Post-Reform

There are certain home truths both ways on the Yusuf-Lowe mess … but first, two screenshots:

Well, you’d expect Great Yarmouth to show support for Rupert but it’s a double-edged sword. With the pro Rupert people resigning but with Yusuf Reform still intact and well funded, then there’s an electoral hole … Yusuf Reform runs a “centrist” LibDem type as Reform candidate, new party runs Rupert … Uniparty is in.

One thing Farage is good at is promotion for whomever he’s supporting, at “building membership”. With the greatest will in the world, neither Rupert nor Andrew have that acumen. Am I therefore for the mendacious dissembler Farage, who’s wrecked three parties so far … which may or may not have been his intention?

Not in the least but please look at realpolitik and what all players are after, each and every one.  The Tories are part of that.  The game is set up to return Uniparty red or blue, with maybe yellow north of the border. Farage has said that to be in power, they must carry the centre ground. In his eyes, that’s LibDem or Tory wet.  As M25 bubble, he’s perfectly happy with that … hence he lost the north of England at the old UKIP, after the Euro triumph.

But the elephant in the room, aside from climate bollox or the deathjab, or inheritance or winter fuel … is the boats, us being overrun, whilst mass deportations start in the US and many here approve.

The Reform political players and supporters say … look, we were on a roll, we need the centre ground, even if it means compromising with anti deporters.

Reform purists say no way … however it’s currently rigged in Westminster, to support people who support the grooming and rape gangs, to support taxpayer subsidised invaders, to send troops to the Ukraine whilst here, in cushy accommodation at taxpayer expense … that’s simply not morally on.

This last lot ask … is Reform about just gaining power … or is it about principle?  If the latter, who emerges as a leader?  I like Rupert a lot … but can he carry a nation to vote some new party of loose allies?

Hmmmm … I’m saying there’s no obvious solution to this.

Who Says They Have No Work Ethic?

A senior civil servant with security vetting was allegedly paid for three full-time jobs by different Government departments – at the same time. The mandarin who, it is understood, was able to work from home, is said to have duped his bosses to secure the taxpayer-funded roles. He then worked at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and at least one other department, on two occasions.

Three jobs? And no-one noticed? This will be another nail in the coffin for WFH won't it? 

This was despite him going through the Government's vetting procedures, designed to ensure rogue agents do not make it into Whitehall. An internal audit in 2022-23 discovered the worker had withheld his employment history when applying for the roles.

That's all it takes to evade vetting procedures?  

The civil servant no longer works for the Government and has been charged with one count of fraud. He has not indicated a plea.

Why only one? Why not two? 

The NFI report looked into remote working practices following the pandemic. It found there was 'even more opportunity for individuals to commit fraud by gaining employment with several local authorities at the same time but failing to fulfil all of the roles'.

Yup, the only reason this is making headlines is to have another pop at WFH, mark my words. 

The standard online reader needs to delve more thoroughly

There’s a very great problem for any citizen reader online that we are at different stages of “rabbitholing” … that is that one reader will be far more au fait with who’s who than another … and yet both report or pontificate online.

There’s no resolution to this as who becomes the arbiter in deciding “merit”? For example:

“Dramatic night as Saudi sources now claims Iranian intel ship Zagros (SIGINT) was sunk by U.S. forces at the same time the IDF conducts wide-ranging strikes in Gaza after Israel discovers Hamas was plotting another major Oct 7 style attack. Gaza ceasefire officially over, according to the Prime Minister’s office. Reuters is also reporting ballistic missile movement at IRGC bases in Iran. There were also reports from Yemen (video) that several senior IRGC members were eliminated in US attacks on Houthi targets.”

That report comes from Emily Schrader, whose X bio looks like this:

Look at ivolin:

Emily is on the exec council. Is that bad in itself? I’d argue no, in the same way a writer for RT is clearly pro-Russian, an Imam is clearly pro their religion, in the same way that Christine Easdale is clearly pro Britain and has called out Farage on his and Yusuf’s behaviour towards Rupert Lowe. Christine Anderson is clearly pro Germany.

In fact, I trust people more who are openly, upfront supporters of a particular side … I mean, one knows what is and what is not … what we can expect.

And from the language used, even mine in the “Emily paragraph” above, a mildly investigative mind can work out quickly the stance on various issues. But there’s also the question of good or poor intel. If Laura Loomer comes out with:

The Judge has a daughter named Katherine Boasberg, who works for a 501(c)(3) organization called Partners for Justice @PFJ_USA as a “capacity building associate". In her position, she helps coordinate and administer grant activities, ensuring compliance, and supporting the delivery of capacity-building programs to strengthen nonprofit infrastructure.

… how good is her intel? And also, that activist judge calling for terrorists to turn around, mid flight, and fly back to the US … whom does he work for, who pays him?  As for me, I’m neither Jewish nor deathcult but I do sympathise with the ordinary people of Iran, of the Ukraine, of Britain, the US, wherever … France. Israel. Rwanda. From a Brit-eye view, with much US coverage as well.

The point of this post?  Asking readers to please explore thoroughly before opining in print … esp. when govt stasi are combing through online posts, tweets etc., to see whom they can swat and waste taxpayer money on more profligatorily (latest invented word).

Not Quite, Arwa, Not Quite....

A more honest headline would have to admit that what it means is 'You Don't Matter Any More Than Anyone Else'....and that's the message that should always have been sent, isn't it?

Trump’s second term has become a crusade against DEI. Hours into his presidency, he signed two executive orders targeting “radical and wasteful” DEI programmes. If a federal initiative has anything remotely to do with the issue, Trump has decreed that it must be eliminated. References to the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, for example, were marked for deletion by the Department of Defense. Why? Because the aircraft’s name has the word “gay” in it.

Well, that's another example of relying on machines and not people, it hardly invalidates the movement. 

DEI may be a relatively new term, but the idea has roots in the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal for most employers with 25 or more staff (reduced to 15 or more by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972) to discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex and national origin.

And that once noble outlook has been twisted to allow discrimination against the majority.

While DEI has its roots in addressing injustices, there is a strong business case for it.

If that was true, businesses wouldn't have needed legislation to bring it in, would they? 

DEI should always have been treated as a serious business issue. Instead, it has often been approached as a box-ticking exercise or a PR manoeuvre.

Or a grift, as we can see from the next example you dredge up: 

“The amount of money I made starting May 2020 until about 2023 – I’ve never made so much money in my entire life,” says Akilah Cadet, a DEI practitioner and the author of White Supremacy Is All Around. Some of that money came from brands who genuinely seemed to care, she says, but others were just in it to look good. Now, however, the jobs have dried up. “I’ve laid off my staff. I have a much smaller team. I’m being punished as a result of people no longer wanting to care about people they should have been caring about in the first place,” Cadet says.

You cannot legislate to make people care about things they just don't, and aren't going to, care about.  

The Woke ruination of living

Consider, please:

Ditto with Woke ads, e.g. for M&S. Any clothing ads always have either black man, white woman or both … ditto with my bank … sometimes they use a happy black couple … Cheshire Oaks uses Chinese girls.

Quite simply, not enough boycott these things and even if we did, in large numbers, there are sufficient numbers of stoopid left liberals to allow such travesties to continue.

Reform is history in its current form

Going to post this, ladies and gentlemen, both here and as a lead across the way.

Chris Littlewood

Date and Time: Friday, March 14, 2025, 17:10 GMT

…… Dear Mr Yusuf, Integrity matters to us. Cliché it might be, but this letter has been deeply sad to write. We are the interim Branch Officers for Reform UK, Chester North and Neston / Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, and we are all resigning from our posts, in concert and with immediate effect. We can no longer represent Reform UK. We can no longer face our voters, your masters, Mr Yusuf, and sincerely defend your Party’s actions. This decision comes after careful thought and with resounding unity. …/2.

Over the past five months, we’ve grown local membership from 780 to 1,482, as it stands today. We joined this Party for its drive to change politics for good, to bring hope back to the nation, and to deliver common-sense policies. We poured our hearts into structures and plans to make a major impact in our constituencies, only to see that vision crumble. We are utterly devastated. Daily, we face members who trusted us for guidance, now as disgusted as we are by your actions, many emailing to cancel their memberships immediately. If you care why you’ve lost an entire set of Branch Officers, read on. …/3.

The recent debacle, entirely of your making, involving Rupert Lowe MP’s suspension on March 7, 2025, over unproven claims, followed by dementia smear rumours by March 9 (X, 20:54 GMT) and the utterly spurious, disgraceful weaponization of the legal system in reporting him to the police on March 6, a day after his Telegraph critique (March 5), for alleged threats from December 13, 2024, an 84-day delay that reeks of retaliation, was the catalyst for our joint resignation. Worse, Richard Tice confirmed on GB News (March 9) that Lowe would not regain the whip even if the claims were proven false, exposing this as a premeditated purge, not a pursuit of justice. Played out disgracefully over the weekend, this act of self-harm toward the party leaves your grassroots Associations to defend, explain, and justify. Such arrogance, dishonesty, and fragile autocracy is unbecoming of you, Mr Yusuf. …/4.

Patriotic members across the UK placed their faith in Reform UK to differ from other parties, to usher in a new era of governance and rescue their country from terminal decline. We relied on you to steer Reform on a steady, honest, professional path, to restore democracy and right Britain’s course. We thought you were a consummate professional with integrity at his core, heart in the right place, and up to the task. We were wrong. You and Nigel are not leading this Party where we believed it was headed. The dastardly treatment of colleagues acting in the nation’s interest and your inability to tolerate the diversity of thought vital to any thriving organisation reveal your severe shortcomings. It seems we’re just more of “that lot” you want nothing to do with (Tice, GB News, March 9). …/5.

There’s no difference between this Party and the rest, willing to compromise anything for power, power for power’s sake, not the good of the people. Knowing this, how can we canvass voters or ask supporters to donate £25 a year for membership with a clear conscience? We can no longer reconcile this Party’s actions with the honest hope we pledged to deliver, a burden our integrity cannot carry. Even more critically (still reading, Mr Yusuf?), you’ve left Branch Associations to fend for themselves, with no professional tools beyond limited member database access for chairs alone, which we couldn’t share with other officers, no centralised plan, no policy updates from HQ, no reliable way to relay members’ views upward, and no banking until recently. Worse, all chairs and officers across every branch remain interim, appointed by you, not elected by members, designed to ensure dissenters like us, or Stafford, disbanded this week (March 10-11) and replaced with compliant voices, can be swiftly purged at your whim. You’ve expected us to build your grassroots from scratch with zero support, a task we can no longer stomach when challenging your methods risks our own erasure. …/6.

Most damningly, Mr Yusuf, the summer 2024 creation of ‘Reform 2025,’ where you and Nigel hold controlling interests, locks in this autocracy, shattering any illusion of a democratic Party. Reform UK isn’t like other main UK parties, it’s your personal fiefdom. Members can’t force leadership or policy shifts through votes, a right denied us while we toil as unelected placeholders. You promised the Electoral Commission and lawyers were working on full democratisation “very soon.” That hasn’t happened as expected; Reform 2025 holds all the cards, doesn’t it? We in Chester North and Neston / Ellesmere Port and Bromborough can no longer defend your Party’s actions toward talented dissenters, your ad-hoc policymaking, your unprofessionalism, the utter lack of preparation for government in 2029 or sooner, and above all, the absence of democratic accountability. We wish well to members who can still trust you. We gave this our best, and we’re saddened to resign together today. …/7.

To conclude our duties in utmost good faith and professionalism: attached is a full financial report from Peter, our Treasurer; all petty cash has been paid into Peter’s account and transferred to the Reform Branch Bank Account through the donations facility; and the Reform credit card and paper-based information have been collected and centralised by myself, Chris Littlewood. You can arrange collection of these materials, or I can shred them using a 2mm cross-cut shredder for GDPR compliance and provide photographic evidence—please let me know your preference.

Our integrity matters to us.

Yours in sorrow, Chris Littlewood, Chair Bianca Leaver, Deputy Chair Jacky, Secretary Peter Leaver, Treasurer Saffron, Campaign Manager …/END.

……

Rather than comment, drawing swat plod to our doors in this seemingly lost nation … I’ll repeat this below from a Reform voter:

It's All Just Show, Jess, Isn't It?

Nice of them to provide an illustraion of what 'loss of control' might look like...

It seems the 'Guardian' is putting its faith in the lank-haired chav Secretary. But is that borne out by action? Reader, it is not...

'I feel very scared for my safety, the parole board has said he is vengeful (Ed: then why are they letting him out?) and I've heard from people on his landing that he couldn't stop talking about me.

'I've been warned the first thing he's going to do is come straight for me.

''It's two-tier justice all over again - this government bends over backwards to give abusers another chance, and treats their victims like an afterthought.

'Tina says she feels badly let down by the justice system after being assured it would be 'many, many years before he was released'.

But Kier needs those prison spaces for his political enemies snd detractors... 

'If Jenkin is released my property must be urgently target hardened, I need cameras and a security consultant to help me.' Tina has also set up a petition against his release which has already been signed by more than 11,000 people. But instead of applauding her efforts to raise awareness, Tina claims probation chiefs 'told her off' for speaking out about her case with one asking her 'don't you feel sorry for him, putting this on his head?' She said: 'When they said that to me I felt confused - I have every right to speak out and I don't want this to be brushed under the carpet. I don't want this to happen to anybody else.'

I wonder if the Secretary would lend her some of her own party’s security, since all they are up against is mean words on the Internet? 

The Probation Service is currently investigating Tina's complaint about the comment and the staff member involved is understood to deny using those words.

Gosh, it's hard to decide who to believe, isn't it? Oh wait. no. It's not.  

This is a straight out hit job with an agenda

It doesn't take too much brainpower in those not indoctrinated by the MSM to realise that this is the position:

Nice to see some of the "younger set" getting this, as well as what naturally flows from that ... ditching ruinous schemes such as placing huge numbers of invaders in every city, town and village at taxpayer expense, with consequent pressure on taxes, utility prices etc. etc. etc.

It just stands out starkly ... it's not the elephant in the room ... it IS the bleedin' room and everything in it.

Right ... so ... just as MAGA across the pond actually managed to get somewhere but in Europe, the communist stranglehold is a deathchoke on the ordinary indigenous of each country and the UK is going full communist right before our eyes ... whilst all that is happening, whilst the ordinary folk are organising at council level ... at grassroots level ... suddenly the "brass at the top" break out in internecine fighting ... what the actual F is all this?

UKJon is a typical Reform type at grassroots level and has just Xed about being p**ed off by two men at the top "squabbling" ... whoa, this is no way Rupert versus Nigel only, Jon ... this is a hatchet job by forces controlling this Yusuf, who controls this Nigel, just as the Uniparty is controlled.

Lowe saw this snd admittedly goaded those forces in and behind parlmt by becoming far more forceful in pushing the very concerns of the ordinary person ... and predictably, a low hit was arranged on Mr. Lowe.

That's the reality I'm afraid and yet I was just as "oil on troubled waters" at first as UKJon is, until I went down rabbit holes, as did our boys over at our place and all sorts of things emerged, for example:

“Why Is Reform Party UK A Limited Company?”

http://web.archive.org/web/20241010175526/https://www.politicallyinclined.co.uk/why-is-reform-party-uk-a-limited-company

So many have come out with more on X about this Yusuf character and then this morning, at Kathy's place, was THIS.  Some excerpts:

Some believe our chair was expelled ‘to protect Yusuf’. Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf had appeared on the BBC’s Question Time on January 30 alongside Bexhill’s new Tory MP, Dr Kieran Mullen. In a segment on diversity and inclusion, Mullen took the opportunity to discredit our Reform candidate against whom he had run in the July 2024 election. 

Mullen cited, out of context, two comments posted some years ago on UnHerd. These had been raked up by BBC offence archaeologists and our candidate had already apologised for them. While Mullen came prepared, Yusuf did not. Instead of attacking his Tory foe, he went straight into defence mode and unintentionally skewered our successful Reform candidate and hardworking chair.

Yusuf could have laughed and said that despite the BBC’s best efforts it hadn’t stopped his candidate from decimating Mullen’s vote and threatening his win. He might also have attacked Mullen and his woke party for being more concerned about hate crime than real crime. Or that if an apology was not good enough for Mullen, tough, it was good enough for him.  

But no. Yusuf accepted his attacker’s terms and replied defensively that the candidate had been ‘stood down’. Mullen hit back, saying he had not. To which Yusuf hung our chair out to dry, stating that ‘such candidates will never again be allowed to stand for the party’.

Going for the kill the BBC, who had carefully chosen their Question Time line-up, posted the clip of this ‘gotcha’ moment on X. 

About a month later we were told that our chair had unexpectedly stepped down. Now it looks as if this is not an isolated phenomenon. I’ve had similar reports from elsewhere in the South East, and I keep getting sent this post saying Stafford’s local branch is closing down.

If you really can't see what's going down here, at all levels of the party, inc. the grassroots, then either you're blind or wilfully blind or smirking ... it's going swimmingly for globopsycho Uniparty and their chosen DJT ... the reconstituted and remodelled Jenrick who suddenly, after years of inaction, becomes the champion of the little people, in lieu of Farage and The Five.

One of the most wrongheaded conclusions is that there are two sides to every conflict ... there certainly are in many conflcts ... but then there are conflicts where there was a clearly planned hit job on the very advances which caused govt to cancel elections and on the Continent ... to cause national govt puppets under the EU yoke to revoke elections, or ban certain parties winning first round votes etc. etc.

I mean, there's no accident to any of this.  And some reactions to it, including my own initial comment, reminds me of Python's Holy Grail where the father of the bride looked out over Lancelot's hit job, the pogrom, and commanded: "Let's not bicker over who killed who, this is meant be a happy occasion."

Except this is not a Flying Circus or ... oops ... hmmmm ... I wonder. 🤔

Which leaves us with the same old same old question ... is there any way around their diabolical power keeping? END.

Who Sold It To Him?

A 19-year-old man who shot dead his mother and two younger siblings at their home in Luton was also plotting a shooting at his former primary school, according to police. Nicholas Prosper admitted murdering Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, when he appeared at Luton crown court on Monday. He also admitted other offences including buying a shotgun without a certificate, possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and possession of a kitchen knife in a public place.

A shotgun? How do you get one of those without a license? 

Prosper murdered his family in a “cold-blooded attack” with a shotgun he obtained without a licence, said Chris Derrick, a deputy chief crown prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service.

Are the police looking into how that was possible? I'm thinking they really should be... 

Assistant chief constable John Murphy of Bedfordshire police said Prosper had intended to cause “maximum harm and distress” to the wider community. “We understand the deep shock this case will have on people within Luton and across the country,” he said. “We are working closely alongside Luton borough council to engage with schools in Luton to provide support, assistance and guidance to both schools and parents.”

Are you working to identify the illegal gun dealer? You don't mention it. Why not? 

So long and thanks for all the fish

This was posted over our way by IYE:

“Off the East Yorkshire coast, a grave incident is unfolding where the U.S.-flagged oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate loaded with jet fuel, a ship designated critical to US national security in the Department of Transportation’s Tanker Security Program (TSP), was struck while at anchor by the Portuguese-flagged containership MV Solong.

The collision has set both vessels ablaze, triggering extensive search and rescue operations. The crews have abandoned both ships. While initial reports suggest all U.S. Merchant Mariners are reportedly safe in lifeboats, one crew member from the Solong remains unaccounted for.

“It appears that Solong did not slow down or maneuver. It rammed straight into the side of Stena Immaculate,” said maritime historian Sal Mercogliano in a video analyzing the AIS ship tracks.”
https://gcaptain.com/us-merchant-marine-oil-tanker-in-flames-off-uk/

“MV Solong” – as in “so long I’ll be seeing you! ” Someone taking the *iss?

My take on it was, across the way:

I was looking at this last night before dropping off … that route, by the way, was precisely the one I was due to sail a decade ago, from Hartlepool, if I’d bought the boat, only I was heading for Goole.

It was either DEI or planned to be, not unlike all the others from the bridge pylon and the deviated route to East Palestine … someone with tech expertise, militarised, did this … one of the two explanations or both. One thing I for one am noticing is high-ups continuing to use bunnies, patsies … yes, I’m calling this the Landy motif, after Pam Landy in Bourne. Whereas, in that third part of the trilogy, she turned the tables … that was a film, wasn’t it.

Another motif everpresent is how readily it collapses, once hit, not unlike a WTC tower … the term “sitting duck” springs to mind. Also Silverstein type planning of the “event”. Some bright boy or girl knows that in this case, the tanker would be lying amidships, perpendicular to the oncoming missile MV Solong.

Naturally, near impossible to sheet home to anyone and any daring to suggest something untoward … weeeell, they’re just loons, conspiracy theorists, aren’t they.

Eventually, OoL readers, one comes to the point where, even though a dear friend of mine said, years ago at OoL … “I’m not going there …” … that’s fine for then … but for how much longer?  The new pic in the sidebar (for now) is not one any self-respecting rationalist with it all at the fingertips wishes to pursue.

The girl next door here said she’s not interested in politics, to which I replied, “That’s fine and I’ll not lay it on you but … politics is interested in you.”  We’d been discussing defences for ladies in the light of various attacks that day from our guests, plus younger British who are a whole other species today.