I thought I’d write a short article on the subject of the Reclaim Party which has been set up by the actor and free speech campaigner Laurence Fox.
The party has not long been launched and their webpage is really only an introduction and a joining page. However, I suspect that more detail will emerge about the Reclaim Party as time goes by. I have to say that Reclaim’s programme is more vague and less well fleshed out than that of the equally new Heritage Party. But, this difference can be mainly in my view put down to the fact that the leader of the Heritage Party is an experienced politician who has experience of putting together manifestos and manifesto type documents. It will be interesting to see more detail of what the Reclaim Party is offering.
Based on what Mr Fox has put up on the Reclaim Party website, it is fighting primarily on a cultural front rather than on any other such as the economy. Mr Fox, who is now attracting significant financial backing, is quite plainly motivated by the absurd and disgusting treatment he has had at the hands of the Left.
Mr Fox, on the Reclaim Party website said:
Over many years it has become clear that our politicians have lost touch with the people they represent and govern. Moreover, our public institutions now work to an agenda beyond their main purpose.
Our modern United Kingdom was born out of the respectful inclusion of so many individual voices. It is steeped in the innate values of families and communities, diverse in the truest sense but united in the want and need to call this island home.
The people of the United Kingdom are tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against.
We are all privileged to be the custodians of our shared heritage. We can reclaim a respectful nation where all are included and none are ashamed to have somewhere to call home.
I have been so encouraged by the support I have received by those wishing to add their voices to this reclamation of our values.
Our country is now in desperate need of a new political movement which promises to make our future a shared endeavour, not a divisive one.
This is now my endeavour.
Mr Fox is absolutely correct in my view in his statement that politicians have lost touch with the people they are supposed to represent, but often do not. He’s also correct in his statement that much of the public sector and indeed the third or charity sector, has been to various degrees either been co-opted or indeed completely taken over by the Left or far Left. Entities as different as the BBC to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution now spend inordinate amounts of time and money in promoting aims that are inimical to the aims for which these organisations were set up, but which are the flavour of the month for the Left.
From what I’ve seen so far of both the Reclaim Party and the Heritage Party I can see them not targetting the same potential pool of voters, but instead different sectors of a British public that has been incredibly badly served by its current political representatives. I can see the Heritage Party appealing to many who take a moderate socially conservative view and who would normally vote for the Conservative Party whilst Reclaim could pick up votes from those who would normally be the classical liberals and cultural liberals who used to support the Liberal Democrats and to a lesser extent the Labour Party. The Reclaim Party has made a major issue of the violent leftist iconoclasm that we’ve seen in recent years and which has pissed off a lot of people who do not hate Britain’s history but who see it for what it is, a mixture of good and bad. It will be interesting to see how the Reclaim Party develops. It may pick up votes from those who have concerns about some of the policies espoused by the Heritage Party, such as it’s architectural policy which some I’ve spoken to is far too backward and reminds them a little too much of Prince Charles’s Poundbury vanity village project. On this I can see their point as when it comes to building, we need decent human appropriate architecture not enforced nostalgia.
With regards alternatives to the LibLabCon uni-party that currently is misruling over us, we now have a number of choices to cater for the different viewpoints that are out there. How these will grow and present their views to the public between now and the next election will be an absolutely fascinating thing? I can’t see myself voting Conservative again, not after Boris Johnson’s covid cock ups and his abandonment of any aspect of libertarianism, therefore next time my vote will be going to an alternative new party, the question for me will be, which one?
In what way can I support the Reclaim Party?