Can the Anti-Lockdown Forces Unite in a Political Coalition?
We’re publishing a guest post today by Geoff Cox, co-founder of the campaign group Back to Normal, calling for the various anti-lockdown political parties to form a front populaire and take on pro-lockdown candidates in elections. Back to Normal delivers easy to understand, anti-lockdown postcards directly to households across the country. Their target is to deliver one million postcards and they’re currently up to 700,000.
I can’t say we at Back to Normal entirely predicted the course of events over the last 18 months, but it was always clear to us that the covid nonsense would eventually run out of steam. Then, we would have a new fight on our hands to undo all the left-over legislation and restore our freedoms. At the same time globalists and new authoritarians would be coming up with new reasons for more legislation and big state over-reach.
I suspect that time may have arrived. But even if it hasn’t, it will arrive in due course and we must consider our next steps. I suggest our side joins together to take a broader libertarian stance, standing up for free speech v cancel culture, for a free internet v censorship, for privacy v the surveillance state, and so on. We must look to the future as next time the Government comes for us, they will be better prepared, more confident and will operate to greater effect.
Pressure groups can only do so much to change the Government’s mind about anything that globalists and unelected ‘experts’ demand. Furthermore, short of reading and commenting, there is little that grass roots activists and members of the public can do to support these groups. But the globalists have an even bigger weakness at grass roots level and this is one area where we can outflank them.
I’ve never been on a campaign that has so many good people on our side – spokesmen for “our movement” will not be hard to come by. Nor are we short of social media outlets where a huge spike in entrepreneurial activity to combat the Covid narrative has produced more websites and videos than we can shake a stick at. We also have some fair-minded broadcasting outlets, such as UK Column and GB News, where we can set out our stall. But what we do not yet have is a political movement to take votes away from pro-lockdown politicians at elections. Everyone knows this is a hard thing to do, but it is part of the process and we must threaten politicians at the ballot box. I had hoped one of the new political parties would have emerged as a front runner by now. But this has not happened. So I appeal to Reclaim, Reform, Freedom Alliance, Heritage, and the others to actively find ways to merge. If this can happen, Back to Normal is ready to support and run a local group network for this merged political party. We would like to speak to any of the political parties about this right now.
In the meantime, we are continuing to deliver postcards door to door promoting ivermectin, as this really will end the Covid cover story and prevent it ever coming back. Please order your box (or more) of Back to Normal ivermectin cards and join our local group network by emailing backtonormalrh@yahoo.com, or contact us through the website www.backtonormal.org.uk.
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Politicians got us into this mess. I’m not sure I will ever trust a politician or political party again, no matter what its stated aims are. I’d like to be more positive about the idea of an anti-lockdown party, I’m not sure I can be. Power corrupts.
How do you propose we change things for the better? It’s impossible to do it without power… yes, a timeless truth is that absolute power corrupts absolutely – the trick is being ready to take advantage of the moment when the current power structure crumbles…
I think we all have a responsibility to change things for ourselves, like not playing along with the government games, not allowing our children to be messed up by the system, holding people to account for their actions, growing our own food, going more off grid, supporting our families, networks and communities, showing power in numbers. Not being afraid to stand up and be counted. Chipping away at the status quo. The good news is that the government and all their agencies are absolutely hopeless. Stay strong, don’t be railroaded. James Corbett has lots of good ideas about possible solutions.
Helen I agree 100%. And you’re the second person to mention James Corbett – the first was a gentleman I met on Sunday who came to my local Stand in the Park for the first time. Stay strong.
You too 😊
Not that easy….what if you want your child to go to uni but all the unis demand double vaccination? You have to play the government game one way or another.
I would be extremely concerned about any university requiring my child to be vaccinated. I would say that that wouldn’t be a fit place for my child to be educated. It’s certainly not going to encourage independent and critical thinking. We need to be prepared to take a stand and not just give in to these crooks.
Yes but they will use things like uni education and international travel as bite points to force people to obey.
You know who Marcus A. was yet you believe absolute power corrupts absolutely?
What do you see as the best solution? Like you, I think all politicians are lying, cheating, dishonest people. However, we have to have mechanism to direct the ship of state. We have to make it as difficult as possible for unscrupulous people to benefit through politics. For a start, punishments for politicians disobeying laws should be a multiple of what they are for the man in the street. I don’t have any answers other than empowering a political party that will do our will.
If people want to get behind a new anti-lockdown, pro-freedom political party, then I wish them the very best of luck. But we must not put all our hopes in the hands of a few, we must do everything we can within our own personal and collective spheres to take back control and power. The more creative we can be, the better.
MON 19th July 9am Parliament Square
This day will go down in history as our Freedom Day! Not because some parasitic politician said so, but because WE THE PEOPLE finally got the courage to assert our power and reclaim our rights! We will be celebrating 19th July as Freedom Day for millenia to come https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/2764.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/1f64f-1f3fd.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/1f495.svg
Do not miss this day!
We have 2 weeks to promote the 19th. It’s a 9am start and we will not be marching but staying put. The reasons:
1. Ensure our servants see, hear and feel us in our full power and glory as the masters we are! They need to fear our power and listen to us.
2. We bring their power grid to a standstill using our right to protest peacefully. But leave them in no doubt about our power.
3. Make it nigh impossible for the mainstream media to ignore us.
If you’re a Freedom Warrior and want to learn about your rights and the Law, join http://www.thefreedomfestival.uk and Telegram @thefreedomfestival No keyboard warriors!
For camping, plse join Lovedown chat https://t.me/LoveDownsleepover
Where can we buy Ivermectin in the UK?
https://ziverdo-kit.com/product/ziverdo-kit/
Not in the UK but they ship to the UK from India.
You can get Noromectin from online pet suppliers. It’s Ivermectin for horses and uses the same per kg dosing regime for humans as horses. Costs about £6 a tube which is about 7 doses.
Have a look at this resource for home treatment of Covid
https://aapsonline.org/CovidPatientTreatmentGuide.pdf
Since when has this been about a pandemic? It’s been a plandemic and scamdemic from the start, it’s about control. Are they repealing the Covid Act, no so won’t believe or trust them.
“I suggest our side joins together to take a broader libertarian stance, standing up for free speech v cancel culture, for a free internet v censorship, for privacy v the surveillance state, and so on. We must look to the future as next time the Government comes for us, they will be better prepared, more confident and will operate to greater effect.”
Yes, this has to be the right course of action.
The other side will be busy preparing for the next time. There will be state agencies busily looking for and preparing to fill in all the loopholes that enabled even the slightest resistance to the “emergency” rules this time round.
Expect “emergency” exceptions for all protections, from voiding disability exemptions to imposing on the spot fines with imprisonment the alternative. Expect complete voiding of all privacy rules and all speech and assembly protections.
“I suggest our side joins together to take a broader libertarian stance, standing up for free speech v cancel culture, for a free internet v censorship, for privacy v the surveillance state, and so on.”
Yes. I believe that the demented behaviour we are witnessing/suffering in relation to this virus, is specifically an organic manifestation of our fundamentally distorted society.
Surely, if we had not succumbed to the infantile notions and fancies (such as zero offence/harm/failure, maximal uniformity and so forth), which gave rise to our toxic malformed culture in the first place, then our response to this virus would be completely different.
Yes, there will be various other factors in the mix, but I think the terminal threat is the weak, divisive, zombie-culture we have fostered.
I know the cancer analogy is much used, but I think it is absolutely the case that society/culture is in the process of being devastated from an actual cancer – and this cancer is now rampant. Essentially, unless we find an antidote soon (which I very much doubt), then it is game over.
This is exactly what I predict and fear. But it doesn’t have to happen and we must head it off somehow. As I put in the article, we really can outflank the new authoritarians at grass roots level. I believe street stalls and being out on the High Street is very effective in winning over people to our side.
It’s as if we are still taking the policies at face value, that it is about controlling the virus, not the people.
Hi Prester – well we could have fought against the covid nonsense from a civil liberties perspective. In fact our first card did exactly that. But we found, on the street, we were met with much hostility as people were very vocal about the need to shut down our liberties for safety. We had to switch to defeating the covid lockdown narrative of be irrelevant. This was a great blow to our side, because suddenly we had to learn about viruses and pcr tests and variants and all the rest. Of course, the government didn’t know anything about it either, but they were able to use the argument from authority and they did it very well.
Handing out Keep Britain Free cards which played the freedom card, was a lot more difficult and got a lot more angry responses than handing out our cards which were critical of lockdowns.
I so wish this could change some people’s minds, but the infantile moronic population will keep voting for the mono-party.
We are in a war with our own traitor politicians and their lapdogs.
I do not have any political optimism left in me, none at all.
I wish I could be optimistic, such as is the anger in me that rages about what has been inflicted on us. Alas, I share you stance. The British public are beyond saving.
A lot more has to happen before they may be prepared to get their heads out of the sand and take a look at what really is happening.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave springs to mind.
In a sane world liblabcon would have been destroyed in the various recent elections Unfortunately though the sheep either believe we’re doing the right thing (con) or that they should have been doing more of it (lab) as for lib feck knows what they’re doing.
By who, though? That’s the problem. If you’re opposed to lockdown and restrictions there is no political party to vote for. They all support lockdown and restrictions. Or else they’re smaller parties who are completely unviable.
In mayoral elections does the party really matter? Even in those people voted for the same old crap.
Well the starting point is for there to be a single anti-lockdown candidate in every election, so that the few sceptics that do exist can vote them, whether they are viable or not. Then we can start to build on that.
Exactly. There has to be political focus.
Absolutely Geoff.
I, for one, will not vote for the mono-party again, ever.
There is, I daresay a percentage of the population (and that includes some of the brainwashed) that does not identify with the toxic mono-party “values”, goals and policies.
My pessimism is about the majority willingly voting for the same set of criminals, frauds and cheats over and over and over.
I’ve stopped voting for any main party, been a Conservative all my life (with the odd justified lapse towards The Brexit Party) like to think I still am. However there is no Conservative Party in this country currently so I’ve been voting for the Independent candidate as and when. Agree with Geoff we have to start somewhere and believe all is not lost. From little acorns……
In the last Council elections there were no Independent candidates to vote for. Thus, for the first time in my life, I knowingly spoilt my ballot. I chose this negative action rather than just not bothering to vote at all.
I also had hoped that we would have had a single political party, or at least a major front runner, that would have been opposed to the withdrawal of our fundamental freedoms. This is centre to the ongoing success of our society. Authoritarianism will never ever provide a good life for most of humanity. In fact it won’t even provide a good life for the Establishment forever as it will destroy the fundamentals of out society.
The problem is to find the right acorns and nurture them into a movement to protect our society.
They’re completely unviable only because there are so many of them. Amalgamate them, put aside small differences, kick out personal ambitions for leadership and go from there.
I often feel the same – especially as we seem now to have basically zero Free Press.
But I am a believer in “love where you live”.
Until I no longer live in the UK, I will fight this in any way I can.
I don’t understand why a single party formation hasn’t emerged before. All the different groupings served only to weaken their potential impact. Political organisation is our only hope. But it has to be more than just a vehicle for going up against the established parties at local and national elections. We are in fight for the future of humanity. It will require a vast, active and organised social movement with a political head on its shoulders to stop the globalists’ programme in its tracks – and not just in this country. The tyrants have had a year’s start on us and they are several moves ahead. The rapidly growing resistance movement knows that all of this has f**k all to do with public health – if this proto-unified party doesn’t grasp that, it will be doomed from the outset.
I prefer the idea of a more unified resistance movement, which places an emphasis on individual responsibility, rather than a unified political party, which detracts from same and puts faith, power and responsibility in the hands of a few.
I see your point, of course, Helen. But to beat this, we simply MUST beat it from within. There is not, I believe, any other way.
Agreed…see my response below or visit http://www.TheDemocraticNetwork.org.
I think it makes sense for anti-lockdown parties to unite but even united their support is small.
We need a massively well funded, professionally staffed, multi-disciplinary campaign group to do surveys, advertising campaigns, co-ordinate legal action, gather information. The staff must be full time and include experts from the various relevant fields.
The enemy have spent hundreds of millions on propaganda. We’ve been losing partly because we’ve been outspent. It can be partly crowdfunded but needs the seed backing of a single or small group of very rich sceptics who can afford to lose many millions on what might prove to be a fruitless exercise, and the people involved need to be prepared to be persecuted mercilessly by the enemy and may never work again.
Time is coming for Direct Action I suggest roving militia targeting Government facilities.
More War War than Jaw Jaw!
No public support for that
We need to change minds first
The problem is that the zombie public don’t have minds.
The majority NEVER had minds. It’s up to the thinkers to save things for themselves, and of course the sheep just follow.
It certainly seems that way, but their “minds” were changed to believe in lockdowns and covid as a great danger. Propaganda works, both ways. We are hampered by being late starters and with a tiny budget.
Thanks Julian for your supportive comments. Our movement does need money, but not at a local level. The cost of grass roots activity is almost nothing – certainly outside funds are not necessary as a local group only needs say £1000 p/a to run itself and you will always find a few people who can chip in £200 in the first instance. Later, with say 50 local supporters, £20 p/a will be enough.
However, Geoff, at the National level I agree with Julian, I think you need quite a dollop of money. We also need high profile people to be at the helm of the party. As you say in your article “I’ve never been on a campaign that has so many good people on our side” The problem is to get them working as a team.
The American Revolution was started with maybe 25% of the population on board and the Bolshevik Revolution was started with much, much less than that
Yes but many more people were discontented with the current state of affairs in both cases. In the UK the fear porn and bread and circuses strategies have worked – most people are happy, or think they are.
I think many are damaged mentally and no longer think straight, like my ex-lifelong friend who ended our friendship with some very nasty abuse because I won’t have the vaccine and have continued to live my life as freely as possible throughout this nonsense. She, on the other hand, is locked down even more than required. Her activities, isolated even from her children, cause me to wonder whether mental problems are ever a side-effect of vaccine? When I last spoke to her, only weeks ago, I could literally hear the fear in her voice.
I thought it wise not to say I never wear a mask either, in case it caused apoplexy.
Direct and indirect sabotage was a crucial part of defeating the communism nightmare in the 20th century.
I’m not an expert on history but I would contend that the kind of action you mean started to play its part at a point where the majority started to realise they didn’t want to live under tyranny. We’re still in the first flush of the revolution here.
Yes and no – both.
The majority do indeed need a trigger to awake.
Those acts of sabotage kept showing the cowed majority that something is happening, that someone resists.
That’s a fair point. I don’t think violence is going to win us many friends, but peaceful protests of the kind we’ve been seeing are quite possibly going to wake some people up, as will mass civil disobedience.
Indeed. I am only bringing the history up to demonstrate that single acts of defiance, disobedience or even sabotage may not be much but their cumulative effect caused the Soviet Empire to topple and then disintegrate.
Yes. I think humanity needs to reach the point of realising they would, quite literally, rather risk death than carry on under tyranny. They must feel they have nothing to lose, and some be willing to face martyrdom.
I fear we have a long way to go; our nationality has been diluted, our young propagandised; hovering in the background remains the ‘climate crisis’ – a new kind of ‘lockdown’ will be planned for that.
Before we can think of fightback we need to acknowledge how big our problem is, and I don’t think most have realised that yet.
I agree with your suggestion, but I think forming a political front would help enable the formation and funding of the kind of campaign group you describe.
Neither’s easy. Both are needed.
100% agree, Julian.
I had hoped that someone like Dr. Mike Yeadon (who posts on here from time to time) might fill the duel roll of expert and wealthy benefactor – as I believe he’s worth a bob or two (as hinted at in this Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2017/03/15/turning-pfizer-discards-into-novartis-gold-the-story-of-ziarco/?sh=1c97c9ee7572). As anyone here who follows him will know, he’s already being vilified by the lockdown and vaccine zealots, so’s he’s got little – if anything – to lose on that front. I think Richard Tice is probably the person best placed to do the job you outline, but he comes with a lot of Brexit baggage which will alienate people who might otherwise be on board with the aims and objectives of any new group or organisation. Difficult one: perhaps Bill Gates can be turned! 😉
Geoff, I am ready to stand as a candidate for my area (Leeds West) in this new party.
Three options present themselves in terrible times like these:
Option Three certainly is not off the cards for me and my family, but as long as I am citizen and resident of this country, I feel Option Two is the way to do things. I’ve never felt more motivated to “get into politics”.
Stay sane.
Thanks Marcus for your support. I agree with nearly all the comments here, but this one in particular. Being active locally could change the minds of the 20% who sit next to us along the x axis of scepticism. If we then had say 30-40% on our side, that would be all we would need. But the local groups need to have a goal, and that goal is to gain votes in elections. Ideally this would be a political party with a name which is recognisably supportive of individual personal choice and freedom eg Freedom Alliance.
In the meantime, people could support independents, however this is very much a second best option as votes cannot be added together around the country and total votes mean that the BBC have to by law reflect this in their coverage. The key to UKIP’s success in getting an EU Referendum was winning the Euro elections in 2014. This required the BBC to invite UKIP on to Question Time et al.
Marcus – I should have said: do get in touch backtonormalrh@yahoo.com.
“Come on Boris!” ????!!?
That’s appeasement from the start.
FatFuck is a criminal and in my “back to normal”, criminals get thrown in prison.
We’ve had a bit of criticism about that line from others, but this card and message is not aimed at you – it is aimed at people who think “Boris” has done a good job. It is meant to be non-confrontational.
Fair point
I’ve been impressed with how much Back to Normal have achieved on their tiny budget. I think they are doing great work.
Thanks Julian – Back to Normal has set out to do something simple and cheap and do it as well as we can. A local network is essential for a big political movement, but I recognise it probably only represents perhaps 10% of a full political campaign which is why I am trying to find others who will operate at different levels. Back to Normal is completely prepared to act under a different name and be merged into something bigger and better.
I think many of us may not be prepared nor willing to step forward into the limelight but will gladly help/advise/support behind the scenes those that do.
Hey, Johnny – don’t “underestimate” yourself. The best placard I saw at one of the London marches was at the end of April:
YOU KNOW IT’S SERIOUS WHEN THE INTROVERTS START GETTING ANGRY!
Absolutely I’m one of Geoff’s postmen and it’s been an interesting few months. I’ve had people telling me I’m stupid (which I am but not in the way they think I am!) ignorant selfish etcetera etcetera but I’ve also had some encouragement even people giving money towards funding more leaflets. It’s also kept me fit and helped me mentally thinking at least I’m doing something however small. If nothing else it’s helping me keep sane. So thank you Geoff I owe you.
PS just opened the door to another delivery of 1,000 cards better get on!!!
Ideally you’d want someone with contacts to try and pull something together. Toby Young, or Lord Sumption, or Luke Johnson or Hugh Osmond, or Laurence Fox. They are all either rich or have access to media, funds and a reasonably high profile.
Hi Julian,
Yes indeed. I can only offer my services at the basic level of running a local group network. My dream would be to see Lord Sumption, Toby Young, Richard Tice, David Kurten, Brendan O’Neil, Tess Laurie et al on a platform together pledging support for a specific political party. I’d run the local groups for that party til my dying day (or til I got sacked whichever came first!).
This may be the start…https://www.questioneverything.io/
I have delivered over 900 of the cards that you sent to me and I have dithering about ordering more; not for any good or bad reason, just dithering.
So I will now order some more and thee is someone I know in my town, who, I think, will help.
Some months ago as I was delivering your cards someone caught me up in the street and he complimented me on the cards. We had a great sceptical conversation. The following day the same thing happened!
So thanks Geoff, sometimes it seems to be very bleak and lonely but there are more people against all this covid nonsense than appears from the MSM.
Well, the only thing we can do is not forget what this government has done to us and never vote Tory again. It’s not enough for a few back benchers to speak eloquently against lockdown, because it’s just hot air, unless they think it’s serious enough for them to resign the whip. If enough of them had the guts to threaten to do that and mean it, the situation over the last two years would have been much different. If it didn’t have the required effect, a new libertarian party formed by enough of them would I believe have success at the next election, otherwise many of us are going to have nobody to vote for except “none of the above”.
I had hoped that something like that would have happened
MON 19th July 9am Parliament Square
This day will go down in history as our Freedom Day! Not because some parasitic politician said so, but because WE THE PEOPLE finally got the courage to assert our power and reclaim our rights! We will be celebrating 19th July as Freedom Day for millenia to come https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/2764.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/1f64f-1f3fd.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.1/svg/1f495.svg
Do not miss this day!
We have 2 weeks to promote the 19th. It’s a 9am start and we will not be marching but staying put. The reasons:
1. Ensure our servants see, hear and feel us in our full power and glory as the masters we are! They need to fear our power and listen to us.
2. We bring their power grid to a standstill using our right to protest peacefully. But leave them in no doubt about our power.
3. Make it nigh impossible for the mainstream media to ignore us.
If you’re a Freedom Warrior and want to learn about your rights and the Law, join http://www.thefreedomfestival.uk and Telegram @thefreedomfestival No keyboard warriors!
For camping, plse join Lovedown chat https://t.me/LoveDownsleepover
I think a political union is a good idea, but if anyone could pull this off it would be Farage. I suspect there’s a good reason why he pulled back from being an anti-lockdown party leader in January – because he realised the vast majority of Brits don’t want one and are happy with the status quo. However, we may now be getting to the point where the numbers of people who love the restrictions are dwindling.
Group of almost 30,000 people share their stories of adverse effects and deaths from the vaccine
https://thebl.tv/world-news/europe/group-of-almost-30000-people-share-their-stories-of-adverse-effects-and-deaths-from-the-vaccine.html
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Good post.
No need for a merger as such though. What they need to do is create an electoral pact. In particular I think Reclaim, Reform and the SDP need to create a pact and agree on a simple statement along the lines that they will rescind all Covid related legislation and launch a public inquiry into the unprecedented assault on our civil rights, the failure to develop effective treatments and so on.
Reform are problematic because they have been all over the place, but on the other hand they still pack a reasonable punch, so I would want them on board.
Toby Young should join Reclaim. I think if he did he could encourage a lot of Conservatives to move over to the party.
BTW I am disgusted at how many of the CRG have gone along with this unprecedented assault on our civil rights. They should have resigned the whip and formed their own party grouping – True Conservative Party or whatever.
This is an important and difficult point. The next elections are local elections…some May next year, more May 2023. We set up The Democratic Network earlier this year. Seven of us stood in six counties proving that, with an infrastructure in place, the right people will stand. In terms of votes we made a very limited impact in a short amount of time. We had a simple pledge…to do the job of representing residents…with no Westminster ties…so local decision makers can act as a counter-balance to Westminster. Happy to work with others. It’s hard work. If you are interested in helping contact Support@TheDemocraticNetwork.org or visit our website of the same name.