Totally agree with everything you've written. In Australia we had a conservative government that had the courage to stop the boats...they copped a lot of flack from the left...but it worked as it stopped the boats and saved lives. Go Nigel...cheering you on from here in AUS 🇭🇲!
'Elite class' - TOTALLY the wrong description for the massively overpaid, corrupt, low IQ, self-loving Leftist morons directed by Marxist dogma and succeeding in destroying Britain. Surely Matt, you can come up with a better term for these puffed up traitors, drowning in luxury at our expense? It's always amusing how 'socialists' love massive paypackets and perks, Lammy's private jet flights, Rayner's second home. Think Blair's secret billions, Mandelson's millions...while the fools that voted them in see their neighbourhoods reduced to crime ridden rubbish heaps. And you call them 'elite'????????
That is what they call themselves, Starmer himself wrote to colleagues reminding them of their duties as part of the "ruling elite". It describes their arrogance and self righteous sense of entitlement rather nicely I think!
To the anti-elites, euphemistically called populists, the label elite is derogatory. It's use includes a sneer. What do you propose? Good discussion topic in the age of Trump, a maestro at name calling. How about parasites or warmongers? ....
It is interesting. What makes arrogant prats like Corbyn and Starmer feel like they have the right to reign over US? All of their power is bestowed upon them by US voting for them, but that can be removed at anytime, and they will be reduced to nobodies (except for the enrichment that they will have engineered out of our taxes).
Let's have a competition for a suitable term; Arrogant Political Class? Ignorant Political Class? Champagne Socialists? Limousine Lefties? Air Miles Marxists? It's got to be something that a) stings them and b) makes people laugh at them. They MUST be brought down to size. 'Elite Class' does the opposite, that puffs them up further.
This is happening under Liberalism and late stage Capitalism.
The Left are just useful idiots.
It's Capitalism driving the immigration process/ cheap labour.
Lenin predicted this in his essay Capitalism and Worker's Immigration. It said Capitalism would suck in Labour from across the World and America would be the prime example.
Unfortunately your argument does not stand up to scrutiny. How high did worker's rights sit in the Soviet Union or its satellites? What about China, what rights have the workers got there? Freedom is only attainable with decent pay in a free society, where the population are subject to minimum controls; once the state has the levers of power and owns everything then it has complete control over the people. All Socialist/Marxist/Communist countries have been poor, and the ones that descended into it, like Argentina for instance, descended into poverty. Human beings need aspiration. I agree with you that mass immigration has been the tool that the Elite have used to ensure a constant supply of cheap labour that has destroyed the lives of the poor, but that is because we have allowed it by believing the lies of politicians, until we have now ended-up with a Marxist government of our own that has removed our rights.
Out-of-Touch Elites Slam Reform – But They’ve Got Blood on Their Hands. The BBC sneers. The Guardian wails about “ugly rhetoric.” Lib Dems, SNP, and Dominic Grieve all clutch their pearls. Even Sir Anthony Seldon wrings his hands on Newsnight.
Sorry, but are these people for real? Ordinary Brits aren’t buying it. They’re sick of lectures from the very elites who wrecked the system in the first place.
The facts?
• These critics didn’t blink when Britain shelled out £10 billion a year on hotels and handouts for illegal migrants.
• They couldn’t say how many were crossing, how many were staying, or how many more would arrive — 181,000 more expected by the next election.
• They looked the other way when ISIS sympathisers, Taliban thugs, and terror suspects were waved in — all on the taxpayer’s dime.
And yet now, these same people shriek about Reform’s plan being “destructive”? No, what’s destructive is putting migrants in luxury hotels while 1.3 million Brits sit on housing lists. What’s “ugly” is forcing families to pay billions in the middle of the worst cost-of-living crisis since the war.
And don’t dare lecture us about “rights” while British children and pensioners are being raped, kidnapped, and even murdered by so-called asylum seekers.
Here’s the truth: the question isn’t “what happens if migrants are sent back?” — it’s “what happens to the British people if this chaos carries on?”
The elite hate Nigel Farage and they despise Reform’s voters. But if they want to know why Reform is surging, they should look in the mirror.
Great stuff Matt. All the predictable elite suspects and corrupt MSM. Starmer and Hermer, take note...Your time is nearly up! I suggest you go before you are pushed!
They’re all invested in the luxury class beliefs. They don’t give a stuff about the country or its people.
ECHR, Human Rights Act and the whole asylum system has made millions for left wing lawyers, their chambers and all the supporting appeal industry. Of course they want it to carry on.
Absolutely. They don’t want to get off the gravy train. The people of this country are viewed as an inconvenient rabble only fit to be taxed to the hilt to finance the elites’ virtue signalling pet projects and luxury beliefs. Must be very tiresome for them that the worm is beginning to turn.
When presenting this plan, the BBC consistently used the term "asylum seekers" rather than "illegal immigrants". The former is more like to evoke empathy than the latter.
What a brilliant article. Our so called 'elite' are no such thing, they have proved year on year that they are the enemy of the British People. I hope that a Reform Government will be prepared from day one to tackle biase and obstruction in activist judges, the Police, civil service, quangos and the pernicious NGO's that are inflicting so much harm to our People.
Brilliant Matt. These people have had their day and look where it has got us. That’s why ultimately now all that comes out of their mouth is just noise. The last desperate act of a lot that have no answers and realise the game is up. We’re done listening to them and frankly caring what they think anymore.
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, the following is the definition of a refugee:-
“Article 1 of the 1951 Convention defines a refugee as someone who "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of [their] nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail [themself] of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of [their] former habitual residence, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it."
I find it hard to believe that the people, mainly men, who are crossing the Channel illegally on small boats genuinely fit the description of what is a refugee under the Convention. They are economic migrants.
The refugee vetting process in the UK needs to be seriously toughened up. Far too many people are wrongly being granted asylum as refugees. The Home Office departments responsible for vetting asylum seekers need radical restructuring under new management. At the moment the easy option appears to be to grant asylum.
The open borders people have used it as a blunt instrument to open the doors and get massive numbers in. Knowing that the regular routes of visas and legal recognition would never happen. This has been going on for a long time, first identified by Blair’s government in the late 90s.
Spot on Matt. I have today heard countless members of the so called liberal elite, dismissing Farage as 'playing to the masses'. Isn't it the 'masses', the 'majority', that our elected politicians should be playing too in a true democracy? These people are disgusting, arrogant and elitist.
Great piece Matt. But, like many other commentators you didn’t (as far as I could see) mention that Reform’s plan is to REPLACE the ECHR with a UK Bill of Rights. So no one loses their basic rights but we do regain control of how they operate in our courts. Critical part of the policy.
Leaving the ECHR wouldn't cause British citizens to lose their basic rights. We already had rights before we joined the ECHR, through our system of common law and the law-makers in parliament. Suella Braverman has written a paper about leaving the ECHR and I recall she explains this in her paper.
We must Matt be quite clear on Reform's proposals; there are only two possible options available; we either enact the radical Farage measures in full and face down completely any opposition or our Country is finished.
These actions however must be be accompanied by similarly powerful legislation to take sensible control of the benefit payments system drop all net zero and associated climate change expenditure and drastically reduce all immigration by legal routes.
There will also need to be an immense amount of planning and research done to ensure that rock solid answers are available to rebut the avalanche of opposition from the very many powerful and often unscrupulous organisations and individuals seeking to destroy these initiatives.
Great piece Matt keep telling it as it is My God how the taxpayer has been conned by the Tories and Labour not to mention the Liberals.God Bless all the work u do to highlight wats actually being going on.
Powerful stuff Matt, one of your best. More of you and Liam talking about the economy as well please!
Totally agree with everything you've written. In Australia we had a conservative government that had the courage to stop the boats...they copped a lot of flack from the left...but it worked as it stopped the boats and saved lives. Go Nigel...cheering you on from here in AUS 🇭🇲!
'Elite class' - TOTALLY the wrong description for the massively overpaid, corrupt, low IQ, self-loving Leftist morons directed by Marxist dogma and succeeding in destroying Britain. Surely Matt, you can come up with a better term for these puffed up traitors, drowning in luxury at our expense? It's always amusing how 'socialists' love massive paypackets and perks, Lammy's private jet flights, Rayner's second home. Think Blair's secret billions, Mandelson's millions...while the fools that voted them in see their neighbourhoods reduced to crime ridden rubbish heaps. And you call them 'elite'????????
That is what they call themselves, Starmer himself wrote to colleagues reminding them of their duties as part of the "ruling elite". It describes their arrogance and self righteous sense of entitlement rather nicely I think!
This is exactly my point, it's how these jumped up numpties see themselves, as elite, so why does Matt keep massaging their egos???
To the anti-elites, euphemistically called populists, the label elite is derogatory. It's use includes a sneer. What do you propose? Good discussion topic in the age of Trump, a maestro at name calling. How about parasites or warmongers? ....
‘Massively overpaid, corrupt, low IQ…’, love that description of the current corrupt, complacent, Marxist cabal that ‘govern’ this country! 😆
It is interesting. What makes arrogant prats like Corbyn and Starmer feel like they have the right to reign over US? All of their power is bestowed upon them by US voting for them, but that can be removed at anytime, and they will be reduced to nobodies (except for the enrichment that they will have engineered out of our taxes).
What might be a better term?
What about 'arrogant, entitled, a***holes'?
Yep, that,ll do fine !!
that works for me
Let's have a competition for a suitable term; Arrogant Political Class? Ignorant Political Class? Champagne Socialists? Limousine Lefties? Air Miles Marxists? It's got to be something that a) stings them and b) makes people laugh at them. They MUST be brought down to size. 'Elite Class' does the opposite, that puffs them up further.
just change 2 letters.
take out the 1st 2 letters of "elite" and replace with "sh". fixed it
CCCP (Corrupt Cretinous Cabal Party)
Good ones. Nigel should promote a contest for some new descriptors.
Just call them "haters" because they hate everything that ordinary people cherish, such as our right to a secure homeland of our own.
Lickspittles
Am not sure that would be printable
This is happening under Liberalism and late stage Capitalism.
The Left are just useful idiots.
It's Capitalism driving the immigration process/ cheap labour.
Lenin predicted this in his essay Capitalism and Worker's Immigration. It said Capitalism would suck in Labour from across the World and America would be the prime example.
You really do talk utter rubbish.
Google : Lenin Capitalism and Worker's Immigration
Read it
Good video on YouTube channel ACADEMIC AGENT is called "What's the connection between Capitalism, Immigration and Feminism".
Who is employing the millions of immigrants? Capitalism.
Nationalism must be Third Position, reject Socialism and Global Capitalism.
If the nation state doesn't control international finance capitalism, international finance capitalism will control the nation state.
Your are very rude and made no actual point.
People like you destroyed Britain.
Unfortunately your argument does not stand up to scrutiny. How high did worker's rights sit in the Soviet Union or its satellites? What about China, what rights have the workers got there? Freedom is only attainable with decent pay in a free society, where the population are subject to minimum controls; once the state has the levers of power and owns everything then it has complete control over the people. All Socialist/Marxist/Communist countries have been poor, and the ones that descended into it, like Argentina for instance, descended into poverty. Human beings need aspiration. I agree with you that mass immigration has been the tool that the Elite have used to ensure a constant supply of cheap labour that has destroyed the lives of the poor, but that is because we have allowed it by believing the lies of politicians, until we have now ended-up with a Marxist government of our own that has removed our rights.
Can anyone name a Communist or Socialist State which has been tainted by economic success?
Decentralised media - and this blog in particular is completely disrupting the control that politicians have had over the narrative.
They have been able to get away with policies that were the opposite of what people wanted because they controlled the media.
Now that 'you are the media now' (via X) and now you can fund views you actually agree with (via Substack) it completely changes the equation.
Power to the people.
Power away from out of touch elites who are insulated from the policies they espouse for the rest of us.
Thank you, as ever Matt. You have led the way. There remains much more to do.
Out-of-Touch Elites Slam Reform – But They’ve Got Blood on Their Hands. The BBC sneers. The Guardian wails about “ugly rhetoric.” Lib Dems, SNP, and Dominic Grieve all clutch their pearls. Even Sir Anthony Seldon wrings his hands on Newsnight.
Sorry, but are these people for real? Ordinary Brits aren’t buying it. They’re sick of lectures from the very elites who wrecked the system in the first place.
The facts?
• These critics didn’t blink when Britain shelled out £10 billion a year on hotels and handouts for illegal migrants.
• They couldn’t say how many were crossing, how many were staying, or how many more would arrive — 181,000 more expected by the next election.
• They looked the other way when ISIS sympathisers, Taliban thugs, and terror suspects were waved in — all on the taxpayer’s dime.
And yet now, these same people shriek about Reform’s plan being “destructive”? No, what’s destructive is putting migrants in luxury hotels while 1.3 million Brits sit on housing lists. What’s “ugly” is forcing families to pay billions in the middle of the worst cost-of-living crisis since the war.
And don’t dare lecture us about “rights” while British children and pensioners are being raped, kidnapped, and even murdered by so-called asylum seekers.
Here’s the truth: the question isn’t “what happens if migrants are sent back?” — it’s “what happens to the British people if this chaos carries on?”
The elite hate Nigel Farage and they despise Reform’s voters. But if they want to know why Reform is surging, they should look in the mirror.
Because Britain has had enough.
Absolutely !!!
Excellent, kindly kick into motion soonest !
Great stuff Matt. All the predictable elite suspects and corrupt MSM. Starmer and Hermer, take note...Your time is nearly up! I suggest you go before you are pushed!
They’re all invested in the luxury class beliefs. They don’t give a stuff about the country or its people.
ECHR, Human Rights Act and the whole asylum system has made millions for left wing lawyers, their chambers and all the supporting appeal industry. Of course they want it to carry on.
Absolutely. They don’t want to get off the gravy train. The people of this country are viewed as an inconvenient rabble only fit to be taxed to the hilt to finance the elites’ virtue signalling pet projects and luxury beliefs. Must be very tiresome for them that the worm is beginning to turn.
Our membership of the EU was another gravy train for this class and now Starmer is trying to worm us back in by hook or by crook.
When presenting this plan, the BBC consistently used the term "asylum seekers" rather than "illegal immigrants". The former is more like to evoke empathy than the latter.
What a brilliant article. Our so called 'elite' are no such thing, they have proved year on year that they are the enemy of the British People. I hope that a Reform Government will be prepared from day one to tackle biase and obstruction in activist judges, the Police, civil service, quangos and the pernicious NGO's that are inflicting so much harm to our People.
Brilliant Matt. These people have had their day and look where it has got us. That’s why ultimately now all that comes out of their mouth is just noise. The last desperate act of a lot that have no answers and realise the game is up. We’re done listening to them and frankly caring what they think anymore.
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, the following is the definition of a refugee:-
“Article 1 of the 1951 Convention defines a refugee as someone who "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of [their] nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail [themself] of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of [their] former habitual residence, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it."
I find it hard to believe that the people, mainly men, who are crossing the Channel illegally on small boats genuinely fit the description of what is a refugee under the Convention. They are economic migrants.
The refugee vetting process in the UK needs to be seriously toughened up. Far too many people are wrongly being granted asylum as refugees. The Home Office departments responsible for vetting asylum seekers need radical restructuring under new management. At the moment the easy option appears to be to grant asylum.
The open borders people have used it as a blunt instrument to open the doors and get massive numbers in. Knowing that the regular routes of visas and legal recognition would never happen. This has been going on for a long time, first identified by Blair’s government in the late 90s.
Spot on Matt. I have today heard countless members of the so called liberal elite, dismissing Farage as 'playing to the masses'. Isn't it the 'masses', the 'majority', that our elected politicians should be playing too in a true democracy? These people are disgusting, arrogant and elitist.
Great piece Matt. But, like many other commentators you didn’t (as far as I could see) mention that Reform’s plan is to REPLACE the ECHR with a UK Bill of Rights. So no one loses their basic rights but we do regain control of how they operate in our courts. Critical part of the policy.
Leaving the ECHR wouldn't cause British citizens to lose their basic rights. We already had rights before we joined the ECHR, through our system of common law and the law-makers in parliament. Suella Braverman has written a paper about leaving the ECHR and I recall she explains this in her paper.
Exactly
We must Matt be quite clear on Reform's proposals; there are only two possible options available; we either enact the radical Farage measures in full and face down completely any opposition or our Country is finished.
These actions however must be be accompanied by similarly powerful legislation to take sensible control of the benefit payments system drop all net zero and associated climate change expenditure and drastically reduce all immigration by legal routes.
There will also need to be an immense amount of planning and research done to ensure that rock solid answers are available to rebut the avalanche of opposition from the very many powerful and often unscrupulous organisations and individuals seeking to destroy these initiatives.
Great piece Matt keep telling it as it is My God how the taxpayer has been conned by the Tories and Labour not to mention the Liberals.God Bless all the work u do to highlight wats actually being going on.