O FRABJOUS day! After months of waiting for Reform to come out fair and square with policies realistically able to tackle the threat of demographic replacement and cultural annihilation which has left even Keir Starmer’s speechwriters feeling that we are becoming ‘an island of strangers’, two challenges to the Farage/Yusuf venture have emerged within 24 hours.
News of Ben Habib’s super-democratic new party, Advance UK, had scarcely hit the websites when Rupert Lowe announced Restore Britain: not a party, but ‘a movement for those who believe that we need to fundamentally change the way Britain is governed’.
Why these new initiatives in an area already well populated with dissident mini-parties?
Unsurprisingly, reaction even from those who have a lot of time for both men has not been unanimously favourable. This, they say, is not just splitting the vote on the right, it is splintering it: Katie Hopkins puts it in a nutshell here. But are questions of right and left really the issue, at this time of historic national crisis?
Ben Habib is clear that Advance UK is not simply a party of ‘the right’. It is for anyone, right, left or centre, who wants to live in an independent nation state, subject to its own laws, rather than a multi-cultural region with porous boundaries answering to some supranational global order – from which, as he rightly says, so many subsequent evils flow, most notably mass immigration and multi-culturalism. Unlike Reform, the party is not class-conscious; it would be happy to accept Tommy Robinson and ‘that lot’ as members, nor would people’s ancient, but lawful, posts on social media be held against them.
Both Ben and Rupert emphasise that they broadly agree on the crucial choices facing the country, diverging mainly on the need for yet another political party. No clash of egos appears to be involved: after all, Ben has himself signed up to Restore Britain, and both men, crucially, have come out publicly in support of a Great Repeal Act which would wipe out the malign legislation introduced during the Blair/Brown years and perpetuated treacherously by Tory ‘heirs to Blair’: a commitment which has been being urged for some time now by Dr David Starkey, who (the icing on the cake, to borrow a phrase from Mr Farage) has now been welcomed on to the Restore Britain Advisory Board.
Given the harmony between their founders, it seems to me that party and movement can actually support each other, with many people following Habib’s lead and signing up to both. Restore Britain has the potential to draw in patriotic people from all parties, both in and out of parliament, as well as members of the public who have long been disenfranchised by the globalist agendas of the Lib-Lab-Cons, the Greens, and the Welsh and Scottish nationalists, and who are not confident that Reform can be trusted. It aims to act as a democratic think-tank, formulating policy and exploring areas off-limits to our pitifully emasculated parliament. Who knows, it may well succeed in uniting splintered remains of both Conservative and Labour parties in a new, patriotic configuration dedicated to reinstatement of the tried-and-trusted constitution savaged by Blair. Rupert Lowe, in fact, has actually indicated that by the next election the movement might become, or take over, another political party. Perhaps competing mini-parties may be absorbed. A lot may be going on behind the scenes. A lot can happen in four years.
Meanwhile, Restore Britain is planning not only to formulate popular policies, but to act. ‘Where appropriate,’ the website states, ‘private prosecutions will be launched, legal challenges brought and judicial reviews funded. We will fund independent investigative journalists to root out corruption, and an FOI taskforce to expose Government waste. A unit specifically for whistleblowers will be established to amplify their concerns.’
Rupert Lowe has already shown just how much can be achieved by a single independent member of parliament in shifting ‘the Overton window’, not only by tirelessly winkling out information from government departments and initiating debates, but by setting up an independent inquiry into the Mirpuri clan-rape gangs. With whole teams focusing on the abuses accumulated during a quarter of a century of unrepresentative government, the political landscape may have changed beyond recognition by 2029.
What of Reform UK? It will do it good to have some competition that may force it back onto the ‘populist’ ground which it appears to have abandoned in favour of siphoning off ‘moderate’ votes from Left and Right: or perhaps, as both Labour and Conservative parties crumble, it will settle down as a new Uniparty opposition to the patriotic alternative promoted by Restore Britain and offered by Advance UK: both of them already backed by Elon Musk.
