Are We Really Still Doing This?

Reform and Restore Go To War in Makerfield

Previous video on why Andy Burnham can't save the Labour Party: https://youtu.be/ZfEPTNxVYJM Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe are battling to stop Andy Burnham from winning the Makerfield by-election. And it's getting ugly. Reform UK are standing plumber, ex-army reservist, and councillor Robert Kenyon against Restore Britain's local businesswoman Rebecca Shepherd. Kenyon is a strong candidate. He came second in the 2024 general election, with 32 percent of the vote. The press are trying to cancel him for crude humour in old social media posts, but Reform have (mostly) stood by their man for once. Whereas Shepherd is an unknown quantity, with little public profile, but far more campaigners knocking on doors in the constituency. Which is why Restore have disputed a Times / Survation poll with a small sample size, which put Reform on 40 percent, three points behind Labour's Andy Burnham, and Restore Britain on 7 percent. Restore's canvassing figures put them on 24.6 percent. Reform's internal polling also has Restore on higher than 7 percent. Hence, why Reform's senior figures, supporters, and media surrogates manned battle stations over the last few days. Their new slogan is "Vote Restore, get Burnham." Hit pieces on Restore were published by GB News, Jewish News, Daily Mail, Spiked, the Telegraph, and the Times within hours of each other. DMs were leaked. Rumours circulated, then retracted. The dirty tricks are disappointing, and offputting to supporters who sympathise with both parties. Some Reform supporters have accused Restore of being simultaneously irrelevant, polling at 1 percent, and of splitting the vote and gifting the election to Andy Burnham; of being racist and providing no distinct policy offering than Reform; of being "useful idiots" and a Trojan Horse for the Tories. But these attacks aren't convincing. The same Conservative MPs, who have since defected to Reform, accused Farage of vote splitting in 2024. Articles criticising Restore as too extreme highlight the differences between the parties on immigration policy. As Dan Hodges suggests, the attempt to sabotage Restore's chances has produced a Streisand Effect, where more Reform voters are aware of Restore than before. Have Reform damaged Kenyon's chances? Or will Restore Britain's support evaporate, and amount to nothing more than pressure placed on Reform? Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YUzpzrLGiGU Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

Labour Are Already Finished

Book the hearse and dig the grave, because Labour are already dead. They’re a spent force and must endure getting heckled by the working-class voters they betrayed, wherever they go. Andy Burnham’s popularity in the north can’t reverse their misfortunes. Starmer taints everything he touches, including Burnham’s bid to become MP for Makerfield in the upcoming by-election. Even if Burnham wins and becomes Prime Minister, he won’t reverse mass migration. There is no fiscal headroom for his infrastructure projects and plans to nationalise key industries. The IMF has warned that no more revenue can be raised from raising taxes, and that the bond markets Burnham would rather ignore are on the brink of insolvency. So I don’t buy the polling that says Burnham could win a majority at the next general election. If he enters government, he will be bound by the same fiscal constraints, working with the same system, and have a Cabinet full of the same inadequate Ministers as Starmer has. It doesn’t matter whether Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Burnham, Starmer, or Larry the Cat are holding the poisoned chalice in 2029. This will be the last Labour government. The battle now is for who succeeds them. Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZfEPTNxVYJM Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

"Immigration Makes Britain Brilliant"

Regime-approved satirists Led By Donkeys planted a billboard at the Unite the Kingdom rally, which read "Immigration makes Britain brilliant." When is their campaign to raise awareness of the murder of Henry Nowak, the Afghan grooming gang in Norfolk, the Pakistani grooming gang just prosecuted in Kirklees, the outrageous hung jury in the case of two Pakistani brothers assaulting police officers in Manchester Airport... They won't, of course, because they're cowards.  If you own every positive consequence of immigration, then you also own every crime committed and life ruined by someone who never needed to be in our country in the first place. On balance, I don't think people are willing to sacrifice their country, culture, high-trust society, jury trials, and the safety of their children for curry and football players. Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YcYsXfB-Y28 Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

We Are In So Much Trouble

Charlie Cole's thread of immigration graphs: https://x.com/charliecolecc/status/2057527533529121006 Keir Starmer is celebrating an 84 percent fall in net migration. But it's a hollow victory. Total migration was 813,000. 77 percent (627,000) were from outside Europe. Half of work visas were given to dependents. More than 88,000 were asylum seekers, including illegal migrants. Net migration only fell to 171,000 because 246,000 British citizens left the country, including thousands of young native Brits. ONS estimates show that at least 19 percent of the UK population was born overseas. Gross immigration between 2021 - 2025 was 5.6 million. 1 in 20 residents in Britain arrived in the last five years. First- or second-generation immigrants now make up a quarter of the population. And record numbers were granted citizenship in 2025. We can't keep doing this. The public don't want to. 41 percent of voters told Ipsos that immigration is the biggest issue in Britain. We can't build three new Birminghams to accommodate these people. We shouldn't have to. This must be reversed. Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

The Madness of Guardian Columnists

The Guardian Opinion section is a lunatic asylum. On the same day, the Guardian published an essay by Nesrine Malik, accusing Reform UK of wanting to ethnically cleanse Britain of any non-White person. She complained that Nigel Farage had previously said that "some Muslims are here 'to take us over'", that people speaking other languages on public transport make him uncomfortable, and that traffic congestion is caused by immigration. (Stop trying to persuade me to support him.) Malik complains that all parties engage in Slopulism: pandering to populist sentiment through empty slogans. But her complaint isn't that they use the slogans to contain public outrage; rather, that the British people dare to assert possession of their country, instead of Britain being for anyone from anywhere. Whereas Sacha Hilhorst interviewed Reform voters, and claimed they are "much more progressive than you might think", because they support banning MPs from having second jobs, and stricter controls on lobbying. Sacha is mistaking the possessive politics of Somewheres — insisting that politicians represent their constituents' concerns, rather than those of vested interests or their own pockets — for the resentful levelling impulse of progressives. Both women cannot understand why the British public are rejecting their ideology and voting for the most patriotic option available, because they reject the proposition that nations exist and are the property of distinct peoples. Which is why they both write for the Guardian. Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19