BootneckMajor 🇬🇧

Former Royal Marines officer & British Army Soldier. Businessman, entrepreneur. Generation X - actually.

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@DrChrisParry @Pauleyeball55 Don’t you start!

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@Jw56012026 Evening!

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Back to reality….

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@andMorebarry Of course! But you must come two by two…. Bring a friend.

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@Wilbaforce12 @FUDdaily An extremely well thought through comment. I agree. Wholeheartedly.

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@cillianblack That’s all very well put.

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@DavidB92044 @LeaderNHPUK Chump I can accept.

Army? GTF.

Ignorant twat.

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Now that the dust has settled, mostly, following the Guston, St. Margaret’s and Kingsdown by-election, we can start to take stock.

A lot has come out of this, arguably, relatively minor political exercise. One seat (out of 32) on Dover District Council.

For such a seemingly insignificant election, in the grand scheme, it has has had seismic impact and a disproportionate level of media interest. Because it says a great deal about the current state of our national political picture.

So, I stood for Restore Britain in the Guston, St Margaret’s and Kingsdown by-election on Thursday. Restore Britain gained 10.64% of the vote share. That almost certainly caused Reform to lose to the Green Party. Let me be clear, that was a Reform lose. They lost that to the Greens and they lost votes to Restore Britain.

So what?

Well….

The Right needs to start having an intelligent conversation about collaboration if we are to ensure that this country doesn’t succumb to the madness and destruction of the Left.

But people also deserve a choice. I’m sure most of us agree with that.

And what I can tell you, after delivering circa 15,000 leaflets with my fantastic team and knocking on almost 2,000 doors, is that all is not well within the legacy Reform support base.

They are disillusioned. Big time.

Many are ready to jump ship. I had that conversation time and time again. What is stopping them is almost universally the fear of splitting the vote on the Right. Many are holding their noses as they continue to vote Reform.

The principal reason? Nigel Farage.

I have the doorstep data. The receipts, if you like.

We live in a democracy. Still, just. And people need options, particularly if the dish being served is limited and not really to their taste.

Restore Britain has an absolute duty to its members and supporters to continue pushing forward. Of course we do. Especially in light of the burgeoning dissatisfaction among hitherto Reform voters.

Restore Britain has made the offer to work with Reform. . It has been rejected. By Nigel Farage. Repeatedly. But the offer remains on the table. I have that from the highest authority.

The Guston by-election was a microcosm of British politics. From our side of the fence, it isn’t a pretty picture. Unless something changes, the outlook is bleak. I think we all agree on that.

Restore Britain is not going away.

The Conservative and Unionist Party is not going away.

The ONLY sensible way forward is to find a way of working together for the future of our beautiful country.

The Guston by-election was a necessary demonstration of Restore Britain’s ascendancy and intent. In reality, the collateral damage of a Green win is minor at this level. Ten villages. One district council seat. No national or geopolitical consequence.

In many ways, therefore, it was probably a necessary wake-up call to all of us.

We must push for a grand collaboration on the Right. We must. It is essential.

I have nailed my colours firmly to the Restore Britain mast. My loyalty is not in question. But I also understand the stakes, and that is precisely why I say we must find a way to work together.

I will continue to fight for Restore Britain because, frankly, I believe we have the best suite of policies and the most credible and capable leadership. By far.

But I’m not merely open to collaboration. I am actively pushing for it.

Egos must be put aside. Great minds must come together. At the moment there is resistance, and we all know where much of it is coming from.

If Restore Britain needs to keep demonstrating that it can shape the battlefield until minds are changed, then that is exactly what we must do.

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@WhiteMulletNeon Thank you!

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@Robollox Every battle needs a contingency.

But I love your optimism.

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@Ginjarella That’s not what collaboration looks like.

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REFORM - Splitters!

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Before Reform UK lectures others, including @RestoreBritain , on “splitting the vote”, I suggest it should explain why it has done so much itself to make so many Green Party victories possible.

There’s a word for condemning others for precisely what you repeatedly do yourself. Reform might care to reflect on that.

Examples in which Reform UK enabled a Green Party victory are:

1) Cippenham Green council by-election on 11 June 2026:

Green 409
Conservative 404
Labour 355
Reform 326
Lib Dem 176

2) The Severn ward, Stroud District Council by-election on 11 June 2025:

Green 439
Conservative 425
Reform 421
Labour 177
Lib Dem 112

3) Hooley, Merstham & Netherne - August 2026:

Green 934 (41.8%)
Reform 545 (24.4%)
Conservative 454 (20.3%)

4) In the 2024 general election, the Greens took North Herefordshire from the Conservatives:

Green 21,736
Conservative 15,842
Reform 8,048

5) Waveney Valley, another Green gain from the Conservatives:

Green 20,467
Conservative 14,873
Reform 7,779

Political integrity, honesty and credibility rightly flies out of the window when you accuse others of “splitting the vote” while quietly ignoring the occasions on which your own candidates have helped deliver Green victories.

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@_HenryBolton @RestoreBritain Beautiful

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@VocalIPUK @Cal_III Seconded

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@s20mudskipper @Landeur @Experiment31649 I’m not sure you’d recognise good faith if it slapped you round the face. Shipmate.

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I do listen. It’s one of my personal qualities.

Moreover, I hear.

And I do hear.

The anger.

I hear the exasperation and I hear the fear about the future.

I get it. It’s why I’m here.

But I’m concerned about some of the approach. Frankly. The language, the hostility. Directed at our own. Including me.

I’m no longer a candidate. Thus im back to being a twenty quid member and hold no position in the Party.

I have my own views and I won’t tow ‘the line’ just to suppress or manage the attacks and the abuse.

You’re a good guy. I think. But watching your podcasts avidly as I have done for some time now, It’s clear that I don’t have the monopoly on retarded comments.

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Without ‘boomers’ and Gen X the Party won’t get its hands anywhere near the levers of power. Just a fact.

The term is divisive. This is precisely the kind of open rhetoric that will stunt the Party’s growth into a fully credible political construct.

There are hundreds of thousands of good folk, of all ages and generations, Gen X, baby boomers etc who would vote for, join and stand for the party but for all the divisive, internal rhetoric and this constant refrain about ‘boomers’.

It’s putting good people off.

I’ve listened to it on many doorsteps over the last four weeks.

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@JohnHann04 Hear hear! J

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@AnneOnimously We are all in the maelstrom. There is a process in hand. It’s a tough journey. But don’t lose faith. Optimism will win through.

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@mattfle02898557 Doorstep conversations. Hundreds and hundreds of doorstep conversations. There is no ‘near certainty’… it would be arrogant to suggest that… but it’s more than a gut feel. It’s backed up by data.