citizen journalists could afford that – even if they wanted to go?
The fact that it’s a global not a nation states movement is what bothers me. I stand to be corrected but I don’t think they’ll be having a Viktor Orban or a Jordan Bardella striding the stage. And certainly not Eva Vlaardingerbroek, she who Starmer has banned from the country. No Rebel News. If I sound churlish it’s because I am feeling churlish. There is heavy financing of ‘safe’ opposition from the right. But no financing for the ‘irresponsible’ who dare go for the jugular. It’s ‘overalls’ for us.
On a cheerier note, I have to admit I really enjoyed one article in the mainly morally void Daily Mail. Robert Hardman got an exclusive interview with Donald Trump after Christmas. His descriptions of his ‘unforgettable’ weekend with the Trump entourage and his conversations with this living legend are a guinea a minute. They totally dispense with any notion that 79-year-old Trump has dementia. Rather they confirm, loud and clear, two other ‘rebuttals’ that landed in my emails.
First from Daniel Jupp which I hope he won’t mind me sharing, analysing the ‘slightly odd speech patterns’ Trump has always had, ‘pausing, repeating himself, going off on tangents – none of the kind of delusional rambling you get with dementia and mainly due to the fact that he is probably the only person in politics who doesn’t rehearse and prepare responses’. Everything, Daniel points out, is ad lib, ‘quite often including two-hour speeches. Most of the rally speeches have very minimal preparation. You can tell when he’s using a script and 90 per cent of the time he isn’t . . . The pace he sets for a man of his age is incredible, totally different from Biden or dementia sufferers generally’.
It is!
Second, Robert Kennedy Jr’s interview a few days ago when he joked that Trump has more testosterone than any man over 70 his doctor has ever seen.
Finally a quick reminder about Advance UK’s ‘Restoration, Culture and Immigration’ meeting on February 7 – I am told tickets are selling fast. You can still get one here.
