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The general election is tomorrow, and with that in mind I will provide my final advice as to what people should and shouldn't do, and why:

 

What you SHOULDN'T do:

 

1. Vote for a Party you don't, on the whole, support. Ultimately, the game of tactical voting is purposefully exploited by the Westminster Cartel as a way of avoiding any change of the system or its ideals. If they know that people will vote for parties that they do not support, purely as a way of 'avoiding' something else, there is no reason for them ever to change. By voting for a Party that you do not support, for whatever reason, all it does is legitimise everything that Party does. Given that Parties that win a certain amount of seats receive funding from the government (short money), to vote for a Party you do not agree with is tantamount to donating money to that Party. There is no advantage whatsoever to doing so. And as much as some people will say that it can prevent something worse, ultimately the entire Cartel works towards the same ends anyway, and a vote for one is interchangeable with a vote for anything else.

 

2. Go and vote, purely for the sake of spoiling your ballot. This is, at its core, an act of spite that serves no purpose. It will not get read, it will not get noted in a way that anybody cares about. It might make the person doing it feel better for thirty seconds, but it will do nothing at all to resolve any problems. It is a pointless waste of time and money for someone to go to the effort of going to a polling station or filling out a postal vote, just to write something invalid on it. 

 

3. Vote for Reform UK as a 'least worst option'. It has been a common occurence over the election campaign to see Reform UK expel candidate after candidate, member after member, for expressing an opinion or view that is deemed to be contradictory to the same neo-liberal capitalist ideals of the Conservative Party, even though they are well aware that their own support base as a whole has those 'incorrect' views. The reason that they do this is because they are comfortable in the belief that many people who have these views will still vote for them anyway, as the 'least worst option', despite being treated with complete disrespect time and time again. If you know that no matter how much abuse you can direct at someone, they will never walk away, then there is no reason to ever stop the abuse, and this is exactly what goes through the mind of people like Farage and Tice. 

 

When people who fundamentally disagree with the messaging, ideals and attitude of the leadership of Reform UK, but still vote for them and encourage others to do so, anyway, without even meaning to they are enabling their own abuse. 

 

A counter-argument is that it 'shifts' the discussion and politics to the 'right', but fundamentally this is not true. Firstly because that party will never move towards an explicitly nationalist position if people are already voting for it anyway by default (as it has no reason to), and secondly because the ideals and core principles of Reform UK are identical to those of the mainstream Conservatives.

 

Voting for Reform UK might, in the immediate term, facilitate a new talking point, but in the long-term it makes the prospects of the discussion shifting in the right direction WORSE rather than better.

 

What you SHOULD do:

 

If you find yourself in the position where no candidate on the ballot adequately represents what you want, or where the only thing you really want to vote for is 'none of the above,' then instead of wasting any time or effort endorsing something you do not like, what you should do is take the time and energy that you would have spent doing that, and investing it in building an alternative that you do. If every person who found themselves in the situation of having no adequate option to vote for, invested an hour of their time and energy into either creating or becoming the option in future, then the pathway to resolution would already be under construction. 

 

Do not play the game of looking for immediate results, at the cost of the long-term result. The Westminster Criminals ultimately want our people to play this game, because they know that it enables them to continue to offer sub-par representation, solely on the basis of 'least worst option'. 

 

When me and my comrades formed the National Rebirth Party, we did so precisely because we recognised that no option on the table was either willing or capable of resolving the problems in this country, and thus the choice we had was to either support those impotent options, or create a new option ourselves.

 

This is the only path that leads to any kind of change.

 

By Alek Yerbury,

 

Party Leader