[Ed: Part I was published here yesterday.]
A few weeks ago, Gerard Batten made a speech at the European Parliament talking about the Nazi roots of the EU. I came across that fact in 2015 when I followed a link to a Dr Vernon Coleman, read his piece on it and (metaphorically) fell off my chair. But gradually, with only a mobile, I discovered and researched Walther Funk, the Kalergi Plan, Cultural Marxism, Common Purpose, the role of so many politicians in our demise, and more, hence my cheer when David drew attention to some of these in his speech.
Gareth Bennett made a very shrewd point about UKIP’s ambition to see the Welsh Assembly abolished when he pointed out that while electoral support for UKIP was relatively low at 6 or 7%, electoral support for abolishing the assembly was about three times greater at around 20%, so he’s concentrating on the latter rather than the former.
What that in mind, what this conference did not do (unsurprisingly) was offer non UKIP-voting electors reasons to doubt the integrity of their normal voting choice. I suggest that if they were led to understand that what is happening is deliberate, has been carefully planned for a very long time and that their normal voting choice has been complicit since at least the 1950’s, they might be tempted to vote UKIP to save Britain rather than just Brexit. If we can marshall and distribute the links to follow, that expose this treachery, everyone has a mobile. People are never off them these days.
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing
It is often said that with hindsight, everyone has 20/20 vision and looking at our audience, this pensioner suggests we have hindsight by the bucket load, but we’re not being invited to exercise it. My guess is that while our generations are still here and functioning, our cause would benefit by exposing this complicity and awakening memories and jogging perceptions. To that end, in addition to researching links to the above, I recommended those who remember him to google Peter Shore, Oxford Union, 1975 and wait for the moment Ted Heath’s eyes widen and slide across the audience. Given what we suspect of him now, I was both surprised and quite startled. For a moment the contrast to his normal demeanour that I remember was chilling.
Conclusions
For so many reasons the conference was excellent and I hope these reflections give full credit where due. For a Party previously infamous for lack of communication, I fully acknowledge that Gerard, David and co are doing their utmost to improve that and we are all grateful and excited to take up the fight again.
I do wonder whether we really need to hear from every Party spokesman on every subject, and whether some of those could have been bundled together to make room for a session arranged around a policy discussion, with the leadership group on stage together, to field a series of questions. And I also wondered why the podium on the stage was so far away from the Chairman’s table. Had I been speaking I would have much preferred a mobile radio mike but the podium did offer unexpected moments of humour, especially in the second day when the professional speakers over-ran and the imposing figure of Tony McIntyre started playing grandmother’s footsteps as he gradually loomed over them.
I won’t dwell on Lord Pearson’s comments about Tommy Robinson other than to say I agree with him and hope somehow the leadership find a way to get him and his supporters at least alongside. Our branch voted 2 to 1 against on the question on the Thursday before the conference so there is much to be done but with enough safeguards in place, some of which I’ve already seen suggested elsewhere, I hope they may be enough to quell the fears expressed and support Gerard’s courage in giving Tommy hope.
Post Script
I missed the final session as I got word of train problems and left early. Quite by chance I found myself chatting with and sitting opposite a lady of a certain age, once a ‘60s rock chick, who saw no difficulty in encouraging young children to identify as transgender, no difficulty in sacking doctors who insisted on gender reality and with David Kurten’s words ringing in my ears, it certainly made the journey go quickly. But as the train approached our destination she asked me why I joined UKIP? My answer, “because it’s cross-party.” I mention this for two reasons.
It would be naive to imagine we haven’t been infiltrated or will be again. I lost count of the Bolton references made during the conference breaks and I would view with great suspicion any attempts to splinter our loyalty on left/right differences which we know will exist. But we’re UKIP.
I suspect that exposing Common Purpose that David Kurten mentions in his Cultural Marxism leaflet, may actually be the political goldmine we’ve been looking for, with the development of policies to expose, crush and punish its supporters. Blair introduced it, it has spread like wildfire through the establishment and I suspect the true cost of its consequences may be far greater than anyone currently imagines. I even mentioned it to a visiting professor who hadn’t heard of it. Not many have. But it is responsible for so much that is and has gone wrong. Now where’s that mobile….?
I only recently joined UKIP in April this year, so this was my first party conference experience, and as I live in Birmingham myself, I really had no excuse not to attend. And I am so glad I did!
Thanks Alan for your wonderful summarising, and I agree with all you have written. There were plenty of fantastic speeches, interspersed with some humurous moments, and it is fair to say that I walked away from the ICC both evenings full of purpose and hope.
It was great to be surrounded by so many like-minded folk, and to share in the reactions given to phrases like “Common Purpose”.
Its all very well pointing out that something is very wrong with our country, but understanding exactly WHAT is wrong and WHAT is causing it is the kep to solving the whole problem.
I must stop I am becoming a troll.
1. When Representatives fear for their jobs they will then reoresent you. 2. UKIP’, NEC need to represent an area each. Then they would be more sensible and more contrilled . 3. Factions develope based on idleness greed etc. 4. Manifestos then bind representatives together on general principlas . This is where it all goes pear shaped……….But not insolvable ( insoluble, unsolvable ?)
This is one end of the British constitution ” the envy of the world ” Mend it. Do not destroy it in your ignorance . With lists or triple voting or whatever your saddo anmbitions require.
Of course it’s correct to go after cultural marxism as a main prong of the attack .. The population recognises it and already hates it. We all prefer plain talk. Every time. Our aristocracy, steeped in the arcane delights of qualitative research and other philosophical delights. No doubt see it as divisive. And best of all , theres lots of laughs , lots of blind alleys with practical responses. I an absolutely astonished ( I’ve been babbling about it for four yoears now ) that we havent majored on it . I saw it as perfect for AMW or DK. PC and Ed are just sides of hexagram { maybe like perhaps obeying laws Prisons. the list could be open ended } . Gerard has a Rubrics cube to worry about, but he could with a couple of colours less. Leaders have to learn just like the rest of us. But his leaders need to be brilliant not torpid.
The public knows it as PC of course and laughs, then sighs.
The EU is a very transparent conspiracy as any cursory review of its institutional structures of anti-democratic bureaucratism will quickly uncover. Of course the Olly Robbins’s and similar careerist aparatchiks and politicos know this, which is why they support it!
However, when ever I discuss the issues with RemaINers they have no idea of any of this and somehow have swallowed wholesale the EU propaganda that ‘it is about Europe, Unity, Peace, Trade’ blah blah’ except that when you demonstrate none of these things have any need for the Maastricht Monster (aka Son of Frankenstein’s Creature) they retreat into nonsense and repetition.
In other words they are thick pawns of the Establishment with what they think of smugly as ‘liberalism’ but in fact a veneer of respectability for totalitarianism.
During the referendum I wrote to Boris Johnson telling him that a German academic by the name of Walter Hallstein was appointed to conduct the implementation of the Schuman Plan, the origin of the EU. He wrote the rules to benefit Germany’s export intentions. He became the first Commissioner of the EU in 1957, and was involved in the Lisbon Treaty.
Unfortunately, when Johnson made a speech about this he referred to Hitler and was howled down by all quarters.
Peter Shore! Did you know that his son-in-law once stood as a UKIP candidate, and IIRC, Peter campaigned for him?