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INTRODUCING Campaigners for Portsmouth. Meet Addy Mo Asaduzzaman, our campaigner for CENTRAL SOUTHSEA. The most densely populated ward with the most HMOs and no open green space. Addy, originally from Bangladesh, is ready to stand up for his community with Reform UK. 🩵

A British passport doesn’t make you British.

I have seen some accounts suggesting Rupert will be splitting the vote with the launch of his new political party. With all the parties on the political right, I do see where they're coming from. That said, the idea of “splitting the vote” assumes there is more than one right-wing party intent on and able to, deliver the changes Britain so desperately needs. I do not think that is the case. I no more see this as splitting the vote than I see the Conservatives and Labour as splitting it. The reason being, much like the Tories and conservatives are, at least theoretically, separate parties built on different political philosophies, I think the various parties on the political right are very much the same. I see Reform as a future disappointment. As a Tory 2.0. I saw Advance as promising, but extremely unlikely to secure sufficient support in time. With the launch of Restore though, I see the only party, that could possibly be able to make the changes many of us understand must be made to pull Britain out from the fire. I genuinely believe this may be our last chance at a political solution to the mess in which we find our island home. What happens next is obviously unclear. Reform could haemorrhage support to Restore. Advance could merge into it. Or nothing may come of this and Reform could secure a parliamentary majority, with the inevitable disappointment, and all that comes with it. I think the truth lies somewhere between those two realities, but we will have to see. I also believe, that if Reform win and are absolutely awful, it is the most likely possibility that the steam behind right-wing politics gets tapered off rather than it acting as an accelerant for a better party to drive the by that time even more desperately needed changes at a time when it is quite possibly too late. While all that plays out, the borders remain a suggestion and our demographic share continues to shrink. Food for thought, anyway.

Rupert Lowe’s new Restore Britain party, backed by Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson, threatens to derail Nigel Farage’s bid to become the next PM… …. But there’s little room for gloating. Lowe’s vile anti-immigrant and racist agenda threatens to tear our communities apart

Walk down any city high street and you’ll see Jamaican bakeries next to Punjabi spice shops. You’ll hear Somali mums chatting with Liverpudlian dads while their kids play football in accents no one can quite place but everyone understands. That’s not a crisis. That’s the cure.