Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more When being normal, became radical. How the far-left have villified wholesome godly life. Rev'd Brett Murphy Listen to post · 13:14 Call yourself a Christian nationalist online or even a conservative believer, or a disciple who holds to traditional gender roles and watch how quickly the trolls appear. They always look and sound the same: your typical Greens Party voter, complete with septum rings, hair marinated in fluoro dye, and seething with rage. As though they all share a woke dictionary hidden under their beds, these godless heathens always sound the same. Their paper-thin arguments, used to justify their degeneracy, are so easily obliterated by common-sense wisdom and biblical teaching that, in general, they don’t even bother engaging. More often than not, they resort straight to ad hominem attacks and petty insults, “Nazi,” they cry, or “bigot” and “breeder” for conservative women who embrace motherhood. What on earth is wrong with these people? Frankly, it is a reprobate mind handed over to sin. As Romans 1:28 tells us, a reprobate mind is one that God has given over to its own sinful desires after persistent, willful wickedness and refusal to acknowledge Him. It is a degraded, “worthless” (Greek: adokimos) mindset incapable of proper discernment. The great 17th-century Presbyterian commentator Matthew Henry described this state as a point of no return resulting from unrepentant sin. Leftists are so hell-bent on plunging into deeper self-indulgent sin that they continually invent justifications to silence their own consciences, to rebel against God’s word and societal norms. Over time, this brings a terrible judgment from God: rather than restraining them, the Almighty simply gives them what they demand, until they choke on it. In this final stage of perversion, their thoughts become truly worthless. John MacArthur has said of those who consistently reject God, rail against His Word, and embrace relentless sin: “People can’t think reasonably… there’s no way back to sanity… that’s the reprobate mind.” It is a terrible prison of their own making, marked by willful rejection of truth, a completely numb conscience, active approval of sin in others, and total callousness toward spiritual reality. When these lost souls encounter normal, wholesome Christian people, they often react with visceral hatred. Seeing normality and godliness forces them to look into a moral mirror, one they cannot bear to face. They would rather vilify, attack, and even destroy ordinary people they label “far right” than simply live and let live. This is rampant in online discourse, where radical leftists, infected with the woke mind virus, ruthlessly insult and belittle anyone who rejects their destructive agenda. But the consequences go far beyond the internet. Conservatives are regularly targeted by cancel culture simply for holding traditional beliefs. This warped mindset has even infected the Church. Many mainstream denominations have been captured by woke activists. I hold the unfortunate record of facing the most Clergy Disciplinary Measures - the most serious formal complaints possible - against a single clergyman in the Church of England’s history. Why? Simply because I spoke out on good, old-fashioned biblical beliefs. The complaint that gained the most media attention stemmed from my insistence that the transgender Archdeacon of Salford was, in fact, a bloke. I learned the hard way: touch the idols of the radical left, and they will try to obliterate you. They pursued me even after I left the Church of England for the supposedly orthodox Free Church of England (the Reformed Episcopal Church UK). That denomination eventually sacked me when pressure came from the CofE. The FCE folded under the pressure because its leaders were cowards who chose silence over truth. I had refused to stay quiet on the greatest threats facing the Church and British society: Islam, feminism, and the woke mind virus. So be it. If you are going to be cancelled, sacked, and nearly made homeless, with two small children and a pregnant wife to provide for, it might as well be for a righteous cause. Having seen this firsthand, I can attest that the woke left and the cowards who enable them through censorship are ruthless in enforcing their zeitgeist. It is far more than online vitriol; radical leftism produces devastating real-world consequences. Consider the late Charlie Kirk, martyred for his Christian beliefs on sex and gender by the boyfriend of a transsexual. Yet these dangers must not cause us to roll over and surrender. Now is the time for conservatives, true Christians, and people of common sense to arise. If we do not, Western civilisation may well be obliterated. We face the perfect storm: relentless degeneracy, ultra-low birth rates, mass migration (especially from Mohmmedan nations), and the rapid rise of militant Islam, which will outbreed the native Europeans within a few generations. The West desperately needs a resurgence of traditional Christianity with all that it entails and courageous leaders who will point people back to wholesome normality. It is utter madness for leftists to claim it is “oppression” for women to become mothers, or that building communities around faith, fairness, and friendship is “extremism,” or that men seeking to get fit and provide for their families is “toxic.” These slurs come from people who are seething with jealousy, bitterness, and derangement. It is insane to be brainwashed into believing that falling in love, getting married, having children, owning a home, building generational wealth, and worshipping the God of our forefathers is somehow evil. Yet that is precisely what the radical left believes and they demand that everyone kneel before the idols of their progressive dystopia. I say to hell with that. I will not consent, I will not comply with the destruction of my faith and heritage on the altar of woke ideology. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being normal. It is perfectly normal to want a family, a stable job, to think generationally, to attend church, and to belong to a community of like-minded people. That is what our ancestors did for thousands of years before blue-haired radicals began calling it evil and it worked remarkably well for centuries. I reject the self-destructive path of Sodom and Gomorrah, and I choose the life-giving path of the Kingdom of Heaven. As the early Church Father Justin Martyr declared in the second century: “God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers.” The Epistle to Diognetus echoes this counter-cultural fire: “Christians dwell in the world, yet are not of the world” (John 17:16). We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9), refusing to be conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2). I will invest in those who stand with me in this vision of godly normality. I will worship my God without apology, and I will build a counter-culture that will flourish as woke degeneracy collapses into the abyss. I am sick of seeing conservatives and Christians intimidated into silence. I am tired of people cowering before Communist university dropouts waving signs and typing angry words online. It is high time normal people grew a spine, ignored these fools, and simply got on with what is right. If the wokies want to commit cultural suicide, let them, but I will have no part in it. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15). There is now a vital impetus for right-minded people to pool resources, build genuine counter-cultural communities centred around Bible-believing churches, and create structures that help one another flourish. This is the Benedict Option in action - Rod Dreher’s urgent call for Christians to form intentional, vibrant local communities of faith, family, and work, just as St. Benedict forged monasteries that preserved Western civilisation amid Rome’s collapse. The Desert Fathers understood this long before, withdrawing from a decaying empire to establish holy outposts of prayer and discipline. As St. Anthony the Great taught, a monk outside his cell is like a fish out of water - yet together in community they created oases of sanity in a world of chaos. After being cancelled twice, I stopped caring what the leftists and their enablers think. In a sense, I became everything they hate and fear: an unapologetically right-wing, straight, white, male Christian. God has given me a significant social media and public ministry platform, and I believe He intends to use it to rally thousands of ordinary Christians and sympathetic unbelievers back to the cause of normality. To save our nation and the West, we need a Christian revival that transforms lives at the deepest level, a grassroots return to the Bible-based values that once made us great. We must stop worrying about what the reprobates think and instead build strong communities founded on the life-giving teachings of Scripture. Loyalty is essential. Many want to enjoy the fruit but refuse to make any sacrifice. I have no time for such weakness or muddy compromise. Building this grassroots community of ordinary, hardworking people has become my life’s work. I am unabashedly a Christian nationalist. In the simplest terms, that means I am first and foremost a follower of Christ, and I love my country. As a true Christian, I know the Bible is our ultimate authority it is literally God’s Word. Individuals and nations are most blessed when we obey the Lord’s instructions. Our task is to conform to the Bible, not twist it to suit ourselves. Therefore, the best way to govern a nation and seek maximum blessing for its people is to shape its laws, morals, and culture around the Holy Bible, which historically the West has done for millennia. For all the left’s vitriol and misinformation, being a Christian nationalist is really as simple and as profound as that. Rise up, brothers and sisters the counter-cultural revolution is here, and it is winning. The reprobate mind may rage and the cancel mobs may scream, but we stand immovable on the Rock of Ages. Equip yourselves with the full armour of God (Ephesians 6:10-18), love your families fiercely, build your churches boldly, train your children in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6), and plant seeds of faith that will outlast evil empires. Christian nationalists, conservative believers, Bible-saturated families, this is our moment. We do not retreat; we advance the Kingdom. We do not apologise; we proclaim truth. We do not cower; we create. From kitchen tables to online fortresses, from village parishes to city house churches, we are forging a new Christendom in the ruins of the old. The West was built on these truths once. By God’s grace, it will be rebuilt on them again. The darkness is deep, but the light of Christ shines brighter. The enemy is loud, but our King is stronger. History belongs to the faithful who refuse to kneel. Let the woke world collapse under the weight of its own devilish lies; meanwhile, we will be here, thriving, multiplying, worshipping, laughing, and building, to the glory of God the Father, through the power of the Son, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. I never thought being in a counter-cultural revolution would be so wholesome.

 

Tightening The Zionist Grip on America’s Media From News to Entertainment, There’s a Concerted Effort to Control the Narrative By Nick Griffin  Follow Nick on Substack Follow Nick on X The Purim War launched by Netanyahu and Trump is widening and deepening awareness of the problem of Zionist influence in American and world politics. In the USA. ideological and political civil war between MAGA and MIGA can only be accelerated by the tensions created as the unwelcome consequences of the war – from higher gas prices to flag-draped coffins – filter into the public consciousness. In the UK, Nigel Farage - who, for all his many faults, is far and away the country’s most switched-on and in-touch-with-his-public politician - has distanced himself from Donald Trump and his war, even speculating that Israel bounced the ‘friend’ to whom he says he hasn’t spoken for many months, into the ever-more unpopular conflict. Meanwhile, the IDF’s latest genocidal foray, this time against Lebanon, only adds to the public revulsion against the slaughter in Gaza. Among all but the hardcore social media counter-jihadists, Israel’s name is increasingly mud and blood. Small wonder, then, that the Zionist response does not just include trying to jail vocal and high-profile critics - from Muslims and leftists through to me - but also to strengthen Zionist media power. The wave of media takeovers which have hit the news recently are part of a broader scheme by the Zionist and neo-con elite to tighten their grip on news, the entertainment-indoctrination complex and even the alternative media, whose advent and explosive growth have undermined the legacy media’s near-monopoly on information exchange and opinion-forming. At the same time, ironically, the scale of the takeovers, combined with the high-profile of key anti-Zionist nationalists and patriots in the alternative media, is itself boosting awareness of ‘Zionist control of the media’. Not so long ago, the idea was confined to small circulation publications and almost underground books; now it is spread by some of the best known and most popular MAGA pundits. It is hard to see that the ultra-Zionist takeover of media outlets previously dominated by slightly less rabidly Zionist Jews will put the genie back in the bottle. The aim is very clearly to suppress criticism of Trump’s lurch from America First to forever wars. It is equally clear that is getting steadily harder to find objective information about what is going on; even the ‘progress’ of the war is now shrouded in propaganda, spin and censorship. Criticism is suppressed and cheerleaders are amplified. The reports coming out of the Middle East bear more resemblance to newscasts out of Orwell’s 1984 than to the sort of warts-and-all reporting which Americans believed they were getting in previous conflicts. The difference between the coverage of Vietnam and what is allowed out about Gaza and Iran is staggering, and changes in media ownership are fuelling the efforts to mislead the public. U.S media-deal values soared to trillions in 2025 - up 39% from the previous year. The most seismic transaction involved Warner Bros Discovery, whose studios, HBO, and Max streaming assets were taken over in a hostile Paramount Skydance bid of $111 billion. This combined Paramount’s legacy assets with Warner’s to create a behemoth spanning film, TV and streaming. Paramount’s billions come from the Oracle-derived fortune of Larry Ellison and his son David. Their personal fortunes are backed by Middle Eastern wealth funds, notorious for human rights issues as well as their Arab sheikh owners’ Zionist sympathies. The sellers in this saga were Warner Bros Discovery’s shareholders, led by CEO David Zaslav, hence the takeover will not herald any drastic change in direction. The same cannot be said for Ellison’s continuing attempt to take over TikTok. This would see the massively influential platform switch from being open to possible abuse by the Chinese Communist Party, to a certain ruthless censorship by new algorithms and human censors, all under the control of deeply biased owners. If regulators fully approve the Paramount/Skydance deal, it will reshape the ownership of CBS and its national news operation. The acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery also gives the Ellisons control of CNN. Larry Ellison is an ardent supporter of Israel and a major donor to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, so the biased coverage of events in the Middle East on huge sections of the ‘American’ media is certainly not going to end any time soon. Local television news is another sector where consolidation has been especially strong. Nexstar Media Group has swallowed up various smaller rivals. Nexstar is now the largest owner of local television stations in the United States, with over 200 stations in 116 markets. Nexstar’s founder and CEO Perry Sook is the largest individual shareholder with a 5.768% stake. The top institutional holders include BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Neuberger Berman Group LLC and LSV Asset Management. Acquisitions include the August 2025 purchase of TEGNA Inc., and its network of local TV stations, for $6.2 billion. At the same time, Disney solidified its dominance by taking full control of Hulu from Comcast. This is part of the consolidation of streamers in ‘safe’ elite hands. Disney’s major shareholders include the Vanguard Group, BlackRock and State Street Corporation. The current chief executive is Bob Iger, who was responsible for making Steve Jobs Disney’s largest shareholder. There is more of this to come, with another very recent takeover in the UK giving advance warning of Zionist designs on American newspapers. The Telegraph Media Group, a cornerstone of conservative journalism, has just changed hands in a £575 million ($768 million) deal to German-based media giant Axel Springer. The Telegraph was at one time owned by the Canadian Conrad Black as part of his media empire which also included the Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. Married to Barbara Amiel, convicted felon and ardent pro-Zionist Black was pardoned by Donald Trump after years of court cases and a prison term for fraud. With the fall of Black, the highly influential Telegraph was taken over by the reclusive Barclay brothers, who maintained a generally rightist editorial stance which included the usual British elite sympathy for Israel. The new owners, by contrast, are very active supporters of the Zionist state. The boss and chief shareholder of Springer is Mathias Döpfner, a German citizen who considers himself a “non-Jewish Zionist” and whose self-declared motto is “Zionism above all” (Zionismus über alles). A consummate globalist, Döpfner was appointed a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum back in 2000. In 2014, he became a Member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and picked up the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) International Leadership Award in New York City. On the board of Warner Music, he chairs the neocon Axel Springer Freedom Foundation and serves honorary roles at the American Jewish Committee. In February 2023, The Economist reported on Döpfner’s plans to expand the Springer group’s media presence into the United States. This fits with the fact that the bid for the Telegraph was run by his ally Dovid Efune. Born in Manchester, England in 1985. Efune has stated that after age 11, he left conventional education and only attended Jewish academies to study the Torah and rabbinical tradition. He now lives in New York where, in 2021, he became the owner of The New York Sun following a deal with its founding editor, Seth Lipsky. Efune and Döpfner have stated their intention to expand what they call ‘transatlantic conservative media synergies’. Mainstream liberal criticism of the recent takeovers frames them as ‘right-wing and pro-Trump’. They decry this as a billionaire takeover, with Trump allies like Kushner and Musk weaponising platforms against “woke” ideologies. The reality, however, is that this is a very specific sort of ‘right-wing’, specifically Likudnik, the far-right of the Zionist movement. The key players are not interested in the ‘right’ for what it could do for Britain or America, but what it can do – and is already doing – for the genocidal monsters running Israel. Invite your friends and earn rewards If you enjoy Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe. Invite Friends

Community Strongpoints - Bastions of the Future Resistance What Is to Be Done? Part 14

 

Community Strongpoints - Bastions of the Future Resistance

What Is to Be Done? Part 14

By Nick Griffin

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What would a Community Strongpoint actually do, and is the idea based on things which have already worked?

The first question is the crucial one, and we’ll come to it in a moment, but let’s quickly answer the second question. Yes, everything we’re about to consider has been done before – and it’s all worked. As already noted (see article linked below), all sorts of highly successful self-help institutions emerged during the rise of the pre-Labour party working class from the dispossession of the Enclosures and the degradation and demoralisation of the Industrial Revolution.

Friendly and Burial Societies, retail co-ops, Penny Schools and so on helped create the confidence and human networks which led to the setting up of Miners’ and Working Men’s Clubs, as well as underpinning the growth of the trade unions and Labour movement.

In Ireland and parts of industrial Scotland, community organisation was based on religion and tribal sectarianism rather than economics and class, but the institutions which developed were very similar.

The Protestants built Orange Lodges and band halls, the Catholics established Irish clubs (particularly in the diaspora, where they became a very important source of funds and political support for the continued struggle) and the Gaelic Athletics Association. Like their English and Welsh counterparts, community self-organisation started with meetings in other people’s buildings – churches, chapels and pubs – but, as they developed, they solidified their organisations in their own bricks and mortar.

More recently, the Troubles in Northern Ireland produced fresh examples of constructive and legal initiatives which both help communities and also strengthen the influence of political activists within them.

Both sides of the conflict developed prisoner support networks, of which the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association was the most effective.

Tar Anall supported Republican ex-prisoners, with advice and training, Coiste na n’Larchimi brought together several Republican prisoners’ groups, running advice centres, employment projects and welfare support for former IRA members released under the Good Friday Agreement.

The most widespread and effective example of organisations designed to work with the broader community were the Sinn Fein advice centres. These were the backbone of the efforts by the political wing of the Provisional IRA to overtake the moderate nationalist SDLP and replace it as the primary party of the Catholic working class in Northern Ireland.

The SDLP tended to stay in council chambers and in offices as remote, professional politicians. Sinn Fein set up local advice centres, small, cheap offices in run-down Victorian shopping parades. Mesh grills over the windows kept out loyalist petrol bombs, but their doors were always open to local people.

Not just the ones who wanted to take part in political activities, support ‘the boys’ in prison and so on. Even more important in the battle for hearts and minds were the people with problems - with landlords and rent, or with social services or crumbling marriages. All the things which, in English towns, would normally at the time require help from the Citizens’ Advice Bureau, people living in the poorest parts of Belfast, Londonderry and Newry learnt to go to the Shinners.

Their unpretentious drop-in centres were all the more effective for being small and rough-and-ready. “These people are like us, and they’re here for us” turned general sympathy for the overall struggle against the Brits into political support and votes.

The loyalist paramilitaries set up their own political wings, but they never mastered this approach, and paid for this failure. While they did the fighting, dying and prison terms for defending their people and taking the war to the enemy, they never managed to turn the sympathy this generated into serious political support or votes.

These days, Sinn Fein are far more interested in Third World immigrants, LGBTQ rights and abortion-on-demand than they are in the people they claim to represent. But the reputation they built up - as they helped their community claw its way up from oppressed underdogs to dominating higher education, the civil service, law and media – still gives them a formidable political advantage.

On the other side, it is possible to learn from the local community charity shops which stand in high streets in slightly more well-to-do towns. They are run just like the other charity shops which help keep a bit of life in struggling high streets. They use the same volunteers and appeal to local residents for saleable bric-a-brac, clothes, unwanted household items and all the usual.

They don’t use the money it makes to send bibles to Botswana or to raise money for research into the diseases exploding thanks to ultra-processed food and toxic jabs. Instead, everything raised helps to fund the boxing gym in what used to be the big storeroom out the back. It keeps local kids busy, out of mischief and connected with the wider community.

I think also of a very interesting visit I made not so long ago to a locally-run community centre in England. Somewhere north of Birmingham is all I will say because, while based on essentially traditionalist Christian values of charity and service, it hasn’t had any problems with the local council, and wants to keep it that way.

The sort of examples we’ve considered so far span well over two hundred years. All of them came into being not because times were easy, allowing their creators to afford such luxuries, but precisely because times were hard. The local institutions they created in response where not luxuries, they were vital tools for survival, or at the very least things which made hard times a little easier and more bearable.

Well, guess what? Times are getting hard again. Our people will respond and rally round each other, and the harder things get the more they will do so.

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The problems our people face now are different in some important specifics, but the underlying circumstances also have marked similarities: Ordinary people have no control over their own lives, powerful elites impose policies and conditions which do them and their families enormous harm. If they complain, they are either ignored or suppressed.

‘The Swinish Multitude’, the ‘Great Unwashed’, the ‘Human Herd’, the labels applied to them over the years have changed, but the contempt and fear which the Masters feel for us are as plain as the fact that the neglect and exploitation are despite there being far more of us than there are of them.

“We are Many, they are Few”, as Shelley put it, in his poetic rebuke to those who ordered the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Those who hesitate to get involved in today’s fight for justice for our people for fear of being ‘doxxed’, or losing a few brainwashed friends, need to remember that basic rights which they thought they could take for granted were not gifted to their ancestors. They were taken from the rich and power, and their militias and their police.

They were won at the cost of lost jobs, broken heads, severed limbs and the hangman’s noose. They were secured because our people stopped complaining and organised to change things for the better.

We are, sad to say, no longer the 99%. It was precisely the fear of facing the wrath of a people united against tyranny and legalised robbery which was part of the reason for the elite’s enthusiasm for the “multiracial experiment” in the first place. But there are still many millions of us, against only thousands of them and a few hundred thousand often cowardly and thoroughly feminised security mercenaries to uphold their petty tyranny.

Even when their policies turn us into a minority, we will still be by far the largest minority, and quite a few of those in smaller minorities will be inclined for various reasons to side with us. We have every reason to be worried about the future, but not to be petrified – literally ‘turned to stone’ by it - and so unable to respond. We should not be scared by the future, but we must take action to avoid still being disunited and disorganised when it arrives.

As long as our communities are united and organised, even dominant minority status is not where we would ideally choose to be. But, since we do not have a realistic choice any more, we must get to work to unite and organise, so that we can make the best of the bad job which various anti-white and anti-Christian lobbies have foisted on us.

So, returning to our notional, typical working-class town, what would its people and their champions need to have put in place before it could classify as a Strongpoint Community?

The RTC Flagsters group and Community Observation Patrol are a given. It is likely that both these concepts will change and adapt in order to resist future efforts by the authorities to close such operations down. But it is even more likely that, despite such challenges, being easy, cheap to set up and run, and very popular among ordinary residents, they will be important starting points for more ambitious ventures into local community organisation and resistance.

We have already examined several of the simplest extensions to these operations, particularly Remembrance Season decoration and mobile soup kitchen teams. Let us assume that, in turn, nationalists and active patriots within this community have got involved with such initiatives. This has given them a network of generally loose contacts and sympathy. What we are going to examine now is what they can build on that as, quite literally, they move into the bricks and mortar of a Community Strongpoint.

It’s probably taken them several years of planning, fund-raising and hard work, but now they have an actual building. Or, possibly, buildings, because while everything we’re about to examine fits together, it doesn’t all have to take place under the same roof. Indeed, having it divided between several different community hubs could have advantages in various ways, from questions of noise to security considerations.

Whatever is decided upon, the sort of properties which will be useful are obvious and pretty much self-selecting. Typically, the main centre will be in a large former shop, with storage and a back yard, on a rundown high street. Or it might be a church or chapel with an attached hall, complete with toilets and a kitchen even before conversion work begins. A closed down primary school would also fit the bill.

Some of these potential venues might have been effectively unthinkable only a few years ago, but the rise of populist parties is already opening up the possibility that, after decades where local councils were run by leftists, we may be moving to a time when – in some areas at least – a community group won’t have to be Muslim, black or run by someone who thinks ‘they’ are a dog or a witch in order to be allowed a cheap, long-term lease on a redundant council building.

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In the side with the old shop window, middle-aged ladies run the charity shop. Local people donate to it, happy to know that every penny raised goes back into their community, rather than to some bunch of foreign ingrates or the overpaid executives of a big charity which has lost touch with its roots. Local pensioners often drop in for a cup of tea and to warm up in winter.

A small office provides private space for the advice centre. Cutbacks have drastically reduced the number of Citizens Advice Bureaux. This is opening up a huge gap; despite the availability of every sort of advice online, the dedicated advice room with trained volunteers, connected to the online database of the CAB, is hugely appreciated by local people.

This is one of the things which the BNP just touched on but, frankly, we too tied up in the last possible moment in which an electoral challenge might have turned things around. We learned that councillors for other parties could obtain on request copies of the CAB’s centrally produced and regularly updated database. All the questions a local councillor or advice centre would ever be asked were there, carefully indexed, and with all the answers, on CD-ROM disks.

Recognising the potential, we sort to get hold of copies, but the CAB refused point blank to give them to “racists”. We should have fought that decision, using the liberals’ own language and anti-discrimination rules to secure for our people the rights granted freely to everyone else. Their bigoted position was not just direct discrimination against our elected councillors, but also indirect discrimination against the English, who would be more inclined to turn to people they had elected than to anyone else.

We failed to develop such offensive lawfare capabilities, but essentially non-political community groups would probably be able to secure access to the CAB’s online database without encountering any resistance. If not, then any one of the well-funded populist parties or ‘right-wing’ pundits making a fortune through monetised social media will be able to fund the necessary legal action without even feeling the cost.

Towards the back of the premises is a gym for youngsters. A meeting room and kitchen are used by various groups. Pensioners evenings, bingo and so on are popular. There’s a PA system for budding young musicians, it’s not the biggest live music venue, but it’s theirs and its safe. The last drugs dealer was encouraged to leave the area more than a year ago now.

Community meals are prepared and enjoyed for festivals, socials and fund-raising events. The Mothers & Toddlers group also uses a section of the storeroom, which allows it to store prams and baby gear until they are given out to new parents.

The storage and meeting facilities provide a base for all sorts of teams which work out in the community. There’s a clean-up team and a homeless aid group, as well as the community replacement for the Meals On Wheels operation closed down due to council cutbacks. An independent, non-woke, cubs and scouts group is based there too, as is the recently-founded marching band and a choir.

Out in the back yard, several local handymen have covered a section of it. This provides the space in which several retired but active tradesmen run hands-on taster training sessions for youngsters. Basic engine maintenance, welding, bricklaying, plumbing, electrics and plastering are all provided. It isn’t just about actual career opportunities, it’s about connecting the generations, and giving young men confidence in their own abilities.

The latest step forward has been the use of the local council power to acquire land to enlarge the allotments. Fund-raising is going on to build a Men’s Shed down there, after the community minibus took the chaps working on the idea to see several already in existence in towns nearby.

As confidence grows, even more becomes possible. Each setback adds to the collective experience available; each success provides a springboard to the next project. Coming up soon is a scheme to support for home-schoolers. A small room upstairs is earmarked for a local branch of a credit union.

A planning sub-group is working on perhaps the most ambitious project since the premises itself was opened. This is a minicab firm, providing carefully vetted local drivers – including women – for local people. Its office and radio equipment will be based in the Strongpoint Centre.

Residents are eager for the day when they no longer have to rely on the usual minicab providers. While the local council has still not yet turned populist – and is therefore hostile to the plan – the necessary licences are all going to be issued by a much more amenable council.

Another group of enthusiasts are meeting in the community café section once a month as they develop plans to buy an old steel narrow boat, moor it on the local canal and renovate it as a training programme and to provide canal excursions for locals and tourists alike.

I am sure that you will be able to think of other equally exciting possibilities, and look forward as always to your comments here, which will be considered and where suitable incorporated into the eventual printed What Is to Be Done?

Do please remember that none of this is unrealistic, or mere theory. Everything proposed here has already been done, and worked. Very often in many places and over many years.

The only thing that has not been done yet is to bring such things together in the service of our people in the changed and challenging times which are coming, as opposed to the changed and challenging times in which they served them well in the past. Whether in problems or solutions, there really are very few new things under the sun.

When you first read the headline about “Strongpoint Communities”, you might have thought that – at a time when alternative media outlets maintain a constant background drumbeat about ethnic conflict and ‘civil war’ - I was going to speak of walls and barbed wire, or even of the weapons with which men will be forced to guard them. As you have just learned, I do not.

Such things are probably already inevitable, but to concentrate on them will still be to miss the point. The most important ‘strongpoint’ is in the hearts and minds of the people. If the confidence, unity and spirit are there, those who step forward to man the physical defences will build or acquire them very quickly. But if those three things are missing, all the defences and weapons in the world won’t help them or their community.

I understand if you still find this a bit uncomfortable. It’s a long way from casting a ballot every five years. Many will continue for a while yet to pretend that none of what we have been considering is necessary. The lazy, the cowardly, those paid to keep the the movement inactive or busy with useless things, and those who make money selling political snake oil cures – all will try to ignore this call to constructive and realistic action.

Being part of a community which is organising in a siege mentality may not sound attractive, but visualise life for your family in a Strongpoint neighbourhood. I can tell you; it’s going to be richer, more connected, more genuinely ‘vibrant’ than anything in mainland British living memory – except perhaps among the very oldest, who are still just about within memory of the ‘Blitz Spirit’.

The more the multicultural disintegration of our old society bites, the more the alienation and sheer disruption of the so-called 4^th Industrial Revolution and the chill of the Demographic Winter kick in, the more what I describe will be the sort of community which our people will need. And in which they will find themselves more happy and genuinely alive than anyone at present can believe.

To live within the tribe is the basis of real humanity. The nuclear family is part of our nature, but even traditionalists who cling to that aspect of our nature have somehow forgotten that we are also hardwired to live with extended families, and with a tribe.

We’ve had a dead century, a deeply anti-human period in which tribe and belonging have been crushed between atomised individualism and the emptiness of universalism. The dangers and injustices which are driving us back to tribalism are not things any of us can want, but among the consequences – if we face the threats right – will be things that serve us well and even make us happy.

What starts as a plan for a Community Strongpoint leads us to build a Strongpoint Community. The former is simply a building which various people use. The latter is the living thing which those efforts help to bring into being.

The initial impetus may be fear, a sort of desperate attempt to hang on, but what will quickly come out of this time of darkness is a better way of being than we’ve had in living memory. The ideas given here are only a very simple outline, a basic sketch of the sort of things which can and must be done. All sorts of better ideas and more sophisticated institutions will be worked out and built on the long road back which still lies ahead of us.

How honoured are those to whom it falls to take the first steps, and to point out the path ahead. How lucky are those young enough to help build the institutions and the bulwarks of our tribe. How fortunate those who will be born and raised in a time and in places where they grow up knowing exactly who they are, what they belong to, and what is to be done to advance the day when we will have our home again.

If you’re one of the realists who is able to face the truth, while not giving way to depression as you ponder the apparently dark future, I believe you will greatly appreciate this series. If so, I urge you to scroll back on my Substack website (it’s easier to use) and read the earlier sections. And to become a paid subscriber, because ideas alone are not enough. We need organisation, and that costs money. I’m sorry if that’s rather un-English, but it’s a fact. So how about it? Thank you!

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Pensions: We’ve been duped for 30 years – this is how to stop it, Part 3

Chris Philp

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April  2026

 

In a speech last week Nigel Farage formally committed Reform UK to the state pension triple lock if he wins the next election, promising to fund this by cutting the benefits bill. How, he didn’t say, suggesting a failure to understand the nature of the bottomless pension pit problem. It’s one that faces him or any incoming government, the truth of which is that the pensions system itself is one great benefits scam. This was clearly explained by Chris Philp in three articles he wrote for TCW earlier this year. We are republishing them this week under a more forthright heading in the hope of getting the message across, not just to Nigel Farage, but to Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe as well.

Philp’s challenge to these leaders of new parties on the ‘right’ is twofold. First, for them to call out the two parties of government responsible over 30 years for wrecking the original auto-enrolment scheme that made working people save for pensions; turning it into a benefits scheme which allows people to avoid work for life. How this was done incrementally they can read in Parts 1 and 2. Second, for them to bold enough to announce the solutions he sets out in today’s Part 3 – including limiting the pension rights of anyone not working a total of 35 years (including all recent arrivals, but not limited to them). You can read the first two parts here.

WE CAN solve the problems in the pensions system by simply reversing ‘the incessant ratchet of socialism’ and without making tough political choices because we don’t do it retrospectively, we do it from now on. To prepare for this, we need to give the Overton window a nudge by making people fully aware of what’s been going on with the pension system. And then:

Solution 1: Stop giving away tax/NI credits

We cannot continue to give away entitlement to the State pension. An income for the rest of someone’s life must be reserved for those who have earned it.

The simple (political) fix to NI credits

We must recognise that it would be political suicide for any party to try to remove existing entitlements from previous tax years. Apart from anything else, that would lead to poverty for many people. The answer must be to change the system from now on.

Nobody is going to be out on the streets, raging with Poll Tax levels of political fervour, about benefits they haven’t yet been given and to which they would still be entitled if they do something to earn them.

The pre-1996 system worked well: you had rights to unemployment benefit if you’d worked and paid NI in the preceding year. This gave a tax/NI credit for up to a year, after that you went on to Income Support which didn’t give credits. This encourages people to work for a living, supports them in times of need – and massively reduces the State’s exposure.

It can be implemented very easily – announce in a Budget statement that it will take effect from the start of the following tax year, giving people due warning that they have a few months to find work.

Solution 2: Stop the 0 per cent NI band giveaway

The same applies to the 0 per cent band which is increasingly unjustifiable when the minimum wage is higher than the 0 per cent band. Again, it should apply to future earnings in future tax years; it is not politically or morally right to cancel existing entitlements.

Solution 3: Reduce the level of Pension Credit relative to the State pension

It’s ridiculous to keep Pension Credit only £3 a week less than the State pension. Reduction may need to be done over time, and it would be helped by . . .

Solution 4: Keep the triple lock for the State pension, not necessarily for Pension Credit

With the above changes we can differentiate between earned pensions and gifted pensions. If it were ever necessary to remove any part of the triple lock, clearly it should apply to the gifted pensions, not the earned ones.

Once again, politically and morally this can be done only for future years. Over time, our pensions system would sort itself out and it would help us now, since forecasts by official bodies (OBR, IMF, credit agencies etc) would be rosier about the future.

When people call for means testing of the State pension they’re asking to add insult to injury by taking it away from the people who actually earned it! It’s hard to tell if it’s rank ignorance or rabid socialism; perhaps the two go hand in hand.

Solution 5: Remove the entitlement of foreign nationals

First, remove the entitlement to State pension via residency and replace with a citizenship requirement. Also limit the rights of immigrants to any Pension Credit or in fact any access to the State pension itself other than accrued by fully-paid NI years from working.

Solution 6: Produce stats on earned versus ‘soft’ NI records.

As noted in Part 2, such statistics are not currently available, but they must be. This will make it much more difficult for politicians to hide what they are doing. The very least the public need is to be able to see clearly what is being earned and what is being given away in their name – and to whom.

Solution 7: The UK government should invest (when possible)

It makes sense to allocate a proportion of NI takings to be used for investment, in the spirit of the original levy (a levy pays for specific things, a tax doesn’t). We could use it as contributions to a Sovereign Wealth Fund which could invest around the globe as Norway and other countries do with their oil revenues, then use that fund to pay for pensions (and perhaps more).

Of course, the government couldn’t do without NI these days since it is simply used in the same way as tax, but as soon as national finances allow it we should start investing some of the monies collected from employees’ NI so that in future pensions are not funded from current receipts.

Solution 8: Reduce public sector pensions

The other possible area of change is to reduce public sector pension entitlements in line with the private sector.

Of course, this is a political minefield which will see demonstrations in the streets by civil servants et al, but perhaps only if it’s done in one fell swoop. Perhaps a more softly-softly approach will be needed, a gradual realignment.

Solution 9: Make it easier to invest in personal pensions

Historically the annual and lifetime limits have been a blocker to saving for retirement, although the recent increase to £60k per annum helps, as does the abolition of lifetime limits.

In recent years experienced doctors, dentists, accountants, IT specialists etc often retired or simply stopped working due to tax changes, a major cause being that they were unable to contribute to their pensions.

For many people, it’s only in later life, after their children have left home and any mortgage is paid off, that they have any spare money to contribute to any significant extent to their pension, when their earning potential is at its highest and their outgoings at their lowest. By putting chunks of money into their pension in later years, they defer the tax until their retirement years. Note: defer, not avoid.

With people having children later in life and those children leaving home at an older age than in times past, the window for retirement saving has already become very narrow for most people on normal earnings without further limiting it due to annual contribution limits. Getting rid of annual limits would help ease this crisis – the more people who provide for themselves in retirement, the better off we will all be.

We constantly see pressures to reduce pension contribution limits from socialist politicians and media – this is ignorance at best, green-eyed politics at worst. It is not sensible.

Solution 10: Encourage final salary schemes

Final salary schemes were good for society when private companies offered those pensions to staff. Gordon Brown killed them off when he decided to tax the underlying schemes, not having the nous to know that their apparent over-funding was merely a momentary snapshot of something that deals in very long timeframes. We should remove those taxes and encourage schemes to re-start.

Avoiding political traps

There have been recent calls to ‘eliminate employees’ NI’. This is more underhanded politics.

It would mean tax increases to compensate: even though people proposing this don’t say it, it’s obvious that government is in no position simply to give up the revenue. However, people beyond State Pension Age (SPA) don’t pay NI – but they would pay any replacement such as income tax, so they would be heavily disadvantaged by this stealth mechanism.

Furthermore, in not paying NI, people working beyond SPA don’t get a chance to gain more full years in their NI record. So if they are expected to pay NI or an equivalent level of tax in future, at the very least they should also be allowed to accrue additional entitlement to the State pension (not that it would help anyone who already had the full 35 years).

And then, without NI, how do you determine who is entitled to a pension and who isn’t? Would the State Pension have fully morphed from a contributions-based scheme into ‘universal income at SPA’? That sounds . . . depressingly expensive.

Last word

Why is it that we never hear any politician of any party discussing the sorry state of UK pensions? Why do we endure political commentators endlessly muttering ‘the triple lock is unsustainable’ without any apparent understanding of what’s actually going on?

Perhaps there are too many socialists hiding behind blue-hued rosettes these days – or they just don’t want to be the government that has to fix the problems. Or maybe they don’t know how to fix them (and get elected) – easier to keep the truth hidden.

This series was written to help people understand what’s really going on with our pensions system and hopefully kick off some sensible policy debate by any party on the right. The pensions system doesn’t have to be the burden that it has increasingly become since 1996.

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