Thought Criminal

This is a crucial point raised by @KeithWoodsYT (RE Restore Britain's economic stance) & sparked an interesting thread of comments (including @frankwrighter). Here are my thoughts on the topic: I agree that while Reversing Mass Immigration is the primary objective, Restore Britain must also offer a new economic vision and specifically avoid being categorised as re-heated Thatcherism/Neo—Liberalism. Austrian economics: 1) is essentially about “sound money”. 2) Constrains Central Banks power to create asset inflation by printing money (QE/Fiat). 3) Constrains Central Govt power to stimulate consumption via deficit funding (whi8h prioritises welfare & public services over productive economy). 4) Does not (& should not) mandate globalist neo-liberal policies that have hollowed out western economies. 5) I advocate blending Sound Money with targeted investment in Britain’s national productive capacity, e.g. Professor Richard Werner’s approach to direct bank credit to productive real-economy uses (SMEs, manufacturing, tech) via decentralised local banks (Germany’s model), rather than via global banks/funds or Whitehall experts. Note that Lowe/Restore Britain: 1) Reject globalist neo-liberal policies such as cheap labour migration, remittances, foreign ownership extraction, financialisaton etc. 2) State the need for a productive national economy, emphasising the role of small businesses/local traders/British agriculture/manufacturing and rewarding British workers. @frankwrighter also makes a crucial point RE market worship and societal values. This was a core failing of Thatcher’s attempt to fix Britain in the 1980’s. She assumed freeing the economy would enable traditional individual morality to re-emerge. In practice we saw materialism/greed justified & worshipped and the perfect environment created for globalism to strip western nations of their wealth & sovereignty. All of which chimes with my view that RB’s 3 core objectives/pillars are: 1) Reverse Mass Immigration 2) Rebuild a productive national economy 3) Reclaim our heritage & traditional Christian Values.

Worth noting that Demographic Security is one of 5 points Lowe raised as conditions for an electoral deal, a point which Farage failed to even acknowledge. If (as I suspect) most Reform supporters/members support Demographic Security - and Reversing Islamification (the other point Farage failed to even acknowledge), then the grounds for a deal are in place. Don't hide behind the "Lowe wants Reform to kickout all the Tories" line. It was only in reference to a future Govt cabinet & former "failed" Boris-cabinet ministers, and I suspect a case can be made for Jenrick & Braverman, in that they quit the Boris govt and in any case sound a lot more based than Farage these days. We have a country to save.