We helped to remove four Brexit voting Tories from office in 2024 and put Brexit back on the table with my Labour MP. Read all about our success at GE 2024. We beat two national parties with budgets and resources despite only campaigning on our own and with no budget or additional help. We also recommended that people vote Labour several times at the hustings and on the streets. NO politician recommends that people vote for other parties !! Just imagine what might have happened to Reform UK if we had a ground force and a budget and did not give more than half of our votes away?
It all began in 2019, I stood a cat for election in Gillingham and Rainham to bring the Tory vote down and allow other parties to put their best feet forward. Yes, a cat, you got that right! Despite my insistence that nobody should vote for ‘Stan the Cat’, and with no budget or campaign team, the UCAT party did not come last !!
We beat the Christian People’s Alliance with 229 votes and were not so far away from defeating UKIP (happy face) and the Green party (sad face) in Medway. The long-term Tory party agent told me at the hustings:
“If it hadn’t been for your stupid fucking cat, you were easily the best candidate on the stage”.
The Lib Dem Chair in Medway said:
“Your cat is an existential threat to the Lib Dems”.
I found this statement utterly ridiculous but never mind.
In spite of this, I helped the local Lib Dem candidate retain their deposit (the first time this had happened in more than a decade), by taking him out on pub visits and so on, but the Lib Dem Chair was, of course, oblivious to that.
It occurred to me that :
(a) If I had campaigned across the long-term with a campaign team rather than a few weeks, we could easily have done much better.
(b) Certainly, if I had asked for people’s votes (I got 229 votes despite begging people to vote for the other candidates) we would have done a lot better.
(c) With a budget, we could have done several leaflet campaigns, town hall meetings and media coverage, and ;
(d) Stan the Cat had much better policies than the established parties !!
Having successfully stood ‘Stan the Cat’ for election in 2019, we built on this by helping to remove Rehman Chishti from office in 2024. In doing so, to send a message to Labour and the other parties that “Brexit is NOT done”, but “Britain is DONE FOR if we carry on trying to make Brexit work”. Labour are still not listening, so maybe we need to up the ante …
Stan the Cat achieved three outcomes in 2024:
Suppressed disaffected Tory voters who will not vote differently by getting them to vote for Stan.
Removed hard Tory voters who would not vote Labour by switching them to Reform UK, thus splitting the Tory vote and allowing Labour to win.
Moving soft Tory voters by getting them to vote tactically for Labour, Greens or Lib Dems.
This was a carefully calibrated tactic based on deep knowledge of the area and expert level skills in canvassing.
That’s up to you. We need funds to run an intensive campaign of pounding the streets, attending hustings conducting media activity, communicating with residents and building a team to support me. Although I am very happy with my Labour MP, I am deeply unhappy with Labour’s continuing insistence that “Brexit is done“, especially in the wake of Trump 2.0. I am considering whether to mount a full on campaign to replace Labour and Reform UK with someone who stands up to Brexit.
I will upgrade the level serious campaigning again. That said, we’ll keep Stan the Cat as our furry mascot and the key campaigning idea of “Could a cat do any worse than a Tory”, which was a very persuasive slogan in 2019 and 2024.
Humans have failed to join together to STOP BREXIT, so it’s time to let cats take over … As their human servant I am here to execute their wishes.
We can and must Rejoin the EU as a priority.
We have a serious manifesto available below.
