The Primrose League

The patriotic, culturally conservative movement, furthering the interests of the Nation and its confidence, optimism, prosperity & security since 1883. 🇬🇧🇮🇱

[The Primrose League @_PrimroseLeague]

Patriotic and culturally conservative… The Primrose League is politically independent and seeks to further the interests of our great Nation, and to preserve our heritage, culture and values as the foundations upon which our society must evolve and grow. https://t.co/D1LioSKane

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Errr… No.

Men belong in men’s prisons. End of.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

My op-ed on the flow of illegal immigrants:

“A nation that fails to exercise sovereignty over its own borders is a nation that is surrendering its sovereignty… simply demonstrating a profound weakness - a failure of leadership, courage and resolve.”

https://t.co/huejmcAJM5

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

My personal opinion, immigration is ok and can have some benefits if carefully managed and controlled, and immigrants properly integrated. However, it hasn’t been carefully managed or controlled, and immigrants haven’t been properly integrated for 25 years or more, so draconian measures are now required if we’re not to see the end of our heritage, culture and values as Britons vanish into history.

Immigration, in my opinion, is absolutely NOT the “lifeblood” of the UK. If the UK is a combination of our heritage, culture, values and social norms, immigration is now a threat to us, not our lifeblood.

I like David Bull but he’s sounding like Sadiq Khan.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

This is so far removed from British values and law that it beggars belief.
He needs to be removed without delay and I don’t mean tomorrow or next week, I mean in right now, tonight. No excuses.

Then I’d want to know who the Hell granted him a visa, and who sponsored him. Whoever sponsored him would be scrutinised and they’d almost certainly be following him.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

The @SDPhq advocates a generation long mass immigration pause in the interests of integration and social cohesion.
We will deport foreign national offenders and also withdraw from the 1951 UN refugee convention, the ECHR and all other international instruments which deny UK border sovereignty.

Immigration is not our lifeblood. If the UK is a combination of our heritage, culture, values and social norms, the failure of successive governments to manage, control and integrate it means that it’s become a threat.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

You mean like the SDP, whose policy it’s been for years?

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

📢 NOTICE!

New! ‘The National Brief’ – Live at 19:00 every Friday.

I want to cut through some of the noise and do my best to explain what’s going on in this topsy-turvy world of ours.

🇬🇧 The manoeuvring of parties and politicians
💥National security
🛂 Border control & migration
👮 Crime & public safety
🌍 Foreign affairs
💂‍♂️Defence
…and loads more.

Let’s rise above the chaos. Join me as I draw on my experience to cover the facts, provide comment and hopefully some clarity in the issues facing our Nation each week.

📺 Live at 19:00 every Friday here on X – @_HenryBolton and on YouTube - @HenryBoltonOBE
#NationalBrief #UKPolitics

(As tomorrow will be the first episode and I’m the technician as well as host, there’s a slight chance of teething problems. If there are, please bear with me 🔧)

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

Britain pressed to give away fishing grounds permanently in return for the right to accept EU laws and courts permanently.

You couldn't make it up.

[Momus Najmi @theworldofmomus]

🎯 - and people should be wary of parties who run local elections solely on national issues. Parties with only rhetoric and no plans for local or national.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

The election results we already have are a damning indictment of Labour, its insane Net Zero policy, NI hikes, and complete failure on Channel crossings and immigration. The worry is that Reform gets even more wind behind it despite having fag-paper thin policies. Britain is in a bad place.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

We can already see the direction of travel in the election results. Great success for Reform, very poor results for Labour and the Conservatives, both losing seats to Reform.

The method of campaigning in this election has been unusual. New things are emerging. They’re, I think, unconnected, but at the same time effective and worrying:

- Sectarianism and hatred have grown, dividing the country and introducing issues unconnected with the UK itself.

- Reform’s fireworks and stardust approach have introduced a showmanship to politics which, I fear, masks the actual political issues at stake.

- The electorate seem even more unaware, or careless of the difference between local and national government, politics and policies. That is the result of declining standards in education. It has been exacerbated by some parties actively campaign on national issues, rather than those these elections influence. This blurring of lines is incredibly bad for local democracy and the good governance of our districts and counties.

- There is an increasingly US approach to campaigning being deployed. This is divisive and tribal, and possibly feeds into the above concerns.

What we do know already is that Reform have put Labour and the Conservatives on notice. They have, so far (8:10am) won more council seats than either of the two former big parties, taking wards from both.

Whatever the final results, Reform’s amazing successes are a damning indictment of Labour and its insane Net-Zero policies, appalling record on Channel migrants and immigration, and the stupid hike in National Insurance.

Likewise, the poor performance of the Conservatives in these elections demonstrates that the party is still far too vanilla, out of touch and is failing to convince the electorate that it is at all credible on the issues that matter to the people.

The Tories still haven’t woken up to the fact that the likes of Cameron, May, Gove, Green and the fraudulently misleadingly named ‘One Nation’ caucus are going to destroy the party. A new form of patriotic conservatism of the sort represented by Robert Jenrick is their only way out of the mess for the Conservatives.

Of the other parties, the LibDems are a particular community who seem not to have any significance but a loyal following.

Greens, like the LibDems.

UKIP, Heritage, Workers Party, Reclaim and others have a niche following but are of no particular note in elections.

The SDP is, however, growing quietly and steadily. Although not yet an electoral threat it shows far more depth and thoughtfulness in its policies and shows great promise. If it were able to project more into the public awareness, it could do well. It is worth noting that many of Reform’s headline policies and strap lines are clearly plagiarised from the SDP, with whom Reform had a limited electoral pact in the 2024 General Election.

CONCLUSION
We have four more years until the next election and there’s more than enough time for Reform to drop the ball (possible), for Labour to reverse course (extremely unlikely), for the Conservatives to start projecting true and credible patriotic conservatism (only possible if Jenrick takes over and can unite the party behind him), or for the SDP to break through Reform’s noise and break into public awareness (extremely difficult but possible).

I think we can safely assume that the government formed in 2029 will be a Labour, Reform or Conservative one. So, it’s all to play for, but if a week is a long time in politics, four years makes for a very long game.

[The Primrose League @_PrimroseLeague]

@_HenryBolton @WilliamClouston @SDPhq @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage Quite right too! Well done William and the @SDPhq

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Ed Miliband makes clear on @BBCr4today his preference for foreign imports of oil and gas over British production.

Why?

[The Primrose League @_PrimroseLeague]

@EwanLawry Have a look at the SDP @SDPhq Ewan.

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

Look at these salaries

Head of Cyber Security at the Treasury:
£57,500

Head of DEI at NHS - North East London: £91,336

You know your country is in trouble when diversity officers who do naff all are paid more than security chiefs.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

I welcome these changes which are in the national interest.

But your hypocrisy and duplicity is jaw-dropping.

You opposed my planning reforms, Heathrow expansion and HS2.

You were the NIMBY and the eco-zealot that strangled growth.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

“Bloody right I’m passionate… people are dying…”

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨BREAKING: Every government agency has been ordered to shut down its DEI offices by tomorrow at 5 PM.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

This editorial from @thetimes exposes the Attorney General’s excuses as sophistry.

He must answer basic questions about his conflicts of interest or his position is untenable.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

This is simply staggering. I have verified the source of this information as reliable, from a GP practice in London.

On a daily average at this practice...

- Just 8% of appointments are used by British citizens.
- 51% of patients require an interpreter (at the taxpayer's expense), also in effect taking a double appointment.
- 72% of all sick notes are issued to patients who do not speak English.

92% of appointments at this practice being taken by foreign nationals - over half requiring interpretation.

This is not what the NHS was designed for, this is not what we pay our taxes for.

Uncontrolled mass immigration has failed the British people.