Toby on Tuesday

 

'Once More Unto The Breach Dear Friends, Once More'

 

 

 

Finally, we have a new leader and a new leader of whom we can all be very proud.   The process has been tortuous, but the result full of promise for the future.   Paul Nuttall is the man for the hour.   With a strong academic background as a history lecturer first at Hugh Baird College and then at Liverpool Hope University, he will be able to hold his own against all those sneering pundits from the BBC and Channel 4.   Nigel Farage was a meteor, a comet hurtling through the political firmament, throwing out huge quantities of light and heat, torching any lesser planet foolish enough to try and block his path.   By contrast, Paul will be our Pole Star or North Star, the stable constant by which political voyagers steer their course.   He is precisely what will be needed in the coming years as the great prize of Brexit starts to slip away from our grasp and the Remainers use every subterfuge to prevent its happening.   Whatever our Government may say, the initiative is fading and it will be UKIP’s mission to regain and reinforce it.   Paul will be ideal leader for this great task.

 

And I hope sincerely that, having won the argument on Brexit, UKIP will now wage war on that other great evil of our time, the scourge of political correctness.   Unseen, undetected, with its roots in Stalinist doctrine, it has sought to colonise the western mind over the past two generations, just as the EU has sought to colonise Europe.   Like George Orwell’s Newspeak in his “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, political correctness exists to stifle empirical evidence and thwart political debate.  It exists to deny argument and, what is so disgraceful, has taken root in our universities where open debate is the principal reason for their existence.   The end of the curse of political correctness will be as great a liberation for the human spirit as our exit from the so-called European Union.   It is not racist to say that Britain should welcome those who can add to the civilisation and prosperity of our society and reject those who would undermine it.   

 

A software engineer from India should naturally be made welcome here.   By contrast, members of the Black Axe mafia from Nigeria, which uses voodoo rites and machete attacks and which is now firmly embedded in Italy, must not be allowed to use the EU’s freedom of movement rules to come here.   Nor is it islamophobic to say that the greatest threat to the peace of the world, and indeed to peace-loving Muslims, is the Salafi strand of islam, which receives so much funding from Saudi Arabia and which has penetrated so much of European life..   And Putin’s Russia should be seen, despite everything, as a prospective ally in what is now a clash of civilisations.   And nor is it homophobic to say that, if homosexual relationships are to have the tax and other benefits of civil partnerships on the grounds of fidelity, then so should heterosexual relationships.   Nor is it hard-hearted to say that poor countries need free and open trade without tariff barriers and not the corrupting culture of Overseas Aid.   And above all they need good government.   Nor is it anti-Scots to say that Scotland, with a population and economy broadly similar to Yorkshire’s, benefits disproportionately from the Barnet formula and the SNP needs to grow up and acknowledge just how privileged Scotland has become.   

 

And finally it is not anti-European to say that the EU is the greatest job-destroying, civilisation-wrecking, arrogant, incompetent project in the history of the Continent and its day of reckoning will arrive very soon.

 

The other day, the egregious Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, EU apparatchik and author of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, declared that Britain needed high levels of immigration because “native Britons are so bloody stupid”.   No doubt the purring pundits all nodded in agreement, but had a UKIPper said something similar about any other group, he or she would have almost certainly been reported for a hate-crime.   Of course the consolation is that the world of Lord Kerr is drawing to a close.   After the Referendum, UKIP’s task in the coming years will be to dismantle a failed ideology and replace it with new and sensible structures based on empirical evidence.   Paul Nuttall is the one to lead this great project and, with the Brexit vote and our leadership election behind us, for UKIP the best is yet to come!

 

Until next Tuesday!