Hard to grasp how anyone can see this as unreasonable. If basic border control feels “extreme,” it’s only because we’ve forgotten what normal looks like. Britain cannot keep acting as a charity to the whole world at the expense of its own people!
What we see here is Nigel's unparalleled ability to read the room, or in this case the feelings of the electorate. Has anyone else noticed that during the last six months, Nigel has deftly and carefully edged to the Right? He has shown remarkable skill and patience in taking Reform where he wants it to be, while gradually collecting support, inch-by-inch. Nigel rejected the bull-in-a-china-shop policy of Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe, for a more subtle approach that avoided the MSM's accusations of racism, and allowed him to operate within the normal parameters of Westminster; not for him a call for revolution, but a gradual, gentle evolution, which is why Nigel is the most effective politician of the last twenty-five-years.
This approach, where Reform formulate policy and present it to the public, while showing the facts surrounding it and pointing out the wastage and profligacy endemic in Whitehall, has gradually brought more mainstream and disaffected voters on board, while not scaring them off with overblown rhetoric. Thus Reform have shown what they intend to do when in government in a rational manner, but whether any of it can be done is a moot point. Jacob Rees-Mogg in his brilliant video the other day pointed out that on top of all the other forces ranged against Reform, the biggest obstacle will be the House of Lords, which is almost completely made up of Left-wing peers who will bock EVERYTHING and render a Reform Government impotent, watering-down every bill until it becomes pointless. Jacob pointed out that the only way out of this is something that has only been threatened twice before in our history, and that is for a government to flood the Lords with its own representatives. Nigel would have to ask the King to do this, and according to Jacob, if the request was refused, it would plunge the country into chaos, due to a legally elected Government having the policies that it was elected to carry out being blocked by unelected peers, which could lead to massive social unrest. Watch this space!
Very well put Colin Martin. I’ve been trying to explain exactly what you’ve written for some time now to potential voters of Advance UK and Tommy Robinson followers that have bull-in-a-china-shop expectations.
Your last point of social unrest is a very clear one.
Thank you Karl, that is very kind. I think that many people want to see a party elected that will take strong action in regards to the many things that the Left has done to us, but we have to be very careful with sweeping statements, we cannot simply 'kick out all of the immigrants' for instance, because we are a democracy that respects people's rights, as well as the fact that many, many immigrants are decent, law-abiding people who love Britain and make a valuable contribution to our society. I believe that Nigel is well aware of this and takes a pragmatic approach that seeks to simply put British people first, as most immigrants would probably expect anyway. There are so many, many things wrong with our country - open borders, invasion, crime, homelessness, our beautiful countryside being destroyed, access to medical care, poverty, low wages, traffic - that have been caused by mass immigration. Where we went wrong was in NOT insisting that immigration should benefit BRITISH people, and instead we made it benefit the immigrants.
This policy has been a long time coming and it’s excellent to see a large national party with a presence in Parliament advocating for it. My only caveat is that Reform and Farage need to be explicitly clear that this only applies from the Boriswave onwards.
Already, you have people married to migrants with children for example, expressing unease (to put it mildly) that their spouses or long-term partners could face deportation. Doubtless the left and the BBC will jump on every sob story they can and we all need to be prepared with arguments to fight that and ease people’s fears.
This policy will need to be complimented by a reformed long term education policy that celebrates learning and genuine achievement, and fosters and rewards the principle of sustained effort and hard work.
Any system that results in young people preferring to simply take handouts with no input is simply ludicrous and socially destructive.
Nigel is the best political communicator I’ve ever heard. Zia Yusuf was also outstanding today and is growing into his role. Today was great news for our future.
I hear it from a short way into press questions. I really liked Nige;'s answer to the FT: if you don't believe our numbers ask the government for theirs. After fawning over Labour for so long, surely the FT can call in a few favours and get thye data?
Reform’s detractors say that they don’t have the money to implement their policies. It will not take much more of these reforms to make more than enough money available. Scrap NetZero of course.
Hurray! Thanks largely to your efforts, Nigel has extended or even opened a new Overton Window on legal migration. Illegal immigration threatens our country’s security, sovereign borders and crime rates. Mass legal immigration (carried out on a such a huge scale since 1997) is responsible for the threat to our economy and employment opportunities as well as our country’s culture, traditions and collective memory as integration has been impossible. Reform UK are rightly disrupting and challenging the ‘progressive’ belief systems. But Reform’s policies to put British citizens first, for working visas to be allowed for people who actually WORK and contribute to our country etc… should be mainstream views. Bring it on!
Have always thought that campaign promises, commonly referred to as the platform, should be reduced to writing, a contract. Flowery words and pie-in-the sky pictures enroll followers/voters with promises, often reversed on installation in power. Make it a contract, with measurable results, providing for recall or new elections. Smarter people than me can work through this, but have wondered why voters must bear the weight of the ‘bait and switch’. This is in no way to be construed as a disparagement against Mr. Farage.
I became a paid subscriber yesterday. I think your work is excellent and worthy of the fee.
Of all the promises that Reform UK are making, all I would ask of them is that they are honest from the start, laying out expected timelines and obstacles that they are expecting to get over- to implement these promises; then, all their voters will be prepared for the fight to “get our country back.”
It’s not going to happen overnight, I know that, but some people will expect that, so they need to know it will take a lot of effort against the courts, lawyers, Civil Service … what have you.
Hard to grasp how anyone can see this as unreasonable. If basic border control feels “extreme,” it’s only because we’ve forgotten what normal looks like. Britain cannot keep acting as a charity to the whole world at the expense of its own people!
This policy can't be enacted soon enough. Reform always have had my support. This cements it in.
What we see here is Nigel's unparalleled ability to read the room, or in this case the feelings of the electorate. Has anyone else noticed that during the last six months, Nigel has deftly and carefully edged to the Right? He has shown remarkable skill and patience in taking Reform where he wants it to be, while gradually collecting support, inch-by-inch. Nigel rejected the bull-in-a-china-shop policy of Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe, for a more subtle approach that avoided the MSM's accusations of racism, and allowed him to operate within the normal parameters of Westminster; not for him a call for revolution, but a gradual, gentle evolution, which is why Nigel is the most effective politician of the last twenty-five-years.
This approach, where Reform formulate policy and present it to the public, while showing the facts surrounding it and pointing out the wastage and profligacy endemic in Whitehall, has gradually brought more mainstream and disaffected voters on board, while not scaring them off with overblown rhetoric. Thus Reform have shown what they intend to do when in government in a rational manner, but whether any of it can be done is a moot point. Jacob Rees-Mogg in his brilliant video the other day pointed out that on top of all the other forces ranged against Reform, the biggest obstacle will be the House of Lords, which is almost completely made up of Left-wing peers who will bock EVERYTHING and render a Reform Government impotent, watering-down every bill until it becomes pointless. Jacob pointed out that the only way out of this is something that has only been threatened twice before in our history, and that is for a government to flood the Lords with its own representatives. Nigel would have to ask the King to do this, and according to Jacob, if the request was refused, it would plunge the country into chaos, due to a legally elected Government having the policies that it was elected to carry out being blocked by unelected peers, which could lead to massive social unrest. Watch this space!
Very well put Colin Martin. I’ve been trying to explain exactly what you’ve written for some time now to potential voters of Advance UK and Tommy Robinson followers that have bull-in-a-china-shop expectations.
Your last point of social unrest is a very clear one.
Thank you Karl, that is very kind. I think that many people want to see a party elected that will take strong action in regards to the many things that the Left has done to us, but we have to be very careful with sweeping statements, we cannot simply 'kick out all of the immigrants' for instance, because we are a democracy that respects people's rights, as well as the fact that many, many immigrants are decent, law-abiding people who love Britain and make a valuable contribution to our society. I believe that Nigel is well aware of this and takes a pragmatic approach that seeks to simply put British people first, as most immigrants would probably expect anyway. There are so many, many things wrong with our country - open borders, invasion, crime, homelessness, our beautiful countryside being destroyed, access to medical care, poverty, low wages, traffic - that have been caused by mass immigration. Where we went wrong was in NOT insisting that immigration should benefit BRITISH people, and instead we made it benefit the immigrants.
Absolutely spot on Matt.
This lunacy must stop - AND SOON !!!!!!!
What a total betrayal by the IDIOT BORIS. Oxford educated and utterly useless like so many PPE idiots.
Away with the lot of them !!!!!!
This policy has been a long time coming and it’s excellent to see a large national party with a presence in Parliament advocating for it. My only caveat is that Reform and Farage need to be explicitly clear that this only applies from the Boriswave onwards.
Already, you have people married to migrants with children for example, expressing unease (to put it mildly) that their spouses or long-term partners could face deportation. Doubtless the left and the BBC will jump on every sob story they can and we all need to be prepared with arguments to fight that and ease people’s fears.
This policy will need to be complimented by a reformed long term education policy that celebrates learning and genuine achievement, and fosters and rewards the principle of sustained effort and hard work.
Any system that results in young people preferring to simply take handouts with no input is simply ludicrous and socially destructive.
Watching live I thought Britain is back ! Sanity is back !
Nigel is the best political communicator I’ve ever heard. Zia Yusuf was also outstanding today and is growing into his role. Today was great news for our future.
This is terrific news! Rational politics. Who’d have thought? We certainly live in interesting times.
Very welcome announcement from Reform.
It's Remigration or the replacement of the Indigenous population.
I hear it from a short way into press questions. I really liked Nige;'s answer to the FT: if you don't believe our numbers ask the government for theirs. After fawning over Labour for so long, surely the FT can call in a few favours and get thye data?
Spot on Matt. Ps great to meet you last week in Wigan!
Reform’s detractors say that they don’t have the money to implement their policies. It will not take much more of these reforms to make more than enough money available. Scrap NetZero of course.
Immigration to solve the aging population was invented by people who could not do simple mathematics.
Hurray! Thanks largely to your efforts, Nigel has extended or even opened a new Overton Window on legal migration. Illegal immigration threatens our country’s security, sovereign borders and crime rates. Mass legal immigration (carried out on a such a huge scale since 1997) is responsible for the threat to our economy and employment opportunities as well as our country’s culture, traditions and collective memory as integration has been impossible. Reform UK are rightly disrupting and challenging the ‘progressive’ belief systems. But Reform’s policies to put British citizens first, for working visas to be allowed for people who actually WORK and contribute to our country etc… should be mainstream views. Bring it on!
Have always thought that campaign promises, commonly referred to as the platform, should be reduced to writing, a contract. Flowery words and pie-in-the sky pictures enroll followers/voters with promises, often reversed on installation in power. Make it a contract, with measurable results, providing for recall or new elections. Smarter people than me can work through this, but have wondered why voters must bear the weight of the ‘bait and switch’. This is in no way to be construed as a disparagement against Mr. Farage.
I became a paid subscriber yesterday. I think your work is excellent and worthy of the fee.
Of all the promises that Reform UK are making, all I would ask of them is that they are honest from the start, laying out expected timelines and obstacles that they are expecting to get over- to implement these promises; then, all their voters will be prepared for the fight to “get our country back.”
It’s not going to happen overnight, I know that, but some people will expect that, so they need to know it will take a lot of effort against the courts, lawyers, Civil Service … what have you.