https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/2012220254504530043?s=20
I'm going to reprint Rupert's Xpost below (courtesy of Steve at Unherdables) in the light of Ben's willingness to step down, plus Farage's strange moves ... that Zahawi and his (Nige's) going to the WEF meeting to be part of it all.
At the same time, lil ole me has an X up:
Naturally, that fell on deaf ears ... people are in the mood to be at odds with each other it seems. For the record, this was Rupert's statement:
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"One message has been reinforced today, in THE most spectacular fashion. Westminster is a vile snake-pit, infested with those who put their own personal interest above that of the country. There are an exceedingly small handful of patriots, but that number is vastly outnumbered by those who have their priorities in the following order.
Self.
Party.
Country.
Party politics has failed. It has failed all of us. It’s failed Great Yarmouth, it’s failed England, it’s failed Britain. It is a circus. A pantomime. A show. With no care for what’s really being inflicted on decent taxpaying men and women. They all treat it like a sport. It’s not. It is our country. Our home. Our people.
The solution? A Reform dictatorship that is packing its ranks with the very same people who decimated the country over 14 dire years? I think not.
Nadine Dorries? Jake Berry? Lee Anderson? Nadhim Zahawi? Really? Are these the people to turn this country around? A Labour defector is on the way too. I mean, really?
Even Jenrick, who has to take full responsibility for what happened on his watch as immigration minister. Entire communities transformed into what now resembles the third world. Vast streets of foreigners unable to speak English. Towns, changed beyond recognition. This is what they did to our Britain. All of them. Today, he betrayed his colleagues. That’s his choice.
I am of the view that nobody who has had any role in past Governments should be allowed by the British people to serve again.
The damage is just too immense, too grave, possibly even too irreversible.
All these washed-up former MPs who are weaponising the rightful anger of the British people to slink back into Parliament. It’s sickening to watch.
Please remember this.
THEY DID THIS TO THE COUNTRY.
These are the people who destroyed Britain. They will not fix it. Reform will not fix it.
Farage was supposed to destroy the establishment, not join them. That is why I backed him for so long. I was wrong to do so.
Sadly, joining that establishment is all he cares about. He wants to be accepted by the people who spurned him for so very long. That is what drives him. Take revenge on a Conservative Party that refused to accept him, and then force them to bend the knee and kiss his ring.
Party politics is dead.
We need an entirely different way of doing things - hundreds of men and women from outside politics, put forward for election. All of whom must have had NOTHING to do with how our country has been so abhorrently failed.
I am going to think long and hard over the weekend about my next step.
Britain doesn’t need mere reform from the same arsonists who burnt it to the ground.
A real alternative MUST be provided. I will do that."
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Uh huh. In 2010, four of us tried to set up The Albion Alliance, which Norman Tebbitt said "had no traction" but Peter Hain at the Welsh Labour Conference said was an extreme rightwing danger. Some UKIP MEPs and members were aligned with our stance.
Uh huh again ... truth was, the four starters were at odds on what we wanted from the start ... or rather, were of differing priorities. Two wanted Brexit, one was after Direct Democracy and the other was temporary head of the Libertarian Party, before DK took over.
The killer was that two of us were not remotely interested in money coming into it in return for our "journalism", which explains my attitude even now.
Point of this is that there is one prolific Reformer on X and she and I mutually follow ... that is, our policies are very largely aligned. Issue then? It's when we talk "leaders". She is dead against upstarts like Rupert and Ben "splitting the party", while we are dead against the Uniparty gang of three at the top of Reform. Extract the leadership issue and we're mostly aligned.
Just food for thought.

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