We live in interesting and unprecedented times.
A ‘WTO RULES’ Brexit (we don’t use the language of the enemy, which is a ‘No deal Brexit’) is now the only acceptable option.
But we should not underestimate the deviousness of the likes of Treason May and her accomplice Robbins (an anagram of ‘Brino BS’) – Project Fear is now in Phase III – nor that of Labour, which is in overdrive, smelling the chance for mischief and a betrayal of the 2016 people’s vote, for political gain.
We must therefore not blithely assume that the preposterous chequered surrender bill (does it effectively cede not only Gibraltar to Spain, but Kent to France?) to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday will fail.
It just might pass, due to the bovine qualities of many Tory MPs, their fear of both the unknown and of losing their seats, and Labour chicanery, abstaining from the vote at the last moment.
I estimate the Commons debate will commence around 1:30pm on Tuesday 15th January, two days from now.
So, we aim to have a presence there from Noon on Tuesday 15th January, and so let MPs entering the House, and others present, realise the strength of feeling about this impending vote, and – if opportunities arise – we can educate them too.
The group will either be in Parliament Square Garden (where Churchill’s and Gandhi’s statues are) or two minutes away in The College Garden, where the media circus has erected its canopies.
To get to The College Garden, walk south down Abingdon St, with Parliament and Richard the Lionheart’s statue on your left, and the garden will be on the right (i.e., further from the river) side of the street, at the House of Lords end. If the road name changes to Millbank, you’ve overshot.
Your contact (if you need it) is another Richard, and his number is 07704 502020.
Wear UKIP regalia with pride, and wrap up well as cold weather is forecast. Westminster tube station (Circle, District and Jubilee Lines) is just across the road from Parliament Square Garden.
There’ll be Remainiacs aplenty. Do not get into altercations or unpleasant disputes, or rise to bait proffered. Instead, be generous to snowflakes, those flapping around in EU colours, and others without the experience or mental wherewithal to understand the issues involved. Do not harass anyone, even the hypocritical opportunist Soubry (see http://tinyurl.com/soubry419 for an example of her delicacy).
We are there to peacefully protest, persuade and debate, and not to carry on as if our homes are in trees.
We have the answers already. People’s Vote? It already happened, on June 23, 2016, in the UK’s biggest ever democratic exercise. 7.9% (1.3 million) more people voted to leave the EU than to stay, despite massive cheating by the government and others… Cheating that included fear-mongering and defeatism on a mind-boggling scale, the misuse of £9.3 million of taxpayers’ money to print a booklet of advice that purported to be neutral but instead was outrageously biased, and much more.
We still won. This was UKIP’s Referendum and UKIP’s Victory. Many of the rest are carpetbaggers and those who let UKIP do the dirty work for all those years leading up to the Referendum, where we took the flak but made it possible for those who came later to openly speak about key issues like immigration and sovereignty.
Our Russell Van will be driving
around Westminster, the City and the rest of Central London, ensuring that Parliament and the BBC get a double dose.
There should also be a few UKIP members in Parliament Square on Monday 14th, but Tuesday 15th‘s the main effort.
England expects that every man* will do his duty.
(most certainly construed to also include women!)
I am sorry, but comments like “Never Trust a Tory” are not going to help our cause. I switched from UKIP after several years membership, to the Conservative Party in early 2018, having campaigned ceaselessly since 1996. My partner Thea and I can be trusted, and so can thousands of other Conservatives to do all possible to push our Brexit decision through.
Your placard Freddy is, frankly, insulting. UKIP has indeed been a good campaigning organisation for a long time. But latterly it has veered away from the central purpose, to help deliver Brexit….wasting so much time on internal wrangling. This supports the remain cause. How are UKIP going to help maintain a Brexit majority vote in parliament if they are not either sitting on those benches, or able to influence the government directly?
Our MP is Dr. Sarah Wollaston, who has completely lied about her intentions, so strongly swearing that even MPs like herself who changed their minds (as she put it in a letter to us) should still act to support the 2016 vote. We are in a position to be able to work towards finding another candidate and, with a bit of luck when the election comes along, replace her.
Dr. W gained many votes from the local UKIP in 2017, because of her misleading election stance. She will never repeat this. But a reliable Leave candidate would be strongly supported and, I hate to say this, UKIP votes will just reduce the chances of us having an Leave MP in our constituency.
The need at the moment is to stop all the loud verbal, and derogatory comments, such as on this poster. We will only win this because the remainers have no actual real arguments to oppose WTO rules. They are just shouting disaster, chaos, etc, which is rubbish.
Against this, we all must continue calmly spelling out how WTO is straightforward, tried and tested..and how the business world, unlike many politicians, has got its finger our and is getting on with the preparations, in time for Brexit Day.
I sincerely hope that UKIP will add to an intelligent fact-filled campaign in these last days and weeks.
But will they even listen to factual truths, even if the message on the poster van said they were the most trustworthy? promises to the public and grassroots Conservative members have been broken, immigration being a disastrous country changing example. Why should they be trusted now on Brexit?
“UKIP votes will just reduce the chances of us having an Leave MP in our constituency”.
The Tory party in general can sit back in glorious complacency, knowing well that no more than 20% of the voting public will DARE to risk voting for anyone else and just let Labour in. So, carry on chaps, and don’t worry – no upstart third party such as UKIP or For Britain is going to threaten your precious hold on bum seats in the Palace of Westminster, which you share with the other member of the duopoly. The people who actually PUT you there are too frightened to even try.
Ian, your post sums up the problem with pre Gerard Batten led Ukip and what the Party now is under his, and hopefully continued, leadership.
I think you are in the right Party now !
Truth hurts, doesn’t it.
I was riding around London in this truck with Russell Hicks last Thursday, I can assure you the reaction to it was marvelous. Amongst the best spent timely PR budget ever I would say.
….whoops, should have added “difference the Party now ….” in the first sentence.
The good thing of course is that with Jeff driving the truck you can be sure he’ll get through the lights first, get round the circuit twice in half the time as anyone else and whizz round Parliament Square faster than the Remoaners can throw quinoa yogurt cartons at the vehicle!
I agree, the truck is great, and thanks to Russell, Jeff and Freddy for all their efforts in these last important hours.
Well Done.
“The media circus has erected it’s canopies”. In anticipation of the deal being done they will have also, no doubt, “selected their canapés” with which to celebrate.
A must. At least one candidate for every ward in May’s district elections.
“We are there to peacefully protest, persuade and debate, and not to carry on as if our homes are in trees.”
Fair enough but it wouldn’t hurt to take your yellow vests and steel toecaps along just in case.
If the current level of migration doesn’t get stopped — and for that we need a WTO / No Deal Brexit and a hard-line Brexiteer PM, a lot of Britons might well be living either in trees or on cardboard in the street.
It’s time for action now. Talking time finishes tomorrow.
Nice to see a (seemingly rarer than before ? ) posting from Freddy V. here.
And what a good cause !
Despite the bravado of some WTO supporters in the E.R.G. and elsewhere, whose line is ‘ only a new Act of Parliament can now change the path to real Brexit on March 29 ‘ ~ I also fear that by agreeing a few changes with enough Labour members ,Mrs May will , with the support, let us never forget, of nearly two thirds of her party in the Commons, betraying the clear pledges in their Manifesto to honour the Referendum result, get her wretched ‘Deal’ over the line during the next month or so.
The UK will then be locked into some kind of The Scream inducing nightmare ~at least until the EU collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.
Have posted at slightly greater length here on the subject:
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2019/01/grayling-patten-the-far-right-the-ira-brexit-the-speaker-and-the-difference-between-threats-and-warnings.html
I also posted on the same site a link to Freddy’s post, hoping to garner some more attenders at the Pro WTO Brexit Gathering on Tuesday.
Btw, Freddy, now that you are here, do you know what the NEC are doing regarding the arrangements for the Leadership election ? Why are these not already in train, I wonder ? Whether Gerard B resigns in mid April or early May, don’t we need the electoral process to be being carried out during the two months prior, so that a Leader Elect will be in place ready to take over ? Will you, or will David Kurten, be standing ? Or anyone else you know not infected by the strange S Y~L virus ?
We live in hope ( if only because to despair is ‘a sin against the Holy Ghost ‘ ~as you know ! )
Good points again.
Who are the likely candidates?
Anyone who is ‘still’ a member of UKIP, but unfortunately many of the most capable people have already left!
Gerard it is then.
Rhys, thanks.
I am not privy to what the NEC decides, and several on the NEC have leadership aspirations.
> Whether Gerard B resigns in mid April or early May
.. or if he does not “resign” at all. It does not need a resignation to trigger a leadership contest.
I confirm that I am not infected with any virus, “strange” or otherwise. I am in robust good health, and have yet to meet anyone in UKIP who can beat me both in arm-wrestling and a 100m sprint, irrespective of age.
I doubt that Kevin Baverstock will find that hard to believe.
Freddy ~a couple of practical points :
1] Where I posted on conhome about your Gathering etc. has started to attract some virulently anti UKIP posts, all linking us to S Y~L. I don’t know if you want to go there and respond ?
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2019/01/grayling-patten-the-far-right-the-ira-brexit-the-speaker-and-the-difference-between-threats-and-warnings.html
In any event you might like to re post there ab initio your call for support for the Gathering, as where I posted the link is somewhat hidden inside a reply to a reply. Today or even tomorrow would be good times to drum up support for attendance .
2] Do you have a list of email addresses for the NEC ? If so could you please publish it here as i would like to ask them why they have not declared the arrangements for the upcoming Leadership election.
As you say given that Gerard’s term ends in either mid April or v early May it seems derelict to wait until the term has actually expired before initiating the election procedures. In the US the new President is elected in the November prior to taking office in the January.
It makes no sense ( to me anyway ) to not be conducting the election now.
And btw, I very much hope NOT under the grotesque FPTP system which UKIP opposes in all other contexts.