It’s aptly titled . Suicide of a Nation resonates with people because that is what is happening. We weren’t forced into mass immigration and its consequences as a country, our politicians embraced it. It could have been stopped /reversed at any time .
For those of us who were aware and repeatedly voted against it , and have suffered the anti British hatred from the establishment, even down to the level of education it feels more like murder of a nation . But that’s a moot point
Well done Matt it’s such an important book and it’s getting the exposure it deserves .
Murder of a nation is actually more accurate. Matt should be kicking himself for not thinking of that first!
I stopped accepting the destruction was down to incompetence a while ago. Unfortunately too many people still think "one day the politicians will realise their policies aren't working so they'll change their policies and everything will be OK". It's never going to happen because as far as they're concerned their policies are working. The only part of their plan that's not working is that at last some of us are starting to figure this out. 👍
It’s all part of the Fabian strategy Lesley. It’s taken them 142 years so far and violent Marxism has come and gone and failed of course in Russia, the Soviet Union and China but here the strategy called “the inevitability of gradualness” is picking up pace. No borders. No individual wealth. State decides who gets what.
Makes sense. The strategies in your last sentences sound very familiar and well underway . We must get them out . Their hypothetical ideal would in reality be a total disaster
They want real Marxism. Starmer is a Marxist. He’s never disputed this although he’s such a liar who knows. Yes we need them gone. It saddens me the number of fairly intelligent people on here would risk more socialism to support Lowe and Restore who wont be able to form a government. Madness.
And senior civil servants. And quite a lot more on the public payroll who have a duty (and even a legal obligation) to be politically neutral, but clearly are not. There so many people not fit to hold their jobs it would be a real problem finding replacements. 👍
In a democracy people are (at least in theory) responsible for their choice. Voting for Tony Blair was suicidal, but on the other hand it's not like he actually ran on a platform of ending democracy. And now the country is largely being run by unelected people over whom we have no control. So we were collectively dumb enough to give them the gun, but we didn't pull the trigger. 👍
I would also encourage people to listen to Friday’s Daily T podcast: it backs up many of Matt’s conclusions re the threat of Islamism to our society: and the guest speaker ? Someone from the ‘Far Right’? No, Queen Elizabeth’s Chaplain Gavin Ashenden a very thoughtful and intelligent man. These views are the new norm for anyone who chooses to open their eyes, look around them, follow the data and not be silenced by the intolerant Left.
His views on the King and William are also interesting as he raises his concerns about their inability to protect the CoE due to their appeasement of Islam.
National Populism was the book that opened my eyes to what’s happening. I’m still waiting for my copy of Suicide of a Nation to arrive and my expectations are high. We must use this book and its thoughts to educate people like me before I read National Populism.
Are you certain you aren’t better aligned with Restore than with Reform, Matt? It seems to me you are on a journey and perhaps there is still some way to go. Congratulations on the success of the book 📕!
What this country needs are major political changes. It is impossible to bring in those changes in one parliamentary term. Reform are planning changes without pulling the house down. This approach is outlined in a talk between Starky and Littlewood. It is no good being revolutionary if you cannot get elected into power. Thatcher did not bring in her most revolutionary changes until her second term. Attempting to do so will frighten people away.
Farage knows what he is doing, and that is winning.
Do you think Matt hasn’t thought this through? He’s a clever guy. My interpretation is he’s looked at Restore and seen a party that won’t and can’t win a GE but could hinder Reform from winning. What’s the point in that if it still results in a socialist government? And of course their more extreme immigration and remigration policies are unworkable.
Perhaps you could outline for us why you think 'of course their more extreme immigration and remigration policies are unworkable'? What precisely is 'unworkable'? I don't disagree that there would be Establishment and media outcry, and resistance from our corrupted and biased judiciary, but a government with a large enough majority in the Commons can do practically what it wants to do....
Which is why it is such a disgrace that Boris, apparently a Tory given a huge majority by Nigel, did nothing Conservative with it at all. A huge let-down and the reason we have his clown in No 10 at the moment.
Reform is just a recycling bin for failed Torys and have lost their populist energy to the Greens.
We are 3 years away from a General Election. We need to build a genuine alternative now, not when we get letdown by Farage in 4 years. Farage is a well funded containment operation.
Nope. Farage is playing a long game. He's knows that a REAL right-wing party would be unlikely to secure a workable majority against the onslaught of the poisonous British liberal-Left media and Establishment. So he's positioning himself as what the Tory party SHOULD have been in the 2010-2024 period - right-of-centre, workable policies, reversing many of the scumbag laws of the Blair era, making Brexit work, reversing all the damage of Net Zero and globalism. Softly-softly, catchee monkee.....
Can’t agree with any of that. Jenrick and Suella are proper politicians on the right of the Overton Window as are Danny Kruger and Andrew Rossindale. Not sure what Zahawi and Dorries bring but Sarah Pochin is an ex Tory as indeed am I and many people on the right who were betrayed by Cameron, May and Boris. As indeed is Rupert Lowe another ex Tory who you support but I see as a narcissist with an ego bigger than Great Yarmouth.
My point which you’ve ignored because you can’t answer it is that everyone to the right of the Tories, including Rupert Lowe, are ex Tories. If nobody will vote for a Tory or an ex Tory how come they’re together polling 50%? Also if you seriously thinking a Reform voter, even an ex Labour Reform voter would desert them for Polanski and his mad Greens you’re really not paying attention.
Wow. Most of the so-called Tories who have joined Reform have done so because the Tory party has moved so far to the left as to be unrecognizable. The ones who have moved are the sons and daughters of Thatcher.
I agree Iris. The Tories left in the Tory party are really Labour or even worse LD sympathisers. Those like Jenrick and Suella have seen the light and jumped to a party that better represents their real views. That said I wouldn’t have accepted Dorries or Zahawi as their blind support for Boris bloody Johnson got us into this mess.
Is Reform also a recycling bin for failed Tory voters? If Tory voters switch to Reform it's absolutely no surprise if Tory politicians equally disgusted with what the Tory Party has become would switch to Reform.
Any idea how long it takes to "build a genuine alternative"? I'd guess far more than 3 years, and as numerous failed attempts to set up alternatives have proven, it's far harder than some people (Lowe? Habib?) seem to think. So the only realistic choice is support what already exists even if you don't think it's perfect (and try to change it if possible), or oblivion. Do you have a preference? Apparently Lowe would choose oblivion over Farage, which exposes the utter hypocrisy of his "put the country first" rhetoric.
Is there anything specific that makes you feel that? The Reform manifesto looks ok to me. Criticisms I've looked into often seem to rely on misquotes / misrepresentations. Personally I would like stronger policies than Reform have in their manifesto, but the first priority has to be to winning the next election, and if not enough British voters have recognised hard problems require hard solutions it would be detrimental to put them in a manifesto. Good policies mean nothing if you don't get elected.
I agree that they must get elected ... but by watering down their policies they still don't appeal to the softer "right" and they drive many of their traditional supporters to Restore, thereby almost guaranteeing a hung parliament (at the very best - although nobody will work with them to form a government I suspect). Recruiting Tories a bad move, they locked us down and ran the scamdemic ... and Boris let in more migrants than anyone don't forget!
I agree watering down policies would be a mistake, but I don’t think Reform is doing that.
We’re already on course for a hung parliament. The real game-changer would be if Restore’s supporters (most of whom are currently non-voters) actually turned out for Reform instead. That consolidation would make an outright Reform majority the most probable outcome.
These voters need to ask themselves what they really want, given the realistic possibilities.
If Reform simply didn’t exist, Restore would not pick up anything like all of Reform’s voters. The overall anti-establishment vote would shrink, and the chance of any right-wing majority would drop close to zero. Someone should ask Rupert Lowe (and his supporters) why that outcome would be a good thing, because without unity, that’s where we’re heading.
It's worth remembering there were numerous stories about how split the Tory Party was, so for me it's which ones Reform accept that matters. Having experienced MPs is likely to be important. 👍
True enough Ian but our country is in enormous trouble. Farage will not stand up to Islam and backed away from running a rape gang inquiry after saying he would do so. Lowe may not get elected in 2029 but just watch what happens 5 years later. The country is still insufficiently scared of the islamomarxist alliance that is turning our country into Lebanon. As more people wake up to the trajectory that we are on they will see that Farage talks the talk (a bit, only a little bit) but will never walk the walk.
I agree we're in enormous trouble and I'm really not sure this is recoverable without some pretty drastic measures. But equally I don't see a downside to at least giving Farage the chance. Since he's not in power I don't see how it's possible to know whether or not he will stand up to Islam, but I don't see anyone else with a realistic chance of winning the next election who will even try. 👍
Well done Matt. Although I'm not sure that "Suicide" is quite the right word for what has been done to our country. "Murder" would be more accurate - murder by an unrepresentative elite of which Blair and Boris are only the most obvious examples.
Why they hate England is an inteeesting question which might need a psychiatrist to explain.
I reckon this book will play an instrumental role in “The Saving of Our Nation” which I hope will be your next book!!!Thanks Matt for giving the country this lifeline and mobilising us to “Take Our Country Back” 👊
Very readable - it would be good to have access to the references online. One thing was very apparent- there was no way this was written by AI. I tried getting Chat-GPT to write something short in a similar vein and it fought me every step of the way. It is clearly weighted towards progressive views from its training data, but it is also possible that - like the recent Claude source code release incident - Chat-GPT has hardcoded guard rails. Either way, good luck getting it to write something right-wing.
Fantastic news. At last a groundswell is building that the noisy Left can’t silence. Common sense has to prevail if we are to save our culture and country from the tidal wave of immigrants from mad,bad places who have no hesitation in destroying our society.
Looking forward to meeting you in Poole tomorrow and hope you have copies with you to sign! You are officially a star mover and shaker in the political world.
Fantastic news the people are listening slowly but surely this will make a difference for future decisions giving people a true understanding of what’s happening to our country 🙏 Thank you Matt
Congratulations Matt. 👏
It’s aptly titled . Suicide of a Nation resonates with people because that is what is happening. We weren’t forced into mass immigration and its consequences as a country, our politicians embraced it. It could have been stopped /reversed at any time .
For those of us who were aware and repeatedly voted against it , and have suffered the anti British hatred from the establishment, even down to the level of education it feels more like murder of a nation . But that’s a moot point
Well done Matt it’s such an important book and it’s getting the exposure it deserves .
Murder of a nation is actually more accurate. Matt should be kicking himself for not thinking of that first!
I stopped accepting the destruction was down to incompetence a while ago. Unfortunately too many people still think "one day the politicians will realise their policies aren't working so they'll change their policies and everything will be OK". It's never going to happen because as far as they're concerned their policies are working. The only part of their plan that's not working is that at last some of us are starting to figure this out. 👍
The things we need to change are our politicians. This lot are hell bent on our destruction
It’s all part of the Fabian strategy Lesley. It’s taken them 142 years so far and violent Marxism has come and gone and failed of course in Russia, the Soviet Union and China but here the strategy called “the inevitability of gradualness” is picking up pace. No borders. No individual wealth. State decides who gets what.
Makes sense. The strategies in your last sentences sound very familiar and well underway . We must get them out . Their hypothetical ideal would in reality be a total disaster
They want real Marxism. Starmer is a Marxist. He’s never disputed this although he’s such a liar who knows. Yes we need them gone. It saddens me the number of fairly intelligent people on here would risk more socialism to support Lowe and Restore who wont be able to form a government. Madness.
Me too . Why people can’t see through Lowe , his intentions , and the potential to cause disaster utterly confounds me
And senior civil servants. And quite a lot more on the public payroll who have a duty (and even a legal obligation) to be politically neutral, but clearly are not. There so many people not fit to hold their jobs it would be a real problem finding replacements. 👍
Short term pain will be necessary for long term gain
I disagree because it is all self-inflicted.
In a democracy people are (at least in theory) responsible for their choice. Voting for Tony Blair was suicidal, but on the other hand it's not like he actually ran on a platform of ending democracy. And now the country is largely being run by unelected people over whom we have no control. So we were collectively dumb enough to give them the gun, but we didn't pull the trigger. 👍
So well-deserved Matt.
I would also encourage people to listen to Friday’s Daily T podcast: it backs up many of Matt’s conclusions re the threat of Islamism to our society: and the guest speaker ? Someone from the ‘Far Right’? No, Queen Elizabeth’s Chaplain Gavin Ashenden a very thoughtful and intelligent man. These views are the new norm for anyone who chooses to open their eyes, look around them, follow the data and not be silenced by the intolerant Left.
His views on the King and William are also interesting as he raises his concerns about their inability to protect the CoE due to their appeasement of Islam.
The criticism and pointless sniping just shows up the insecurity of the liberal-left Establishment in Britain.
Well done Matt!
The Guardian is at it again today, how many Reform voters read that alleged newspaper?
I do it occasionally PL, whilst holding my nose. As the wise Niccolò Machiavelli allegedly said, "Hold your friends close, and your enemies closer".
You really should wear marigold gloves. 🤣🤣
And a hazmat suit...
The Beano for the liberal-left loops.....
Congrats Matt. This recognition makes up for all the leftie flack!
National Populism was the book that opened my eyes to what’s happening. I’m still waiting for my copy of Suicide of a Nation to arrive and my expectations are high. We must use this book and its thoughts to educate people like me before I read National Populism.
Are you certain you aren’t better aligned with Restore than with Reform, Matt? It seems to me you are on a journey and perhaps there is still some way to go. Congratulations on the success of the book 📕!
What this country needs are major political changes. It is impossible to bring in those changes in one parliamentary term. Reform are planning changes without pulling the house down. This approach is outlined in a talk between Starky and Littlewood. It is no good being revolutionary if you cannot get elected into power. Thatcher did not bring in her most revolutionary changes until her second term. Attempting to do so will frighten people away.
Farage knows what he is doing, and that is winning.
Spot on
Do you think Matt hasn’t thought this through? He’s a clever guy. My interpretation is he’s looked at Restore and seen a party that won’t and can’t win a GE but could hinder Reform from winning. What’s the point in that if it still results in a socialist government? And of course their more extreme immigration and remigration policies are unworkable.
Hear, hear
Perhaps you could outline for us why you think 'of course their more extreme immigration and remigration policies are unworkable'? What precisely is 'unworkable'? I don't disagree that there would be Establishment and media outcry, and resistance from our corrupted and biased judiciary, but a government with a large enough majority in the Commons can do practically what it wants to do....
Which is why it is such a disgrace that Boris, apparently a Tory given a huge majority by Nigel, did nothing Conservative with it at all. A huge let-down and the reason we have his clown in No 10 at the moment.
Reform is just a recycling bin for failed Torys and have lost their populist energy to the Greens.
We are 3 years away from a General Election. We need to build a genuine alternative now, not when we get letdown by Farage in 4 years. Farage is a well funded containment operation.
Nope. Farage is playing a long game. He's knows that a REAL right-wing party would be unlikely to secure a workable majority against the onslaught of the poisonous British liberal-Left media and Establishment. So he's positioning himself as what the Tory party SHOULD have been in the 2010-2024 period - right-of-centre, workable policies, reversing many of the scumbag laws of the Blair era, making Brexit work, reversing all the damage of Net Zero and globalism. Softly-softly, catchee monkee.....
Absolutely correct
💯👍
Can’t agree with any of that. Jenrick and Suella are proper politicians on the right of the Overton Window as are Danny Kruger and Andrew Rossindale. Not sure what Zahawi and Dorries bring but Sarah Pochin is an ex Tory as indeed am I and many people on the right who were betrayed by Cameron, May and Boris. As indeed is Rupert Lowe another ex Tory who you support but I see as a narcissist with an ego bigger than Great Yarmouth.
💯, and I did laugh out loud at the last sentence! 👍
The Torys are toxic. This is exactly not what the Red Wall, Scotland and Wales wants or will ever vote for.
Not surprised the Greens are over taking Reform.
Reform are crashing and burning already.
My point which you’ve ignored because you can’t answer it is that everyone to the right of the Tories, including Rupert Lowe, are ex Tories. If nobody will vote for a Tory or an ex Tory how come they’re together polling 50%? Also if you seriously thinking a Reform voter, even an ex Labour Reform voter would desert them for Polanski and his mad Greens you’re really not paying attention.
Wow. Most of the so-called Tories who have joined Reform have done so because the Tory party has moved so far to the left as to be unrecognizable. The ones who have moved are the sons and daughters of Thatcher.
I agree Iris. The Tories left in the Tory party are really Labour or even worse LD sympathisers. Those like Jenrick and Suella have seen the light and jumped to a party that better represents their real views. That said I wouldn’t have accepted Dorries or Zahawi as their blind support for Boris bloody Johnson got us into this mess.
Is Reform also a recycling bin for failed Tory voters? If Tory voters switch to Reform it's absolutely no surprise if Tory politicians equally disgusted with what the Tory Party has become would switch to Reform.
Any idea how long it takes to "build a genuine alternative"? I'd guess far more than 3 years, and as numerous failed attempts to set up alternatives have proven, it's far harder than some people (Lowe? Habib?) seem to think. So the only realistic choice is support what already exists even if you don't think it's perfect (and try to change it if possible), or oblivion. Do you have a preference? Apparently Lowe would choose oblivion over Farage, which exposes the utter hypocrisy of his "put the country first" rhetoric.
Why on earth would Matt wish to align himself with a rank opportunist?! He's needed right where he is, and that's most definitely not within Restore.
Exactly
My feeling too Andrew. Farage and co seem to be pedalling rapidly back to the Tory centre. Which is not what is needed in these dire times!
Is there anything specific that makes you feel that? The Reform manifesto looks ok to me. Criticisms I've looked into often seem to rely on misquotes / misrepresentations. Personally I would like stronger policies than Reform have in their manifesto, but the first priority has to be to winning the next election, and if not enough British voters have recognised hard problems require hard solutions it would be detrimental to put them in a manifesto. Good policies mean nothing if you don't get elected.
I agree that they must get elected ... but by watering down their policies they still don't appeal to the softer "right" and they drive many of their traditional supporters to Restore, thereby almost guaranteeing a hung parliament (at the very best - although nobody will work with them to form a government I suspect). Recruiting Tories a bad move, they locked us down and ran the scamdemic ... and Boris let in more migrants than anyone don't forget!
IF "RESTORE" HAD ANY DECENCY THEY WOULD NOT FIELD CANDIDATES AGAINST REFORM. THEY CANNOT POSSIBLY WIN AND CAN ONLY LET A LEFT COALITION IN,.
Exactly. Stop the schoolboy point scoring and keep their eyes on the prize!
I agree watering down policies would be a mistake, but I don’t think Reform is doing that.
We’re already on course for a hung parliament. The real game-changer would be if Restore’s supporters (most of whom are currently non-voters) actually turned out for Reform instead. That consolidation would make an outright Reform majority the most probable outcome.
These voters need to ask themselves what they really want, given the realistic possibilities.
If Reform simply didn’t exist, Restore would not pick up anything like all of Reform’s voters. The overall anti-establishment vote would shrink, and the chance of any right-wing majority would drop close to zero. Someone should ask Rupert Lowe (and his supporters) why that outcome would be a good thing, because without unity, that’s where we’re heading.
It's worth remembering there were numerous stories about how split the Tory Party was, so for me it's which ones Reform accept that matters. Having experienced MPs is likely to be important. 👍
True enough Ian but our country is in enormous trouble. Farage will not stand up to Islam and backed away from running a rape gang inquiry after saying he would do so. Lowe may not get elected in 2029 but just watch what happens 5 years later. The country is still insufficiently scared of the islamomarxist alliance that is turning our country into Lebanon. As more people wake up to the trajectory that we are on they will see that Farage talks the talk (a bit, only a little bit) but will never walk the walk.
I agree we're in enormous trouble and I'm really not sure this is recoverable without some pretty drastic measures. But equally I don't see a downside to at least giving Farage the chance. Since he's not in power I don't see how it's possible to know whether or not he will stand up to Islam, but I don't see anyone else with a realistic chance of winning the next election who will even try. 👍
Well done Matt. Although I'm not sure that "Suicide" is quite the right word for what has been done to our country. "Murder" would be more accurate - murder by an unrepresentative elite of which Blair and Boris are only the most obvious examples.
Why they hate England is an inteeesting question which might need a psychiatrist to explain.
Betrayal would also be suitable. Betrayal after betrayal.
Yep, seems like Matt should have consulted sub-stack members first about the title! 👍
Is it time to erecting the gallows in Tyburn ?
I think Mr Andy Twelves, that left wing trade union activist, is learning first hand and the hard way about "the Streisand effect".
👏😂😂😂
I reckon this book will play an instrumental role in “The Saving of Our Nation” which I hope will be your next book!!!Thanks Matt for giving the country this lifeline and mobilising us to “Take Our Country Back” 👊
Very readable - it would be good to have access to the references online. One thing was very apparent- there was no way this was written by AI. I tried getting Chat-GPT to write something short in a similar vein and it fought me every step of the way. It is clearly weighted towards progressive views from its training data, but it is also possible that - like the recent Claude source code release incident - Chat-GPT has hardcoded guard rails. Either way, good luck getting it to write something right-wing.
Fantastic news. At last a groundswell is building that the noisy Left can’t silence. Common sense has to prevail if we are to save our culture and country from the tidal wave of immigrants from mad,bad places who have no hesitation in destroying our society.
Thanks to you, Matt, and your measured persistence this country can be saved!!
Looking forward to meeting you in Poole tomorrow and hope you have copies with you to sign! You are officially a star mover and shaker in the political world.
Fantastic news the people are listening slowly but surely this will make a difference for future decisions giving people a true understanding of what’s happening to our country 🙏 Thank you Matt
I never doubted the books success 🤩