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This piece was first written in 2024. It’s still as relevant (perhaps more so) under the Brexit Labour Trump Government … The only good Brexit … is a dead Brexit … it has become painfully clear that Brexit has not delivered any of the so-called freedoms, nor solved any of Britain’s problems or opened up opportunities of equivalent or better value when compared with our previous membership of the ‘club’. Read Rejoin EU: Reboot Britain for more on this. Better still, mail copies of the book to MPs or support our project to do so.
Even the Financial Times find it necessary to court proven liars such as Matthew Elliot in their recent film on the subject. Elliot attempts to make the argument that Brexit has not delivered because our mainstream politicians are not willing to seize opportunities, but then fails to identify any. It’s a thinly disguised argument to invite the Brexit ultras to the table, and with it, full fat fascism to Little Britain. Watch the FT film at the end of this article. Before that, watch this two minute short piece which sums up what Brexit was really about. My film is devoid of academic references as these tend to need much more time, but the supporting facts and validation can be found at the accompanying article Populism will eat itself.
Music soundtrack by Peter Cook. Available on Bandcamp with all proceeds going towards our campaign.
Brexit has failed
The film has already produced a visceral reaction from a leave voter who has clearly been affected by the film’s dystopian machine-styled soundtrack (deliberate) and the speed / brevity of the messages. He appears to have been somewhat triggered by the experience, which is good. Sadly, ‘Alan the Hat’ has no collateral in terms of his own research, content etc. Nor does he have any followers on his You Tube channel. I aim to provide a good (free) service and admittedly packed a lot of text into two minutes. Alan clearly has problems reading big words and sentences that are more difficult than “the cat bit the dog”, so I have provided a summary of the points below so he may study them in greater detail.
Brexit in 2024 – a summary
Tory gaslighting on an industrial scale fuelled Brexit. It continues via a daily stream of dead cats to take people off the scent of Brexit. Examples incude the need to incarcerate legal migrants, identity politics, constant scandals etc.
Brexit delivered 4.5% GDP LOSS into perpetuity and a broken NHS which Boris Johnson promised to fix, with the fabled £350 million per week on the bus. Brexit has damaged our resilience as a nation and therefore our ability to settle strikes with public sector workers and so on. Growth is for the birds in such circumstances. We are once again the sick man of Europe.
Cost of living impacts have Brexit as a major contribution. Food inflation has reached 20% There are more to come once border checks come in later in 2024 … In the next 28 days we will see further inflation on goods imported from Europe and barriers to trade for exporters. See Brexit Inflation. The Brexiteers’ explanation of this is that Brussels are ‘punishing’ us. Get real, we are now no longer a member of the golf club hence there are associated costs and barriers. The Golf Club analogy I made in 2018 is prescient here:
We are now a third country. Membership had benefits.
Brexit has delivered broken businesses, broken promises, broken lives and broken livelihoods. It is not true to say that Brexit Breaks Britain as this implies that Brexit is done. It is not and I deliberately choose the phrase Brexit’s Breaking Britain as it is more accurate.
Brexit weaponised an increase in racial tension from Brexit extremists such as Patel, Braverman, Badenoch, Anderson, Gullis, Mordaunt, Mogg, Farage, Tice Truss et al. They are responsible for killing people seeking safety from warzones.
Brexit has meant broken promises to farmers, fishermen, police, teachers, social carers et al. As a small example, the British replacement for the Common Agricultural Policy does not compare in any way to what we had, faults and all. Listen to the farmer in the FT film below for more on his topic.
Perhaps one of the real reasons for Brexit is yet to materialise … ‘Singapore on Thames’ beckons, with the ‘sale of the century’ via SEZs and a return to a feudal society. If you want to understand what an SEZ is, read @EuropeanPowell’s explanation of what you are about to receive whilst you are being gaslit by tales of royal cancers and gender reassignment..
Extract from @EuropeanPowell’s work. Follow him on Twitter.
Brexit is not done per Boris Johnson’s lie of an ‘oven ready deal’. Impacts will continue for the next decade.
Liz Truss’ experiment in Brexonomics cost an uncool £70 billion and ruined young people’s hopes of home ownership in just 49 days. Just imagine what the Brexit hardcore could achieve.
Boris Johnson used COVID to literally ‘mask’ Brexit impacts … what I termed a ‘Britastrophe‘.
Johnson must have jumped for joy when COVID hit. It was an opportunity to kill 30 000 OAPs in care homes whilst operating as a mass distraction for ‘getting Brexit done’. Click the image for more on our Britastrophe.
Brexit means a loss of freedom of movement, student exchange scheme and more travel friction / costs. All of this is self inflicted as part of our so-called democratic referendum.
Both the Tories and Labour are presently engaged in distraction, distortion and dead cattery, in their attempts to erase the mistake of Brexit and secure votes. Brexit has so far claimed five Prime Ministers. It will also claim Keir Starmer.
Brexit will continue to break Britain unless we Join the EU anew. We can do this. The door remains open and even The Telegraph are now recommending it.
All the while, Labour are asleep at the wheel of Brexit misfortune. Keir Starmer cannot deliver his transformation without recovering our resilience.
‘Stop the boats’ has failed. It was yet another dead cat to channel people’s anger in the Daily Mail / Excess. In any case, better answers to migration are available. See our immigration algorithm.
The damage of Brexit is cumulative and much of it irreversible. Labour’s talk of rejoining from 2032 is therefore disingenuous and despicable.
We are essentially Sunakered. Listen to our dialogue with James O’Brien on this point.
Brexorcisms still needed
Do have a look at the FT film which overall gives a good coverage of the state of our Brexit nation. I am disappointed at the lack of fact checking of some of the statements by Matthew Elliot. Where the film falls short is in the area of leadership, preferring instead to look for incremental adjustments which will not address the elephant in the room. A few mealy mouthed journalists apologise for Keir Starmer’s “management by focus groups”. Peter Foster makes the error that, since nobody wants to talk about Brexit, it will go away as an issue dividing families. Perhaps he needs to study the psychology of ‘closure’ a bit more carefully. Sure, the word Brexit can be airbrushed out of public discourse and there has been a concerted effort by politicians on most sides to do so, but the ‘dark mark’ of Brexit will be left on society unless the issue is resolved. Resolution can come through a number of means and not just another referendum. As I said in 2019, “Let’s Talk About Brexit“, maybe the title of their film acknowledges this need. Martin Wolf comes out head and shoulders above the rest of the journos and politicos with an honest appraisal of the mess that we’re in. We do need to talk about Brexit. Conduct a Brexorcism today.
Worth 30 minutes of your time.
Don’t just take my word for it. Here’s Brexit in numbers from official Government figures and other trusted sources:
Some of our books. Click the image to check them out on Amazon.
Rachel Reeves’ financial statement aka emergency budget landed yesterday. Labour have abandoned their principles of support for those in most need in society. And yet, a simple remedy to our woes is at hand … to end Brexit and apply to Rejoin the EU immediately. Brexit is costing us £140 Million every year. Much more than the floor sweepings she is trying to hoover up from the poor, needy and vulnerable.
Trumpaction costs
Worst of all, buggered by Brexit, Labour are forced to go with a begging bowl to TrumPutin. What transaction costs will Trump require to cut Labour a bit of slack? The price will be high for sure as transactional (trumpactional) negotiation is all that Trump understands.
Will Britain allow US crap food to be dumped on our kids?
Will Britain be expected to place further distance from Europe?
Will Britain have to withdraw support partially or wholly from Ukraine?
Reeves should know that by dealing with Trump, she is dealing with Putin.
Reeves and Moartar
There are better answers than kowtowing to psychopaths … Rejoin the EU, starting NOW.
Britain cannot indulge in full-on direct trade wars as we are now weakened by Brexit as we are now about as important as Panama. We can however be more creative than that, by indulging in what are known in the trade as “assymetric actions”. The most obvious one is applying to Rejoin the EU. We must also postpone the state visit. There are many other things that Trump wants to run his MAGA America First industry. We could simply redirect these resources to other countries. We are not stronger than Trump, but we can be cleverer. At this point in time Reeves and Starmer are in the “Chamberlain position”.
Unite and Survive Trump
This is what lies ahead if Britain doesn’t stand up to Trumputin:
Labour’s Brexit Jurassic Theme Park.
Brexit Hannibal Lecter Starmer 2024.
Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ’em to death. And get it over with and just dump ’em on the boulevard. Lou Reed.
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I was astonished to learn that Reform UK supporters are actively backing killing immigrants who they believe to be paedophiles. Rupert Lowe, Reform UK MP for Great Yarmouth constantly posts disinformation about immigration and a host of other subjects on LinkedIn to trigger people who are easily swayed into believing him. This set of responses are possibly the worst I’ve seen, although they are not the only ones by far. Eugene seems quite happy to shoot paedophiles. He has fallen prey to the idea that there is a “paedophilia gene” and it resides exclusively within foreigners, when the vast majority of rapists in Britain are the “old English variety”. Eugene works as a business development manager at Future Optics in Lancashire. I’d be quite concerned if he is willing to kill people indiscriminately based on Rupert’s dogwhistle calls.
At various points, Rupert stokes the idea that not only are the rapists ‘foreigners’, but they are also ‘islamic’. This dangerous disinformation is poisoning our society and Eugene is an easy target for people looking for easy answers to complex problems.
In terms of incitement, here are some example of the kind of post that Rupert puts up. He posts this kind of thing several times daily, but never answers any comments. It is a persistent campaign of disinformation.
Please report disinformation and / or hate crimes. It helps keep the internet safe. False information and outright lies do not help to “Make Britain Great Again” as Nigel Farage would have you believe. They simply poison the culture and breed hatred, which is the basis of dogwhistle politics. And, in case you are wondering, better answers to immigration are available. See below. In case you also think we are “lefty losers”, think again. Yet it is always a mistake to pray at Donald Trump, Putin and Farage’s altar. Take courage Sir Keir Starmer.
Last week was a bit of a bumper ride. I attended the UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) event in London on Tuesday, then Stella Creasy’s Labour For Europe event on Thursday. I also spoke with James O’Brien on Brexit Day 31 January !! We have also started some musical and activist projects. Settle in for a long read ….
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UKICE event highlights
UK in a Changing Europe hosted an event with Sir John Curtice, Prof Anand Menon, Prof Catherine Barnard and Sarah Hall, hosted by the BBC’s Jo Coburn. Labour stayed away from the event which surprised me. Catherine Barnard began by confirming our own view that the problem with Brexit is political paralysis and suggested that lawyers would be happy to sort the ‘wiring’ out if the politicians ever developed backbones (my words, not hers). John Curtice explained why Labour are reluctant to move the Overton window to bring Brexit back into view, stating that a referendum would consume a lot of political energy. Our settled view is that if Labour don’t confront the Brexit elephant in the room, there will be no substantial growth and therefore no second term. Anand Menon suggested that there would not be sufficient time for any Rejoin benefits to flow through. I believe that this is based on the liberal elitist assumption that a referendum is needed and therefore a lot of time would be needed to orchestrate such a decision. Also, the strategic intent to rejoin would be sufficient to boost confidence in business and markets, so I beg to differ with courtesy Anand. Views like this from academics, prominent Remain figures such as Jon Danzig and ‘peaceful warriors’ play straight into Labour’s hands when they say that that nobody wants to go back through the arguments over rejoining. Yet we all know the polling data. Yes, people don’t want to go back through a lengthy national soul searching process again, but this assumes that one is needed. From my own research, I find that the vast majority of people would not be that troubled if Brexit were made to go away quickly and without fuss. We say, let Parliament do the job they are paid to do. A referendum may only be needed as a confirmatory step, and then a simple, short process with fully fact checked information. See Reboot Britain for the reasons we say this.
On the other side of the debate, I find that some Remainers unwittingly reinforce and mirror the views of Remoaners, some of whom have pathologised victimhood, as articulated by this view from one of our co-authors Paul Cawthorne:
Curtice importantly confirmed our view that the time is now to campaign for rejoin. The entire session is below on video. Although I took comfort from Catherine Barnard and John Curtice’s remarks, overall the tone of the debate was one of ‘learned helplessness’, perhaps informed by fears and fantasies about what the far right might do if Labour were to take decisive action to stem the flow of blood from Brexit rather than apply more bandages. Leadership is needed from Labour rather than followership aka management by driving through the rear view mirror. My question to the panel can be found at 1.05.47 ish onwards. I gave books to Jo Coburn and John Curtice and our 1:1 conversations were candid about the need for leadership rather than handing the country to Farage and his wolves.
Stella Creasy’s Labour In Europe Event
Undoubtedly Labour have not stooped to the depths of depravity that 14 years of Tory rule have delivered in terms of divide and conquer politics, austerity on steroids and victimisation of vulnerable people via Brexit on crack cocaine. So the Tories should have been an easy ‘support act’ for Labour to follow. Labour’s first moves in power have however been somewhat awkward, as brilliantly parodied by Larry and Paul. That said, we must not underestimate the difficult of turning a super tanker round mid ocean after 14 years of degradation with some people still on deck trying to lock the ship onto icebergs.
In Labour’s search for “growth by 1000 ameliorations” whilst ignoring the Brexit elephant in the room, they will find it difficult, dare we say impossible to deliver the levels of growth required to win a 2nd term in office. By the end of the evening, Stella Creasy seemed a little rattled by an audience of remainers for ‘going on about Brexit’. Possibly in a moment of sheer frustration, she brought up the bogey man of rule by Elon Musk if we did not ‘get over it’. She seemed somewhat irritated by the encounter and took me to task over my suggestion that Keir Starmer needed more confidence to take tough decisions. This was the essence of my question to Stella:
I stood for Parliament in 2024 against Labour. I say against but my candidacy was solely to split the Tory vote in a safe seat. I recommended that people vote for Labour at all Hustings events, something that political candidates don’t do. Having spoken with Labour MPs and MEPs I am told that Labour’s strategy will be to consider rejoining in 2032. When I explain to them that (a) all the Brexit damage will be complete by then (b) much of it will be irreversible like some chemical reactions and (c) since there is no appetite to discuss Brexit in 2024, no one will be able to connect their lived experience with Brexit as a contributory cause in 2032, Labour MPs agree with me that the idea of rejoining later is disingenuous at best. At the hustings Naushabah Khan (Labour) stated that Brexit did not come up on the doorstep in defence of Labour’s position. I agreed, stating that all the front of mind issues that did come up on the doorstep (Cost of Living, NHS, social care etc.) had at least one foot in Brexit as a contributory factor. I used the Brexit iceberg to illustrate my point. Nashabah did not challenge my analysis. The Conservatives and Labour passively colluded to move Brexit out of the Overton window in favour of its offspring.
Brexit is the turd that won’t flush whether we pretend we can’t smell it or not.
Brexit Iceberg
Our internal sources tell us that Keir Starmer is naturally cautious and need a lot of support to make bold decisions. By fearing Farage, Starmer is “managing by driving through the rear view mirror” rather than leading. And when he says we won’t rejoin in his lifetime, he means his political lifetime. It may come soon without a little more risk taking. Perhaps this week’s incremental moves in Brussels are a kind of “national focus group” to test reactions. If nobody blinks, he moves another inch and so on. The right wing media and the Farage extremists have all cried “surrender” just because he went to Brussels at all … if that’s the reaction to an entirely trivial set of proposals, he may as well be hung for a sheep than a lamb. See sunk costs in the book.
I came away a little disheartened by the tone of the event which appeared to be telling us that ‘mum and dad knows best’. Although I would rather have open heart surgery without an anaesthetic than vote Reform UK, I came away with a strong understanding as to why others would. The more that people in Labour tried to defend the indefensible, the more toxic the comments became via the online chat. In hindsight, I think this dialogue may have been better handled in a real life event than on ZOOM, where feedback can go unheard and views build up like a pressure cooker. I was pleased however to see that my MP was brave enough to share my reactions to the event on social media and Nigel Farage is incandescent that Starmer signed a paper in the same building that Edward Heath used many years ago. Nigel really cares about the people of Britain of course but seems trapped by the iconography …
My MP Naushabah Khan
Rejoin EU
Brexorcists in Chief
On Friday I had a dialogue with James O’Brien about the last Remaining Brexiteers. There are not many people flying the flag for Brexit now, some 11% in fact. They mostly now fall into two categories: The people who still believe that the EU is an unelected superstate and who vote for Nigel Farage (himself elected to the EU as an MEP!!) and the racists / xenophobes. Gone are the people who voted for Brexit to stick it to Cameron, the ones who believed in the £350 million on the bus, Mogg’s lies about cheap food and shoes and so on. Are we to die on a hill for these people with Keir Starmer? Here’s the interview with James:
Click to listen to LBC
We also wrote a new song in partnership with Paul Cawthorne in Italy. Brexit’s in the air is a rewrite of the Wet Wet Wet song – the band title is “Slightly Red” to reflect Labour’s current positioning. Don’t just graze on the website, download the track and support our work.
Click to download on Bandcamp
Farage: Make Shit Happen
Finally, we rewrote a Sham 69 song around the story of Nigel Farage’s nephew, convicted for upskirting in the Co-Op in Orpington. How bizarre.
Keep on keeping on
Keep sending hard copies of the Rejoin EU book to MPs, influencers etc. …
The Overton window describes the range (or window) of policies that the public will accept. It is used by politicians to win elections through campaigning on issues that lie inside the window. Although the concept is neutral, like most things, mankind and especially politicians have attempted to manipulate things inside and outside the window for their own personal gain since humanity began. A few examples illustrate the problems of moral hazard.
The Overton window.
Brexit manipulation
In 2014, hardly anyone cared about our membership of the EU, apart from a few politicos in the Tory party and some think tanks who feed the media with lies. In doing so they feed popular culture about what people care about through the media. Fast forward to 2016 and David Cameron completely misjudged the Brexit referendum on two counts : He thought he would lose the GE and not have to keep the promise of a referendum and ; He did not see how Nigel Farage would weaponise 6 years of austerity through blaming foreigners for people’s feelings of being left behind. Result : a 52:48 vote instead of 60:40 in favour of remaining (source UKICE).
The illusion of small boats
In 2020, the perceived problem of small boats was almost non-existent. The far right moved the boats into the Overton window through manipulation of the press when the actual problem of illegal migration remains relatively small. At the same time, ALL the political parties have moved BREXIT out of the window with the illusion that “Brexit is done” when the truth is far from this. All have colluded in this piece of mass manipulation since they do not wish to fight another General Election on the “B word”. However, we are living with all the offspring of Brexit as our iceberg demonstrates. The issue does not go away just because politicians and the media have airbrushed it out of existence. And it is always best to deal with root causes of problems. Brexit remains a major contribution to broken Britain, when Sunak, Starmer, Davey et al would rather have you believe that we are at war and so on.
The Brexit Iceberg.
When one considers the global finding that the majority of people who voted for Brexit were more susceptible to being lied to, due to general intelligence levels, the Overton Window is an important concept. It’s even more important that our politicians and media people tell us the truth about difficult issues.
It is well known that it is much easier to influence people of lower general intelligence. It’s not decent tho.
Who moved my Overton window?
The lessons here are :
Do not let Brexit slip away from the Overton window. It’s a one way trip!
Always ask questions when politicians try to move issues into the public consciousness. What do they NOT want you to think about?
Continue to mass Brexorcise people using our guide to the process.
BEWARE : By writing this article, I myself am trying to move the Overton window back to the long term issues facing our children. In other words to counter lies with the truth.
Movers and shakers of the window
The latest gaslighter is Kemi Badenoch, a major racist, hiding under the cloak of equalities minister. Watch this superb film from Rob Burrows, which exposes her Overton window-shifting ways:
This is an extract from our white paper to Rejoin the EU. The piece on the white paper is heavily referenced and has been edited to suit more gentle minds. This piece is the unvarnished truth, without window dressing of apology from a cyber / security specialist who has been operating in Ukraine and other places behind the wire. It reads more like a murder mystery than an academic paper, hence the title. Read on.
Download the white paper to send to MPs by clicking the image.
The Deceit & Russian interference;
Kipling’s Six Serving Men, KYE and How the Disinformation monolith is taken down & positive hope
Introduction – Situation Report
The aim of this document is not to look back at the criminal travesty inflicted on the UK by Brexit, but it is essential for us to review and understand the state level resources who were and are ranged against our legitimate and reasonable aims to rejoin the EU.
In this section we seek to understand how they achieved their long term aims & massive investment in the damaging and weakening of the UK & EU, how they sowed and continue to sow and propagate disunity, the by-product of which is the UK equivalent of the US MAGA cult.
They are led and grifted to their rage by the agents of chaos, in the pay of Russia and the fossil fuel industry.
We can gain perspective that they are not to be feared, that their downfall is written into the script they follow, with the hope that escalation and global conflict will be avoided.
Once we have that valuable insight – How do we proceed in the short / medium / long term?
Are there any examples of ordinary, decent people fighting back and reclaiming the realms of reasoned debate and civility, with a view to showing the agents of chaos back to the rocks they crawled out from?
Can we align and link up meaningfully with these organisations or follow their highly successful “business model“ ?
I highly recommend the works of the esteemed Professor Timothy Snyder particularly his “On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from The 20Th Century” and any of his own channel videos on YouTube or recorded presentations, lectures or blog postings.
Some insight into Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, better known as ‘huilo’ is in order. Born in St Petersburg, of dubious parentage, he has a fabricated and much-fabled childhood, with stories of his mother being noticed by his father in a pile of bodies after a battle with the Germans and revived, him as a small child confronting a cornered rat etc. The facts are he was enamoured by a radio series about a spy and aspired to join the KGB. He achieved this, excelled in the German language but failed to achieve a serious & meaningful posting, ending up in the backwater of the Kommandatura in Dresden under the cover of a translator. The stark fact remains that he ended up there, and not in some leading role in the organisation, because of his security risk due to his alleged paedophilia.
Post German reunification and the end of the Soviet Union, Putin achieved power in St Petersburg through grand fraud and corruption and working with organised crime groups in a time of crisis; natural resources were sold (wood) for food, but he never delivered, and he tasted corrupt wealth.
As deputy mayor, he developed kompromat on his senior and usurped him.
During another time of crisis with Yeltsin he was selected as a grey and controllable vessel by a group of oligarchs, led by Boris Beresovsky, (who would later be suicided in the UK by Putin) with his agreement to spare Yeltsin and his family from prosecution being agreed in advance before his succession. This plan to have a puppet controlled by the oligarchs backfired completely, as Putin simply upscaled his St. Petersburg model on his appointment to president.
The biggest mistake we can make on Putin and his regime is to think it is, as his publicly stated aim is, to restore the communist federation of the Soviet Union. He oversees a partnership between the state and organised crime, where he allows his oligarchs and siloviki (inner circle) to carve up ownership of and profits from natural resources, providing him with a percentage, in exactly the same way as any mafia boss operates. This makes him the richest man on the planet, owning a vast portfolio of properties and luxury items, registered through family and friends as cut outs. The obscenity of this wealth was exposed by Navalny, with the Pink Palace featuring an aqua disco and gold toilets, he also has a significant number of luxury homes in the UK, some in the name of his daughter.
Every country has organised crime groups that operate on a national / international / intra national level. Russia is a country owned by organised crime, and Putin is a fascist – witnessed by his adoration of Ivan Illyn (his devotion extending to disinterment of Illyn from Switzerland and reburial with honours in the motherland ,gifting his works to Russia’s ambassadors and promotion of the modern Alexander Dugin.
To further his kleptocratic aims, he has followed the Gerasimov principles of asymmetric warfare, and the Surkov ethos of sowing chaos, backing all sides politically, but focussing heavily on the right wing “populist” movements. This entails provision of direct funding through cut outs, individuals, or organisations, expertly detailed by the OCCRP’s Russian Laundromat investigations.
This is how Salvini, Orban, Le Pen, Fico etc are funded, and political fringe nothings like farige have achieved prominence.
Putin’s investment in subverting the UK has been a long and thoughtful one; the capture of Londongrad, to use our capital as a money laundering hub and safe haven for oligarchs and siloviki to hide their money and educate their brats has been carried out over decades. The purchase of the tories was easy, direct donations, sidling alongside, indirect funding, easily obtained British citizenship and patronage of and funding by people like Lebvedev, pere et fils and of course the “Conservative Friends of Russia”. Johnson, like Trump, is an ideal vehicle for Putin’s aims – easy to flatter narcissist, sexually incontinent and constantly in need of money. The amount of dirty Russian money the tories have received from Russians and as freshly minted British citizens is staggering.
Quite simply Putin bought the conservatives, but he needed another vehicle to sow deep division and hatred. The ultimate aim – destruction of the EU, enabling him to march into any country previously part of the Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact at will, was to be lead by a raft of Brexit style “revolutions” , hence the “Grexit“, “Frexit“ farces, all fell flat because of
A. The respective governments putting country before personal profit and
B. The abject failure of Brexit
Ahead of a French presidential election the Russians attempted a huge data dump disparaging Macron & his wife, this fell flat because the French Security Service were prepared for this by deploying appropriate resources in counter intelligence and the Russians making the drop in English for some bizarre reason.
Back to the UK – Step up the loathsome, vile fascist revenant from Kent.
Examination of this creature’s voting record whilst an MEP (when he bothered turning up of course) shows absolute regurgitation of Russian propaganda, toeing their disinformation line with dogged devotion, for money.
The £700,000 fees from Russia Today (RT) that we know about are the tip of a deep iceberg (the full extent of his funding from Russia will be available when Putin falls unless the data is bought in Belingcat style ). The more recent blaming of the EU and Ukraine for the 2014 & 2022 Russian invasions shows that this agent is still in the pay of and active for Putin.
So let’s bring this completely up to date – in the run up to the UK General Election in July 2024, we were all subject to that twisted Twitter/ ‘X’ algorithm that meant we saw nothing but the Reform Ponzi Scheme templates along the lines of
“I’m a 73-year grandma from Nottingham, traditional Labour voter etc, but because of blah Nigel saviour blah reform “
There were thousands in the run up to July’s General Election, the template credible enough in tone and style for the actual gammon to copy them, suggesting they were prepared by Reform beforehand and signed off for use by Russian Troll Farms like St Petersburg’s Internet Research Agency.
Sharp eyed Twitter users found instances of deceased people’s photos – some harvested from BBC news stories – being used in the fake Russian profiles to vilify the tories and Labour and promote Reform.
We now know that the pro-Trump Elon Musk bought Twitter with financing from Russian oligarchs, removed it’s moderators and proceeded to mould it into a pro Putin / Trump cesspit. There are further revelations that Musk has met with Putin, there can be no doubt that the capture of Twitter is seen as a good investment and the massive loss in the value of the company is of no interest if it achieves its Russian propaganda aims.
The Fightback – Hope in the response to Russian propaganda & Putin’s fall
So far, we have painted a grim picture – we have the 21st Century Hitler, waging both a full genocidal war in Ukraine and a full on destructive attack on democracy using asymmetric Chekist principles.
Can we hope, as decent people, to fight back?
Has anyone been successful in countering the tidal wave of division and hate?
The answer is a resounding yes to both questions.
The Baltic countries, Ukraine and Georgia have been long term targets of Russian information warfare and they have become the best equipped and experienced in combatting the hydra like attacks on their nations. The Elves academy was established as a joint venture to combat Russian trolls and they have been very successful.
There is a story of ordinary, decent people stepping up, facing off and defeating Russia in their hate campaigns that was recognised with an award of the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star for the tireless work and countless hours that volunteers have put in since Russia’s 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine.
That organisation is NAFO (The North Atlantic Fella Organisation) and is estimated to be comprised of more than 250,000 people from around the world.The members of NAFO are called Fellas as each one has a NAFO-forged avatar, primarily Shiba Inu dogs or cats, adopting a wide range of personas.
NAFO started by a response to a propaganda tweet by the Russian Ambassador to the UN. This was swamped by people in response, and the ridiculing of blatant lies (known as shit posting) followed, with #NAFOArticle5 being invoked to bring other NAFO Fellas into the response and to mass report terms of use violations, resulting in the suspension and banning of perpetrators.
Along the way, NAFO has developed into an organisation that funds good causes in support of Ukraine and has plugged gaps where delay and dithering has left Ukraine short of supplies and support.
Most importantly, NAFO has show that the vast pernicious forces of division and hate, operating directly from Russia or through their agents here, and be faced down and defeated.
Almost to a person, the vast and nebulous network that is NAFO knows the full roster of traitors working for Putin, and by way of example, farige, Banks and Galloway are well documented:
It is very easy to become a NAFO Fella, it is also very easy to adopt the ethos of NAFO and strike back at the people working directly for or as agents of Kremlin propaganda or disinformation.
The Rejoin community has much in common with NAFO & an alliance would be a strong, supportive and cohesive way forward.
One thing that defines NAFO is a collective sense of humour that pierces the fascist conceit with deadly accuracy – a tradition that can be traced back to Charlie Chaplin and his Adenoid Hynkel character in The Great Dictator.
We all know that fascists with their dedication to “othering” and obsession with their racial superiority can’t bear to be laughed at, the “Splash the Fash” campaigns prove that.
One of Professor Timothy Snyder’s recommendations is that we can all, however minor or modest, play a part in stopping those trying to destroy democracy and piling in to correct Reform lies and their promotion of Russian interests is a good place to start.
Putin’s Fall – is not far away, his greatest hope that Trump is re-elected has come to pass.
The fallout from Putin’s fall, for his international agents and puppets, will be rapid.
In the endemically corrupt Russian state, anything is for sale, and the prime examples of Belingcat’s purchase of data that provided the evidence on both the shooting down of MH17 and the Salisbury poisoners amply demonstrates that.
A major boost came in September 2024 during an interview with Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was freed in the prisoner exchange. In his Guardian interview he said:
“These guys keep meticulous records. When the end comes – and it will – and the archives will open, we will find out about Marine Le Pen and your British guys too “
There are constant, exceptional efforts to combat the agents of chaos – there is a positive outcome, closer than we imagine – and we can all play a vital, valid part in making that day happen.
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If there wasn’t a 20 mile strip of sea between Dover and Calais I suspect that Michael would not have written this book and I would be reviewing it … Michael Hindley is a former Labour politician and MEP over many years and writes from years of experience of our turbulent relationship with Europe.
The Semi-Detached European describes our hokey-cokey relationship with Europe and the EU. Importantly it gives us a lesson in history for those who appear to have forgotten or distorted the truth about our relationship with Europe. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, Jacque Delors, Clement Attlee, Theresa May, Charles De Gaulle, David Cameron, Jean Monnet and many others.
We continue to suffer catastrophic losses from our so-called freedoms from the largest market and successful experiment in large scale democracy on the planet. Our continuing ambivalence towards Europe will finish The United Kingdom off economically, socially and politically. Michael helps us to understand our grand mistake. In his words … ” We had to resort to a referendum to put a complicated question, whose solution had escaped the wit and skill of politicians, to a popular vote.
The Semi-Detached European will help you explain the real value of the European project, warts and all, to the few remaining doubters who believe that we should erect more walls to make us feel secure rather than building bridges.
Michael gives talks across Europe about his work. You are welcome to contact him via mhindley1947@gmail.com
