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Not in My Name: New Campaign Urging People Not to Vote on July 4th

by Ernest A
18 June 2024 1:00 PM

Are you tired of the same old party politics that have dominated our country for far too long? The Not in My Name campaign offers a vision for political reform.

The objective is clear: reduce voter turnout for the established parties – Labour, Tories, and the rest – to a mere 30%, sending a powerful message that 70% of the electorate is fed up with the current self-serving, anti-democratic system. If successful, this will pave the way for significant political reform, starting with a petition to the King, urging the establishment of a Royal Commission to devise a new, more democratic system.

Political parties have become parasites, living off the general population while fostering division and injustice. They thrive on partisanship, caring more about their own survival than the well-being of the nation. As stated in our campaign document, “Political parties are cancers, as they seek to insidiously impose their beliefs on those who, if it wasn’t for government compulsion, would have no truck with them.” It’s time to change this. As citizens, we should not demean ourselves by voting for parties that hold us in contempt.

The campaign document outlines 18 arguments against the current political system, from the undemocratic nature of party politics to the wasteful infighting that costs us all dearly. It highlights how small groups of party members make decisions for millions, leading to a lack of true representation – 170,000 Tories, 300,000 Labourites, and 90,000 Lib-Dems shouldn’t control 70 million lives.

The campaign calls for key reforms such as ending public subsidies for political parties, capping political donations and ensuring MPs vote according to their conscience rather than party lines.

If you want things to keep getting worse, then vote Labour or Tory or any of the rest – vote for those who have made things as they are. If you want change though, if you want things to get better, don’t vote!

But this is not just about not voting; it’s about reclaiming our democracy and insisting on a political system that truly serves the people.

For more details, visit notinmyname.uk and follow the campaign on X here.

Thank you for considering this proposal.

Tags: General Election 2024Not In My NameRoyal Commission

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
11 months ago

I don’t think that not voting is the answer. Dissenters are lost amid the lazy non-voters.

I want a way of saying how disillusioned and angry I am.

I’d prefer to have a “none of the above” option on the ballot, in effect an option for explicitly spoiling the ballot paper, rather than simply defacing it or drawing rude pictures.

If a winning party fails to beat the “none” column, then their mandate is meaningless, with potential penalties such as a maximum 1-year term in post to prove your worth, followed by an automatic by-election.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

I think spoiling the ballot paper is effectively “none of the above”, though I suppose a specific category would be clearer as it differentiates from people who can’t fill in the ballot paper properly and also might make people more likely to turn up and tick it than to stay at home.

I think if there is a candidate standing in your area who you feel reflects your views, or their party does, then you should vote for them.

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Clint72
Clint72
11 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I can’t, Reform has been shut down in Saffron Walden! Well done daily fail.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  Clint72

Yes, Heretic mentioned that. Write them in. I don’t know what the bloke said but my default reaction is they should not have backed down.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Here’s what he said 15 years ago, that the Tories have just dug up to remove him so that Badenoch can easily win the seat: “The 71-year-old St.Clair-Armstrong, who is challenging business secretary Kemi Badenoch in the constituency of North West Essex, posted on a blog called the Joli Triste in 2010:

“I could weep now, every time I pick up a British newspaper and read the latest about the state of the UK,” The Times reports. ““No doubt, Enoch Powell would be doing the same if he was alive. My solution … vote BNP!”, he added.”

“His comments were found in an archived version of the Joli Triste website, which has since been changed. According to The Times, other blog posts included racial slurs and a joke about “female hormones”.” 

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I don’t remember the BNP’s precise policies, but I would agree with his comments about Powell, and so would a lot of people.

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Clint72
Clint72
11 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I’ve actually met him and was impressed. I will still go with him. I can’t vote for Goves stooge and the labour thing is only 21!!

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Clint72
Clint72
11 months ago
Reply to  Clint72

I meant to say activist rather than thing.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Clint72

Freudian slip!

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Clint72

The Reform candidate St.Clair-Armstrong’s name is still on the ballot, as you will see on the link below, so just vote for him anyway, as you intended.

Saffron Walden has been absorbed into the North West Essex constituency whose seat was held by the Globalist Nigerian Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, otherwise known as Kemi Badenoch.

UK Parliamentary general election: The 8 candidates in North West Essex (whocanivotefor.co.uk)

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ellie-em
ellie-em
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

‘Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke’ – by heck, that’s a mouthful!

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Smudger
Smudger
11 months ago
Reply to  Clint72

The Daily Mail ought to focus on the Conservative Party and its MPs who have wantonly betrayed their voter base, trashed conservatism and left a trail of social and economic destruction over the last 14 years. The DT has shown who it is batting for.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

“people who can’t fill in the ballot paper properly”

tof, you wouldn’t believe how many voting papers are not filled in correctly.

Incorrectly completed votes could be marks made with any colour pen but black and then ticks, squiggles, circles, yeses, no’s, this one and whatever. I have in the past challenged votes that do not comply with the instruction to mark with a cross in the box but the standard response of the adjudicating officers is that the vote counts. The excuse is that taking the matter to court is a waste of time because “any mark on or around the candidates name on the voting slip shows an intention to vote.”

Similarly, when 100 postal votes are emptied in front of you marked with a blue biro tick for the Labour candidate this is nothing to do with voting papers collected from constituents and taken to the local mosque for processing because nothing can be done. The votes count.

Now who relaxed the rules on postal votes?

Voter ID? Not required for postal votes.

What was the percentage of postal votes in the Rochdale by-election won by Galloway?

Electoral fraud is endemic and all the evidence is that it supports the Labour Party.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

“tof, you wouldn’t believe how many voting papers are not filled in correctly.”

I assumed most people had a minimum of common sense and ability to follow instructions!

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misslawbore
misslawbore
11 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The Electoral Commission has detailed guidance on rejecting votes if the signature on the voting paper is not genuine. But signatures can be copied of course. If fraud is apparent this can be reported to the police. However proper vetting may well not take place so I favour restrictions to postal voting to the elderly and disabled, otherwise it would only be allowed in exceptional individual cases with proof of need on each voting occasion

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

It’s infuriating but I get the gist. A none vote is about as effective as banging your head on a wall and silently saying “ouch”.
Your vote counts. Vote for something you like, something you think is funny. CO2 is plant food, votes are Politician food. Deny the politicians vote food by voting against them. Not voting or spoiling your paper is as ineffective as it can possibly get. It’s akin to a little boys first glimpse of a girls pants on a washing line.

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JASA
JASA
11 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

I do feel that spoiling your ballot paper could be effective if enough people did it. Spoilt ballot papers are counted, so if everyone turned up to vote, yet the majority spoilt their ballot papers e.g. 30 to 40 million or so, surely that would be very significant.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  JASA

Totally agree. And the logic behind supporting that is the same as for supporting Reform. You don’t necessarily support the group that has a chance of winning. You support the group that best represents your ideas.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I will never again vote for any party that has Net Zero as a policy. If the only party available at election time that does not subscribe to Net Zero is the Monster Loonies then that is the party I will vote for.
I cannot vote for a policy that deliberately seeks to impoverish me and ration my energy use based on un-validated politicised claims about climate where no empirical evidence exists. Even if I agree with every other thing in a party’s manifesto, as long as Net Zero is in there, they will NEVER get my vote

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  JASA

Perhaps that is why ‘None of the above’ is not on the ballot, because it would win therefore the King would be forced to dissolve Parliament.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
11 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

It seems to me that most people are still getting excited by the girls pants on the washing line.

The idea is pretty simple. If the majority of people stop voting it makes the system illegitimate. It draws a big bold fat line under the fact that our supposed democracy is an illusion. At that point it must be replaced. Almost everyone on here, it seems, has been programmed with a backdoor hack – one they access every four years to control the masses and maintain their system. The backdoor hack makes you believe voting within the current system is democratic; that the current system works and is there to support the serfs choose who should represent them. It doesn’t and it’s not. The current system exists to ensure your enslavement to the elite-based system and your vote is an unwitting endorsement of that undemocratic system. Even spoiling your ballot only rejects the choices the system has given you, it doesn’t reject the system. The backdoor hack works because of decades of ‘you must vote because of x/y/x’ propaganda and because people like to believe that they’re really in control. You’re not, and under the current system you never will be.

How anyone can go through the last few years and watch the upending of supposedly democratic societies across the world, and think that their vote ensures their freedom within a people-serving democracy, is just extraordinary. But then, the psychological programming runs deep, so nothing really surprises me at all.

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Dwain
Dwain
11 months ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

I think that all spoilt votes should be recorded and read out on election day.

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RTSC
RTSC
11 months ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

There isn’t a Reform candidate in West Dorset: they didn’t get time to appoint/vet anyone. There are 2 Independents standing, but I know nothing about them or their policies, although one of them delivered a leaflet to my door and is an elderly man with a personal grievance against Dorset Council and I’m not interested in supporting his personal “war.”

So I will be writing “REFORM PARTY” on my ballot paper.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
11 months ago

My dear Father used to say if the ‘Don’t Knows’ get in then we’re really in trouble.

Reclaiming democracy by refusing to take part in it and leaving the power in the current hands, seems batty to me.

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john1T
john1T
11 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Agreed. And I’ve always thought that the don’t vote argument is a psyop to dissuade the disgruntled from voting for parties like Reform.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  john1T

You are spot on!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  john1T

There was an article on here some time ago claiming Raving loony Party is a PsyOp because it is there to keep the Uniparty system together.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

How so? I don’t understand what function the Raving Loonies could have as a PsyOp.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I can’t remember the article, but I think because they often split the vote from the smaller parties. Remember the Pub Landlord Al Murray stood against Farage.

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

It’s not democracy.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  JXB

It’s all we’ve got for now. You know what they say:

“When life hands you a lemon, make a lemonade.”

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David101
David101
11 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The “Can’t-Be-Bothered-To-Vote”s are the very same people who perennially complain that the only way we get to partake in democracy is by having the right to vote once every 5 years…

So let’s give that up too, shall we?

If you want reform, Vote Reform!

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
11 months ago

“…urging the establishment of a Royal Commission to devise a new, more democratic system.”

Yeah. That will work.

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JohnK
JohnK
11 months ago

A bit late in my case; polling day was half an hour ago by postal vote. If I wanted to waste time, I could point out to the candidate (or, more likely, the agent) that just because it’s “General”, it does not mean I agree with everything they try to do. Watch this space etc.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

Postal votes are for the lazy, stupid and, of course, Muslim women who have no rights in my opinion and should be banned. “A bit late in my case” is unbelievably pathetic: get off your arse and walk. Quite frankly, why are you on a, largely, politics site if you prefer re-runs of Neighbours to exercising your right to vote?

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JohnK
JohnK
11 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

They often make it possible for us to vote at all, when our business or other matters make it physically impossible to be at a polling station on a specific day. When it was more awkward to use postal voting, that kept me out of a GE some years ago. Where I live, it has long been the practice in political Parties to encourage those who are generally reliable to vote for one’s Party to use them as well, on account of the belief that it does actually increase the turnout (hopefully to their benefit). After all, an established supporter/member does not to waste their time on the subject.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
11 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Postal votes should be available for those that have booked a distant business trip or holiday, or, in some circumstances, taking care of a long distance relative.

It may be difficult to administer, but at least acknowledge that some would be badly affected for helping others.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
11 months ago

Would our country be in a better state in the coming months and years if everyone who might be inclined to vote for Reform chose not to vote or if everyone who might be inclined to vote for Reform actually voted for Reform?

I’m voting.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

If everyone did not vote Red or Blue your vote changes your world.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
11 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Voting should give some indication as to what policies are preferable.

Not voting does not do this. It sounds it’s a subtle very authoritarian move.

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Douglas Brodie
Douglas Brodie
11 months ago

Not voting is a very bad idea now that we have Reform led by Farage who defeated the establishment in the Brexit vote. Reform offers a ray of hope. Just look at how Net Zero is all of a sudden being discussed publicly, and deservedly denigrated, after having been forced down our throats for so many years by the Con/Lab/Lib/SNP Uniparty with no discussion allowed.
 
The most important thing is to Not vote for the Con/Lab/Lib/SNP Uniparty who are leading us in lockstep into ruination, be it on their Covid plandemic (Bird Flu next?), Net Zero, out of control immigration, needless provocation of Russia and assorted very annoying wokeries.
 
Reform is in a good position to do a reverse mimic of how the minority SNP separatists keep winning in Scotland, because the traditionally tribalist votes for the unionist Con/Lab/Lib parties get split. If enough people vote for an anti-Uniparty candidate in the GE, with Reform now the obvious choice, we could see a major turn-up for the books.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago
Reply to  Douglas Brodie

100% correct.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
11 months ago

Politicians’ post mortem: “Only 20% voted. Look how apathetic they all are. It’s lucky that we who know better and care more are here to take the sheep where they need to go, before things really go down the pan. Note to selves: it’ll look better next time if we get the behavioural psychs nudging them to vote for us rather than not vote and make us look undemocratic.”

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john1T
john1T
11 months ago

Reviving our democracy is going to be a long road. The first step was BREXIT. We are now at the stage where we can get rid of the globalist Tories. We are at a pivotal time in UK politics.

The next few years are going to be a good time to be in opposition. Labour will be full of themselves for a short while until all their net zero policies, and trying to overturn BREXIT, and culture wars start to hit home with the public. Look to 2029 for real change, but only if we actually vote for it.

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john1T
john1T
11 months ago

Just throwing this out there and I know it might not be popular, but ending public subsidies for political parties just puts them in to the hands of their biggest donors. If we want our politicians to act on behalf of the rich, then allow a system where the rich pay their bills. If we want our politicians to act on our behalf then that funding model does not work.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago

Well, it’s always worthwhile having a closer look at things, and asking awkward questions, such as “Why does that Not in my Name website have no staff or people listed at all?”

Being a Nosey Parker, I did some searching, and found that this “Not in my Name” appears to be an academic research project from the Nest of Marxists at the London School of Economics, and we are being invited to be guinea pigs for this research project run by LSE Assistant Professor Jonathan Parry and two of his grad students.

Here’s one of Prof. Parry’s many learned articles:
“Sociological Marxism” in central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions Parry, Jonathan (2009) “Sociological Marxism” in central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions. In: Hann, Chris and Hart, Keith, (eds.) Market and Society: the Great Transformation Today. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 175-202. ISBN 9780521519656

You can see his photo and a long list of his research publications here, by clicking on the red & white “See More Research” button at the bottom of his home page:

Jonathan Parry (lse.ac.uk)

We in the West haven’t the least clue about the huge number of hardcore Marxists there are among the Indian establishment in India.
And then they come to the West…

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Jonathan Parry awarded ERC starting grant for new 5-year research project | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (lse.ac.uk)

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Seems that Toby needs to get a grip…

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

It has engendered debate – and to be fair, that’s what we are here for, isn’t it?

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Excellent point!

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

No, I’m glad he published this, because it may be that the EU are actually interfering in our elections, by this circuitous path, using our own never-ending “contributions” to the EU budget!

Are they panicking about the populist, nationalist uprising in the West, and terrified of their old nemesis Nigel? Enough to trot out this “Don’t Vote Campaign” at precisely the right moment to stop people from voting for his Reform Party?

It’s all very interesting. While people are worrying about the Russians interfering in elections, it seems the EUSSR and “Fond of Lying” von der Ursula are quietly interfering themselves.

It ties in with the strange new Spanish protests against British tourists, instigated by their Leftist government to re-direct the wrath of the Spanish public about Invasion of Third World Scroungers towards poor old Brits having a jolly holiday, paying pots of money for it, helping the Spanish economy, and then going back home.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

In Tenerife the blame is on the big Blue Chip Hotels buying up land and pushing up house prices for the locals. I did wonder if this was some sort of PsyOp. France24 was talking about a town in Italy where they have restricted the amount of visitors they can take in. Some US travellers were angry because they were not informed about it and fined. Whatever is going on, restrictions on travel with QR codes etc are being normalised.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

It could also be that they are restricting tourists in order to seize the accommodation for the Third World Invaders. Just as in Britain, where owners of hotels are offered much more money by the government to house Fake Refugees than they could ever make from housing tourists.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

“Restrictions on travel…”

Manufactured nonsense. We have been to Spain twice this year. There was no animosity and people were as hospitable as ever. Just back from Greece – ditto.

A friend just back from Greece reported exactly the same.

Nobody I know who has been in Europe has reported any issues.

It would appear that Fond of Lying and the rest are attempting to guilt trip us in to putting an end to foreign travel. Not a prayer.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

LSE: the Ghost Of Teflon Past. There is something very disturbing about that place.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Yes! I didn’t realise it was founded by the evil Fabian Society:

“The Fabian Society had developed an obsession with economics in the very first months and years of its existence, when its members met regularly to study and discuss Karl Marx and his economic theories. This obsession led to the Fabians’ creation of institutions like the British Economic Association (later Royal Economic Society) and, in particular, the London School of Economics (LSE).

The Fabians’ strange interest was motivated by two things. First, they could use economic theories as a “scientific” backing for their Socialist ideology just as Marx had done before them. Second, through educational institutions teaching Fabian economics, they consciously sought to create whole generations of professional economists — a new ruling class — who, working as civil servants and other government officials, would implement Fabian policies (M. Cole, p. 88).”

“This paved the way for the infiltration and domination of society – for many generations to come – by a system hell-bent on imposing Socialism on the world.”

mhp: The Fabian Society — The Fabian Society and Keynesian Economics (modernhistoryproject.org)

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

There is also Common Purpose exposed by UK Column many years ago.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Well done for remembering that! Retired Royal Navy Lt. Commander Brian Gerrish has done a great service to humanity by exposing the evil Communist Subversive gang called “Common Purpose”.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
11 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

“Free, free, LSE
Free it from the bourgeoisie”

Ah, they don’t write them like they used to…

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

And where’s the proof that this social sciences ‘research project’ is related to the notinmyname.uk domain name?

NB: The answer is not another about how my mother must be black, which she certainly isn’t.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  RW

Prove that it isn’t.

And it’s entirely your own fault that people thought one of your parents must be a Third World Ethnic, because you insisted that you are “German, not white”, and complained about “racist” Brits throwing you out of pubs for ogling.

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

You’ve made a positive assertion. Hence, it’s up to you to prove it.

Just to correct the other errors: I’ve repeatedly stated that white people is a US construct which came into being because of the melting pot USA phenomenon, with immigration from all over Europe in the 19th century. In Europe, we aren’t “white” but German, English, French, Italian, Spanish or Polish which are all very much different things.

I once got thrown out of a pub in Reading (The Monk’s Retreat) because a Polish women (judging from her accent, her English was pretty poor) thought there was something wrong with me walking up and down the room with a pint and minding my own business. What set her off was probably me smiling at her when I noticed that she was looking attentatively in my direction.

I’ve repeatedly pointed out that so-called white privilege helps you jackshit when everybody notices you’re a foreigner the moment you open your mouth. If you seriously believe there are no Brits who don’t like foreigners, maybe come here for a while.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  RW

Etymology dictionary “WHITE”:

“Middle English whit, from Old English hwit “bright, radiant; clear, fair,” also as a noun (see separate entry), from Proto-Germanic *hweit- (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit, Old Norse hvitr, Dutch wit, Old High German hwiz, German weiß, Gothic hveits).

As a surname, originally with reference to fair hair or complexion, it is one of the oldest in English, being well-established before the Conquest.

The racial sense “of those races (chiefly European or of European extraction) characterized by light complexion” is recorded from c. 1600.”

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

“Of those races”, to wit. Even at a coarse-grained level, that’s Celts (eg, from Wales, Ireland or Britanny) Romanic people (French, Italians, Spaniards), Germanic people (Germans, Danes, Swedes) and Slavs (Poles, Croats, Serbs, Russians). More fine-grained, Danes are very much not Germans, just as Croats are certainly no Serbs and Spaniards are certainly not French.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  RW

Why list different tribes of the same race? They’re all Ethnic Europeans = White People, unless they have true black hair, like 93% of humanity. Ethnic Europeans can have any hair colour, even very dark brown, but not true black, which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a Non-European = Non-White. Many Spaniards and other Europeans with true black hair are the result of the Moorish invasions and other miscegenation.

For example, if both parents are blond, they cannot have anything except blond children.

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Because they’re not different tribes of the same race. Tribes are a subdivision below the level of peoples. Eg, both Hessians and Bavarians are German tribes (as were Angles and Saxons, for that matter, although they should probably rather be called Germanic tribes as the notion of a German nation didn’t yet exist at that time).

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  RW

There are only Four World Ethnic Groups (= races): Africans, Orientals, Indian Subcontinentals, and Europeans. All others are subdivisions of these four, regardless of whether you call them tribes, or peoples, or nations, or some other word.

The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, Europeans = White People, comprised 25% of all the people on the planet in the 1950s. Today, we are down to about 7%, falling to 5% within a decade, and total extinction after that.

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I don’t know who came up with this schematization and terminology, but I’ll stick to the traditional European one.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  RW

It is traditional Anthropology. There is no “European” one. Germans are Ethnic Europeans = White People. Some may have been brainwashed into denying this very obvious fact, by the endless Guilt Trip forced upon all German (& Japanese) people after WW2, but it’s time for them to cast off that yoke. They were horrifically punished after that war, and their descendants continue to be unjustly blamed for the sins of their forefathers. No one on the planet can be held responsible for the sins of their ancestors, regardless of what some Middle Eastern religious cults say, and “reparations” for ancestral sins are a total scam.
Here endeth the lesson.

Last edited 11 months ago by Heretic
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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I have no idea about traditional Anthropology (and don’t plan to change that) but there used to be a notion of grouping people which made Conan-Doyle write about the excitable celtic temper of female domestic servant in The Musgrave Ritual, which had the author of Die Tragödie von Verdun, 2. Teil (The Tragedy of Verdun, prt 2) state that members of all German tribes had fought, sufferend, perished and ultimatively, conquered on the mountain of Vaux (on whose crest Fort Vaux sat) in 1916 and which posits that I’m neiter English nor Polish although more closely related to the former than the latter. I reject being put into some wastepeople bin labelled White Unmenschen and be held responsible for each and every act of English foreign policy someone disagreed with since the disovery of the Americas.

NB: This is not a statement of opinion about these acts of English foreign policy, just the assertion that nobody from my people/ tribe/ nation/ younameit was ever actively involved with these.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago

Bloody stupid. The way to force change is to vote anything but Blue and Red for heavens sakes. The average “win” is 27% of the electorate. Vote anything you like and, when that share hits 15%? Hardly needs a genius to work it out does it?
Now, the reason not voting is useless is because that non-vote is meaningless. It’s long been the nutter resort. It is simply not part of the statistics. Take away 99% of the electorate and the winning party still gets 27% of the votes cast.
Did the idiot who came up with this write Labour’s manifesto by any chance?

Last edited 11 months ago by Richard Austin
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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
11 months ago

You want to hurt them? Vote against them!

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago

Finally a political campaign that I feel represents me.

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Mrs Bunty
Mrs Bunty
11 months ago

I’ve always voted but now it’s appalling that Lib/Lab/Con are all a dire waste of space. It’ll be Reform for me but they haven’t a snowball’s chance in my area. Fully Lib Dem now, ugh.

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago

“…the establishment of a Royal Commission to devise a new, more democratic system.”

Democracy is binary, either you have it or you don’t. It’s like pregnancy, nobody can be more or less pregnant.

Democracy would mean getting rid of voting which concentrates power rather than the fundamental principle of demos kratos to distribute power equally across the population so nobody has more power than another to avoid the sort of tyranny we now have.

It would also mean abolition of taxation to be used to redistribute wealth, with a small flat tax on land/property and point of sales, to fund public goods like military.

All else, so called public serves, paid direct by consumers in a competitive private market.

Good luck with any of that.

I agree not voting to deny legitimacy, but the demos has its collective nose planted firmly in the public treasury trough, and won’t give up lots of free stuff paid for by others.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago

Yes, these are philosophical airy fairy ideas though. It would be true that if you got enough people to stop buying bread and milk the price would come down. But it is virtually impossible to get everyone in your own street to agree on anything, never mind the whole country.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
11 months ago
Reply to  varmint

How is it “airy fairy”? We only need to start something. Once started it’ll gain mass, and once it gains critical mass it’ll kick off a chain of events that will see all the dominos fall.

And people need bread and milk almost daily, we don’t need to be allowed to pretend we’re in charge for a day once every four years.

What have you got to lose by not playing their game this year? I mean, seriously?

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RW
RW
11 months ago

I like the idea and the proposal make an interesting read but it’s seriously half-baked.

The prime minister of the UK is position which came into being because one of the Hannover-kings stopped attending cabinett meetings, presumably, because he didn’t understand most of what was happening there because his English was too bad. In principle, a prime minister is appointed by the monarch as he sees fit. In practice, the monarch will appoint someone who can probably command a majority in the House of Commons because he’s the leader of the party which won a majority or at least someone who engineered a coalition agreement.

Ministers are appointed by the monarch on ‘advice’ of the prime minister. This is called advice for polite protocol reason because this ‘advice’ is really an order given to the monarch by the prime minister (the same is true for all other kinds of ministerial ‘advice’ — it’s always orders the monarch is obliged to fulfill).

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
11 months ago

With the Workers Party Of Britain deciding not to field a candidate in my constituency I cannot vote for any of Tory, Labour, LibDems, Greens, Reform or English Democrats due to their policies.
I recognise the sacrifice previous generations made with their lives so we could vote so I will be writing “NONE OF THE ABOVE” on the voting paper.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
11 months ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

which will be indistinguishable from the number of voting papers marked by people too stupid to understand that you’re only allowed to vote for one candidate.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

So you and the “Workers Party of Britain” care NOTHING about Britain or Indigenous British Workers, or any issue directly affecting them in their Ancestral Homeland of the British Isles, where you live.

You and the “Workers Party of Britain” only care about ONE ISSUE, a Foreign War thousands of miles away that has nothing whatsoever to do with our UK elections, and nothing to do with making life better for Indigenous British Workers.

You and the “Workers Party of Britain” need to GO THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY to that Foreign War you care so much about, and let the Indigenous British Workers of Great Britain set up their own NEW PARTY without you or that treasonous clown with his 3 successive Muslim wives, and call it The Indigenous British Workers Party.

Now dust off your passport, put on your Islamic pajamas, don’t forget your tea-towel headgear, and off you go. Don’t forget to take all your friends who hate Britain with you.

Bye, bye! Have a nice trip, and send us a picture postcard of you fighting on the frontline in whichever Foreign War you choose.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
11 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

The spittle flecked, purple faced gammon has blown a gasket.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Since your use of that Anti-White Racist skin colour word “Gammon” is precisely the same as other people using Racist words to describe various skin colour in Third World Ethnics, neither they nor you should be vilified or prosecuted or driven out of their jobs for using those words.

Upon further consideration, the Indigenous British Workers of Great Britain don’t need their own political party, because they have their own Unions to defend their interests and their human rights at work.

If they want to vote for a political party that will actually make their lives better, they can VOTE REFORM.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
11 months ago

Reading the comments is depressing. Everyone so excited about putting on their Boss suit for the day. And so many unable to grasp the all-important difference between not voting and the system choices provided. If 90% of supposed sceptics can’t work out the difference, and are instead excitedly getting ready to be taken up the rear again, then we deserve everything we get.

Last edited 11 months ago by Free Lemming
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Iain McCausland
Iain McCausland
11 months ago

The ‘social contract’ between Parliament and people has already been broken. It was broken on 23rd March 2020. Ex-QC Lord Jonathan Sumption QC described the stay at home control orders to be the greatest intrusion into the lives of the British people for 300 years, war times included. To believe that the government would now pay attention to the electorate is naive in the extreme.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
11 months ago
Reply to  Iain McCausland

It has made more people aware of just how shallow politics has been.

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Epi
Epi
11 months ago

Unfortunately there is not an Independent candidate running in my Central Bedfordshire constituency so I will probably either spoil my ballot paper or not vote. I really can’t bring myself to vote for the riff raff presented to us. As I’ve said before a plague on all their houses.

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bfbf334
bfbf334
11 months ago

Dream on.
Back in the real world VOTE REFORM

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
11 months ago

Sounds thoroughly irresponsible to me. By all means encourage voters to spoil their ballot papers if you want. But don’t discourage voting.

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  adamcollyer

What he really wants is vote for an independent candidate, ie, someone that’s actually from the constituency, or don’t vote if there isn’t one. There are three basic choices here:

  1. Vote for one of the system parties. It reallly doesn’t matter which because they’re in broad agreement on all major policy choices. They all want more immigration (the Tories keep saying otherwise, but as they keep doing the opposite, that’s obviously a ruse), Net Zero, at least in form of lip services and handing out cash, and generally, less freedom, especially less freedom to publish stuff on the internet for independents but really less freedom in general. Eg, muslim extremists and drug dealer gangs ‘discussing’ there affairs with edged weapons => Great opportunity to disarm the law-abiding population somewhat harder still! Outlaw butter knives and nail scissors but do nothing else!
  2. Vote for something non-system, ie, the Spoiled Ballot Paper party or some other fringe organisation. This gives the system politicians something they want – voter turnout – and denies them something they also want, namely, votes for them.
  3. Don’t vote. This denies the system parties everything and doesn’t give anything to anybody else, either.

If the system politicians would be believe in their own BS, they really ought to care about 2) or 3) but that’s the catch: They really ought to. There’s little reason to assume they actually do, cf London mayor election with turnout less than majority of the electorate. Khant democratially elected nevertheless.

A fourth choice would be hope that they’ll overdo it to the degree that hunger revolts break out, like the moron from Singapore did. But banking on one’s opponents being criminally stupid is a risky strategy. Plus, a violent muslim takeover of London might not be that desirable, either.

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Alan M
Alan M
11 months ago

Spoilt ballot paper is the way. A couple of hundred spoilt papers implies a few who don’t understand the process; several thousand in each constituency sends the message. Whether it will be listened to is another matter.

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