Martin Muchall

@RupertLowe10 Am personally more concerned about a quite different category of politician and their propensity for spreading hatred and division in the case of Lowe, Habib, Farage, Tice, Yusuf et al.

Foreign nationals should not be holding elected office in Britain. Labour, Tories, Greens, Reform - they all back it. It’s wrong. It does not serve our interests. There is now a party that will ban foreign nationals from standing and voting in our elections. Restore Britain.

@benleo444 And if only there was a widely acclaimed 700 page multidisciplinary doorstop of a book authored by someone with a PhD in molecular genetics putting the opposite case (I rather doubt Saad and Goodwin will have even heard of Ricard).

@benleo444 ‘Suicidal empathy’, eh? Who to believe on that? Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential political theorists of the last century? Or a whiny GB "News" presenter who is recycling a poorly evidenced idea from professor of marketing?

RE Matt Goodwin’s book I don’t care if AI was used to research the book or if there’s typos about Boris Johnson. It’s all a red herring Because you don’t need Matt’s book to help decide if the country’s identity has inherently changed or not We all know it has. For the worse. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

@benleo444 Goodwin’s projection that 1 in 4/5 of us will become Muslim may be an overestimate if it fails to take into account the fact that TfR (Total Fertility Rates) among Muslim women who settle here approximate to those of non-Muslims over time. See Ch 2 of this study for the details:

@benleo444 Are you a former alumni of this place?

@RestoreSthShrop @RupertLowe10 Lastly, on the subject of Islam and UK Muslims, after reading this widely acclaimed publication, I don’t trust the far-right populists.

@RestoreSthShrop @RupertLowe10 And if only there was a widely acclaimed 700 page multidisciplinary doorstop of a book authored by someone with a PhD in molecular genetics putting the opposite case (I rather doubt Saad and Goodwin will have even heard of Matthieu Ricard).

A Restore Britain Government would tackle the so-called ‘little’ things - the litter, the graffiti, the fly-tipping, the ‘petty’ crime, the vandalism. The broken windows. Because if you tolerate small acts of disorder, you invite the larger ones. It is very straightforward. We don’t want any of it. The graffiti, the vandalism, the crime. Look around Britain today and you can see the principle grimly playing out in real time. Litter left on the streets and never cleared, graffiti that remains untouched, petty theft treated as a minor inconvenience. Antisocial behaviour ignored or excused. I am so very bored of it all. Each one, on its own, might seem small. But together, they send a very clear message. We live in a lawless dump. Optional standards, nobody enforces the rules. A low-trust society. And once that message takes hold, the consequences follow. Because disorder breeds yet more disorder. If people see that rules are not enforced, more people begin to ignore them. What starts as low-level neglect becomes something far more serious. A high-trust society cannot function like this. And I want to live in a high-trust society, I want my grandchildren to grow up in a high-trust society. A Restore Britain Government would enforce the basics. Clean streets, zero tolerance for vandalism, real consequences for antisocial behaviour. A visible, consistent presence of policing authority. And yes, we will obviously acknowledge and reverse the role of mass immigration from certain countries has contributed to this decline. Import the third world, become the third world. Our town centres don’t have to be crime-ridden hellholes, our countryside doesn’t have to be plastered in litter, our transport network doesn’t have to be painted over with vile graffiti. This is all a choice. It’s a choice to live like this. I don’t want to live in a filth-pit where basic standards are trampled over. Our political party would restore Britain’s high-trust society. If you want that, vote for it. There’s now an option. Restore Britain.

@RupertLowe10 I don’t trust Lowe. Like Truss, he advocates ‘Trickle-Down’ economics, a theory that never produces significant growth in practice. And his claims about halal slaughter and other aspects of Islam are caricatures of the faith, as the book depicted below demonstrates.

@ruhawksley Goodwin’s 1 in 4/5 becoming Muslim may also be incorrect if his projection failed to take into account the fact that TfR (Total Fertility Rates) among Muslim women who settle here approximate to those of non-Muslims over time. See the chapter in this brief study for more on this:

‘Imperfect’ doing a fair bit of lifting here

@RupertLowe10 Has Jack Black from Viz Comic signed up yet? He would surely fit right in with you lot.

I have made it very clear that I want Restore Britain to be the political party for young British men who are increasingly pissed off with how our rotten establishment treats them like dirt on the shoe. Lads who have had enough - they are very welcome with us. It's showing.

@theenglishwitc1 @DamianLow3 Agape, splanchnizomai and koinonia, as emphasised in the New Testament, all sit rather better with an inclusivist Christology/Christianity, and certainly not the exclusivist, anti-Muslim bigotry promoted by the Unite The Kingdom movement, and UKIP.

@theenglishwitc1 @DamianLow3 Like King Charles and Aldous Huxley, I am also inclined to favour perennialism. This is essentially the idea that - in spite of their seeming differences- the great world faiths all converge on the same mystical and ineffable ultimate truth.

Something new and uncomfortable is happening on parts of the British right. Religion is being rediscovered. Not as faith. As a political weapon. 1. Figures like Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick and Tommy Robinson are increasingly framing politics in civilisational terms. Christianity vs. something else, Britain as a religious identity under threat. 2. But this isn’t a revival of faith. It’s a repurposing of it. Christianity is being used less as a belief system and more as a cultural marker. A way of drawing lines around identity. 3. That matters because it is, at its core, selective. The language of “Christian values” appears most often in opposition to immigration, to Islam, to social change. It is rarely accompanied by any serious engagement with the actual religion itself. 4. Genuine faith is inconvenient. It asks for consistency, humility, moral discipline. Political rhetoric is not. It is flexible, opportunistic and used when useful. 5. Which is why the current trend feels less like Reform have found God and more like hypocrisy. Religion is being used as shorthand for belonging, not as a guide to conduct. 6. There is also a clear political incentive. Framing issues in civilisational or religious terms raises the stakes instantly. It turns policy debates into existential struggles, where compromise looks like surrender. The irony is obvious. Many of the loudest voices invoking Christianity are not known for deep religious observance. The appeal isn’t theological. It’s tribal. 7. And that has consequences. Once politics is framed in these terms, it becomes harder to have serious discussions about policy such as migration, integration and housing because everything is recast as identity conflict. It also risks degrading religion itself. When faith becomes a political prop, it loses credibility as a moral force. Religion has always had a place in British public life. But there is a difference between faith shaping politics and politics exploiting faith. What we are seeing now looks much more like the latter.

@DamianLow3 Then there’s Hinduism. Narendra Modi has been a lifelong member of the Hindu Nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and is known for his anti-Muslim policies.

@DamianLow3 It’s happening with other faiths too. See, for example, Bodu Bala Sena in Sri Lanka, and the 969 Movement in Myanmar. In each instance a toxic blend of nationalism plus anti-Muslim bigotry is in play. Populist Buddhist monks are responsible. See here: theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/…

@RupertLowe10 ‘We are going to do what needs to be done, however painful that will be.’ Aldous Huxley identified the sinister psychology that lurks behind Restore Britain’s policy-making a long time ago.

Some exciting news to share - Restore Britain's membership has just gone through 120,000. That is double the Liberal Democrats. Double. Almost entirely done through social media. Less than six weeks after launch, less than one week after our official registration as a political party. Our ground game is now firing. Approaching 400 parliamentary constituencies now have local branches up and running. Introductory meetings happening every day. The billboard campaign is on, with leaflets going through doors - thousands and thousands more every day. Regardless of what you think of our politics, this is a uniquely impressive achievement. Nothing like it has ever happened in British politics. Ever. According to yougov, I have the best approval ratings of any party leader - I'm not even a sodding politician. That is why the establishment detest us. I would have it no other way. We have no interest in reforming the establishment. I want to smash the establishment - destroy it, and start again. Rebuilding a system that puts one group of people at the top of the agenda, every single time. The British people. Does that make us extreme or radical? Irrelevant. We are going to do what needs to be done, however painful that will be. We are going to Restore Britain.