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Samizdata quote of the day – Farage’s Vision Thing First came energy: “We will ditch the insane net zero agenda,” he thundered, “and we’ll get the North Sea operating again.” A pragmatic pitch for sovereignty through self-sufficiency, part Thatcherite nostalgia, part defiance of metropolitan eco-piety. Tying this to a blast for agricultural sufficiency, backing our farmers whilst condemning the vast solar deserts to the slop bins.
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And whether you loathe him, love him, or wish he’d just go back to LBC, you have to admit: Nigel Farage is once again setting the weather. The Birmingham speech marked the moment he stopped being a political meteorologist, and started auditioning to be the storm itself.
– Gawain Towler
For me, Reform setting itself unequivocally against Net Zero is a defining moment that had me cheering the telly. And unlike the Tories, with the Conservative Environmental Network being one of largest party associations, Reform will actually do it without being sabotaged by a Blue Blairite party within a party.
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Yes, it was a good speech with sufficient meat content
Clear opposition to “New Zero” is indeed very important.
It will also be interesting from a Constitutional point of view – in Britain’s “unwritten constitution” the House of Commons is supposed to be dominant – but can a Reform Party majority in the House of Commons, in practice, override every other institution in the country – for the Civil Services, to the “independent agencies” (and they are independent – that is the problem), to the Monarchy? And what of the International Community – will they allow trade with a Britain that violates “Net Zero”, Censorship, “Diversity”, and the other doctrines of the “Rules Based International Order”?
“America violates these doctrines – it has rejected Censorship, Net Zero, Open Borders, and so on” – yes, but this is under President Trump whom the international Corporate State (the totalitarian “Rules Based International Order”) is fanatically determined to destroy – and pumps out propaganda against (even on GB News) every-day.
The next United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland General Election will be in May 2029 – President Trump will be gone by then, most likely replaced by a servant of the totalitarian “Rules Based International Order” tyranny, with its Censorship, “Gun Control” (but not the guns of the state or of criminals – certainly not), “Diversity”, and, of course, “Net Zero”.
But still – let us see what happens.
People are freezing to death in New York City – but the commitment of Mayor Mamdani to Net Zero remains the same – totally uninfluenced by the obvious evidence that the theory is FALSE.
And it is the same with the “moderate” Democrats – such as the “ex” CIA lady the media insisted was a “moderate” in the election for Governor of Virginia (the Republican candidate was black and female – but the media did not care, they only support Collectivists – to them a non Collectivist woman or black person is not “really” a woman or black).
The agenda of censorship (for example removing the few conservatives who remain on the boards of universities), “gun control” (but not for the state or private criminals – only honest people are to be disarmed), and “Carbon Dioxide is evil” marches on.
And the State Attorney General in Virginia – his support for killing conservatives, and killing their children, is a matter of record – and he was elected anyway. There is a “Climate Crises” you see – so sacrifices have to be made, and conservatives are “racist oppressors” as the Chinese Congressman down in Texas recently explained in his little video essay on white people (by which he meant conservatives of any skin tone).
Remember if a black person is conservative they are not “really” black, and if a women is conservative she is not “really” conservative – to dissent from this position is “racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, Climate Denial” and must be punished.
The media, and the education system which produces the media, have led to vast numbers of people, including in the United Kingdom, holding this totalitarian “Rules Based International Community” position.
Was there a reason he was still going on about ‘work from home’ being a big issue? Had a very 2022-3 culture war feeling to it. The press are disingenuous of course but I’m not surprised they’ve latched on to focusing on this as it is easy to accuse Farage and Reform of hypocrisy given they’ve advertised jobs as working from home and Farage even had his wife working from home at one point apparently. Would be a lot simpler to just say there’s no one size fits all approach regarding WFH (it really depends on the roles, enterprises and people involved) and it’s up to employers and employees to sort out.
For those who hold the view that the CIA is “right wing” – remember that John Brennan, a supporter of the Communist Party, was not only in the CIA – he was Director of it.
There is a conservative Director of the CIA now – but how much influence does he really have?
The United States has no conservative institutions – and neither does the United Kingdom.
Indeed the leftism of British institutions is so total (so all embracing) that it is like the water that fish swim in – it is taken for granted as the obvious reality, a Reform Party government – if elected in 2029 would be in a very vulnerable position – it would have to destroy every institution, or be destroyed by these institutions – Bank of England and all the other servants of the International Community.
Such a sweeping attack on all the institutions of the country has not been seen since Oliver Cromwell – but as the institutions are corrupted, totally corrupted, what is the alternative?