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The dawn of an unwanted new era
July 5th, 2024
AND so Sir Keir Starmer becomes Prime Minister on this dispiriting, cold and rainy day - an outcome voted for by only a third of the electorate. Sir Keir sweeps to power with fewer votes than achieved by his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. He's managed it thanks to the implosion of the Conservatives and the rise of Reform. It's not a great mandate. In fact, it is no mandate at all - accentuated by an exceptionally poor turnout.
Nearly half the electorate chose not to even vote and that's at a time when postal voting has never been easier. The British people are weary on a par with the defeated Germans in 1945. Our sense of who we are has gone. Our trust in our institutions and those who run them has melted away. We have no cause for optimism that things will get better and every reason to fear that they will not. The scourge of uncontrolled population influx - currently running at around two-thirds of a million net per year - continues unabated and is only likely to get worse under Labour, a party with a viscerally unpopular ideological commitment to mixing the world's races and cultures on our small island.
And inevitably, as Britain becomes ever more divided by race, religion and culture, we are seeing the ugly rise of sectarianism, the like of which we have not known before on the British mainland - at least, not for many centuries. We saw it played out yesterday, in the election or near-election of Independents fighting on a pro-Gaza, Islamist ticket. And evidently, in places like Birmingham Yardley, where Labour MP Jess Phillips hung on to her seat by a whisker, a horrible campaign of intimidation and abuse was run against the incumbent and in favour of a pro-Gaza candidate. Such was the nastiness right up to the official declaration last night, that Ms Phillips had to ask for police assistance to allow her to deliver her acceptance speech.
That's the nature of the kind of country we are becoming. And now the British people must turn in desperation to an incoming Labour government, taking power on a pitiful share of the popular vote, and hope that somehow our once great nation can pick itself up and move forward. Certainly, there is a ray of hope in the rise in popular support of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. They should be able to build on their electoral achievements and gain momentum in the months and years ahead. But whoever the parties and players are, the deep-set problems remain the same and only the brave and the principled will have any chance of resolving them. It's very hard to see that happening under Labour.
Robert J Davies
RCM Leader
A Labour landslide - due entirely to the failure of the Tories
July 4th, 2024
WITH the right-wing vote split between the Conservatives and Reform, clearly we are looking at a Labour landslide, if tonight’s Exit poll is correct. But here's our prediction: the incoming Labour government will start work with no goodwill; no sense of having won out of merit and no groundswell of opinion that this victory is in any way good for Britain.
Their Cabinet will be drawn from a very low calibre pool of MPs, many of whom were selected to fulfil diversity criteria rather than from talent. The Labour government's honeymoon period will be brief, to the point of non-existent. It will not be long before their shortcomings become painfully apparent. It will not be long before we see who is pulling the strings and what vested interests will now come out of the woodwork to take their share of the spoils of victory.
And it will not be long before this rabble are judged by the British people to be the worst government this country has ever known. They will become the most reviled of all time and will go down in history as the administration which dumped Britain into the gutter. After 14 years of wishy-washy soft-socialism from the Tories, during which time the Left ran rings round them in terms of imposing their brainless agenda of Equality and Diversity, the country was crying out for a genuinely conservative alternative.
The tragedy is that while Reform duly offered that, at least in part, their presence in a first-past-the-post electoral system helped ensure that the country instead faces the grim prospect of even more wokery, multiculturalism, mass immigration and aggressive equality dogma than we had before. This is the start of five years of misery. But if there is a silver lining to the cloud, it is that - according to the Exit polls - Reform are on course for a 17% vote share and possibly 13 seats. It's a clear indication that the country didn't reject the Right or conservatism - they rejected the ersatz conservatives in name only led by careerist politicians like Rishi Sunak.
The Rural Conservative Movement will continue to fight for a truly conservative government of this country - for our sake and for the sake of generations of Britons yet to be born, who deserve to inherit the same sort of country it was our privilege to be born into. My message to fellow conservatives is this: don't despair. This might be the kick in the teeth that we all needed. It is certainly the kicking that the Tories deserved. For too long they have taken the easy path through politics, hiding lazily behind a cloak of being "moderate" and "centre ground", knowing that the electorate would be too terrified of Labour to vote them out.
Well today, came the wake-up call. Let's hope they heed it or before long, there won't even by a Conservative Party. Tomorrow is another day and the Right of politics will learn from this disaster and emerge stronger from it. The future of our country depends on us doing so.
Robert J Davies
RCM Leader
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