Advance UK has deregistered as a political party. I was reminded only recently, having quite forgotten, that I had been there and done that. Although I have never taken as few as 154 votes for anything. Nor have I ever taken fewer than the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, whose support at Makerfield is being split by Count Binface, such that their combined tally should be projected into the percentage of the electorate that was in favour of the retention of Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.
Neither Count Binface nor Howling Laud Hope will be on Question Time from Makerfield tomorrow, but nor will the candidate whom Ben Habib had already endorsed, Rebecca Shepherd of Restore Britain. Shepherd's husband is a Dutch-Indonesian immigrant. Is he a Muslim? At any rate, their business model is purely parastatal, consisting entirely of the provision of therapeutic equine activities to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Service of Wigan Council. To my mind, that is a noble pursuit. But would Restore voters agree? Would the professed 37,000 members of Advance, although the true number would become clear if we ever found out how much had been repaid in subscriptions? Would Habib? Would Rupert Lowe?
The defining issue of Restore is remigration, so it would presumably have sent Henry Nowak "back" to Poland with his father whom it would still deport, and it would presumably send Habib "back" to Pakistan. It would not, however, need to deport Stephen Yaxley-Lennon to Ireland, of which he was in any case already a citizen, since he lived in Spain. Yaxley-Lennon endorsed Advance at Gorton and Denton. Does he endorse Restore at Makerfield? And what of the Sikh immigration that, having been doing so for 20 years, he was still encouraging as an anti-Muslim bulwark until at least last month? Fringe Sikh figures have been appearing on his platforms for decades, as he has on theirs. Last night in Southampton, he delivered an almost comical speech against "Pakistani Muslims". What about them?
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