Restore What?

At all three previous elections for a Mayor of Greater Manchester, the Conservative candidate had come second. But this year, that candidate came fifth, behind Reform UK, the Green Party, and Restore Britain. Yes, Restore Britain. In Manchester. Where Reform beat the Greens.

But just as we always knew that Reform was a grift, even if not quite to the extent that was now becoming more apparent by the day, so Restore has raised nearly five million pounds, the same sum that initially got Nigel Farage into so much bother, to fight the next General Election to win it, on the understanding that Reform both needed to be destroyed and, with the right resources, easily could be.

Yet now Rupert Lowe wants a deal with Reform, so where will that money be going? It ought to be returned. And after Lowe and Farage had kissed and made up, then, backed by Lowe, there would be another of Farage's deals with the Conservative Party. His last one meant that he himself did not vote in the 2019 Election.

Lowe and Restore are backed by John Cleese. Monty Python in general, and The Life of Brian, still ubiquitous in school RE lessons, in particular, did more than any other single phenomenon to destroy a basically Christian culture in this and several other countries, to the point that most people would no longer get the jokes because those assumed mass familiarity with the Gospels.

If it is not Cleese that the supposed guardians of Western civilisation lionise, then it is Boy George, who chained a male prostitute to a radiator in London and beat him, and in whose New York apartment cocaine was found after he had falsely reported a burglary due to being off his face, yet who has continued to perform both in the West End and on Broadway among other places, including in Australia, for which, as for the United States, he has no difficulty obtaining a visa.