this way to the sea

Should Sally go left, or should she go right
If she wants to avoid the anthracite?
Her boyfriend Ralf is up to his knees
And is sure to bring home a whole lot of fleas.

When casting her vote, she should go right,
To save this fair land from a very sad plight.
But turn to the left when walking the Thames
And keep well away from illiberal Lib Dems!

Beware of Lib Dems by the Thames!

I'm moving further to the right every day, and in that I'm NOT joking. I'm a great admirer of Douglas Murray, and what he (and a few others with the vision to see it and the courage and honesty to say so) has been saying all along in the last few weeks I've seen more and more with my own eyes, and it's becoming seriously frightening. Politicians and the liberal left have signed Britain's (and Western Europe's) death warrant. Let us forget climate change and multiculturalism, gender politics and all such nonsense and concentrate on defending ourselves and such Western values as peaceful patriotism, decency, fairness and truth.

Agreed. Our only chance now is to vote for Reform UK.

It's a false argument to say that voting Reform will let Labour in, because Labour will get in anyway, and they will be even worse than the Cons. We must all vote Reform to keep both mainstream parties out. Con and Lab are two cheeks of the same ah-sss.

Did you know that Douglas went to St Benedict's School?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqzdnPjPhW0

No. Even though St Benedict's is nearby. I've just bought two of Murray's books.

Hope you don't have nightmares.

I might well, because every word he says is true. At least nightmares can be woken from, whereas the reality cannot. What is Reform UK's position on this, the abject surrender of UK governments and law to the poison of militant Islam in (or what was once) our own country.? Is Murray over-trusting in the ability or will of indigenous Britons to rise to the defense of our country, is culture and values when politicians and police are too cowed to act or even speak?

Reform's main policies seems to be net zero immigration and zero Net Zero.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjlKB9vX4I

Reform manifesto
assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/303/attachments/original/1696527070/Reform_is_Essential_-_5Oct23.pdf?1696527070

As for the other problem you mention, new parties have to be a little cautious about what they say if they want to be accepted into mainstream politics, but this brief video will give you an idea of his thoughts on the subject.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph7QQTXEVfQ

Richard Tice calls on Tory Party to Step Aside for Reform
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmXpM_mNbo

By Dominic Penna, Political Correspondent

The Richard Tice interview

For this special edition of the Telegraph Politics newsletter, I ask your questions to Richard Tice, the leader of Reform UK. We've had hundreds of responses, and the interview is here first, exclusively for you, Telegraph Politics subscribers.

Dominic Penna: The first question is something on which you and the Tory Party certainly differ. Tom Marshall asks is net zero achievable, and is the British public aware of the true cost and the way it will impact upon our lives?

Richard Tice: It’s not achievable, and it’s not desirable. Net zero is the greatest single act of financial self-harm that people in Westminster have ever imposed on the British people. It’s a catastrophe, it’s going to impoverish us all, it’s sending our jobs and our money abroad. We all care about the environment, the British environment, and we all want to do our bit. But there’s a big difference between the British environment and climate change. The climate has always changed, it always will. Anybody who thinks that if you get to net zero you’re going to stop climate change is a naive, misinformed fool.

DP: Greg Molan wants to know if Reform can ever be more than a threat on the Right flank of the Conservatives, pulling them rightward in order to secure voters who want proper conservatism, just as the Brexit Party did in 2019.

RT: The simple fact is that we did the right thing in 2019. We stood up and we allowed the Tories to get a huge majority. They’ve blown it, they’ve messed up, they’ve screwed up, they’ve had their chance, and now the Tory brand is toxic. They don’t realise it, some of the members realise it, but I think the MPs don’t realise just how toxic the brand is, and they should now do the right thing and recognise that only Reform can stop Labour. Head-to-head, if the Tories stood aside and I went head-to-head with Keir Starmer, I’d win hands down.

DP: Philip Hornby asks why do you want to help Labour by standing in every constituency?

RT: You cannot reward failure with more incumbency, you have to hold people to account. They’ve failed, they’ve let the country down, they’ve broken the nation. And they have to be punished, and they have to be punished severely for what they’ve done to us all. It’s as simple as that.

DP: And if standing in every constituency were to lead to a Labour Government, would you accept that?

RT: If they’re so worried about it, they should all write to their Tory MPs and say ‘please stand aside for Reform’.

DP: Victoria Cassidy asks would you sack civil servants who refuse and stop policy implementation, and Mark Latham is asking how would you push your reforms when attempts by the current Government have been “thwarted by the Establishment, by the ECHR, but also by the Civil Service”?

RT: You’ve got to have the courage to tell the civil service – we’ve been elected to carry this out, your job is to help us implement it. If you don’t want to do that job, please go and get a different job. And if you get in the way, then we will fire you. It’s as simple as that. It’s what you do in business, it’s what should happen in the civil service.

With regard to the ECHR, we need to leave it immediately. It’s the final piece of leaving all of the European institutions that has not yet been done. We are a sovereign, independent nation. We don’t need foreign courts and foreign judges to tell us how to run human rights. We invented them.

DP: Do you think the ECHR should be put to a referendum?

RT: I’d be delighted if it did. Nigel and I would lead it, and we’d win it.

DP: Tim Newhouse asks if there was a Tory MP who was excellent on TV and moved to Reform, would you consider becoming deputy leader to give someone who already has a seat the leadership?

RT: It’s a great question, Tim. I’m not giving you a running commentary. Anybody that wants to come to us has to have to believe in our principles and our policies with conviction, and the truth is most Tory MPs wouldn’t qualify.

DP: Are you in talks with any Tory MPs?

RT: Dominic, I couldn’t possibly give you a running commentary.

DP: Kristina Jendersen asks: “Whilst not part of the woke brigade, I am part of the LGBT community. I would like to know where Reform stands on the current rights and protections for the LGBT community, and if they intend to water them down just to please the masses?”

RT: It’s not a question of watering them down. Of course, the LGBT community should be respected and have those rights. Where we have a serious issue is with this gender ideology, which is like a poison through the veins of the public institutions, civil service, big businesses and most dangerously of all our schools.

I believe that this gender questioning, and debate about social transition of children at primary schools and secondary schools, I think it's not only confusing, I think it causes anxiety. It’s therefore a clear breach of safeguarding. Under my leadership, it would be banned immediately by the end of the week, and any teacher or head teacher that carried out teaching any of this gender ideology would be fined. I’m telling you, I talk to people up and down the country and it’s the greatest single issue that is infuriating parents and grandparents. They are furious about what's going on in schools.

DP: Ginny Martin asks how would you solve the immigration inflow, and she breaks it down into legal and illegal immigration.

RT: Our policy is the only ‘net zero’ we want is net zero immigration. So one in, one out. About 400,000 people emigrate every year, kind of on a five-to-10-year basis. So we should welcome high-skilled, high-quality people to a similar number so that you have a net zero increase in population. Now that’s what I call ‘smart immigration’, because those people genuinely add value to our communities and to our economy, high-skilled, high-qualified, but these are people earning well above the average national wage.

On illegal immigration, we have a six-point plan and we know it works because it works in Australia. So the first thing is we’ve got to leave the ECHR, and the second thing is we’ve got to declare a national security threat. We have to have a difficult conversation that far too many of these people coming illegally actually do not have good intent. I’m afraid to say some of them are foot soldiers for drug gangs, money laundering for illegal activity, for illegal working, and many of them do not share our culture. They don’t share our values. They have no empathy with our way of life. They just want to exploit and manipulate our generosity, and so we should declare a national security threat.

We should make it absolutely clear that zero people coming in will be granted asylum, we will have offshore processes. Then we need a whole new Department of Immigration. The Home Office is not fit for purpose. It needs to be, frankly, just put in the bin. Just start again with a new Department of Immigration, staffed by people who believe in the cause of sovereign independence. That is critical. And then the final piece of the jigsaw is the critical one, which is that you pick people up out of the boats and you safely take them back to Dunkirk. We’re legally entitled to do that.

DP: In my Q&A with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, he said Reform was “fundamentally anti-conservative” and a party of “grumblers”. It would obviously be the right thing to do to let you respond to that.

RT: I get on very well with Jacob indeed. On GB News, I have been working closely with him. But the truth is that the only party that is anti-conservative is the con-socialist Tories. They’ve got confused, they’ve become social democrats, and the sad truth is the country has got a lot to grumble about. We’re not grumbling, we’re actually steaming mad at what they’ve done.

DP: And lastly, Jonathan Atkin asks whether you are just keeping the leader’s seat warm ready for Nigel Farage to come back and “lead the party to victory”?

RT: It's a great question, Jonathan. We’re making great progress, and I’ve always said the more hands on deck the better. Nigel’s got all sorts of other commitments, but if he wants to come back and help, then fantastic – he will make a meaningful difference – but that’s a decision for him. He’s always said, though, that he wouldn’t stand again under first-past-the-post in parliamentary elections, but that’s another reason we want proportional representation.