Rico Clay🔶

Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡

The reason the Greens & the radical Left are attacking those of us who are highlighting illegal family voting and election fraud in Gorton & Denton is because they know they will be the big losers if we refuse to give up on this issue - if we actually fix our democracy. For many years, ever since Tony Blair opened up postal voting, it's been the Left that directly exploited biraderi clan-based networks and communalism to harvest votes. Every Labour MP in Westminster knows this. Every Labour councillor knows this. Every serious journalist knows this. And so too do the Greens because they are now doing the same. They don't want us to keep looking at this because they know that if we do make changes - by restricting postal votes, clamping down on family voting, and removing Commonwealth voting - then it will be the Left that will lose, especially in urban, diversifying areas. It is ironic. The Left are the first to trace everything they don't like in politics (Brexit, Trump, etc.) to electoral interference from 'Russia', 'social media', 'Cambridge Analytica' and more. Yet when electoral interference happens to involves the Left ruthlessly exploiting illiberal and undemocratic practices they are silent or aggressively attack those who point it out. At the same time, they lecture the rest of us about the rights of women and individual choice while turning a blind eye to the ugly misogyny and dogmatism that is now taking place in polling stations and entrenching itself in our democracy. It's not me saying this; it's research, overseen by the Electoral Commission. We either care about standards at elections or we don't. What we need to do with a Reform majority or Reform-led government after the next general election is deal with what the Democracy Volunteers report points to: endemic, illegal family voting and electoral malpractice which is corroding our democracy and dividing our country. I am in touch with the relevant people to ensure there is a full policy response to this. This is not about being a 'sore loser'. It is not really even about Gorton & Denton anymore. It is much bigger than all of that. It is about ensuring we remain a democratic nation over the longer-term, where individual choice and freedom in politics is respected and upheld. So, no, this debate and policy agenda is not going anywhere. We will not save Britain if we do not fix our democracy. It is that simple.

‘I can’t picture him smashing it in a TV studio.’ James O’Brien debates whether Zack Polanski’s charisma is the driving force behind the Greens.

I don’t remember because I was 1. What I do remember is graduating under your government in 90k worth of debt, locked out of home ownership, renting in a flat covered in mold and the price of the food shop increasing whilst my wages weren’t. So forgive me if I don’t take lectures from the people who left my generation worse off.