What happened?
We all knew Labour would win. The question was only how big their win would be. Well, we know now, it’s big. Very big. But it is big on a smaller share of the vote achieved by Jeremy Corbyn when he lost to the mendacious Mrs May. Starmer’s Labour looks set to get only about 36% of the popular vote, compared with 40% under Corbyn in 2017. In 2019, the Johnson election, Labour got 32% of the vote, not a lot less than their total today, and lost badly.
In 2019 the LibDems got 11 seats on 11.5% of the vote. This time they are on course for 71 seats with just over 12% of the vote (thanks to Graham Bedford for the statistics), while Reform UK gets a mere four seats on over 14% of the popular vote and over half a million more votes. This cannot go on. It is not democracy. I know it’s historical, and not a conspiracy, and I know that no system is perfect, but such egregious discrepancies can and must be eliminated. As I say at the top of today’s Daily Gossip page, we must all become activists now and fight for freedom and democracy. It doesn’t matter how old you are, if you can hold a pen or type at a keyboard, you can still fight. Write to MPs and demand changes. Join Reform.
Why it happened.
Obviously, it happened because of widespread discombobulation with the Tories. But I’m blowed if I can understand the logic of people protesting about the woke globalist Tories’ excessive tax, big state, massive mass immigration, woeful wokeness and the frightening fight against free speech by voting for Labour or the LibDems, who will give us all of these with knobs on. More on this later when the dust settles.
What now?
It is certain that the total tax take will rise, and that those of us who have worked, saved and taken responsibility for ourselves will be punished, while the feckless and workshy will be rewarded. There is unlikely to be a budget till Autumn, but the King’s speech will give some clues to the economic illiteracy of Labours plans to spend more and more of our money but, apparently, not raising income tax or VAT. Expect a massive council tax raid, static or reduced tax thresholds, higher death taxes and raids on pension pots.
Immigration will continue at record levels – three million in the last two years - and we will continue to be forced to give up our traditions to accommodate them. Race and the colour of your skin will become crucial defining factors. Too bad of you are a white Anglo-Saxon. You'll be a minority in your own country by 2050.
Crime will rise, but punishment will be even more lenient, unless you commit an ever more loosely defined hate crime, park an inch out of place, or drive two mile an hour more than idiotically low speed limits.
More, much more, of our green spaces will be built over with shoddy, jerry-built housing, more than one and a half million in the next few years alone. Planning regulations will be relaxed, and the presumption will be that the developers can do what they like. The FTSE has risen, largely on the back of the rise in the big Builder’s shares. Little or no new infrastructure will be built. The civil service and our po-faced bureaucrats will become even more arrogant and careless of the public.
The climate change scam will intensify, as will the net zero tyranny. Woke lunacy will get wilder. Misgendering – I can hardly type the word without shaking my head in wonder at it’s idiocy – will be a serious crime, and Gender Theory will be a major subject in our schools, with dangerous results - see Paul Sutton's article on the subject. Criticism of Islam will be made more difficult, and the Islamists will take every advantage of their power within Labour. It’s a pity George Galloway’s Workers Party didn’t attract the Muslim vote, which would have reduced the influence the Islamic block has on Labour.
And all this means more restrictions on personal liberty, free choice, enjoyment of your property and free speech, the very building blocks of a free democracy. All are under very serious threat.
What’s to be done?
Look out for my forthcoming article on foraging in our (under-visited) Life and Nature pages. It might come in handy! But for now, it’s Farage not forage that must be the focus of our attention. We must rally behind him and Reform and vote for them at every opportunity and, as I said above, campaign for electoral reform. That will be very much a feature of this magazine from now on.
We have to work to ensure that the now fragmented Right rallies behind Reform, not the discredited Tories, and we have to make sure Reform does not get too cosy with the Establishment. And, as I also said above, we need to become activists; berating MPs, complaining to Councils, reporting BBC bias, opposing net zero and its lunacy, pushing against its ever-tightening restrictions. We have to start to make Labour’s life as difficult as possible and, in short, become a right royal pain in the Establishment’s backside. Please join Free Speech Backlash in this life or death fight.
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