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Reform Watch, May 1940

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Another in the infrequent Reform archive stories, this one is from 26 May, 1940, somewhere on the south coast (where else?)


Another day and another wave of Antifa men of fighting age arriving at Dover in small boats, claiming to be fleeing a war zone. That's what they all say. They're being put up in local hotels, some are even being housed in Army accommodation - where does this government get off? As usual there are Europeans in the boats, from France and Belgium, but I've seen Indians, Sikhs and Eastern Europeans too - bloody Polish think they can go anywhere they like. They all claim to be fighting Fascists - well if they want a fight, we're ready.


Vote Reform and we'll send them back across the Channel, no ifs, no buts. Trust us, this is war.



It will, eventually, all be the fault of Reform

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The labour party has been so busy blaming the nasty wicked evil Tories for everything it hasn't been able to fix, that it hasn't noticed that the Tories are no longer any kind of electoral threat.


'Perhaps we need to accept that the rotten, wretched Reform party is a greater threat' said a spokessomethingorother-close-to-the-Labour party.  'And realise that if we lose to them in the next election, we might have to put up with them for a while.  But we will then have to decide whether we will still be "not-the-Tory party", or will have to change our entire electoral strategy and become "not-the-Reform party", and blame the rotten-wretched-Reform party for everything which will have gone wrong, instead of continuing, for ever, to attribute the blame for absolutely everything entirely to the nasty-wicked-evil-Tory party.'


'Are we capable of re-orientating our entire political philosophy so fundamentally?  As usual, as is our tradition, we don't know / aren't sure / haven't made up our minds - so no change there.  And anyway, we  can always change our minds again afterwards, if we ever do make a decision.'




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