In the wake of Suella Braverman’s “sorry not sorry” apology to asylum seekers, in this film, we look at the social impacts of Brexit, including things like immigration, social care, the cost of living, freedom and various other things, lest they be forgotten by the sheer pace of Government gaslighting and dead cattery.
This follows our economic stock take film:
Write to your MP to tell them that enough is enough !!
Write to Lee Anderson MP (e-mail lee.anderson.mp@parliament.uk) to help him understand his failings. Here is a sample letter from a good friend:
Dear Mr. Anderson,
Just in case you missed it all – I think you’ve decided to take a break from Twitter after your last car crash pronouncements – you’ve really thrown Katy under the bus and are now trending like no other MP since Matt Hancock was filmed grabbing his assistant’s bum in his office.
In particular, you may wish to find the clips from James O’Brien’s radio show on LBC this morning. It’s a corker.
MP Dawn Butler has a bit to say about you on Twitter as well, as does Mike Galsworthy. You should make an effort to read these, if no others.
#PoorKaty is trending on Twitter as well, due to your poor judgement.
You have made a huge mistake by doubling down on your original ‘30p’ message, first with ‘own brand’ Weetabix, and now by using Katy. Did you not think that she would come under the microscope? The whole country knows about her background now.
You should feel ashamed of yourself. You have once again showed the country, in fact the World, what an ignorant fool you are.
Keep digging
I don’t really think that Boris Johnson deserves more than one minute to reflect upon his legacy so I made several videos in less than one minute on this subject. In fact James O’Brien summed up the detail so well that I don’t feel i could better that. In summary we are talking about:
Broken promises on Brexit (It is NOT “DONE”, it will consume a lifetime of wasted time and money to continue the pretence). To read the full history, read Private Eyelines – Have I Got Fake Brexit News for EU and Reboot Britain – Strategies and skills to change minds on Europe and Brexit. Remainers and Rejoiners seriously need to up their skills if we are to win the next battle with the populists. Never forget that we lost two elections and a referendum, however inconvenient that fact is. Yesterday I delivered copies of these books to Sir Alan Sugar, Richard Branson and James O’Brien. I wish to send them to Hugh Grant next if anyone can help with this.
Outright LIES on COVID (Johnson was late to the party when others were listening to experts. He conducted an experiment with genocide by placing infected NHS patients into care homes, causing 10’s of 1000’s of unnecessary deaths). The list goes on. These were political CHOICES and not inevitable. Johnson has been lying ever since he was born. Why would we expect any different from him?
Industrial levels of distraction or dead cat politics, the latest one being the “kettle”. Even the kettle story is not correct. If you want your kettle to boil faster, descaling and using the correct amount of water will make bigger impacts on your bill. £20 is of course not even significant when compared with the actual energy price rises, but Johnson assumes that people cannot add up.
I don’t believe the Tories will call an election in order to lose their majority but if they do, we’ll need to do better than sharing memes on fb. The Daily Maul has set another dead cat loose on this subject today. Preparation is better than regret. Learn the skills to persuade people outside your bubble to change their voting behaviour here.
Join us on Monday September 12 at 8 pm on ZOOM to build momentum to remove the Brexit beast from our lives and build a better Britain in a better Europe for a better World.
Support our election fighting fund via Go Fund Me. Read our strategy for this at Brexit Doesn’t Pay.
Private Eyelines : Have I Got Fake Brexit News for EU is just released. Humour is one of the few weapons this Government cannot take away from us. It’s a historical and hysterical record of #Brexit and one that holds this #fascist government to account in ways that spreadsheets and graphs do not. The book helps us deconstruct the fake news of populist media from “The Son” to “The Daily Maul” “Excess” and “Telegravda”. Grab copies for yourself and your Brexity friends now on Amazon or order discount copies direct from the author by e-mailing us at reboot@academy-of-rock.co.uk Here is the book blurb below:
Satire reaches the parts that spreadsheets, graphs and logic do not. Brexit provides a rich dark seam of tragicomedy in a Kafkaesque world of gaslighting, shapeshifting and shameless lies. We live in desperately sad times. But simply drowning in the sadness of Brexit does not help us deal with paranoid populist politicians. Bittersweet levity cuts through people’s minds to their visceral core. Simply stated, satire heals.
Populist media brainwashed leave voters to believe in Brexit unicorns. I tried my hand at parodying these media to expose the lies on which the Brexit hydra reared its many ugly heads. I found that people rather liked my gutterpress pages. Some even believed that they were real!
To change minds on Brexit, it is not sufficient to break the parliamentary paralysis which continues to enable the slow-motion destruction of Britain. Nor is demographic change, aka death, a success recipe. We must actively work on the huddled masses. People almost literally eat lies for breakfast from a biased populist media, owned by people who seem just a little bit too friendly with Vladimir Putin. Private Eyelines opens up the conversation anew with Brexiteers with buyers’ remorse, or Remainers numbed into submission by six years of bullshit and bullying from our so-called political leaders.
Peter Cook is a unique combination of scientist, business consultant and musician. As a 60’s child, his mum made him watch Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, saying “it would be good for him”. It wasn’t! Instead, Peter built a solid career bringing life-saving treatments for diabetes and HIV / AIDS to the world, 18 years tutoring MBAs in academia, writing books and 28 years running a business. His early exposure to Cook and Moore suddenly came to the fore after 24 June 2016, as satire met real life through Brexit. His mis-spent youth and creativity have been rejuvenated through campaigning, writing, music, film making and speaking about our rightful place in Europe. It was good for him after all. Mum was right!
We want to explain a long term project to send a potent message to Brexit supporting MPs that Brexit Doesn’t Pay. We will do this by damaging the majorities held by Brexit supporting MPs in Parliament by systematically engaging their constituents in conversation about their record nationally and locally, through information leaflets and on social media. We plan to do this as ‘non party campaigners’ and will offer no guidance as to how people vote. We will just ask them not to vote Tory. By doing this we will leaven their majorities and allow other political parties to do their best.
We have a database that identifies a number of MPs who have:
Find the database at Google Drive. Add your name and mail your details to peter@academy-of-rock.co.uk to help lead the project in your local area.
| COUNTY | Constituency | MP first name | MP surname |
| SOUTH | |||
| Hertfordshire | Hitchin and Harpenden | Bim | Afolami |
| Welwyn Hatfield | Grant | Shapps | |
| Stevenage | Stephen | McPartland | |
| East Sussex | Lewes | Maria | Caulfield |
| Hampshire | Aldershot | Leo | Docherty |
| Fareham | Suella | Braverman | |
| New Forest West | Desmond | Swayne | |
| North East Hampshire | Ranil | Jayawardena | |
| North West Hampshire | Kit | Malthouse | |
| Portsmouth North | Penny | Mordaunt | |
| Southampton, Itchen | Royston | Smith | |
| Kent | Dartford | Gareth | Johnson |
| Dover | Natalie | Elphicke | |
| Gravesham | Adam | Holloway | |
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Gordon | Henderson | |
| South Thanet | Craig | Mackinlay | |
| Gillingham and Rainham | Rehman | Chishti | |
| Oxfordshire | Witney | Robert | Courts |
| Surrey | Carshalton and Wallington | Elliot | Colburn |
| Epsom and Ewell | Chris | Grayling | |
| Reigate | Crispin | Blunt | |
| Esher and Walton | Dominic | Raab | |
| Surrey Heath | Michael | Gove | |
| Berkshire | Wokingham | John | Redwood |
| Buckinghamshire | Wycombe | Steve | Baker |
| Isle of Wight | Isle Of Wight | Bob | Seely |
| West Sussex | Crawley | Henry | Smith |
| East Worthing and Shoreham | Tim | Loughton | |
| Horsham | Jeremy | Quin | |
| Bedfordshire | Mid Bedfordshire | Nadine | Dorries |
| WEST | |||
| Avon | North East Somerset | Jacob | Rees-Mogg |
| North Somerset | Liam | Fox | |
| Weston-Super-Mare | John | Penrose | |
| Cornwall | North Cornwall | Scott | Mann |
| South East Cornwall | Sheryll | Murray | |
| St Austell and Newquay | Steve | Double | |
| Devon | Newton Abbot | Anne Marie | Morris |
| Dorset | Christchurch | Christopher | Chope |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | Michael | Tomlinson | |
| Somerset | Somerton and Frome | David | Warburton |
| Yeovil | Marcus | Fysh | |
| NORTH | |||
| Northumberland | Blyth Valley | Ian | Levy |
| Berwick-Upon-Tweed | Anne-Marie | Trevelyan | |
| Humberside | Cleethorpes | Martin | Vickers |
| Haltemprice and Howden | David | Davis | |
| North Yorkshire | Thirsk and Malton | Kevin | Hollinrake |
| West Yorkshire | Morley and Outwood | Andrea | Jenkyns |
| Shipley | Philip | Davies | |
| South Yorkshire | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Miriam | Cates |
| SCOTLAND | |||
| Scotland | Moray | Douglas | Ross |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | Andrew | Bowie | |
| LONDON | |||
| Greater London | Chipping Barnet | Theresa | Villiers |
| Kensington | Felicity | Buchan | |
| Islington North | Jeremy | Corbyn | |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | Julia | Lopez | |
| Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Boris | Johnson | |
| Sutton and Cheam | Paul | Scully | |
| EAST | |||
| Norfolk | Great Yarmouth | Brandon | Lewis |
| South Norfolk | Richard | Bacon | |
| Suffolk | Suffolk Coastal | Thérèse | Coffey |
| Cambridgeshire | Huntingdon | Jonathan | Djanogly |
| Essex | Braintree | James | Cleverly |
| Epping Forest | Eleanor | Laing | |
| Harwich and North Essex | Bernard | Jenkin | |
| Maldon | John | Whittingdale | |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | Mark | Francois | |
| Rochford and Southend East | James | Duddridge | |
| Saffron Walden | Kemi | Badenoch | |
| Thurrock | Jacqueline | Doyle-Price | |
| Chingford and Woodford Green | Iain | Duncan Smith | |
| Witham | Priti | Patel | |
| WALES / NORTH WEST | |||
| Clwyd | Clwyd West | David | Jones |
| South Glamorgan | Vale of Glamorgan | Alun | Cairns |
| Mid Glamorgan | Bridgend | Jamie | Wallis |
| Lancashire | Fylde | Mark | Menzies |
| Merseyside | Southport | Damien | Moore |
| Cheshire | Macclesfield | David | Rutley |
| Greater Manchester | Bolton West | Chris | Green |
| Bury North | James | Daly | |
| Bury South | Christian | Wakeford | |
| Bolton North East | Mark | Logan | |
| Heywood and Middleton | Chris | Clarkson | |
| Blackley and Broughton | Graham | Stringer | |
| Hazel Grove | William | Wragg | |
| MIDLANDS | |||
| Northamptonshire | Corby | Tom | Pursglove |
| Daventry | Chris | Heaton-Harris | |
| Northampton South | Andrew | Lewer | |
| South Northamptonshire | Andrea | Leadsom | |
| Wellingborough | Peter | Bone | |
| Mansfield | Ben | Bradley | |
| Nottinghamshire | Gedling | Tom | Randall |
| Staffordshire | Lichfield | Michael | Fabricant |
| South Staffordshire | Gavin | Williamson | |
| Stone | William | Cash | |
| Tamworth | Christopher | Pincher | |
| Stoke-On-Trent North | Jonathan | Gullis | |
| Warwickshire | North Warwickshire | Craig | Tracey |
| West Midlands | Dudley South | Mike | Wood |
| Halesowen and Rowley Regis | James | Morris | |
| Solihull | Julian | Knight | |
| Hereford and Worcester | Bromsgrove | Sajid | Javid |
| North Herefordshire | Bill | Wiggin | |
| Redditch | Rachel | Maclean | |
| Shropshire | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Daniel | Kawczynski |
| NORTHERN IRELAND – DUP | |||
| County Antrim | Lagan Valley | Jeffrey | Donaldson(Sir) |
| South Antrim | Paul | Girvan | |
| North Antrim | Ian | Paisley(Jr) | |
| East Antrim | Sammy | Wilson | |
| County Down | Upper Bann | Carla | Lockhart |
| Belfast East | Gavin | Robinson | |
| Strangford | Jim | Shannon | |
| County Londonderry | East Londonderry | Gregory | Campbell |
In turn, we will supply support through bringing the team leaders together, supplying leaflets at various points and providing training in the gentle art of Brexorcism. We have just completed our our second book on the subject:
Study the list of locations and find people who will be willing and support to lead the campaign in the different areas. Both in terms of your real life contacts and via social media. When you get someone who is interested, pl send their details over to me via e-mail reboot@academy-of-rock.co.uk
