Dear Mr Lowe I, and many patriotic Brits like me, admire a great deal of your work, both within Parliament and more broadly in your constituency and beyond. I refer here not only to your principled stand on the obvious issues - the grooming gangs, halal and kosher ritual slaughter, your long-standing opposition to the EU and your willingness to say that mass immigration is an issue of ethnicity as well as economics or culture. I think also of your common sense, practical and traditionalist work on subjects such as the grave injustices done to men in family courts, the importance of apprenticeships, and the threat to our freedoms from government moves towards digital ID and the abolition of jury trials. Needless to say, while we agree broadly on some very important issues, we also disagree on others, particularly over some economic ideas and some aspects of foreign policy. This letter is therefore not be read, or misrepresented, as a proposal for some sort of alliance. Money and EnergyRather, I take the liberty of writing purely with regards to a single issue: your proposal that a large number of patriots should contest the next General Election. Whether this would be on behalf of Restore Britain or as independent nationalists seems unclear at present but, in either case, it would be an act of electoral suicide and, far worse, a grotesque waste of money and energy which could and should be put to far better use. I write in the hope of helping you to avoid this error and, instead, to become the truly significant and decisive figure in the development of the indigenous British resistance which you undoubtedly have the potential to be. In a moment I will explain why this electoral diversion would be such a grave mistake, before going on to outline the very much more realistic, effective and constructive strategy which the times and realities of our situation demand. The Only ExceptionBefore doing so, I will set out very briefly the one potentially very good justification for Restore to prepare to stand well-funded candidates in a strictly limited number of seats. In the event that Reform actually win the contest, it would become even more important that you are returned in Great Yarmouth. We both know Farage, and how he will inevitably betray much of the trust put in him by the British people. Our country needs you in Parliament to hold his feet to the fire and to act as the rallying point within the House around whom MPs who incur his disfavour can regroup. This would create both a genuinely nationalist lobby within the Commons, and potentially also in the Lords, given Reform’s presumed future need to create large numbers of peers to push legislation through. By the end of the term, this grouping could easily be the nucleus of a serious electoral challenge from the ‘real right’. While I do not believe that there is any parliamentary solution to be convergence of catastrophes bearing down on the ‘old normal’, I am confident that such a new force could play a crucial part in marshalling our people for the Long March back. But it will not come by your people contesting seats in 2029. Potential Block in ParliamentIf you are able to hold your seat in the next election, all the past history of UKIP and Reform tells us for sure that, within a couple of years, it is perfectly possible that up to half of Farage’s MPs and peers will be expelled or will resign. You could quite conceivably become leader of one of the largest blocks in Parliament without standing in a single seat other than your own. The question is whether this patriotic block would be a sort of waiting room for single-term MPs facing the axe at the following election, or whether they could immediately connect with a really effective grass-roots movement and thus become a permanent and vitally important feature of the British political landscape. Thus, while I am very aware that you and I are not, as per Kipling, “of one blood” politically, I regard it as a matter of national interest for you to be re-elected to serve another term representing the good people of Great Yarmouth (where, incidentally, my eldest daughter was born).
It may be that you and Farage can reach a private agreement on this matter but, judging by his bitterly factional record, it is more likely that he will stand a Reform candidate against you, in order to split the vote and ensure that his post-election dissidents do not have an experienced and stalwart figure around whom to rally. That being the case, you will need to have a pretty sturdy electoral stick of your own with which to encourage him to do the right thing and keep out of your way in the one seat that really matters. While I am about to counsel you in the strongest possible terms to avoid launching an electoral Charge of the Stupid Brigade in the country as a whole, I do therefore believe that you should pick a dozen seats, in addition to your own, in which you make very serious preparations to stand. These should be the seats of Reform’s sitting MPs and most important candidates, with particular vulnerability to even a small split in the vote also playing a big part in their selection. Clearly, you need to be able to apply real pressure to Farage in order to leave him no option but to give you a free run in your own seat. If losing you your seat would cost him nothing, he will at least be tempted to get you out of the way. If splitting your vote (probably in half) will lead to a dozen of his key figures having theirs split in turn – even if only by a few hundred – then he would look mad, as well as bad, to reject the deal. That apart, however, you should not be encouraging anyone, anywhere, to do anything other than leave the field to Reform and put their money and energy into better things. There are both minor and major reasons for this. The minor one is that contesting any number of no-hope seats would interrupt the laser focus you need to apply to holding Great Yarmouth. To stand a realistic chance of doing that you need not only to spend every last penny of the maximum campaign expenditure, but also to mobilise literally thousands of your members and supporters to travel from all over and campaign for you in your constituency. It isn’t just a matter of them turning up and being given some leaflets and a few doors to knock. The childishly amateur tactics and campaigns rolled out by Reform (in Caerphilly, to give the latest gruesome example) have absolutely no place if you are to have the serious political future which is there for the taking. You need to be signing up committed campaigners and bring them together in regional training hubs all over Britain. That way, when they turn up in Yarmouth in 2029 or whenever, they’ll be of real use, rather than waste their time and throw away your seat by running around like Reform headless chickens. If you continue to promote the “candidates everywhere” line, you will automatically scatter all that energy into penny packets and waste it. Please bear with me while we do a little bit of maths, to establish the purely financial loss awaiting the “broad electoral road” approach. As you know, there is a maximum amount that any single candidate or party can spend in a parliamentary constituency. While this differs according to number of electors and whether the seat is primarily urban or rural, the basic figure is £54,010 per seat. As you also know, all the main parties spend that sort of money in all the seats in which they are serious contenders and for which there is real competition. Since money buys slick campaigns, it’s well-nigh impossible to win without matching them. That’s why Nigel overspent in Clacton; he knew it was risky but had no choice. There are 650 seats. To form a majority government a party must therefore win at least 326 of them. Since a win is never guaranteed these days, let’s say that any party which was seriously in with a chance of forming the next government would fight at least 400 seats. And fight them properly. That would cost a staggering £21,604,000. Well over £21 million! With, let us remember, absolutely no guarantee of winning a single seat because, in every case, there will be at least one other party spending roughly the same amount in the hope of winning. Now let us come back down to reality. Clearly, only a tiny fraction of that fortune would be raised and spent by Restore, independent nationalists, Advance or anybody else. What would be a realistic figure? £5,000 per seat? Even that would be a massive strain on local organisations, though it is theoretically possible, especially as you do have some very well-heeled donors who could subsidise them. Do the maths again: 400 times £5,000 is a much more reasonable £2 million. But when you’re spending one tenth of what is available to the actual front runners, you automatically all but guarantee that you are going to lose. So that’s two million quid down the drain, for nothing other than having the Post Office deliver your main leaflets for free.
I return the the Charge of the Light Brigade analogy. “C’est magnifique. Mais c’est ne pas la guerre,” said the French commander watching the heroic carnage from a safe distance. In this case, it would neither be politics nor magnificent, but a criminally stupid waste of hope, money, time and morale. Let’s come even further down the scale. With just £2,500, a group of good-hearted amateurs will be able to lose their £500 deposit, run around with a speaker car, put up some posters and (with a very significant amount of preparation work) get the Post Office to deliver. It won’t, of course, achieve anything. The only thing they will have left to show for it will be their rosettes and the loud-speaker. In the old days, before the Internet and social media, it was very different. The Free Post leaflet drop and the party political broadcast on the main TV channels were literally the only practical way to push a new or minor party into the public consciousness. The election of 1979, for example, in which Margaret Thatcher stole perhaps a million votes from the National Front, nonetheless gave the NF a haul of 10,000 enquiry forms and letters through the post. Elections back then weren’t about votes, but about the best way to build an organisation. With social media, websites and search engines all that is long in the past. So what are the maths with that £2,500 figure? Well, it’s still a million pounds. Everything I’ve already said about waste still applies. But now those who engage in such suicidal charges are also throwing away all credibility in the eyes of anyone with a brain. To switch metaphors, it’s like entering Grand Prix in a Robin Reliant with a blown head gasket and claiming you can win. I’ve said that these antics achieve nothing. Actually, it’s even worse than that. While none of these candidates can possible win, it is quite likely that the few hundred each one may just scrape in will split the Reform vote just enough to hand a few seats to Labour or the Tories. They probably won’t cost Farage or his most obnoxious Tory retreads their seats, but they will keep out a few decent men and women who, if elected, would probably have left Reform within a year or two in any case.
You’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve now done with the tragic bit. It’s time to look briefly at what that million pounds and the energy of your thousands of members could do if applied sensibly. The money could be poured into organising and building in our communities. It could train and match-fund twenty experimental anti-grooming teams, and twenty Community Observation Patrols. It could equip and fund a starter wave of mobile soup kitchens for homeless veterans and youngsters on the streets. It could fund an experimental community charity shop, advice centre and youth training facility in Great Yarmouth, and training events to establish the same sort of thing in other towns.
Community advice centres were central to Sinn Fein’s eventual political victory over the moderate nationalist SDLP in working-class areas. They had the advantage of being able to fund theirs with the proceeds of bank robberies. Since we’re not going down that road, we need British nationalists to stop wasting money losing elections and get serious.The money could fund a Judicial Review of anti-indigenous bias by councils, police and courts. It could finance civil actions for damages against rape gang ringleaders. It could seed-fund a lawfare campaign to secure the right of English and other indigenous British people to establish our own charities, for our own people – a right already enjoyed by every other ethnic, cultural and religious group, but not by us. That’s a discrimination domino just waiting to fall – but only if we push it. Mr. Lowe, this isn’t a matter of “could fund one of these things”; it would fund ALL of them. As for the energy of your members and your even larger army of online sympathisers, seeing those things happening would energise them to the extent that a thousand and one other local initiatives would start to happen as well. It would be the kick-start for the physical organisation which now needs to follow on from the psychological tribalisation of our people which was both illustrated and further encouraged by the Raise The Colours phenomenon. In conclusion, I am not asking to be involved in any way, though I would be happy to meet to discuss these ideas further, either strictly privately or in public. I am not asking to be part of the movement I am proposing you create, though I am willing to serve in any capacity for the common good. I am not even asking for recognition or credit for these ideas. The courtesy of a reply would be appreciated, just so I and others can rest assured that you have seen this in person. Even better, however, would be for us to see you taking note and doing things which can make a real difference for good. As you yourself have said and written on a number of occasions, time is running out for this country and its people. Even if you believe that you or a movement your efforts help to create could win a General Election in 2034 or 2039, we know for absolute certain that there is not the faintest possibility of any remotely patriotic party winning in 2029 other than – for all their faults – Reform. Accordingly, I urge you to make a official declaration that you and the true patriots of Britain have much better things to do – and to start doing them. Yours sincerely, Nick Griffin MA (Hons) Cantab. Former Chairman of the British National Party, North West of England MEP 2009-2014. As I believe you will agree, this is a very important issue. Please help to spread aswareness of this Open Letter by Restacking and by sharing on other social media feeds as well. Thank you one and all. Invite your friends and earn rewardsIf you enjoy Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe.
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