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Samizdata quote of the day – Could a Reform government escape the ties that paralyse Britain? When details of its launch leaked, the Financial Times branded it a âReform UK think tankâ. It is easy to understand this assumption: it is led by Jonathan Brown, a former Foreign Office diplomat who went on to serve as Reformâs Chief Operating Officer. But the reality is more nuanced. Non party-political, CFABB is part of a broader network that is sympathetic to Reformâs aims but not an adjunct of it.
Nimbleness is one contrast with traditional approaches. As James Orr, the chairman of CFABBâs advisory board, told me, Reform is not just disrupting Westminster with their politics, but also their speed of action. âAs a start-up, they operate at a much faster pace than the conventional parties; Farage makes decisions on policies in minutes, rather than months. Westminsterâs methodical think-tank cycle â commissioning research, editing reports, convening panels, publishing white papers â simply cannot keep up with leaders who decide policy positions as quickly as Reform.â
– Tom Jones
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I hope Reform UK have got high grade people planning how to overcome the resistance from the civil service that they will undoubtedly face.
There is only one way Reform can ‘get stuff done’ and thats by not trying to do anything. They must just start repealing laws left right and centre, and not try to replace them with their own ones. The Civil Service and the courts will attempt to tie any new Reform laws in knots, the way to proceed is to remove the laws the courts have to interpret. A court can’t enforce a law that doesn’t exist. Similarly a bureaucrat can’t do anything to anyone if there are no regulations to enforce.
Later on maybe they can bring in their own versions of the laws they’ve abolished, but the day 1 emphasis must be repeal repeal repeal, and put nothing back in place. Let the people be free.
James Strong makes a valid point – and it is a wider one.
It is not just the Civil Service – it is the entire establishment, public and private, including the judiciary and the Corporations. The entire “educated” class.
Remember such people as Esther McVey, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Suella Braverman were just as “right wing” as Nigel Farage (if not more “right wing”) – and they were ministers, yet they found they had no power.
They had no power.
This idea that “if you are elected you are in power” may have been true at one time – but it is not true now.
And, to some extent, this is also true in the United States – where, contrary to the politics textbooks (which pretend that a British Prime Minister has far more power than an American President – ask Liz Truss if that is true, and it was the entire establishment, private as well as public, who smeared and destroyed her), President Trump has to fight every day against endless obstruction and undermining of his policies – the policies he was elected to follow.
Even the monarch (whoever the monarch will be by 2029) might be involved – British monarchs do not interfere in politics, unless (of course) a “racist” regime came to power – and the establishment (including the judges) have their own definition of what “racist” means.
Still the discussion is rather academic – turkeys do not vote for Christmas.
The United Kingdom Parliament is not going to accept an early election – and why would Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer want one?
So the next General Election will not be till mid 2029 (perhaps as “early” as May 2029 to coincide with the council elections – perhaps a bit later).
By mid 2029 the United Kingdom will be collapsing – even if a “right wing” government was elected, the situation would have become so bad, what could it do?
This is very easy to do – in opposition.
No doubt some enterprizing Grauniad journalist will equate such dastardly quick thinking on the part of Freiherr Farrage as the ghost of FĂŒhrerprinzip and therefore justifying the cancellation of elections “for the sake of democracy”.
Truth is though that people like Danny Kruger know damn well how the Blob twists and turns to evade doing things it doesn’t want to do, so being able to respond before the blob can think (a political variant of “Maneuver Warfare”) is essential.
Not only are policies being determined for incorporation within Reform UK’s general election manifesto to defeat blob maneuvers through the Parliament Act, but for specific areas such as withdrawal from the EHCR, the white papers are being prepared for immediate use once Reform UK takes power.
There are also changes to the Civil Service rules that will force those recalcitrants who refuse to implement, to their view “distasteful Reform UK” policies, to resign or at the very least move to other departments.
Trump may run a very different blob, but some of the approaches to dealing with it in the UK are both practical and achievable. Just needs a team that is prepared to make the buggers jump and put a bit of stick about while being called rude names.
I think Team Reform UK will do okay.
I hope that Reform will be able to cut the Gordian knot of embedded interests. We already know that unpicking that knot is beyond the current set of politicians.
The UK establishment is markedly different in detail to that of the US but I can’t help wondering “What would Trump do?”
Discovered Joys – we know what President Trump would do, what he is doing – desperately struggle against an entire system that is working to undermine him, and (yes it is as extreme as this) working to destroy the United States.
Take take one “small” example – there are Billions of Dollars of fraud in the State of Minnesota, and the imported community (including elected Members of Congress) is open it is hatred of the United States – and Western civilization generally.
Yet how does the media (including the international media) present all this?
They ignore massive fraud (the Billions of stolen Dollars), and they ignore the vicious hatred that the newcomers (and their children) have for the West – and present everything as “Trump being racist”.
One example of very many – and most people still get their view of the world from the education system (the schools and universities) and the media – for example they get their view of the Vietnam War from the television series of the Fellow Traveler Ken Burns – and other such liars.
As for Britain – again there will not be a General Election till mid 2029.
What will be left of the United Kingdom by then?
Agree 100%. They need to be like a political chainsaw and not try and use a scalpel. And they need to be merciless.
Paul:
It seems that in Minnesota and other states (California and New York of course, but even Washington state) the bogus Somali “charities” collect billions of taxpayer dollars through Medicaid for nonexistent childcare and the like, and then kick a percentage back to the Democrat party through money laundering grifts like Act Blue. This explains why Democrat politicians such as Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota are so happy for the fraud to continue.
It is more and more apparent that the Democrat party is little better than a crime family, out to steal as much money from the American taxpayer as humanly possible. If there were any justice it would be subject to a RICO style investigation. But we know there is no justice.
Graft on this scale is surely only made possible by the endless profusion of fiat dollars created since 1971. If the dollar were still linked to gold, ie reality, I doubt it would be possible. But since dollars are created out of thin air, crooks like the Democrats probably think they should get their unfair share. If the Republicans are too stupid to see this and put a stop to it, they deserve their inevitable fate. Trump will not be around to save them forever.
Kind of funny. As I read that article, I was getting the impression that Reform is busy setting up its own replacement Civil Service.
bobby b – that would be difficult, difficult – but necessary, as “personnel are policy”.
Perry – yes President Milei is the model to follow, he is not perfect (there are no perfect rulers), for example rigging (“fixing”) the exchange rate of the Peso to the Dollar was a very serious blunder, but overall he is the model to follow.
JohnK – as you know all that was left in 1971 was a fig leaf – but it turned out to be a very important fig leaf, indeed it was the last link with a sane monetary and financial order.
The totally fiat currency world supported by Milton Friedman has proved to be an economic, and a political, nightmare – with unlimited Credit Money being dissed out to the politically connected (the “Cantillon Effect” but on a truly vast scale) making a total mockery of talk of “capitalism” or “the free market”.
I would argue that as late as the 1980s corporations acted as-if they were in a capitalist economy (i.e. one based on Real Savings and seeking after long term profit by working to serve customers) – but now the corporations (from the banks on down) are totally political – the distinction between government bureaucracy and corporate bureaucracy has collapsed.
And we have “share management” entities such as BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard that, with the banks and other financial services entities, have a stranglehold on the economy.
To be fair Milton Friedman can no be blamed for not foreseeing this – because no one (no one at all) predicted what would happen.
And it happened fast – as late as 1990 we were in what seemed like a capitalist economy that had just defeated the Soviet Union.
Then in 1992 we had the Rio Conference with the leading world corporations acting in a blatantly political way – pushing a “Globalist” agenda of tyranny.
Yes the World Economic Forum goes back to the 1970s, and the “Club of Rome” to the 1960s – but what happened from the 1990s onwards has still been a terrible shock.
I wish I had not seen the last 35 years = and the worst has yet to come, and it will get much (much) worse, before the despicable system (Credit Money and all) finally collapses.
There are an amazing number of optimists here on this site. We have had examples here of elections cancelled by the bureaucracy [someone in britain I correspond with occasionally has had two council elections cancelled with no reference to the voters or Parliament]. How much confidence do you have that there will be real Parliamentary elections in 2029 with honest results? You have seen brits put in jail for “thought crime” for disagreeing with those in power. Your legal procedures and norms [and protections] that are centuries old can be made to disappear with the wave of a hand. Juries? Trials? Laws that bind those in power? Your bureaucrats and politicians are no more dedicated to individual liberty than ours . . . and ours value power and privilege above all. When the kimchee hits the fan; whether because of a regime coup, a Muslim equivalent of the Reformation wars, or the return of Europe to its normal belligerent inter-state relations; this is not going to be settled easily. And that is either there, or with different triggers here.
Keep thine codpieces buttoned.
Subotai Bahadur
And thine ammo dry.
(More and more I am convinced that, in select places which include much of the UK, this all will go through a violent phase before one side or another prevails.)
As someone labelled far right or Nazis myself without justification in my opinion, I’m warying of even mentioning this. It was said that one of the serious problems with Hitler was him making up policy in much the same way as described here.
You can’t analogize too far. I’m not going to stop putting gas in my car just because Hitler also put gas in HIS car. đ
” It was said that one of the serious problems with Hitler was him making up policy in much the same way as described here.”
What, you mean like the way Rachel Reeves just made up the policy of imposing inheritance taxes on UK private businesses all on her lonesome? Or decided to abolish the winter fuel allowance? Or how a single MP is allowed to make up a policy of killing old people to get their money (sorry, implement an Assisted Dying Bill)? Or Kier Starmer can just unilaterally give away bits of the UK’s global assets, and agree to pay the taker for the privilege? Or can decide to rejoin the EU Customs Union if he so chooses? Etc etc etc.
All politicians make up sh*t policies on the hoof for their own political ends. Don’t pretend that if Reform do it its somehow uniquely bad, just like Hitler m’kay?
Jim : A court canât enforce a law that doesnât exist. Similarly a bureaucrat canât do anything to anyone if there are no regulations to enforce.
You’re an optimist !
John K
The last Graphic in this one backs up your claim.
That is quite a substantial amount of cash being “donated” to various candidates who are, coincidentally, left wing. Curious, no?
Again I emphasise that this is a screenshot of a commentator that may, or may not be 100% accurate but along with the references cited in the article, it is mounting up to credible evidence.
“That is quite a substantial amount of cash being âdonatedâ to various candidates who are, coincidentally, left wing. Curious, no?”
Not really. Its nickel and dime stuff really. The figures coming out suggest various high up Minnesota Dems got a few thousand each from these ‘daycare’ centres. A Democrat doesn’t get out of bed for less than ÂŁ100k in bribes. A few thousand? Thats not going to buy an old beat up car. Dems are Mercedes S Class and large mansion type people.
The truth is they did it not for the money (which is something we on the Right could at least understand), they did it because they thought it was right. They wanted it to happen. They think its entirely right and proper that the hardworking (largely white) tax payers of Minnesota should be taxed and that money given to a bunch of just off the boat Africans. They can’t do it openly, so they do it surreptitiously. They are aren’t in it for graft, they are in it because they think it good.
You have captured the essential Minnesota voter. They are true believers.
Phil:
I agree, this is all about the Benjamins. The Democrat party is up to its neck in graft, and in a sane world Governor Tim Walz should be wearing an orange jump suit. Sadly, we all know this will never happen. Jail time is just for the likes of Steve Bannon.
JohnK
The total lack of interest the media (including the international media) has shown for the vast amount of fraud that Governor Walz, State Attorney General Keith Walz, and the bent (utterly corrupt) judges, have covered up – has shocked even me (and I thought I was, by this point, unshockable).
The media do not care about Billions of Dollars of fraud (not just as State level – but also at the Federal level under the, utterly corrupt, Biden/Harris Administration), they do not care about corrupt State Governors, State Attorney Generals and Judges, and they do not care about violent crime – any more than they care about fraud.
And they certainly do not care about the rigged elections of 2020 and 2022 – in spite of the evidence being overwhelming now.
I can not find the words to express just how bad the media have become.
They are not journalists – not at all, not anymore.
Paul:
Agreed. It seems 315,000 mail in ballots in the 2020 election were counted in Georgia which were improperly treated and should have been excluded. The Georgia government now admit this is so. Biden “won” Georgia by 11,000 votes.
Have you heard a word about it on the BBC? No, anyone suggesting the 2020 election was rigged would be cancelled at once.
The billions of dollars of fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota and other states is beyond doubt. Nothing on the BBC. Silence from the MSM.
You are right. They are not journalists, they are activists, in the cause of leftism. There are no enemies on the left.
JohnK
Yes – a mass of evidence, not just from Georgia, but from several States.
The enemy were not even careful about covering their tracks.
But they did not need to be careful – because we do not have real journalists, we have “the media” instead.
And “the media” most certainly includes the Wall Street Journal – supposedly the main “conservative” newspaper in the United States.