(0021) Welcome to a new week, a new Monday.
2. The British political divide
The last GE put the Labour vote, as a percentage of those eligible to vote, between 16.9 and around 25%. If we settled on 22%, it would not be far wrong, leaving 78% not feeling represented by Labour. After other Uniparty groups come out of that, it’s a guess how many voters feel Unrepresented … my guess is around the Brexit number of 52% but some put it closer to 60% of all eligible. I go with the 52%.
There’s a remarkable alignment on many, but not all issues, including rape gangs, the state of the streets, public safety and so on … sufficient to attract adherence to Reform “for now”. They were doing well, when suddenly Yusuf, Farage and Tice launched an all out attack on Ben Habib, then Rupert Lowe … a real own goal if ever there was.
I’d seen a figure of 40% of Reform supporters disgruntled over the appalling treatment of various supporters, even winning candidates but I’d lost the reference in the mass of postings yesterday, so that when some character called Rick Tusgrin took great exception to my comments:
“You made a false claim using spurious figures and supposition, and have been unable to back it up. Your point is thus far without merit. I’m giving you an opportunity to explain and expand.”
… that raised a few issues. One was “Infighting by gainsaying on a social media platform is counterproductive. He made his point, we made ours. End of.”. He was obviously hardwired, with no figures of his own (classic leftist strategy) bt all the same, it was worthwhile finding those posts again:
Something needs to be remembered here … whilst the egregious and highhanded Reform HQ puts out its own controlled figures which are meant to be taken at face value, with Farage unchallenged on them, blind faith in the Beloved Leader in other words, Teflon Nige, the two party split above, in turn, is not solely Reform voters … it includes all those appalled by the tyrannical triumvirate Yusuf-Farage-Tice, who can be from various political stances.
So what percentage of formerly pro-Reform-honcho people now feel unrepresented by any party leaders whatever as of today? It can only be guessed but I’d say 10 to 30% of previously full steam ahead Reform type people … the disgruntled, anti Uniparty in other words, angry about what’s happening to Britain. Calling it 15% for the sake of argument, that’s still quite a drop, before taking into account those disgruntled but still voting Reform “for now” as the only option in their eyes.
Why such a set against Farage and HQ? Well that’s easy … the unprincipled actions and attitude of Farage HQ against “their own”, including new Councillor Donna Rachel of Shropshire.
But what on earth is the issue here? Why such violent reaction in the first place from the tyrannical triumvirate? There are two … failure of Britain to address the grooming, plus the very question of illegals brought in and shacked up in four star accommodation, all expenses paid.
This is why I don’t completely run with a quite logical take on the whole thing by one of the main authors at our site, Unherdable Cats, our man Steve:
“Reform UK is a centre-right party, the Tories centre-left. The Labour Party are hard-left as are the Greens. I couldn’t care less about the Liberal Democrats – they long-ago abandoned their role as the party of the centre and wandered off to the Left. As it stands there is no party for the millions who want their homeland out of the hands of ideologues. Discuss.”
Well put … my point of departure though is that today, the difference between right and left, that central dividing line, is the twofold one of chasing down the grooming, plus chasing down the illegal mandarins, feted by the govt with taxpayer money. This has been the clear dividing line between Rupert and then the tyrannical Uniparty triumvirate of Farage-Yusuf-Tice-HQ.
Yes, Farage made pre-May 1st noises of now being interested in the two issues, just as have Labour and Tories. So there it is in a nutshell … wonderful Reform workers, helpers, supporters and candidates at grassroots level … a treacherous, tyrannical triumvirate at the top.
1. Cinco de Mayo
It stems from a Mexican war where they beat the French. The issue had earlier been the Spanish but Mexico had secured independence some years before this battle. Wiki:
“[CdeM] is an annual celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness, however, and a larger French force ultimately defeated the Mexican army at the Second Battle of Puebla and then occupied Mexico City.
Following the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the United States began lending money and guns to the Mexican Liberals, pushing France and Mexican Conservatives to the edge of defeat. At the opening of the French chambers in January 1866, Napoleon III announced that he would withdraw French troops from Mexico.
In reply to a French request for American neutrality, the American secretary of state William H. Seward replied that French withdrawal from Mexico should be unconditional. More popular in the United States than in Mexico, Cinco de Mayo has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture.”
There ya go.
