An Open Letter – by Jack

Britain – whether we wish to admit it or not – is dying.

This letter is a plea, to all of you, to help resuscitate it… together.

Uniquely, I have been fortunate enough to have avoided the plight of my nation since the last year and a half of Covid terror reigned down upon my family – and many millions more – who have had to suffer it. Perhaps it was an unconscious state of intuition, or perhaps just blind luck, but in late 2018, I, myself, decided to leave the U.K. to venture across the planet to New Zealand, where I hoped to plant a foot on another step of some kind of Wanderlust journey, having not done so in this part of the world before. Alas, I have just had to endure another meaningless “Level 4” lockdown.

Briefly: I’m originally from Buckinghamshire. I’m 33-years-old. Currently, I teach children aged 3-5, but studied – ashamedly to say, these days – journalism when I was based in the United States. I support Arsenal (ashamedly to say, these days, too!) I’ve always been politically-minded. I love reading philosophy. I voted for Brexit. I helped encourage my dear mother (whose family has always been Labour red) to vote Conservative at the last election. I was wrong to do so.

And this is where you come in.

Make no mistake: I am fully aware of the past achievements and current commitments you all may have; suffice to say, many of us, I am sure, will be eternally grateful for those who gave a voice – and a platform – to the millions of us who wished to escape the undemocratic death grip of an ever-expanding EU globalist cabal (Who could have predicted we’re now in one because of our very own home-grown cabal?) I am aware, also, that politics can be complicated, messy, and often fraught with in-party fighting and Michael Gove-esque back-stabbing. I am aware that in such a career ego, fame, and finances can often trump integrity, principle, and justice.

Therefore, let me pose a simple albeit Devil’s Advocated question: Are your egos more important to you than the survival of the country we all love and cherish and wish to prosper?

I could pick any number of quotes from any number of Stoic books I own, at this juncture, but Marcus Aurelius, writing his Meditations, once said,

“As you move forward along the path of reason, people will stand in your way. They will never be able to keep you from doing what’s sound, so don’t let them knock out your goodwill for them. Keep a steady watch on both fronts, not only for well-based judgements and actions, but also for gentleness with those who would obstruct our path or create other difficulties. For getting angry is also a weakness, just as much as abandoning the task or surrendering under panic. For doing either is an equal desertion— the one by shrinking back and the other by estrangement from family and friend.”

I’ve no need to spell out the litany of maddening “woke-inspired” politicised and societal changes these past few years, or, indeed, the impending dangers (and seeming surrender to authoritarianism) of the current British government — or entire parliament, considering no opposition currently exists. I know you are already aware of them, have seen them, and have lived under them. And I am certain, too, you feel as much disgust for the double-standard hypocrisy – specifically where the media is concerned – that lay strewn in its wake: one fact, for example, that perfectly illustrates the abject lunacy of last year, is that during a global “pandemic” in which the predominantly healthy(!) domestic masses were fear-mongered into mandated house arrest, simultaneously (and illegal), beach-landings of increasingly higher, unknown, and unchecked peoples from around the world were allowed to continue?

The same can be said of “Biden’s America”, of course, as he stands on stage at podiums to read teleprompters never-known virgin “staffers” have written him to demand his fellow citizens be vaccinated – or else – all the while as his broken southern border gets infiltrated by record-numbers of illegal (and unvaccinated) immigrants.

These men, Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, peak atop the political food chain, and are now on-record in recent weeks, too, claiming the Taliban – THE TALIBAN! – have “changed”, so different are they, apparently, from the murderous, tyrannical scum every thinking human knows them to be, but never mind all that, as so “changed”, also, appear the media types, today, that 7th-century cavemen who prefer women as slaves (what happened to #MeToo?) receive better press coverage than some of you.

No. Such rhetoric has nothing to do with a more “peaceful and prosperous future” we are often spun to believe. Nor, where Covid legislation is concerned, was “public health” or “the greater good” ever the objective; yes, politicians and “experts” are flawed and can get things wrong like the rest of us. But do any of you truly believe we are where we are now because of mere mistakes and misjudgements? How could that possibly explain the relentless demoralisation of a nation?

‘I’m only 17, eat well and go to they gym on a daily basis, I don’t need a jab’

‘But it’s for your health’

‘Then why are you offering me free Big Macs as a side if I get one?’

Come on. It’s comical! Yet nothing about any of this is a laughing matter. The politicians (and their advisors) currently in control are dangerous, and the West remains slap bang in the middle of a war, gentlemen, no longer just psychological, and we find ourselves in one precisely because of our own weak – and no doubt compromised – “leaders”.

• How else can it be described when children face soon-to-be mandated vaccination for a virus that won’t kill them, all at the cost of breaking the trust of the sacred family unit?

• How else can it be described when only one side of the debate can ever be heard without the threat of being censored, imprisoned, or deleted from society, itself?

• How else can it be described when families around the country have been pummelled so much into submission of fear that they felt they had no choice than to let their elderly relatives die alone without whispering any final goodbyes?

• How else can it be described when politicians of all parliamentary stripes feel so emboldened by their own sense of self, power and control, that, this time, they lie to you – brazenly and openly – about decisions that will have lifetime consequences, and still believe they can get away with it?

• How else can it be described, when, after more than a year of “following the rules” and abiding by every decree the government issues whilst your friends around you commit suicide and your university demands you pay your full fees for your online-only classes, you are told you will now need to pay higher taxes than ever before, despite that same government’s unsustainable policy decisions being the reason why you must now pay them?

• How else can it be described when hundreds of thousands of people – if not millions – were denied life-saving healthcare because of the paid propagation of doom the government insisted was essential to making sure the billions-per-annum-funded NHS ran smoothly, with no forethought at all for anyone else whose life no longer mattered when compared to Covid-only “statistics”?

Call me crazy, call me an “anti-vaxxer”, even, it means nothing to me; just know that we “crazy” few have been right this entire news cycle. I know I’m not alone. I know I’m on the side of good. And I know none of what has happened this past year or so has made any sense to any free-thinking person. Perhaps it never will. But not only is this a time to wake up, it has to be a time for action.

In this climate, Britain can’t go on with the political choices it has always had: Labour red, Tory blue, “Liberal” yellow, eco-fascist Green. But those are almost always the options us plebs have at a local level when electing our councils, where, in actual fact, the ill-thought policies of those parties can often hurt the most; from “gender-neutral” toilets to drag queen story time at the library, something has got to give.

You need to give it. You need to come together.

As clear as it is day, the Conservative Party is an anti-conservative movement. No opposition to a “Build Back Better” Boris exists. Those of us who took the bait were wrong. And he is drunk on power. I want them gone. I want many of them in the dock for the misery and suffering they have wilfully inflicted upon their own populace. But at what cost? A Labour hung parliament? A Labour/Lib Dem/Green trifecta of Saint Greta-cum-“pregnant person” gobbledygook?

What of Great Britain, then? Sure, we can pretend, but I’m sorry: the country will be dead. Unable to resurrect.

Do you realise you four men could help change the course of that kind of insipid history? Indeed, one of Mr. Fox’s allies, Calvin Robinson, recently suggested on his own Twitter account, and I quote,

“Something has to change. Imagine if @reformparty_uk, @thereclaimparty and @SDPhq united to form an actual conservative party, for the politically homeless. @TiceRichard, @LozzaFox, @WilliamClouston could make it happen. Imagine if @Nigel_Farage joined them.

A true opposition.”

I read it on the way home on the bus yesterday after another exhausting day doing my best to make some kids happy. I thought it strange. Not because of the idea, but because I had been planning all week to write to you all to suggest exactly that, and was waiting until the weekend to do so. It was as if fate had planned it all along. It was as if, dare I say, it was meant to happen all along.

And he’s right: despite any objections, I am unequivocally convinced that your agreements about how the state of our shared nation should look far outweigh your differences. With Overton’s Window upon the political landscape having moved so frequently in recent times, I would bet the very little cryptocurrency I own that you could all, in fact, under one name and one banner, be the true “broad church” Conservative movement many millions of us crave – and need – in these increasingly worrying times.

We simply will not get it from anywhere else. It’s no coincidence that the values our country once held dearest are in their highest state of decay at exactly the same time when our system (parliament) is at its most rotten.

For what it’s worth, I read about Stoicism the most, so I’ll leave you with a quote from Seneca, from his Moral Letters,

“Good people will do what they find honourable to do, even if it requires hard work; they’ll do it even if it causes them injury; they’ll do it even if it will bring danger. Again, they won’t do what they find base, even if it brings wealth, pleasure, or power. Nothing will deter them from what is honourable, and nothing will lure them into what is base.”

In the end, Seneca took his own life at the behest of his former-student, and tyrant, emperor Nero. It was an arduous, drawn-out, and painful death.

Today, the tyrants still live among us. Do not let the same happen to the rolling hills of our beautiful Motherland.

Help reverse the course and let Britain live and thrive merrily with the honour she deserves.

Talk, come together, and give us some hope.

Please.

Best regards

The Common Man