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So who knows that the file in the picture is known as a <a data-mce-href="https://www.wonkeedonkeetools.co.uk/files/how-did-bastard-files-get-their-name" href="https://www.wonkeedonkeetools.co.uk/files/how-did-bastard-files-get-their-name" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bastard</a>? What a wonderful language we possess. It is really important to start making it plain to the blob (and presumptive elites) that when the votes are counted and Reform have more votes than any party other than Labour - but only a handful of seats then ALL voters will take to the streets of Westminster and demand a complete rethink of the electoral system.(**Aftermath note: maybe the most stark illustrations of the easily gamed electoral system is the number of votes needed byLiberal Democrats to win 71 seats; and then the fact that 20% of the population has given labor 60% of the seats in the House of Commons is a constitutional malfeasance of the highest degree. The sectarian vote that gave four seats to Hamas supporters is a further reminder that the system is fundamentally fooked.) It will be impossible to escape the obvious fact that is an outrageous embarrassment, and not merely no longer "fit for purpose". And Never mind postal vote fraud. So we should start NOW to demand that Starmer's glaringly illegitimate government should be postponed for 6 months. That would be enough time for a new phone/internet voting system to be discussed, trialled and implemented.&nbsp; It's not nearly as big a task as those that don't want any sort of PR or change will try and pretend. The only reason why a politician might not want to clear away the embarrassment could be that their party benefits unfairly from retaining the "traditional" fraud. Yes, we understand all the issues around security and fraud - but banks and government have made ownership of a smart phone with internet access pretty much compulsory if you want to exist at all in 2024.&nbsp; And at the same time as doing this, we can tidy up many aspects of identity and tracking - and the need to back up all phones securely.&nbsp; It's especially handy that WOTE founders were involved in the foundation and deployment of the internet for its entire 40+ year evolution.&nbsp; And a couple of us also worked on Amstrad's famous <a data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_E-mailer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_E-mailer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emailer devices </a>and network from 1997.&nbsp; Those were the days...<figure id="figure-5ca074dzmlxhz0c7a"><img id="5ca074dzmlxhz0c7a" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/40IyYoO7KsG4mObtHl8u48pzNiglhYsC1X6YOkF6CupnJ9HR3KvbQr317vObqMNK.jpg" alt="orange fruits" title="orange fruits" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 70% 15%;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="Amstrad E-Voting Terminal " data-positionx="70%" data-positiony="15%" data-fullwidth="false" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/40IyYoO7KsG4mObtHl8u48pzNiglhYsC1X6YOkF6CupnJ9HR3KvbQr317vObqMNK.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: 70% 15%;"><figcaption class="body-normal text-gray-500 mt-2">Amstrad E-Voting Terminal</figcaption></figure><h3>There is still just time to manoeuvre this election to include a referendum on real reform and Real Democracy.</h3>Maybe @elonmusk would like to step up and offer to work with his smart developers on the secure voting platform - and then offer to do the same with any country that wants to clean up voting systems that range from dubious - to outrageously and obviously corrupt.

The illegitimate election

The problem with the BBC is that, traditionally, its university educated journalists (back when a university education meant something) were smarter and better connected than the average viewer. Fast-forward to today when we have greater expertise at our fingertips, more time and willingness to be informed, and a greater mistrust of prestige sources, BBC audiences are likely to have a broader range of influences and experiences than the average BBC hack who spends most of their time talking to politicians and other journalists inside the same square mile, week in, week out.We now find that the best analysts and commentators are from outside the traditional media because they utilise audience interaction to learn and grow, when the average BBC "transmit-only mode" hack believes the audience are low intelligence, and must, for their own benefit, be protected from alternative sources. This is how we got a class of modern journalist that believes in censorship, and that they alone possess the critical faculties to decide what is and isn't a legitimate source.This is how modern journalism has become an object of ridicule. They genuinely don't have the first idea how out of the loop they are, or how anachronistic their methods are. The information revolution was something that just happened to other people. We now have a class of intellectually incurious "citizen of nowhere" journalists who have no idea what makes Britain tick, no idea how anything works, and no particular desire to find out. Ed Conway is perhaps the only one close to an inquisitive mind among the entire lot of them.&nbsp;The saddest thing of all, is that I could have written this at virtually any point in the last fifteen years. Social media is not a new thing, nor is the internet. They haven't evolved in the slightest. Through the use of their inherited institutional prestige, they continue on in their own start-up vessels, speaking only to a very narrow audience of metropolitan liberals, producing self-congratulatory confirmation bubble drivel without the slightest hint of self-awareness.The good news is that they are a dying creed. Their continued presence in the media landscape is the toxic legacy of terrestrial media monopolies, but this can't last forever and they're the last generation. Marianna Spring is their latest and last attempt to manufacture a young clone of themselves, and she's widely ridiculed and, rightly, treated with contempt. Independent media leaves them standing. You get more informative and interesting content from @BritishThgtLdrs and @nickdixoncomic , and there will be more like them. And though GB News is televisual chewing gum, you're still more likely to be exposed to different ideas and perspectives than the BBC equivalent, which is no longer capable of prioritising actual news. The sooner Sky TV and the BBC are wound up, the better off we will be.

BBC: social engineering - not honest reporting

Pete North is what we believe is known as "a blunt Northerner..." But in the range of disasters waiting to happen, Starmergeddon takes some beating. Reform will crash and burn eventually. Of this I am absolutely certain. I am not wrong about this. There are two strategies available to an insurgent party. The first is to build a movement, which through its own political might breaks into the mainstream and builds on it to become a serious contender for government.&nbsp;To do that, though, you have to be more than just a flamboyant one-man-band operation. You need ideological roots and a sense of purpose. Without it there is no unity later down the line, and the moment you win power, it all falls apart.&nbsp;You also need a national organisation with competent management. You can't win without an effective local ground game. You need a top team with credible people who can argue and defend policy. It cannot rest on one man, especially one without any self-discipline, who makes it up on the fly. It can withstand a novelty act like Farage, so long as there is some part of the leadership that knows how and when to get serious.Reform has nothing like this, and is unlikely to acquire it under Farage. We know this from experience. Farage likes to be surrounded by uncomplicated, agreeable people who'll be compliant members of his entourage. He won't elevate talent from within the party because he feels threatened by it, so the top team is only ever going to be Farage and his gang, making it up on the fly.Don't get me wrong, you can get pretty big as a populist protest party, but pretty big is no use if your goal is power, and you can't expand beyond that. From there, there's nowhere to go but gradually down, then into oblivion. Generic populism as the basis of a movement simply cannot win. It gets dragged down by its own contradictions and lack of attention to detail - especially when there's no plan and no message discipline. &nbsp;Ultimately, you can't win as a clown show. The incumbents can, but outsiders have to prove they are comprehensively better by every measure if they want to get over the finish line. Credibility is key, which you can't obtain when your platform is a collection of simplistic and half-baked populist tropes. Worse still, if it ever did win power, the lack of realism and planning would cause it to fail inside a year, and it would accomplish nothing very much, and nothing that can't be reversed with ease by a successor.&nbsp;So ultimately, we're going to end up investing a lot of time an energy in something that can't win, but prevents something better from emerging. The most it can do is "shift the dial" on political discourse, but we've been here before. The lesson you should have learned from Brexit is that the establishment has an unswerving ability to revert to business as usual when there is no serious threat to their incumbency.&nbsp;The second strategy, is as a pressure group party, in which case, the party should not be contesting seats where there are sensible conservatives like Jenrick and Cates. You'd want to focus your campaigning resources on eliminating the worst of the wets. But there's no actual strategy in play. Farage seems to think Reform can break through into parliament and cause right wing Tories to defect, to then become a replacement party under his leadership.But that's not going to happen. If Tory MPs survive this latest purge, then they are safe as safe gets in politics. They are not going to risk their careers. Moreover, the parliamentary presence of Reform will be a dysfunctional nest of infighting, and will be an unvetted embarrassment. If there is any serious talent in the Reform ranks, they'll be openly at war with Farage within weeks. It's all so wearily predictable.&nbsp;The high watermark for Reform, at best, will be to perhaps double its parliamentary presence in 2029, but as a widely ridiculed band of boomer cranks, that even Farage himself will be quietly embarrassed of. They are then gradually picked off, until they're wiped off the board by a resurgent Tory party in 2034.&nbsp;This would be a useful exercise if Reform/Farage was able to utilise the leverage, by insisting the Tories adopt some of their policies, but Reform doesn't have policies. It has half-baked sound bites. The Tories will throw him a few scraps from the table, but it won't be comprehensive Reform. At most, we might leave the ECHR and bring immigration down to 200k a year, but we won't get anything that addresses the dysfunction in our politics, and they'll replace the ECHR system with a domestic replica, where previous ECHR jurisprudence is the standard (applied by the exact same judges).What we actually need is a (r)eform party with a major reform agenda to rebuild the state from the ground up, in its own image, along the lines of the party's own philosophical foundation. <h3>We need a movement with big ambitions, a blueprint for reform, and one that has already worked out the details, and anticipated the resistance tactics well in advance. That way, should it acquire serious leverage, it can propose something of lasting value.&nbsp;</h3>That, though, is not going to happen under a Farage-led entity. He will march his troops into battle without rifles, just to be mercilessly cut down, and when the going gets tough, he will claim victory, bug out, and wash his hands of it, just like he did last time. The man doesn't learn, and he doesn't change, and for as long as the political territory is occupied by him, nothing of value can emerge - and then we're back at square one in 2034, with a deadbeat Tory party, replacement levels of immigration, an economy as broken as ever it was, and no hope of correcting it through the vote.

Is Reform a disaster waiting to happen?

Real Democracy MPs will raise taxes** &nbsp; Labour, Conservative and LibDems all promise not to increase income tax or NI - when they really do not know what trade-offs are involved or what the future holds. &nbsp; However, we all know that such promises from the usual suspects from Labour, Conservative or LibDem&nbsp; are easily forgotten (tuition fees, Nick?) if they plead “extraordinary circumstances" - which they will always be able to contrive on demand. RealDemocracy.uk warns in advance you that it may be necessary to propose to raise taxes to support crucial public services.&nbsp;** HOWEVER, in accordance with the WOTE Federation pledge, this decision will be subject to the Will of the Electorate. WOTE electors will be canvassed using our secure voting system, and that decision will be enacted.<h3>When you elect an independent&nbsp; candidate that supports the WOTE pledge, then you and your vote will be counted many more times than once every five years,</h3>

Tax Rises !

At what moment did Boris pass the point of no return? Most realised a long time ago that he was a "loose cannon"; we had seen his popular act as mayor of London, where his ebullient charm had successfully managed and navigated the Conservative Party's famously "broad church". We just prayed the ebullient buffoon could be contained; his foibles were "priced in" - but always presented obvious attack opportunities for those waiting to kick the stool out from under. Such a character was always going to be vulnerable to being undone by his many jealous detractors, but he was not ruthlessly managed and shielded by an Alistair Campbell. Quite the opposite, his own cabinet secretary <a data-mce-href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59979023" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59979023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sue Gray couldn't wait to jump ship to support Labour</a>. The Tory death wish knows few bounds.&nbsp;Also keep in mind that the visceral hatred of frustrated EU remainers has never gone away, where Boris remains the #1 hate figure and revenge target. They are still quietly convinced that they will be able to engineer a return to Brussels servitude soon enough. And so the BBC which is a bastion of EUphilia has been able to manoeuvre their soul mates of the spiteful left into an unassailable election lead. The Marxists have been allowed to hide in the closet without facing a proper examination. The scary gender warriors and Palestinian apologists have not been cornered and required to explain their support for ideas that would not survive outside the metropolitan elite.And perhaps the most scary thing of all is that the ill-conceived and untested big brother laws - only very recently introduced to address hate speech, and numerous other imagined online safety issues - have barely been tested in the field, and will now be eagerly pursued by all manner of DEI zealots and their Marxist thought police. &nbsp; The DEI process is another recently laid minefield, ready to blow up the unwary, and creating opportunities for vexatious litigants - and consultants to advise and create further new earning opportunities from the diversion of common sense by the ever expanding front line of the culture war.<figure id="figure-7lewv8sqjslx7vyj1s" data-full-width="" class=""><img id="7lewv8sqjslx7vyj1s" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/9aO42Puixl70pkFAXuiurZ6TfvRexUp2a9CCb3TEjIzhmVIEBlyEkbjcauNRGwcb.jpg" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionx="undefined" data-positiony="undefined" data-fullwidth="true" data-mce-src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/9aO42Puixl70pkFAXuiurZ6TfvRexUp2a9CCb3TEjIzhmVIEBlyEkbjcauNRGwcb.jpg" data-mce-style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;"></figure>Mind how you go...If you were worried about the control of money by Central Bank digital currency (CBDC), it's already here. If you try and live in the UK without a viable internet connection and a viable bank account, you do not exist. &nbsp;Ask Nigel Farage about the gotchas of "social credit"...How many of us have got a (tested) fallback position prepared?

Are you ready for social credit?

More essential advice for the Reform party from Pete... "....I don't think the right has grasped the danger here. Ukip could afford to put up unvetted no-hoper candidates because it was an exercise in vote diversion. If the game has changed to the extent that Reform actually stands a chance of breaking through, then it simply can't afford low calibre candidates. Think about it. Imagine Farage gets elected along with four other randoms. Maybe one of them is halfway intelligent, two are semi-literate boomer normies, and the other is a Christian fundamentalist lunatic with their own agenda.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Farage immediately has to disown the nutcase, then Sky and Hope Not Hate does a deep dive on the social media feeds of the boomer normies. They then find anti-Muslim hate memes or Britain First style videos. Farage immediately has to sack one of them while the other goes into hiding, and six months later resigns their seat. After that, the media round on the halfway intelligent one, who will end up being an absolute embarrassment, leaving Farage out on his own.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The thing about Westminster, is it's a nasty, nasty game. I don't think even Farage is prepared for it. Westminster makes the Euro parliament looks like a daycare centre. It will bully an interloper half to death. You need skin as thick as Galloway to cope with it. That's partly why our politicians turn into sociopaths.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Reform has a decision to make here. It either accepts that its candidates will have views that are unpalatable to the media (and be prepared to defend them to the hilt), or be prepared to lose half or all of its MPs in the first year to political assassination.&nbsp;&nbsp;
But we know how this goes. On matters such as this, Farage always folds at the first challenge. He's still playing the game by pre-Brexit rules. He still thinks media respectability is important. That only invites more of the same behaviour from the media. Moreover, that allows the media to frame the boundaries of what is morally acceptable discourse, so we'll end up not having the debates we need to have, and Farage will be trained by the system to stay within those parameters.&nbsp;
One term of serial embarrassments for Reform makes it look like a one-man-band novelty act, and one that is incapable of finding any talent equal or better than Farage, and the momentum will collapse.&nbsp;
In order to avoid this, Reform is going to have to either invest in proper vetting and start nurturing some serious talent, or it's going to have to stop caving and say its candidates are entitled to their views and if the media doesn't like that then tough. Sacking candidates they way they're doing here is like throwing chum into shark infested waters.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The bottom line is that the establishment is not going to rollover and let outsiders get a foothold. It will fight to the death, and use every dirty trick in the book. If Farage is going to walk into every ambush and cave in any time some heat is applied, then the right has already lost.&nbsp;&nbsp;
This is why the party actually need a harder line on immigration. It can't be a media-friendly outfit with moderate policies. It has to be unapologetically nationalist and be ready to speak plainly about British identity, otherwise it will end up sacking exactly the kind of candidates its members actually want, and pretty soon you end up pissing off your activist base who end up spilling off into yet another hard right no-hoper party.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<h3>The kind of amateurism we're seeing from Reform classic is Farage. Nobody can deny his media presence and his capacity to hold court, but when it comes to leading a movement, the lack of attention to detail, and the absence of a strategy will prove to be a fatal liability.</h3>

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The illegitimate election

BBC: social engineering - not honest reporting

Is Reform a disaster waiting to happen?

Tax Rises !

Are you ready for social credit?

The Westminster trough is not for the ill-prepared - or f...