'Reform or Chaos'
Coalition with Conservatives must be actively, repetitively denounced.
Watching Reform’s Matt Goodwin and Danny Krueger debate Nick ‘transgender Tim’ Timothy and Claire Coutinho (whom Mencius Moldbug would surely suspect of being a representative of Naboo) was a was a deeply, deeply depressing moment of nothing new under the sun.
The Conservatives present made their line of attack Reform not having a ‘thought out economic Plan’; this gave the Reformers ample space to bring up the fact the Conservative party is responsible for the largest and most pointless Keynesian stimulus in British history with lockdown – an opportunity which went unseized in favour of “online right” jeremiads about “cutting the benefits tab.”
The Monarchy was loudly endorsed and people, pathetically in 2026, acted like ‘standing up to ISLARM’ was some sort of gold-standard of right-wing cajones when 3 billion African Christians moved to this country in the last decade. It was a good example of the point I made repetitively last year that ‘the Online Right’ outside J’accuse has, in fact, acted as a de-radicalisation agent by creating a common language which both Reformers and Conservatives share. I should, in addition, note that many of the people who pretend a ‘Meritocratic’ or ‘technocratic’ aesthetics, while maintaining a preposterous Menshevik existence outside of the Meritocratic central committee’s rule, are in fact deeply aligned with the post-liberal, Christian wing of Reform in practice.
With their attempt at divide and rule currently flagging, it seems the Conservative tactic has shifted to trying as hard as possible to play up their similarities with Reform while force-memeing the idea of a ‘hung Parliament.’ For this reason, I cannot celebrate the local election results. The Conservative Party has not been utterly destroyed and it is worth pondering why.
It is expected for the Conservatives to hold the Westminster bubble where ‘hate marches’ are something people under the age of 70 and over the age of 9 care about, what cannot stand is that they are holding onto places like Harlow and Solihull: one is part of the purple wall, the other is precisely the sort of middle-class enclave in a multiracial city Reform should have ambitions to win.
I imagine that the Tory persistence in these places is driven by two types of voter. The first group are very plainly ethnic minorities too rich to vote Labour who refuse to vote Reform on grounds of petty sectarian bigotry. The second group is harder to define and comprises something close to the ‘hicklib’ phenomenon in the U.S: fairly wealthy but non-university educated or at least non-russell group white people in stereotypically right-wing places whose identity, to a large extent, is based upon counter-signalling the proles. Imagine a man who lives and grew up in Essex but has a commuter job in a soft-multinational in London (recruiting, I.T etc.) This man will derive a lot of his personal identity from knowing that Nigel Farage is a ‘racist’ and laughing at the people who put flags on roundabouts. John Bercow is an example.
