Political Destinies.

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So, it’s election week… Are you excited? Do you know who you’re going to vote for yet? Do you think this election will make a difference?

My answers are as follows – 1) The election is thrilling, perhaps the most thrilling in my lifetime. 2) I’m not physically able to vote physically this time around. Had I been, I would vote for UKIP or LibertyGB (the latter if they are standing, the former if not). 3) Absolutely.

Nobody, not even the most seasoned political commentator, dares to predict who will be running the country this time next week. Despite the avalanche of newsprint, debate, advertising and scandal, the vote remains stubbornly too close to call.

As far as I can see, the UK faces one of 4 possible destinies. Let’s briefly look at each one:

1. Labour Victory.

This would be a disaster; a further half-decade of socialist rule would corrode social and race relations to (or beyond) breaking point. Immigration would remain at the current level, and possibly even get worse. Fear of Islam will apparently be legislated against, eroding our right to resist it. The tentacles of the government will squeeze through more legal gaps, blocking out light and lurching deeper into our intimate affairs. Taxes will rise. Green superstition will rule the laboratories. The army will grow ever more ornamental.

2. Conservative Victory.

Better than a Labour victory, but still a postponement of real solutions to the issues facing this country. More austerity, more economic growth, further cuts to the military and police. A jumble of good and bad.

3. Ukip Victory.

Potentially revolutionary, yet also highly unlikely, a UKIP government would transform UK society in many positive ways. Immigration would finally be addressed with the seriousness it requires. The army would be brought back from the dead. Hate preachers would be shown to the nearest airport (though – crucially – their congregation would remain).

4. Coalition.

This seems by far the most likely situation, and also the most chaotic. A UKIP-Tory coalition would never last beyond a few months. An SNP-Labour coalition would never be accepted by the English public. A Libdem-Tory coalition might work but only with awkwardness. A Lib-Labour coalition would be stable but hugely unpopular.

5. Conclusion.

I think this election will be the last ‘mainstream’ contest for quite some time. By that I mean it will be the last in which the traditional parties dominate the polls. In that sense, it is just a rehearsal for 2020.

I strongly believe conservative radicalism will continue to grow whatever the result is on Thursday. This may clear away the obstacles for a truly restorative party to achieve a parliamentary majority in the third decade of this millennium.

D, LDN.

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The March of Umunna.

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I warned some time ago that a British Obama is being prepared for prime-ministerial contention in the near future. While this warning was made frankly enough, I seem to have underestimated the speed with which the liberal media would advance the prospect.

Chuka Umunna, the youthful, mixed-race Labourite with absolutely nothing to be said for him is fast becoming a daily feature in British newspapers. No article is published without a reference to the American President, and this is obviously for a reason.

Britain is being softened up for a well-known socialist con-trick: the use of the race card to forward despised government policies.

Let there be no illusions, Britain doesn’t like Labour anymore. They may vote for the party out of greater hatred for the Tories, but that’s something entirely different. Mass immigration, limitless welfare and sky-high government borrowing have failed the test of reality. Every citizen in all green England recognises Labour rule as a national indulgence for which the country ultimately pays the price.

Socialism thus relies on the power of personalities, just as unpalatable food relies on sugar and sauce to mask its destructive essence. Our instinctive reactions must first be deliberately weakened.

Barack Obama (the real one) has done very little for the United States. Indeed, his political obituary is best written in failures… He has failed to act on ISIS. He has failed to act on illegal immigration. He has failed to act on the national debt. He has failed even to do the things the Left hoped he would do, like close Guantanamo, heal the diplomatic rifts created by President Bush and stop the oceans from rising (yes, he really claimed to be able to do this).

Obama was elected for his historical value, not his political competence. Umunna likewise is being dishonestly lionised for aspects of his humanity that are irrelevant to his political capability.

I call on people to put their minds before their hearts. Mr Umunna may be an affable enough person, but those who are making use of him are deeply cynical and must be called to account.

D, LDN.

Whither Great Britain?

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Who do you think won the leadership debate last Thursday? Whatever answer you give, there will be a newspaper that agrees with you.

According to the Leftist media, Miliband walked it. According to the centre-right, Cameron walked it. According to the far-left, Sturgeon triumphed, for the farther right, Farage won and so on… The only thing this confusion can really tell us is that nobody won, and that the election campaign continues much the same.

Most of the attention in this debate was on Nigel Farage, a fact he was surely aware of and which can best explain his sensationalist approach. In a mortifyingly misjudged aside, the UKIP leader at one point chose to fling his net on foreigners suffering from the Human Deficiency Virus, a comment that was later trending on Twitter and there attracted much celebrity condemnation.

On the Left, Nicola Sturgeon, the brassy and bold leader of the SNP, greedily gobbled up the cheap goodwill that is the plentiful reward of the politically incautious. Freed from the heavy burdens of responsibility, consistency and conviction, Sturgeon promised to stop cutting government spending and use borrowed money to lavish gifts on the Scots and only the Scots (not wholly unlike the politics of the Arabian peninsula).

Me? I wasn’t convinced by any of them. In fact, looking back over my 31 years, I don’t think I’ve ever been less certain of my political allegiance.

I don’t think I ask for too much in a political party. My manifesto is short and relatively simple: Stop importing terror threats, and deport those already here. Preserve the welfare system for those most in need. Protect the NHS. Legalise handguns for those with no criminal record. Teach patriotism, health and positivity in the classroom, just like the Americans do. Build up our armed forces to at least 500,000 men. Provide community service sentences for all non-violent crimes. Make prisons hellish for those who commit violent crimes. Draw up a new constitution for the country, including within it a statement guaranteeing freedom of speech.

These priorities are far from radical and – if properly communicated – would find a very general audience.  As for their realisation, I won’t be holding my breath.

D, LDN.

Cameron, UKIP and the Referendum.

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The 2015 general election approaches, and British people are as sharply divided as ever. Few can recall a tighter contest in our national history. My intention has always been to vote small and think big. I am a supporter of LibertyGB, a party dedicated to fending off the forces of Jihad.

But that is my luxury. I am registered in London, where LibertyGB are likely to place candidates. Many millions do not have this luxury, and so I’ve been wondering where I might be tempted to place my X were I registered elsewhere… In UKIP’s box? I used to think so. Now I’m not so sure.

Let’s face some hard political facts. Farage’s party will not win the general election. They won’t even come close. Furthermore, if the vote for UKIP is sufficiently large in swing-seats, the Labour party, possibly in alliance with the Scottish nationalists, will triumph, initiating a long – historically and demographically crucial – 5 years of socialist rule.

On the other hand, if those UKIP votes were to switch to Cameron’s Tory party, we could have the first chance in a generation to vote on our membership of the European Union.

Which is more important to us really: our contempt for the political mainstream and desire to punish it, or our long-term national and cultural survival?

Despite his many imperfections, Cameron has promised us a say on one of the most important issues of our time. He cannot back out of it when the time comes. His feet will be held to the fire from the first day of his second term.

A referendum, whatever the result, will immeasurably boost our democratic good health. If the result is that Britain should leave, then the last say on immigration policy would finally be returned to Westminster. We would regain the ability to close our doors to the millions of Muslims pouring onto the European continent. Cheap labour could be more properly regulated, providing jobs and opportunities for own struggling citizenry.

This is why I now think rural voters,  if they are offered only a choice between Lib-Lab-Con and UKIP, would be wiser to vote for Cameron. They can always turn to UKIP in subsequent elections, but 2015’s contest is too important for protest-voting. If we throw away our only real chance of an EU referendum, future generations will ask us why we did so.

D, LDN.

Nigel Farage and Islam.

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Last week, the United Kingdom Independence Party gained its second MP. Mark Reckless, a Tory defector, overturned a Conservative majority of 10,000, rubbishing most early predictions and lighting a fire in the bellies of right-wingers up and down the country.

Could UKIP win in 2015? Is it still impossible? These were and are no longer stupid questions to ask. Though it’s highly unlikely that UKIP could secure even half the required number of seats in 2015, these enquires have a longer shelf-life.

Could UKIP win in 2019/20? I strongly believe it could, yes. Does that excite me? I’m not sure.

Politically, as I’ve said previously, I’m quite difficult to categorise. I tend to agree with the right on some things and the left on others. Consequently, UKIP have many policies that appeal to me, and many that scare me.

Nevertheless, I would be willing to grant my vote to UKIP in spite of any uncertainty if the party was able to present a valid policy on issue of most concern: the issue of the Islamisation of Britain. On this matter, I’m afraid, UKIP still has a lot to make clear.

Given the repeated accusation of racism by the media, Nigel Farage has tried to present a liberal image on the subject of ethnic difference. He has allowed numerous ethnic minority candidates to stand for the party, and tends to make a big deal of them when they do, forcing them in front of any camera in his vicinity. He routinely badmouths the British National Party and its leader Nick Griffin and claims (almost convincingly) to have a multi-coloured social circle.

When asked about Islam in particular, the ex-city-trader all but winces and then goes on to reheat the (phony) distinction between ‘moderates’ and ‘radicals’. Indeed, on his Wikipedia page, Farage is quoted as having endorsed the following sentiment:

“You’re welcome to come here and to have your children here… but if you’re coming here to take us over, you’re not welcome.”

I’ll be frank. This bizarre way of describing the issue greatly alarms me. The problem of Islam in the West has never been a dichotomy between peaceful immigrants and fire-breathing colonists. They are one and the same. Either Farage doesn’t accept this and is speaking honestly, or he does and is lying to wrong-foot the liberal inquisition. Either way, he does not seem ready to speak about the challenge in detail.

In recent months, Farage has been pressured by his restless electorate to comment on the war crimes in Rotherham. His response has been to unload his clip on social services and political correctness. The third, more essential, element of culture and race he has left untouched.

And what about the members of his party who do have the guts to raise this issue? Again, Farage’s behaviour doesn’t inspire hope. When a candidate for the European Elections tweeted that Islam ‘is evil’, he was expelled from the party within hours, seemingly without being granted the right of reply. Later, a local activist took to saying bad things about Muhammad’s sex life on facebook and suffered the same swift reprobation.

There is also the problems of Tory defections. It’s all well and good for one or two Tories to jump ship and in doing so bolster the profile of the party. However, if – as Farage hungrily predicts – the drips become a flood, the result will surely be the Toryfication (and thus de-radicalisation) of UKIP as a whole. For all his popularity, Douglas Carswell (the first defector) is a pedestrian social-democrat on most issues, and he is already being touted as the Farage’s successor. This will kill off any hope of UKIP stepping up to the Islamic challenge.

I’m far from saying that Farage is not the right man to vote for in 2015. Indeed, a strong UKIP performance would delight me. It would show that the centre ground is rapidly losing its force of gravity; that the electorate is beginning to read more broadly than the mainstream press; and most of all, that there is finally an appetite for radicalism developing amongst the hedges and bowling greens of real England.

If UKIP disappoint that radicalism, it will not die. It will just have to wait for a real leader to arise.

D, LDN.

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.

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Last Thursday, elections were held in Britain to elect a fresh body of MPs for the European Parliament. The United Kingdom Independence Party was always the favourite to ‘win’, and that prediction has now been decisively justified.

Despite this foreknowledge, the media has since reacted with a purple-faced hysteria. Reading the papers this morning, one would think that Nigel Farage has been announced Prime Minister, Archbishop and direct inheritor to the crown. Metaphors like ‘earthquake’, ‘shock’ and ‘hurricane’ are being hurriedly worn out, as are adjectives like ‘unprecedented’, ‘historic’ and ‘revolutionary’. In the Mail and Telegraph, rustic conservatives are pictured jubilantly flushing down pints of real ale, whilst liberals and leftists are portrayed with creased brows and watery eyes.

In France meanwhile, Marine Le Pen has dramatically triumphed in the popular vote and in doing so may have fatally wounded traditional Gallic conservatism. In Denmark and Germany, far-right parties have also seen their fortunes rise, if only by one seat in the latter case. Bucking this rightward trend, Geert Wilders’ PVV Party returned a smaller vote than at the last election, despite earlier opinion polls suggesting an increase. Elsewhere, Greece has thrown its support behind the radical Leftist grouping Syriza.

My feelings about all this haven’t had the time to mature, but I’ll offer them anyway.

The descent of Geert Wilders is obviously disappointing, as is the victory of radical socialists in Greece. Madame Le Pen’s victory meanwhile provides cause for both hope and fear; Hope that the French people are collectively waking up to the state of their civilisation, and fear that Anti-Semitic boot boys merely have an attractive disguise and are privately bent on dividing the continent as fatally as their German predecessors.

In regards to UKIP, my feelings grow even more nuanced. I love listening to Nigel Farage speak and concur with a lot of what he says, especially about the decadent and unresponsive elite of Westminster. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel his party has been elected on an imagined manifesto.

If one votes for UKIP believing – as many do – that they will ‘sort out’ the Islamisation of Britain, one will likely be disappointed. UKIP in truth has no coherent policy on religion, cultural protection or race, save for a flaccid, over-qualified commitment to an ‘immigration freeze’. Anyone who voices Islamophobic opinion within UKIP furthermore, is routinely expelled without hesitation.

In addition, the Muslim inflow to Britain is not usually the fault of the European Union, and would not necessarily be affected by Britain’s withdrawal from it. True, we would have fewer Poles, Ukrainians and Romanians, but as miniature Pakistans swell within London, Birmingham and Manchester, that seems rather beside the point.

I don’t want to be completely negative about all this. There are reasons for celebration today. Across the continent of Europe, many vital signs are beginning to return, and the comatose patient is beginning to blink and shuffle, perhaps signifying that it is ready to awaken.

UKIP is one such blink. The party has value, but only as a path-breaker for others who will tread the prepared ground with greater daring.

D, LDN

Advantages of the UKIP Bubble.

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Nick Griffin is rarely right about anything. Such is well established fact. From Economics to Zionism, his words collectively provide the definitive encyclopaedia of wrong answers to almost every vital issue of our day.

On the isolated matter of UKIP however, the bloated cyclops is rather more persuasive.

And of course he needs to be…

Griffin’s British National Party is (even more so than David Cameron’s Tories) the principle casualty of Nigel Farage’s political rise and many commentators speculate that the BNP has now been pushed into terminal decline by it.

To pour water on this fire, Griffin has been consistently vocal in his condemnation of UKIP as ‘phony nationalists’, by which he means that their nationalism isn’t (like his) of a strictly biological kind.

But should that fail, he has also been circulating a bizarrely confident prediction to temper down the nerves of his party donors, and it goes something like this:

UKIP, he suggests, will clean up at the European Elections, gaining many additional MEPs and initiating itself as a major political power. Then, when the reputation of Nigel Farage quickly wilts under the heat of intensified scrutiny, he will have to step down, the party will implode, and when that happens a huge mass of disappointed nationalists will feel betrayed and be left with nowhere to go…

This is the point where Griffin and truth part ways again. Predictably (and almost rather tragically) the MEP goes on to say that these abandoned throngs will all file neatly into the ranks of the BNP; something perhaps as likely as a hot January in Kilmarnock.

But despite this wishful flourish, the first part of his prediction is not completely unsound.

UKIP is a very shaky, unbalanced concept even now. When people report that they ‘like what UKIP have to say about x’, what they typically mean is they like what Nigel Farage has to say about x.

And this is no great mystery. Farage is a fantastically eloquent man, imbued with an old-fashioned wit and a punchy instinct for telling the truth that cleanly separates him from the old, despised political class.

But Farage is one man; a man with a past that is only half-revealed and could well be littered with episodes of debauchery, scandal and – worst of all – years of success in the banking industry.

It is extremely unlikely that Farage will last more than a couple of years under the same scrutiny currently deployed against Cameron and Miliband.

You might suggest that UKIP could survive and flourish without Nigel, but I think you’d be optimistic. The party’s second in command is Paul Nuttall, a charmless memoriser of pre-written policy statements. There seems to be no charismatic replacement lurking further down the chain of command either. The hopes and dream of UKIP depend entirely on Farage’s personal stability and reputation. This just isn’t feasible for a mainstream political party I’m afraid.

But what about after UKIP, or rather after Farage? Where, as Griffin is right to ask if not fit to objectively answer, will the radicalised throngs go to? Back to the Tories? The Kilmarnock deckchair hire store is that way. Lib Dems?… Labour? Very funny.

No, these people will be ripe pickings for a party in the same ideological space vacated by UKIP. This will be a vital opportunity for the British Right. A dynamic, sophisticated alternative concerned with cultural survival (and not just anti-Polish jingoism and EU bureaucracy) will find an audience ready and waiting for them. This kind of chance won’t come along again in a hurry. We must be prepared to seize it.

D, LDN.

The End of the European Union.

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If you watched the much-hyped debate between Nigel Farage and suited bureaucrat Nick Clegg, you’ll no doubt be more tempted to vote for UKIP than ever before. Farage, as the media has now reported, wiped the floor with his genderless, over-groomed opponent, whose main argument – namely, that withdrawal from the EU would plunge the UK economy into ruin – was (and is) supported by a podium of damp sand.

Nobody with a knowledge of European history can fail to notice what is becoming of the EU, and what lies immediately ahead of its downfall, should a more amicable divorce not be arranged before then.

‘War’ is the word; if not military war then economic war – or if neither then intra-national wars in the form of fascist implosions promoted by parties like Golden Dawn.

A fundamental truism conducts the orchestra here: In any European political arrangement, Germany will always emerge as the most powerful nation. This isn’t because of any calculation or intent, but purely because of the country’s size and industry.

Indeed, even when Germany was boxing with one hand (during the Soviet occupation of its Eastern region), German banks and planners still set the policies for the rest of the EU to follow.

Within the arrangement of the EU then, and its insidious doctrine of ‘ever closer union’, Berlin has naturally become Europe’s de facto capital, and the only place in which political debate serves a purpose other than recreation.

Greeks – in real terms – have no power over Greece. Portuguese have no influence over Portugal. The Italian grip on Italy is diminishing. The desire of other European states to avoid a similar fate is as inevitable as it is justified.

Although I derive from a country with a long tradition of anti-Germanism (rather a genetic hypocrisy for the English) I do not partake in the vice myself. My on and off girlfriend is German, and I have always valued in particular the musical achievements of that country. Nevertheless, German rule (as opposed to financial domination) of Europe is neither right, nor natural, nor – in the long term – sustainable. There is too much bad blood between Germans and other Europeans to allow for such an arrangement in the long term.

Ironically, the only argument for the European Union that still carries weight is also that which underlies its most fatal criticism. According to the website europa.eu “The historical roots of the European Union lie in the Second World War. Europeans are determined to prevent such killing and destruction ever happening again.”

Well, with economic inequality between Northern and Southern Europe beginning to hold lighters to German and even French standards, surely that argument has now crossed the floor. The prevention of intra-European conflict is now the goal of Eurosceptics. The promoters of the EU project have been disarmed of their founding principle.

I do not realise the EU’s mortality with a special joy. I actually like the fact that – should I feel like it – I could permanently relocate to Sweden, France or Portugal without going through an application process. As a British citizen, every door in the continent of Europe is open for me. It’s a pleasant liberty to possess.

Nevertheless, contingency plans are now needed for a divorce that seems all but guaranteed. To this end, UKIP I’m afraid is a dud force, incapable of delivering the very referendum which undergirds its manifesto. At the same stroke, David Cameron’s pledge to allow a referendum before 2017 is rather too late.

Ultimately, the collapse of the EU will – as Farage argued – be settled in one of two ways; Democratically, and with a preservation of order and moral norms, or if not that way, then in a different manner. To understand what that means, I refer your imagination to the centenary we commemorate this year.

D, LDN.

The UKIP Deception.

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The previous fortnight has seen the United Kingdom Independence Party carry out its first ideological purge. No less than three councilors have now been removed from their elected posts for comments made on social networks, all of which (bar one anti-Semitic incident) involved Islam.

I know that many people invest extremely high hopes in UKIP and its charismatic leader Nigel Farage. They believe the Eurosceptic party will achieve what the BNP could never do; namely, move the argument for cultural preservation from the wild wings of the internet into the political mainstream. I have never held this belief myself, and the latest actions by the UKIP leadership serve to confirm my suspicions.

UKIP is a Thatcherite party, little more, little less. Thatcherism, as an intellectual tendency is largely economics-based and culturally agnostic. Its adherents are more interested in affluence than churches, oil than Israel, skyscrapers than cohesion.

Thatcher’s ideas were never about patriotism. There was nothing patriotic about gutting the coal-mining capability of this country. Economic sense is not patriotic sense. The two logical systems are different and often in conflict with one another.

With this in mind then, who should be surprised in the slightest that UKIP appears intolerant of the anti-Islam movement? 

Many decent and passionate people are here being deceived by the media. There is a lot of mocked-up outrage at UKIP’s weak and watery immigration policy. UKIP’s manifesto proposes a ‘breather period’ of zero economic immigration for five years. While this is obviously sensible (and no doubt extremely popular), it’s wise to remember that most immigration currently comes from Eastern-European countries, not from Asia and Africa. The non-European population of Britain (including Muslims) originates in waves of migration that happened over ten years ago. The real and perceived growth of these communities is actually ‘natural’, by which demographers mean – due to reproduction.

UKIP’s policies therefore cannot do anything whatsoever to address the Islamisation of Britain demographically. Adequate base material for that process is already here. With Natives refusing to breed, Muslim expansion doesn’t ultimately require immigration.   

So, what about the cultural battleground? Here, I suppose, UKIP might be of greater use than on the demographic issue. Nigel Farage is adamant that his party represents traditional British values. He is often seen in pubs drinking ale; a situation too repetitive to be natural (unless Farage is a functioning alcoholic), and so these photo-ops must be for a reason. They are designed no doubt, to convey a ‘man of the people’, British to the bootstraps. I have never to-this-day seen Farage in a Mosque, or an Asian community centre, or clad in diplomatic leather at a gay rights parade, and I’m unlikely to witness any of these things either, as Mr Farage seems to deal with the multi-cultural reality of Britain by ignoring it entirely.

This could be good or bad and I’m not yet sure which.

On the one hand, Mr Farage is implying he is a Briton of the old school- a kind of 1930’s, ale-drinking, hard-working, German-hating Man’s Man. On the other, he is giving the impression of complete disinterest in cultural issues foreign to that old school, the most recent and important of which being the Islamic takeover of England.

UKIP are currently riding high in the polls. Should this persist, they will undoubtedly gain seats in parliament at the next general election. Mr Farage may think it essential to this momentum to pluck out the ‘rotten apples’ from the UKIP barrel. He would be advised however, not to chuck out the reason for this ascendency with them.

D, LDN.