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 gave them the gun, but we didn't pull the trigger. 👍
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.
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.
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 📕!
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.
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.
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.
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.....
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.
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....
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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 Matt👌an unequivocal endorsement of your hard work and continuing commitment to exposing the unfolding disaster and destruction created by this awful, conceited and inept government.
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 gave them the gun, but we didn't pull the trigger. 👍
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".
The Beano for the liberal-left loops.....
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.
Congrats Matt. This recognition makes up for all the leftie flack!
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.
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 📕!
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
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.
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! 👍
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
💯👍
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.
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....
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
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,.
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.
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! 👍
I think Mr Andy Twelves, that left wing trade union activist, is learning first hand and the hard way about "the Streisand effect".
Just reading my founder's edition copy...it was late due to the sender having paid insufficient postage 🤣🤣
Yes, the postage on mine said something like Large Letter 195g, but that's just the book. With the envelope it was 360g. 🙄👍
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 🤩
Great News ! I’m still waiting for both of my books 😄
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 Matt👌an unequivocal endorsement of your hard work and continuing commitment to exposing the unfolding disaster and destruction created by this awful, conceited and inept government.