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Illusion2Reality's avatar

Thanks Gary for this useful offering. I find myself in total agreement with your comments. Graham

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Gary Sidley's avatar

Cheers, Graham.

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Psimon's avatar

Just discovered this article and it is excellent. I would only quibble with the idea that the Reform party do anything to help the cause. They engage in race baiting which serves only to discredit dissent. "Do you agree with Farage?" will be a common response. Like 5 years ago when I argued against face masks, people assumed I was pro Trump.

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Gary Sidley's avatar

Thanks for your support & feedback.

With regard to Reform, I’d again default to the question, would we have been better off if they had never been here? To which I believe the answer is ‘no’. In their absence the UK would be left with the uni-party, globalist-supporting, blob comprising Conservative/Labour/LibDem/Greens.

While I recognise that Reform are far from perfect - and I wouldn’t be surprised if Farage ultimately puts his own political advancement above what’s best for the country - they have, IMO encouraged more people to visibly dissent to the authoritarian globalist control of our day-to-day lives (within which the destruction of national boundaries and reducing us all to controllable dots in an algorithm is an Agenda 2030 goal).

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Psimon's avatar

Yes I hear you. But I think Reform are part of the problem. They act as a sink for dissent, and in a sense de-legitimize or neutralize it. If Reform had never been around, of course I cannot claim to know, but maybe the dissatisfaction would have manifested in a different, healthier way. I am more for grass roots action than putting faith in any leaders.

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Gary Sidley's avatar

I’m totally with you about grass roots action being more important than putting faith in political leaders. I guess where we differ is about whether the presence of Reform stifles or encourages visible dissent.

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Dominic's avatar

I suspect, more often than not, the real controlled opposition is not those ostentatiously accused of being controlled opposition, but those who seek to undermine genuine opposition by making such accusations: divide et impera.

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Gary Sidley's avatar

Maybe, Dominic - I guess my view is that the evidential bar should be set very high before reaching this conclusion.

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KarlM Alias's avatar

AFAIK, the only 'problem' with A Bridgen is a video where he states he took the Pfizer jab. In all other interviews he has been quite clear it was only the AZ he had.

Could easily have been a slip of the tongue, but he needs to address that.

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