Since 1945, only a few new political parties have shaken things up in the British political system. Two of those parties, UKIP and the Brexit Party, are in my view parties of missed opportunity who didn’t build on their promise or maximise their potential. UKIP descended into infighting and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party although it did very well in the last EU Parliament elections that Britain took part in, lost a chance to challenge and stood down its candidates in order to give the Tories a clear run at the 2019 General Election. With seeing how the Tories have turned out after the election, this standing down of Brexit Party candidates is looking like a terrible mistake. What Mr Farage’s decision has given us is an authoritarian Tory government that might deliver Brexit but which might not and which has allowed itself to be manipulated by the far Left and the ‘woken SS’.

Darren Selkus was once a member of the Brexit Party and was ready to stand for election in 2019 but was one of those who was forcibly stood down by Mr Farage. In his piece for the Conservative Woman blog he speaks of his experience as a Brexit Party candidate and also why he’s now supporting the new Reclaim Party, headed by the actor Laurence Fox.

While Nigel Farage ‘moots’ the idea of restarting the Brexit Party, I believe he has moved on and it’s dead and gone. Its baseline constituency-building has been wasted and evaporated.

Mr Selkus said:

Meanwhile, the fight for democracy is all but trampled on and waged in the margins of the social media. All the Parliamentary parties, the mainstream media, corporations, the education system, in fact the entire Establishment, dictate to a population they no longer represent and from which they have become detached.

In fact, they have become the very thing the British people have throughout history stood up to and fought against to achieve their democratic rights.

Today, those who stand up against their orthodoxies and Big Brother politics are cast as the villains, are shut down with accusations of racism, hate crime and so on – and, of course, with that final demonisation, labelled as far Right. 

Why? We already live in a great and tolerant country with equality under the law, that is non-discriminatory, abhors racism and is liberally-minded.

Yet casual smears, unsubstantiated accusations of racism or being far Right can immediately result in that person – whether an academic or a policeman – being cancelled, nullified and cast on the scrapheap.

What better or more effective way to shut down conversation, debate and democracy than this – to baselessly accuse someone or an organisation of what we all already abhor?

Laurence Fox has stood up against this vile Orwellian mission creep.

I tend to agree with Mr Selkus, the Brexit Party is dead. However the Reclaim Party looks like it could fulfil the role eschewed by Mr Farage, of becoming a party that truly represents the views of Britons, unlike the vast majority of those parties that currently sit in the House of Commons. Mr Selkus then went on to praise Mr Fox for doing what few others have had the balls to do, which is stand up for free speech, British culture, necessary reform of our institutions and most of all democracy.

Mr Selkus added on the subject of Mr Fox:

He is standing up for democracy, against the Establishment and stopping the conversation being shut down.

He is the only person brave enough to start a political movement to protect freedom of speech, reform our public institutions, preserve our history and celebrate being British. 

The Establishment would love to portray the Reclaim Party as Right-wing and xenophobic. Interesting how they come to this conclusion, considering Laurence supported Remain, only switching to Leave after the referendum as a believer in democracy, has voted both Labour and Conservative, and calls himself Liberal.

I find very little to disagree with in the article on Conservative Woman by Mr Selkus and would strongly advise this blog’s readers to read the entirety of his article. It’s time to stand up for freedom and true classical liberalism and reject those who are merely socialists in liberal clothing.