Excellent article and a much needed look back. 2016 was a watershed in many ways. For those of us who came of age politically online 2010-2016 it felt like the final victory we had sought for so long. The next 4 years, with the ultimate insult of lockdown at the end, collapsed that optimism completely.
I can understand why an 18 year old would want to back Restore today. I would have done the same. My sympathy ends for those who have been in this game a longer time and still don't see what's at stake.
Through pure circumstance we have made the 2029 GE essentially a referendum on: "Do we fix our problems, or do we become Brazil?". It's unfortunate that such a circumstance is still relatively tenuous but choosing to not play to win is simply not an option.
A brilliant piece and hopefully a sobering reminder to the new right yoof that have political memories dating in the years as opposed to decades.
Purity spiralling and factionalism have devastated the British right countless times. Hopefully Restore's young admirers come to their senses before it is too late.
Excellent article and a much needed look back. 2016 was a watershed in many ways. For those of us who came of age politically online 2010-2016 it felt like the final victory we had sought for so long. The next 4 years, with the ultimate insult of lockdown at the end, collapsed that optimism completely.
I can understand why an 18 year old would want to back Restore today. I would have done the same. My sympathy ends for those who have been in this game a longer time and still don't see what's at stake.
Through pure circumstance we have made the 2029 GE essentially a referendum on: "Do we fix our problems, or do we become Brazil?". It's unfortunate that such a circumstance is still relatively tenuous but choosing to not play to win is simply not an option.
A brilliant piece and hopefully a sobering reminder to the new right yoof that have political memories dating in the years as opposed to decades.
Purity spiralling and factionalism have devastated the British right countless times. Hopefully Restore's young admirers come to their senses before it is too late.
Actually Roger Knapman was the first leader of a right wing party to get more than 2.2% of the vote as UKIP leader in 2005
Interesting bit of history, this. Great read.
"why did racialism fall out of favour?"
It didn't, the left have taken it on wholeheartedly.