The Zoomers Rise Up For the Right
This Week In Media | 3rd - 10th June 2024
Nigel Farage announced that he will be running to be MP for Clacton, as leader of Reform UK, last Monday, the 3rd of June. At his announcement, he declared that ‘something is happening out there’ regarding the number of young people — predominantly men — who encouraged him to run and who have been enraged by their cultural and economic impoverishment through mass immigration.
I covered the Zoomers urging the Conservative Party to receive “Zero Seats” at the general election, and who are now enthused to vote for Farage (or for Reform, as Farage-by-proxy) on this week’s Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
I was informed that a clip of my coverage was included in a meme compilation promoting Farage’s victory, and I would like to say that I am very much in favour of this.
Speaking of Zero Seats…
This week on Tomlinson Talks, I spoke to the man who created the “Zero Seats” meme, Dr. Neema Parvini, about the merits and drawbacks of delivering the Conservative Party a deserved defeat at the next election.
I differ with Dr. Parvini on many things — including religious conviction, foreign policy positions, and the voting strategy at this election — but it was a fascinating and useful conversation concerning best practices to achieve a patriotic opposition party after July 4th.
During the discussion, I referenced a new piece I wrote for The Critic:
In this new article, I do not dispute that the One Nation consensus, led by David ‘heir to Blair’ Cameron and Michael Gove, deserve to be evicted from Parliament to the point that they are made destitute, forced to panhandle as penance in one of the more unpleasant tube stations.
However, the cathartic call to destroy the Conservative Party must be met with measured expectations. If Zero Seats is the Trumpian “big ask” at this election, then the Right best prepare to make tactical exemptions to build an opposition sympathetic to their cause.
We should not vote Conservative indiscriminately, across the country, because we fear the Keir will be worse.
We should, however, as prudent political operatives, deliver Zero Seats for our Enemies, while voting for our Friends.
These include:
Miriam Cates - Penistone and Stocksbridge
Nick Fletcher - Don Valley
Dame Andrea Jenkyns - Morley and Outwood
Suella Braverman - Fareham
Robert Jenrick - Newark
Liz Truss - South West Norfolk
The last on that list certainly deserves her seat, after holding her nerve while the lying communists at Hope Not Hate smeared her for speaking with me on Tomlinson Talks.
I discussed the manufactured controversy surrounding the interview with Bev Turner for GB News.
I have heard from reputable sources that Liz and her leafleting team were spoken to about the interview on the doorstep by our viewers, who expressed their appreciation for Truss’ candid answers to my questions.
If any other candidate wants to speak to me about their campaign and answer some tough questions that voters may want answered, they’re more than welcome to get in touch…
How Gen Z Can Rebuild Our Broken Culture
I was interviewed by John Gilam on the Thinking Class Podcast, discussing how technology and consumer capitalism have dislodged us from family, faith, time, place, and culture; and how the young people bereaved of a sense of belonging can reclaim traditional ways of living to revitalise small pockets of that culture.
It was a nourishing and, in many respects, very personal conversation about civilisation decline, personal family plans, and why I reverted to Catholicism. I hope it provides some encouragement to those still uncertain of how to proceed in their lives.
Crisis on Infinite Earths — or, When Comics Weren’t Woke Drivel
In this month’s instalment of Comics Corner, my colleague Harry and I discussed Marv Wolfman & George Pérez’s Crisis on Infinite Earths — the fiftieth-anniversary event which collapsed the confusing DC Comics multiverse into one cohesive, chronological continuity. (Before the contradiction made themselves apparent, and subsequent writers made many mistakes, requiring subsequent Crises.)
We discussed the Christian existentialism, anti-totalitarianism, and Cold War American exceptionalism woven into the narrative; with a discussion of its sequel, Legends, reserved for the next episode, out in the coming weeks…