I read some posts from that Pete North guy and I agree with his criticism of Rupert Lowe and how he is not even close to being in the ballpark of what's needed to win. However he is up for it and that goes a long way.
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@lain show up, wear a suit, that's half the battle right there
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@augustus for a while, to my eternal shame, i was indeed involved in party politics, and all the 'good' people thought they were too cerebral to actually be a candidate and win the votes, preferring to discuss the finer details of the 'platform'. of course, the opportunist narcissists had no problems with it at all, got elected and promptly stopped caring about what the retards who build the base were doing.
@lain I will not get excited until Dominic Cummings gets behind Rupert and starts running the outfit
@augustus the lord of darkness will win in the end...
anyway... foundations of shakespeare... buy it now...
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@lain that's the frustrating thing, Blair is actually pretty damn good at politics. AA is completely right about him having the best top trump stats. 20/20 in Machiavellianism. his natural resistance to ideology is shared by AA and me. the marks who let their brains get taken over by it are always a problem, including on our side.
@augustus yeah, you don't need to look for people who are 'right'. powell was right 60 years ago and it still didn't matter at all. sure, you need some kind of ideology to motivate, but that's so flexible it might just as well don't be there, something everybody learned in 2020ff. I don't want the risk and work of trying to do this stuff, so i'm now a happy dhimmi being left alone, living a society that's by now more bri'ish than most of britain. theoryfags will always have the problem that they are in the end cowards who don't want to do the work.
@thatbrickster @lain Lotus Eater Owned Government
@augustus @thatbrickster lotus eaters are so milquetoast they need viagra to get a stiff upper lip
@augustus I've been turned off by their cheerleading TBH. I've yet to listen to the Starkey interview with Lowe, I know David opposes the idea of a new party.
Can't really split the vote if Reform no longer occupy right-of-centre. Farage built his image attacking the centre from the right. Now he's happy to place people out of position in his 'shadow' cabinet like he can afford to, when polling suggests he's making a rod for his own back.
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Can't really split the vote if Reform no longer occupy right-of-centre. Farage built his image attacking the centre from the right. Now he's happy to place people out of position in his 'shadow' cabinet like he can afford to, when polling suggests he's making a rod for his own back.
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@thatbrickster @lain I've lost respect for Starkey in recent years with how hopelessly boomer brained he is. Also, Farage's entire career is falling out with people he thinks are trying to eclipse him, yet he now embraces this untrustworthy ambitious Jenrik weasel who is leaking stuff to George Osbourne and is obviously going to stab Nigel in the back the first chance he gets? Weird
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Nigel seems to understand that PM in your country is not a position where success and change happen unless the charge is bad. Much like US President, any intelligent person stays clear of it. And both countries suffer for this.
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Nigel seems to understand that PM in your country is not a position where success and change happen unless the charge is bad. Much like US President, any intelligent person stays clear of it. And both countries suffer for this.
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@Leyonhjelm @augustus @thatbrickster literally the most successful UK regent is tony blair, still reigning as daijo tenno decades after
@thatbrickster @lain True, he will probably step down as leader the day after the election, won't he
@augustus Rupert has put the work in, both within his constituency and Parliament. He makes good use of written questions, donates his salary to local charities and recognises petitions and point blank questions aren't enough to budge a system that can afford to be unresponsive. However, the biggest liability is in communication as everything about Restore goes through Lowe's X account. This emboldens fringes to broadcast messaging that isn't true to Restore's intended aims, and has caused a media shitstorm based on the hysteria that it'll result in deportations of both legal and illegal migrants. His team are in damage control mode over something they didn't plan for.
I will keep mentioning Ben Habib's intention to merge Advance with Restore, and the divide between supporters of either cause, until I'm blue in the face. Someone will have to be disappointed as the party takes shape. Also, while they are now registering with the Electoral Commission, I expect 'Restore' sounding like 'Reform' to be objected to.
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I will keep mentioning Ben Habib's intention to merge Advance with Restore, and the divide between supporters of either cause, until I'm blue in the face. Someone will have to be disappointed as the party takes shape. Also, while they are now registering with the Electoral Commission, I expect 'Restore' sounding like 'Reform' to be objected to.
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@thatbrickster @lain Another good quality of Lowe is his unflappability in the face of hostility, he just faces it down, and I can see his "I Don't Care" catchphrase really taking off and going viral. You really need that in a leader. But you're right a party must be a disciplined org not just one man. There was a great panel discussion about this (including Advance) on Not So Obvious channel the other day.