I see you are downscaling your political content on YT and perhaps it is time for all thinking people to downscale their own interest in politics as well, to focus more on family, learning and their own welfare as Britain's stepwise, half-managed decline gathers pace.
It's not until AA made a video on it that I thought about any of these people. In fact I had totally forgotten that Burnham was Prime Minister. I mean, what has happened to actually give that away? Has it mattered?
Once you get out of sync with the news cycle you realise how pointless it all is. Though it would be funny to have an experimental channel where you react with outrage to the current thing, but it's the current thing of two years ago, so it has a time lag.
It doesn't even need to be higher things like family and learning, but just basically doing or talking about anything else.
Have you read any good novels lately? I'm re-reading Duncton Wood for the first time in years and I've forgotten how much William Horwood's story of moles impacted me. What about you?
"It would be funny to have an experimental channel where you react with outrage to the current thing, but it's the current thing of two years ago, so it has a time lag."
That would be hilarious. I think for most people current thing is just entertainment. It's all consequence free for the most part (except covid, which was the only current thing with real life consequences).
That would be a very interesting social experiment. They would seem absurd. Even though they would rightfully be outraged by whatever outrageous thing happening.
Generally agree with this, however, I want to ask you your opinion on whether average British person or family should try actually hurting the system by checking out. By checking out I mean stop paying taxes. Legally of course, like get on welfare and take more tax money than you put in or just move to Dubai.
Everything is readily turned into slop. We are surrounded by the corrosive acid of modernity (capital, mass media, public education, etc). The only half-effective strategy is insulating yourself, but only if you already have a cohesive community, like the Amish. Even they struggle to maintain separation because they have to do business with outsiders to survive economically.
Nick, none of the white salvation cargo cult grifters is fit to lick your (jack) boots. Your experience & realpolitik world view need a much wider audience.
The last last thing the British Right/ country needs is MAGAnization.
We actually need a Right that's anti Global American Empire/Z0G.
Also, Labour moving to a more 'Blue Labour' position particularly if they start to use defence spending for some re-industrialisation will always get more support in the Red Wall than reheated Thatcherism.
Labour will never win elections running on increasing defense spending (and thats a good thing if you wish to vote Labour since we know what causes that spending will ultimately go to), what are you talking about
It is funny how quickly the tone shifts, yet Rupert Lowe remains entirely predictable. It wasn’t long ago that Parvini was glazing Lowe, attempting to frame his personal character assessment as something of objective value.
In reality, it was just deference to a former Tory who has spent years LARPing as landed gentry. It seems the deeply ingrained British urge to automatically defer to our perceived "betters" is a hard habit to break. If real systemic change is ever going to happen, it will be figures like Lowe, who will attempt to contain and destroy it.
No, the reason people like Parvini supported Lowe is the understanding that nothing will change without loyal elites. Normal citizens aren't allowed to become "elites" so the only chance you have is full on rebellion within the upper class system
Lowe isn't that, but any viable solution will start out looking like Lowe. *You will NEVER have a purely commoner/counter academic uprising, EVER.* To think otherwise is more retarded than believing Lowe could have been a legit contributing factor to resistance
The Bolsheviks and different successful right wing revolutionaries would have known exactly how to handle Lowe, and it wouldn't have involved glazing his ego.
While you understand the basic mechanics of elite theory, your criticism is completely detached from historical reality. History might not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. You need to experience how power operates in the real world, not just in textbooks.
If Restore is Lowe in the same way that Reform is Farage, quite possibly. But that energy - slightly battered - still exists within Restore and its environs. Downes can use his present voice and position to amplify key talking points into the right-wing populist sphere and the very quiet Pitt could increase his visibility and be bolder. Show us the Restore constitution. How do changes legally occur in that party?
I would add, Reform supporters think they are getting the things Restore has promised. Reversing mass immigration, for instance. While I am all for elite theory, and concede real change is unlikely, it is not impossible.
There is real hunger for very serious change. An alternative elite must know this too. I am not suggesting Lowe is the man, as he probably is just an old school Tory. But others must be watching and recognise there is real momentum to be harnessed. Even the airing of demographic decline is now becoming much more mainstream.
That said, it is unlikely there will be any political solution. So Parvini's assessment that it will be rolled into one big "right-wing" party is likely. But that still leaves many people not being served. So I am not so convinced by all this.
Finally, the country is collapsing. That to me is the unknown catalyst here. You can afford to indulge luxury beliefs when things are going well. Rather less so when collapse is imminent.
Lowe pretty much is just an old school Tory, however, unlike Farage, he isn't just shop front with no goods in the back. While they both have city backgrounds, Lowe has also genuinely built a large amount of his wealth by starting and growing real businesses. He understands, better than probably any other MP, how to actually get things done.
He also cares far less than Farage about his media profile, and is less likely to pull punches for fear of being called fascist or racist.
Lowe may be just a reheated 1980s Tory, but the young team he has gathered around them are anything but. I get the distinct sense that RL understands that their outlook is the future and his the transition.
“We must unite the right to defeat the communists and jihadists!”
Rightoidism in a nutshell. Perfectly kosher. Perfectly useless.
Angered that you jumped on the Lowe and Restore bandwagon in the first place. You and your fellow Sensible Centrist cohorts Morgoth and Woes. All three of you lost so much respect and credibility. Pathetic.
John & Evelyn called it out & were attacked for their honest appraisal on twitter. Will anyone apologise ? No, the white salvation cargo cult of cunts will just trundle along, grifting for as long as they can...
You omitted Charlie and Harrison from the piece. Where do these boys stand in all of this? Has Lowe had a word with them and said look boys, we gave it our best shot and the numbers aren't stacking up; he is a businessman after all.
Indeed. I am not convinced this is some roll it all together MAGA thing. I think it was a clever stunt by Lowe to demonstrate to Reform's supporters they are not serious about thing the expect. The reversal of mass immigration is new too; they have shied away from that in the past. Not just stopping it but reversing it.
Given who is backing Reform I thought it was a sensible move. Expose policies they are implying they will do and won't.
Like the article said it does not matter what the promises or stated plan is before the election. What matters is only can you trust THEM? Them being the actual people that will be in charge or supposedly in charge. With Reform the answer is NO, and even if some good Restore people get into parliament they will be ostracized by Reform bulk just like Matt Gaetz, and MTG, and that whole formerly MAGA supporting crowd was ostracized by Trump and his admin
That is my view. I get elite theory and the populist delusion. But I would like to believe Lowe is being intentionally vocal to signal to all those downwardly mobile elites there is an alternative.
I think he seems sincere about the decline of the nation and wanting to tackle it. Farage never comes across as someone who cares.
I was waiting for the telegraphed ending but it was never delivered. I think what you were going to say was this: MAGA briefly took the GOP in directions outside of AIPAC control. MAGA is now MIGA. The entire political spectrum in the Ukay is subject to US and Israeli control, in proportion to its relevance. Kudos to Restore for being, briefly, a big enough threat to be noticed and swiftly brought to heel. Like the US, before the Ukay can have any kind of nationalism, it must first recover its sovereignty. I don’t think we’ve had a Ukay sovereignty movement since Corbyn’s money-tree yoof movement and before that, the dreaded Boogeyman Nightmare Party.
Many of us have said all along the Restore/ lotus bleaters grifters were just part of the con-tainment & we have been proved correct. It's almost amusing to listen to the constant revisionism of the Swindon swindler & his gang of shits. Wide boys & spivs riding the white salvation cargo cult into the abyss. .
To be fair, you were a cheerleader for Restore when they launched, so (and perhaps you wrote/said something elsewhere I've missed) if you want to ride the elephant, that's fine, but some intellectual honesty would be better for personal growth.
"In America, the original MAGA movement was absorbed into the Republican Party.... Britain is now undergoing the same process at an accelerated pace because the margins are tighter and the left is already consolidating."
In America they're more innovative, before MAGA there was the Tea party. It's a worthwhile consideration to bear in mind whether all these political movements get co-opted and/or are following a script, and if so, to what ends.
I disagree with your opinion of the why we're proceeding at an accelerated pace. I think we're running out of runway on a number of spheres across the Western countries and the powers that be (and there's factions, it's not a unified they/them bs). Just so we're clear, there won't be any revolution in the future. There might be some revolts, and perhaps these could unleash uncontrollable energy, because mob violence is nasty when it kicks off, but we don't have any revolutionary ideologies underpinning a reversal of our status quo into something else.
You're essentially correct about the populist delusion, but you're discounting the normalcy bias we're all victims off. But hear me out, because while we've all been kinda duped, right now something extraordinary is going on. This comment to your essay, substack and social media, YT and the rest of the audiovisual ecosystem, we're now living the internet revolution in real time. Yes it started in the 90s, but like the printing press, the revolution was the reformation which followed from the tech diffusing books and people learning to read in numbers, which led to the scientific revolution, etc. By way of analogy, we're currently in the beginning of whatever future historians will label "the revolution" which followed from the internet.
But the powers that be don't want a serious change or challenge from below. And to be clear, personally I don't think it's even possible or likely given the impending technocratic predictive control grid, whose architecture is being built as we speak and whose groundwork has already been laid. We're going to get robot dogs doing policing by next year, it's going to get dystopian very quickly, because there's not much runway left.
Why there's not much runway left is a great question and not something to be discussed lightly.
But at least it should start being clear that nothing of the current system is part of the solution, and the present system is going to go for a metamorphosis over the next couple of years.
I see you are downscaling your political content on YT and perhaps it is time for all thinking people to downscale their own interest in politics as well, to focus more on family, learning and their own welfare as Britain's stepwise, half-managed decline gathers pace.
Democracy should be mocked, ridiculed, criticized, not participated in.
Yes, of course. Also, when the opportunity arises, subverted and sabotaged.
It's not until AA made a video on it that I thought about any of these people. In fact I had totally forgotten that Burnham was Prime Minister. I mean, what has happened to actually give that away? Has it mattered?
Once you get out of sync with the news cycle you realise how pointless it all is. Though it would be funny to have an experimental channel where you react with outrage to the current thing, but it's the current thing of two years ago, so it has a time lag.
It doesn't even need to be higher things like family and learning, but just basically doing or talking about anything else.
Have you read any good novels lately? I'm re-reading Duncton Wood for the first time in years and I've forgotten how much William Horwood's story of moles impacted me. What about you?
"It would be funny to have an experimental channel where you react with outrage to the current thing, but it's the current thing of two years ago, so it has a time lag."
That would be hilarious. I think for most people current thing is just entertainment. It's all consequence free for the most part (except covid, which was the only current thing with real life consequences).
Yes, maybe. Given how frequently they reuse the same old stories it might get annoying for anyone who can remember 2 or more years back.
That would be a very interesting social experiment. They would seem absurd. Even though they would rightfully be outraged by whatever outrageous thing happening.
It’s merely a war no-one is defending
Let the armless invasion continue
Generally agree with this, however, I want to ask you your opinion on whether average British person or family should try actually hurting the system by checking out. By checking out I mean stop paying taxes. Legally of course, like get on welfare and take more tax money than you put in or just move to Dubai.
Organize behind something that isn't so readily turned to slop
Everything is readily turned into slop. We are surrounded by the corrosive acid of modernity (capital, mass media, public education, etc). The only half-effective strategy is insulating yourself, but only if you already have a cohesive community, like the Amish. Even they struggle to maintain separation because they have to do business with outsiders to survive economically.
".... once the energy is safely within the electoral arena..." That's the crux of it. Brilliantly phrased!
Nick, none of the white salvation cargo cult grifters is fit to lick your (jack) boots. Your experience & realpolitik world view need a much wider audience.
I was going to post this question as a general reply, but then I saw your reply, and I am curious as to your thoughts:
Do you think this is (or will become) part of a media strategy to contain remigration discourse?
(Edit: Specifically, will the media (eventually be able to) contain it through mainstream-isation?)
Multiculturalism is the millet system. We’re already dhimmis.
The last last thing the British Right/ country needs is MAGAnization.
We actually need a Right that's anti Global American Empire/Z0G.
Also, Labour moving to a more 'Blue Labour' position particularly if they start to use defence spending for some re-industrialisation will always get more support in the Red Wall than reheated Thatcherism.
Labour will never win elections running on increasing defense spending (and thats a good thing if you wish to vote Labour since we know what causes that spending will ultimately go to), what are you talking about
It is funny how quickly the tone shifts, yet Rupert Lowe remains entirely predictable. It wasn’t long ago that Parvini was glazing Lowe, attempting to frame his personal character assessment as something of objective value.
In reality, it was just deference to a former Tory who has spent years LARPing as landed gentry. It seems the deeply ingrained British urge to automatically defer to our perceived "betters" is a hard habit to break. If real systemic change is ever going to happen, it will be figures like Lowe, who will attempt to contain and destroy it.
No, the reason people like Parvini supported Lowe is the understanding that nothing will change without loyal elites. Normal citizens aren't allowed to become "elites" so the only chance you have is full on rebellion within the upper class system
Lowe isn't that, but any viable solution will start out looking like Lowe. *You will NEVER have a purely commoner/counter academic uprising, EVER.* To think otherwise is more retarded than believing Lowe could have been a legit contributing factor to resistance
The Bolsheviks and different successful right wing revolutionaries would have known exactly how to handle Lowe, and it wouldn't have involved glazing his ego.
While you understand the basic mechanics of elite theory, your criticism is completely detached from historical reality. History might not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. You need to experience how power operates in the real world, not just in textbooks.
If Restore is Lowe in the same way that Reform is Farage, quite possibly. But that energy - slightly battered - still exists within Restore and its environs. Downes can use his present voice and position to amplify key talking points into the right-wing populist sphere and the very quiet Pitt could increase his visibility and be bolder. Show us the Restore constitution. How do changes legally occur in that party?
I would add, Reform supporters think they are getting the things Restore has promised. Reversing mass immigration, for instance. While I am all for elite theory, and concede real change is unlikely, it is not impossible.
There is real hunger for very serious change. An alternative elite must know this too. I am not suggesting Lowe is the man, as he probably is just an old school Tory. But others must be watching and recognise there is real momentum to be harnessed. Even the airing of demographic decline is now becoming much more mainstream.
That said, it is unlikely there will be any political solution. So Parvini's assessment that it will be rolled into one big "right-wing" party is likely. But that still leaves many people not being served. So I am not so convinced by all this.
Finally, the country is collapsing. That to me is the unknown catalyst here. You can afford to indulge luxury beliefs when things are going well. Rather less so when collapse is imminent.
Lowe pretty much is just an old school Tory, however, unlike Farage, he isn't just shop front with no goods in the back. While they both have city backgrounds, Lowe has also genuinely built a large amount of his wealth by starting and growing real businesses. He understands, better than probably any other MP, how to actually get things done.
He also cares far less than Farage about his media profile, and is less likely to pull punches for fear of being called fascist or racist.
Lowe may be just a reheated 1980s Tory, but the young team he has gathered around them are anything but. I get the distinct sense that RL understands that their outlook is the future and his the transition.
Could be. I certainly hope so. He seems sincere. He is certainly saying unpopular things that rattle people.
All good points. I have found him convincing even when others were trashing him as a lightweight.
“We must unite the right to defeat the communists and jihadists!”
Rightoidism in a nutshell. Perfectly kosher. Perfectly useless.
Angered that you jumped on the Lowe and Restore bandwagon in the first place. You and your fellow Sensible Centrist cohorts Morgoth and Woes. All three of you lost so much respect and credibility. Pathetic.
John & Evelyn called it out & were attacked for their honest appraisal on twitter. Will anyone apologise ? No, the white salvation cargo cult of cunts will just trundle along, grifting for as long as they can...
Same thing happened with Clews.
Yes , David called out Lowe as the Thatcherite spiv that he is.
You omitted Charlie and Harrison from the piece. Where do these boys stand in all of this? Has Lowe had a word with them and said look boys, we gave it our best shot and the numbers aren't stacking up; he is a businessman after all.
Presumably not, because they (and Lowe) have in the last week argued for ensuring we don't become a minority.
Indeed. I am not convinced this is some roll it all together MAGA thing. I think it was a clever stunt by Lowe to demonstrate to Reform's supporters they are not serious about thing the expect. The reversal of mass immigration is new too; they have shied away from that in the past. Not just stopping it but reversing it.
Given who is backing Reform I thought it was a sensible move. Expose policies they are implying they will do and won't.
Like the article said it does not matter what the promises or stated plan is before the election. What matters is only can you trust THEM? Them being the actual people that will be in charge or supposedly in charge. With Reform the answer is NO, and even if some good Restore people get into parliament they will be ostracized by Reform bulk just like Matt Gaetz, and MTG, and that whole formerly MAGA supporting crowd was ostracized by Trump and his admin
I think Reform are already compromised by the establishment. I believe that is not the case with Restore.
I thought so too. It worked as an advert for Restore and it forced Farage to state his position on things he'd rather avoid.
That is my view. I get elite theory and the populist delusion. But I would like to believe Lowe is being intentionally vocal to signal to all those downwardly mobile elites there is an alternative.
I think he seems sincere about the decline of the nation and wanting to tackle it. Farage never comes across as someone who cares.
That's my impression too.
I can’t see Restore jacking it in just yet either.
I'm glad you've finally realized the error of your ways, I won't gloat, after all you gave me the tools to see the error ahead of time.
Good to have you back and as a wise man once said "Optimism is moral cowardice"
I was waiting for the telegraphed ending but it was never delivered. I think what you were going to say was this: MAGA briefly took the GOP in directions outside of AIPAC control. MAGA is now MIGA. The entire political spectrum in the Ukay is subject to US and Israeli control, in proportion to its relevance. Kudos to Restore for being, briefly, a big enough threat to be noticed and swiftly brought to heel. Like the US, before the Ukay can have any kind of nationalism, it must first recover its sovereignty. I don’t think we’ve had a Ukay sovereignty movement since Corbyn’s money-tree yoof movement and before that, the dreaded Boogeyman Nightmare Party.
I don't believe there's a point in following electoral politics. Change can never go through the ballot box.
Many of us have said all along the Restore/ lotus bleaters grifters were just part of the con-tainment & we have been proved correct. It's almost amusing to listen to the constant revisionism of the Swindon swindler & his gang of shits. Wide boys & spivs riding the white salvation cargo cult into the abyss. .
Too depressing for words.
“I hate everyone and all power holders hate me” continues to be a losing political position
???
To be fair, you were a cheerleader for Restore when they launched, so (and perhaps you wrote/said something elsewhere I've missed) if you want to ride the elephant, that's fine, but some intellectual honesty would be better for personal growth.
"In America, the original MAGA movement was absorbed into the Republican Party.... Britain is now undergoing the same process at an accelerated pace because the margins are tighter and the left is already consolidating."
In America they're more innovative, before MAGA there was the Tea party. It's a worthwhile consideration to bear in mind whether all these political movements get co-opted and/or are following a script, and if so, to what ends.
I disagree with your opinion of the why we're proceeding at an accelerated pace. I think we're running out of runway on a number of spheres across the Western countries and the powers that be (and there's factions, it's not a unified they/them bs). Just so we're clear, there won't be any revolution in the future. There might be some revolts, and perhaps these could unleash uncontrollable energy, because mob violence is nasty when it kicks off, but we don't have any revolutionary ideologies underpinning a reversal of our status quo into something else.
You're essentially correct about the populist delusion, but you're discounting the normalcy bias we're all victims off. But hear me out, because while we've all been kinda duped, right now something extraordinary is going on. This comment to your essay, substack and social media, YT and the rest of the audiovisual ecosystem, we're now living the internet revolution in real time. Yes it started in the 90s, but like the printing press, the revolution was the reformation which followed from the tech diffusing books and people learning to read in numbers, which led to the scientific revolution, etc. By way of analogy, we're currently in the beginning of whatever future historians will label "the revolution" which followed from the internet.
But the powers that be don't want a serious change or challenge from below. And to be clear, personally I don't think it's even possible or likely given the impending technocratic predictive control grid, whose architecture is being built as we speak and whose groundwork has already been laid. We're going to get robot dogs doing policing by next year, it's going to get dystopian very quickly, because there's not much runway left.
Why there's not much runway left is a great question and not something to be discussed lightly.
But at least it should start being clear that nothing of the current system is part of the solution, and the present system is going to go for a metamorphosis over the next couple of years.
Appreciate your work as always.
There isn’t enough fuel left in the tank for a British MAGA - I think haryan glivide is representative of the energy levels on the British right.
They like everything about MAGA except for the name itself, hence why Reform is the most popular party