Politics, like life, has always been about the order of doing things. That is why the fight for Brexit has become so big and so symbolic.
Until we get out of the EU, we will have no control over our sovereignty and therefore no control over immigration or anything else. The powerful global establishment which includes most of our own elites will have won. We will end up in some mushy, liberal-when-it-suits-them, socialist-when-it-suits-them, totalitarian-when-it-suits-them superstate – but the main point will be that democracy will have been lost and some people like Nick Clegg will have got very rich in the process because the system suits them. (Mr Clegg has just bought himself a $7m house for his new job at Facebook after being a failed politician.)
If we do not win Brexit, power will have been handed in totality to the unelected and the unremovable globalists.
If you want to get to the heart of what we are really dealing with here, just internally in the UK, let alone in the wider superstate just watch this damming hearing from parliament last Wednesday. The message is very clear: unelected civil servants overrode elected government ministers.
I have also written and about it in the Telegraph here and spoken about it on Choppers Brexit podcast here. (From 18 minutes)
We have a remain Parliament, a remain civil service, a remain judiciary and a remain House of Lords. I could have added we also have a remain academia. Academics and teachers have played a critical role in hoodwinking our young who seem to think the EU is about some nice fuzzy ideals along with their cheap flights to Magaluf.
There have been a lot of useful patsies along the way and class and moral signalling have also been usefully-played tools. If you actually want to hear honest voices now in the Labour Party, you have to look to a few honest people like Dennis Skinner, who deserves credit for saying it as it is.
Furthermore, it seems Mr May might have been rather active, despite of course, being unappointed and unelected, although this was dismissed. “Reports that the Number 10 chief of staff Gavin Barwell had criticised the role of the Prime Minister’s husband Philip May in Brexit discussions were dismissed as ‘utter bunkum’ by a Downing Street spokesperson.”
And Amber Rudd’s brother is running the ‘People’s’ vote’ campaign.
Also of interest: Who is funding the perma-demonstrator in Parliament square? Here is a man who has come to symbolise constant EU demonstrators, apparently selflessly, but who now appears to be living in a £4500 a week pad in Westminster. Who is footing the annual rent bill – £234,000 net of tax – for the £6m property? Is he also being paid a salary? Guido talks about it here. As always, follow the money and power and it will tell you everything you need to know.
I have written before here about how the EU is rather good if you are a corporate who does not want to pay tax, which brings us back to political parties.
I did not start the process to set up The Brexit Party to spite anyone or any party. I did it to win because we are in danger of losing despite the democratic result.
And as I pointed out to one person who has been fairly aggressive towards me: ‘Do you want to win or to be right?’ They are not the same thing. If you trade markets, you will know this adage all too well. Remember Keynes: ‘The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent’. Politics is the same – you must approach the bigger cause of problems first.
There is only one person who can have any hope of winning and that is Nigel Farage. It is just wishful thinking and ego talking to believe anything else.
Nigel has three things that no one else has: He is an international superstar; he is a household brand name and he is a magical speaker who can get millions to follow him. And follow him, we must, if it is needed.
Nigel can work across parties attracting Labour, Conservative and UKIP voters. That is his enormous power. Together we can unite, under one umbrella, all the little splinter groups and new parties which have been so distracting and will never get anywhere. Many of the non extremist parties and members will coalesce under one new party. Not only that but many of the Conservative Leave members and grassroots will also come together as will Labour Leavers in the North and in the deprived, forgotten coastal towns.
My party is being set up for one goal only – get us a proper Brexit. It is not to wade into ideological debates about halal meat or modular homes or who runs the railways.
It will have two simple political messages: Get out of the EU and control immigration. And it will aim to unite all 17.4m leavers.
As Nigel said, voters are now split between whether they voted ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’, not traditional left and right parties. Now is, once again, the time to mobilise all leavers across the political spectrum.
Sorry Nigel, While I agree with most of your background info, re global power brokers etc and their minions, I really wish you had not set up your new party. I believe we really are going to leave with ‘no deal’ on 29/3 in spite of the ‘Remain’ politicians, civil servants, media and businesses.
And if we don’t? Well UKIP is already there and continues to fight the battle. You are charismatic. You are well known. You are able to get stuff done but what are YOU really wanting? After all you dropped out of the political life of your own free will.
I do not understand why you want to fight against Ukip now.
YES – I am not convinced about Nigel and any new party. He was not a team player whilst in UKIP yet did much to alienate his would be friends such as UKIP members. He came to Ballymena in Northern Ireland to a DUP fund raising event yet thet were 160 UKIP members here who felt very offended. Whilst I respect him for the referendum acheivement there it ends – he has his own agenda and perhaps will walk over folk in any new party as he did in UKIP.
Well said Catherine. Nigel is the man to unite the Brexit cause. Just look for example at the YouGov ratings for the most popular politicians in this country. Boris no. 1, Corbyn 2, May 3, London Mayor 4 and Nigel no. 5. You have to scroll way down the list to find Gerard in at no. 138. If it is BRINO, which I sadly fear, I will be one of the first to join a Brexit party led by NF.
So once 29th March swings by and we have Brexit, because whatever May and the Cons come up with will be sold to the electorate as being the best thing since sliced bread, what does the Brexit party do next?
Sorry, I don’t care how popular Nigel still is, once bitten (by Bolton) now twice shy. I’m not interested in his latest bright idea.
I trust Batten to lead us kippers into the future. To Brexit and beyond.
“Nigel is the man to unite the Brexit cause”?! Are you joking? The man who denounced 2,755 of his own party members, saying “Racists nearly killed UKIP this week”?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/30/racists-nearly-killed-ukip-week-live-fight-important-battle/
The man who only two months ago denounced all the brave people who turned out for Tommy Robinson’s Brexit march as tattooed, drunken, far right football thugs, when the only violence came from Owen Jones’ counter-demonstrators?
https://www.facebook.com/thetommyrobinson/videos/347630329149583/
Pull the other one Tim, it’s got bells on. Nigel speaks for himself, a few snobbish ex-Tory Leave supporters in the Home Counties and no-one else.
I see no reason not to work with other groups to achieve Brexit but under no circumstances for UKIP to be anything but an equal partners,
Perhaps Catherines new party can focus on the constituencies where UKIP have no active branch or where UKIP is unlikely to put forward a candidate. This would ensure a Brexit candidate is in place in every constituency in the UK. Nigel is incapable of winning a seat himself, so no standing aside for him and his chums to pick and choose the most winnable seats. Whatever Nigels talents, and he does have plenty, he is unelectable in General Elections – gawd knows the number of times he has tried to no avail and emptied the Party coffers at the same time.
The Parliamentary Channel played a repeat of the speeches in the EU Parliament last Wednesday, after the HoC votes the day before. Among those chosen to speak was Nigel Farage and shortly afterwards Gerrard Batten.
Nigel was brilliant. Gerrard need not have bothered. I gather more than 2,000,000 have watched the video of Nigel’s speech.
It is going to be VERY much easier to get a true BREXIT on 29th March rather than agree to some BRINO fudge in the hope the complete job can be achieved later.
If UKIP has a plan to deliver BREXIT on March 29th then please tell me what it is.
I hear vibes that in this coming week Leave Means Leave will be making some important announcement, which I take to be based on the David Campbell Bannerman GATT24 proposal, which achieves leave on 29th March, no payment of £39B, no Implementation Period, AND does provide for continuity of free trade with the EU (and hence no hard border in Ireland). This is exactly the style of approach Gerrard has been advocating for a long time, but seems the Farage/Batten chasm is way to wide to be bridged even for the single most imported objective in both their lives since they founded UKIP.
I presume GATT24 is the policy The BREXIT Party will adopt.
Incidentally, on the Leave Means Leave web site you can see the 27 MPs, 8 Lords, 3 MEP and 8 significant other involved.
My heart is with UKIP but my head is with Leave Means Leave, at least until 29th March.
Farage may have considerable ability but judging from his track record over the last 2 to 3 years, I would not trust him to actually deliver Brexit . He’s welcome to contribute with speeches, but I wouldn’t vote for him. He’s had his chance as far as I’m concerned.
Three cheers Cathy B. It IS all about APR = Achievable Political Reality. In addition she has adopted the KISS principle = Keep It Simple Stoopid. Since there is no patriotic Brexit Party with the remotest chance of doing what Catherine proposes, or has a chance of dethroning the musical chair parties, this Must be the way to go. Please don’t just tribally reject but read and read again what she says. Can you come up with a better suggestion for peacefully putting the establishment back in the box? I know that Farage has lost some glamour recently and I share that feeling. But again the qualities Catherine describes are still there and, however much chagrin you feel, who else can any of you kippers name with those same abilities to WIN?
I have not felt like rejoining UKIP and was hoping against hope that something like this would come up. All those Brexiteers of goodwill should support this movement.
Despite my standard lectures on the limitations of First Past The Post, a Farage campaign to shame the scum infesting the Palace of Westminster could be beneficial. And when the MSM predictably tear into him for abandoning UKIP, well, I’m sure he can take care of himself.
Just one thing Catherine – why would anybody vote for the new party? What does it hope to achieve? ‘Look, we got X thousand votes nationwide’ – therefore….what?
Any effort to achieve WTO Brexit is admirable, but why not plough the money into a super comprehensive opinion poll?
When NF walked away from UKIP, as a loyal follower and campaigner,I felt both anger and insulted. To withdraw before the job was finished, after campaigning for 25 years, how could NF do this? I campaigned for him in Thanet, Clacton, Margate, as well as winning a seat in Essex county council, for south Benfleet.
For all his brilliant speeches, and being unbeatable in a debate, he is not infallible. Choosing Carswell over Roger Lord in Clacton was to me, his first clanger.
When he stood before news cameras and stated that if he didn’t win the Thanet seat, he would resign from politics put the Tories into overdrive ( and spending more than they were allowed to make sure he didn’t get in) was really opening your mouth and putting your foot in it.
It is a well kept secret that NF didn’t get on with the NEC, so that probably was a major factor to his walking away from UKIP.
Although Gerard Batten has done an excellent job in keeping UKIP afloat, it is necessary to have a figurehead with style, gall and panache of NF. If NF was to stand for the leader into next party elections, he would romp home and the party numbers would grow instantly.
So, like him or loathe him, clangers and all. NF , as Katherine Blaiklock says, he is the only to to rally the voters to stay with the leave side.
If a new party is formed, I would be proud to join
Ex councillor, Alan Bayley.
AB,
Are you for real ? “it is necessary to have a figurehead with style, gall,& panache” agreed, plus cool, calm,& collected
as we have now in one Gerard Batten.
Your build up of farage and in view of his recent anti UKIP antics is obscene.
In reflection carswell was not his only ” bad judgement” fast forward to bolton whom he strongly supported for the leadership
cost me a trip to the EGM Birmingham to help give bolton the hard word.
That kicked farage’s anti Batten / membership / UKIP campaign into gear, IMO bolton was the farage conduit to give farage
a say in UKIP still.
He condemned himself with his preview of the UKIP March saying it would consist of tattooed thugs and trouble was assured
this on LBC, the march was a complete success combined with being a family outing.
As for his anti Tommy Robinson stance ask him to explain martyn heale.
The man farage is a born again ersatz tory, that is if he ever left the party.
Gerard Batten MEP UKIP leader the man for ALL reasons.
No doubt GB ahs been a “safe pair of hands” in saving UKIP. “Safe pairs of hands” don’t win elections. We need someone with fire in their belly.
The Real British People have had their fill of so called Politicians with,”Style , gall & panache “, and that have ego’s bigger than the ferry to Calais , I lost my respect and love of shouters and screamers many years ago. So I’m with you ogga 1 ,in your words,”Gerard batten MEP UKIP leader the man for all reasons “
All these people lining up to join The Brexit Party need to realise how all this plays into the hands of the legacy parties. What the conservatives and labour parties want above all is a return to two party politics. The brexit party is organising itself from the beginning by accepting a dishonest mainstream media narrative about UKIP which has successfully convinced large sections of the British public that UKIP is finished, racist or irrelevant. That they work constantly on this attack is proof of their own insecurity and lack of confidence in their own ideas to secure votes.
There would seem to be some very capable people involved in this new party who are going to be very disappointed when the legacy parties suck up all the seats. Brexit comes first. If you want brexit you really need to join the only party that actually wants to leave the EU. As for Farage his new career in the media should keep him in beer and cigs so long as he keeps saying what the establishment want him to say. You are not allowed to work on national radio unless TPTB approve. That much is clear.
Mr. Farage supported D.James, P. Nuttall and H. Bolton; they all did a great job as leaders of the UKIP, Mr.Farage has not and does not support Gerard Batten who is doing a good job and who I hope will stay on for a while. A new Brexit Party will indeed be a one theme party that may unfortunately also take votes away from the UKIP and so split the “leave” vote but somehow I do not think that that will cause Mr.Farage any headaches.
What I do not understand is that Henry Bolton appeared more like a common purpose plant and Mason , not a genuine UKIP. supporter . Had he hoodwinked Farage into supporting him, or was it planned? – by the establishment !
PDB,
Cost me a trip to Birmingham to help give him the hard word, IMO a farage conduit to allow farage input still
into steering the party the ersatz tory party way.
Catherine, just let me just check:
Are you talking about the same ‘unifying’ Nigel Farage that Viv castigated in her excellent article ‘Shhhh – Don’t Mention UKIP’ in August 2018?
https://www.ukipdaily.com/shhhh-dont-mention-ukip/
I think the comments below that article are also well worth a re-read.
Catherine, just let me check also. Is this the same Nigel Farage, (to whom we do indeed owe a great deal and was the catalyst for the Referendum). who subsequently, not only abandoned UKIP, but when it was on the verge of EXTINCTION, was absolutely NOWHERE TO BE SEEN AND WAS CONSPICUOUS IN HIS ABSENCE??
The same Nigel Farage who recently tried to unseat our Leader Gerard Batten in the most visceral and malicious way for less than altruistic motives and by association tried to destroy UKIP itself? THIS at a most critical time in the history of this country when it was essential to put personal ambitions and ego aside and unite with other pro-Brexit entities, and not give Remainers a cause for jubilation and satisfaction to see Brexiteers disunited and at each others throats? How can this man be trusted again?
I wish you joy in your quest Catherine, but you will most certainly not be receiving any support from me.