Britain Needs You: How to Get Started as a New Right Activist
A follow up to John Arcto, on how to get started on building a British Conservative Movement.
Note from the Editor:
Hello guys, John Arcto here.
I always intended Anglofuturist Magazine to be exactly that, a magazine, with lots of different contributors with similar worldviews. Up until now, I didn’t manage to get any takers, but a friend I met on ‘X’,
, has been developing this idea of the Anti-Woke equivalent to the American NRA/Pro-Life movement with me. He is new to writing, so I encouraged him to post on my Substack to give him more of an audience.I’m going to have other guest writers as well, I believe
wanted to do an article for this magazine. If any of you want to write anything that broadly aligns with the Anglofuturist vision, outlined here, DM me and I’d be happy to take a look at your work and see if it could be incorporated.I hope you enjoy Steven’s article, and make sure to subscribe to him.
Yours faithfully.
John.
Many have written about how the New Right needs to develop pressure groups and lobbyists if it is to succeed, from Hanania to Kaufmann. John Arcto has already written extensively on how we might start working towards such an ‘anti-woke’ political movement. I don’t want to re-tread anything that has been said elsewhere – for further information you can check out his two articles from last week; ‘How the British Movement Against Gender Ideology Can Build Off the Cass Report’ and ‘The Case for Political Engagement’.
The key here is to emphasise what we as individuals, who might not have access to the resources to create large organisations or influence politicians (yet), can do. As an individual, there are a few cheap, easy means to make some impact. Yes, the impact is small, but we’re discussing the minimum here.
The right is fond of using revealed preferences to dunk on the left; well, what does it say about those who constantly go on about how our lands have been taken from us, how rotten the country looks, how we’re slowly marching towards tyranny, that all they do is tweet and watch the Lotus Eaters? If you truly believe that the Goths are marching towards the gates, then it’s time to do something, even if it is the bare minimum.
In short, the things that an unaffiliated individual with limited means can do are as follows.
1. Vote for Good Candidates
This is less easy in British politics, as we lack US style primaries, however it is now possible to recall MPs via petition. It is also possible to withhold your vote from bad representatives if you live in a safe seat, and to vote for spoiler parties in marginals. In the latter case, it is important to vote for parties like Reform, for all the faults of Tice and co, ultimately, they are perceived as the main right-wing challenger party. If they underperform, then it will be easier for the media and party elites to construct a narrative that the Tories lost because they were too right-wing.
Some Tory MPs that deserve to be re-elected include Miriam Cates, Danny Kruger, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, and John Hayes, as well as all in the ‘Common Sense Group’ and ‘New Conservatives’. A British right-wing movement needs to have the goal of reshaping the Conservative Party. Lee Anderson, who defected to Reform, should also absolutely keep his seat.
2. Write to Your MP/Councillor
This may seem tired or ineffectual and becoming a green ink brigade is nowhere near sufficient to what is needed to turn the tide. However, politicians are not psephologists or statisticians. They are in fact, highly superficial creatures and they are swayed by the thought that someone, somewhere disapproves of them more than anything else.
If they don’t reply to you, then you can always go to their surgery and meet with your MP/Councillor. Remember, it’s important to seem normal, especially in person. Don’t rant or rave or swear, be polite but firm. Smile. Be concise – have a clear idea of why you’re there and what you want to get across. Dress properly – trousers/skirts, collared shirts, jackets. Shower, shave and get a haircut. Act like you’re going to a business meeting or about to meet your fiancé’s parents. So don’t stink of weed or tobacco and hide your tattoos and piercings if you have them.
The easiest thing for the establishment to do is to dismiss us as cranks or weirdos, so don’t give them an easy out. Bring data as well; things like the Cass Review for gender issues are great for legitimising ideas. Avoid woolly arguments about cultural change but DO make moral arguments about women’s safety, civil liberties, and the importance of truth over fashion.
To that end, I’ve drafted a letter you can use as a template. It’s focused on transgenderism but it can easily be re-appropriated for other issues. You can find your MP here; https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/.
It may also be worth writing to members of the house of lords; https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/whos-in-the-house-of-lords/get-in-touch-with-members/
You’d have to look up for councillors yourselves, but that should be easy to find online on the website of your local council. In any case, the template is below.
‘Dear [MP’s name],
I hope this finds you well.
I am writing to you, as a concerned constituent, in relation to your position on the gender movement and its effects on our institutions, particularly in relation to the rights of children and parents. This is an issue which I feel strongly about, and which has come to the fore in the aftermath of the recent Cass Review.
I would like to ask you, as my representative, for your views on the findings of the report – do you agree with its key findings? If so, do you support their enforcement? If not, can you state which of its recommendations you disagree with and why?
In addition, I was appalled to read about how 6 NHS Administrators refused to cooperate with the report. Although the Health Secretary has now confirmed that they are cooperating, this points to a general culture of politicisation in our health service. Can you confirm that, as my representative, you share the concerns of myself and millions of others with this blatant partisanship from our institutions and would you call for the resignations of them and any others who have behaved similarly? Would you agree that any medic affiliated with any advocacy for surgery on minors or the distribution of puberty blockers to minors if guilty of medical malpractice and should be appropriately sanctioned?
To that end, the government has said that it has ordered all public sector bodies to disaffiliate with Stonewall. However, this is clearly not being enforced. Would you support the government proscribing Stonewall and other related organisations so that any public sector organisation that continues to cooperate with Stonewall will be legally liable and vulnerable to prosecution?
Finally, would you give your support to a public apology from the British Government for the way critics of the gender movement have been treated by formerly respected British institutions, and for the blatant politicisation of science and medicine. Will you also commit to full financial compensation for all de-transitioners?
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I hope you will agree with the seriousness of this scandal and the need for a robust response. I and others look forward to reading your reply.
Best regards,
[Name?]
3. Join the Political Parties
Here, I mean either the parties of government or one of the main spoiler parties. The most amenable are going to be the ostensible parties of the right, so that means either the Conservatives or Reform. It’s time to be serious about the fact that it is nigh on impossible to supplant one of the governing parties in a First Past the Post system.
There’s no point waiting for electoral reform either – neither Labour nor the Conservatives are going to commit suicide in this way. The only way to get electoral reform would be to get one of the two main parties to agree to it, and if you can get them to agree with you on something as big as that, why not focus on getting them to agree with you on the actual policy outcome rather than the means to it?
Reform is useful as a pressure group but bear in mind that they are much less likely to be in power and furthermore, that their governing structure means it’s much more difficult to influence them from the inside. Ultimately, the best way forward is through the Conservative party; far left groups are the obvious example of how successful entryism can be, but this has also been the case within the Tories, from the Thatcherites to the Cameronites to the Eurosceptics.
All these groups started small and worked their way to the top. I will return to this in a later article, but for the time being, there are plenty of things you can do. Getting a membership, attending, and submitting ideas to policy forums and finally, voting in leadership elections are a start. Local branches are just social clubs for the most part, so unless you’re intending to stand yourself, then they’re not so important. Having been to several of these, the conversations tend to revolve around internal gossip and football.
Where politics does crop up, it tends to be of the ‘yah-boo’ and ‘who’s up, who’s down’ variety typical of outlets like Conservative Home. The best way to get our ideas circulated is via submission to policy forums, in which case, you should make sure that your ideas are simple, tangible, and fully costed to the best of your ability. It also helps if you can cite data showing that they would be popular (that’s what politicians care about the most).
4. Get Campaigning.
Don’t just vote against candidates you don’t like, get proactive about good candidates. Vote for them (in internal, local and general elections), campaign for them – talk them up, hand out leaflets, put up posters. Subscribe to newsletters. Contribute to or even start newsletters. Write pamphlets yourself. Circulate useful information – there’s now a wealth of information to support our ideas; data and anecdote.
Remember that visual information like graphs is often the most effective, because they are the easiest to understand, but slogans and memes are good too. As mentioned earlier, studies and reports like the Cass Review are hugely useful. It’s also important to stress the tangible disadvantages of our opponents’ beliefs (on women’s spaces, child safety, scientific inquiry etc) as well as the tangible benefits of our ideas.
5. Try to Stand as a Candidate Yourself.
This is the most difficult, as if you go through the main parties, you’ll need to be screened by head office. However, this is not as difficult as people might think.
As someone who works within the CUP already, I can confirm that it’s not exactly MI5, their only real concern is that they’re not going to have bad media coverage. Do make sure there are no political comments on your social media (Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Tiktok) and that you don’t have any dodgy financial dealings (anything on companies’ house) or criminal record or contentious court cases.
In your interview, talk about how you’re a moderate and a pragmatist and want to help people. The main things they’re looking for are that you’re personable and a team player. If you’ve done stuff that shows you’re a “good citizen” they’ll like that more; charity work, having a local business, looking after your sick mum, that sort of thing. You can save your actual beliefs to when you become a representative. Remember – be like Gorbachev; keep your cards close to your chest. Treat the process like a job interview – don’t sperg out before you’re elected.
For all people on the dissident sphere may bemoan how anti-democratic our political systems have become, we are not in a Soviet like situation (though even if we were, the success of the colour revolutions in defeating the USSR should give us hope for how we may overturn our failed rulers). The fact of the matter is that we still have many of the means to build a successful counter-revolution.
If it’s any help, there is a “bad words” list that is used when screening candidates. Make sure your social media is scrubbed clean of the following.
‘Altar’ ‘Apartheid’ ‘Arse’ ‘Arsehole’ ‘Azov’ ‘Bastard’ ‘Bas’ ‘Bender’ ‘Bent’ ‘Bitch’ ‘Black’ ‘Burka’ ‘Burn’ ‘Burqa’ ‘Butch’ ‘Castro’ ‘Catholic’ ‘Christ’ ‘Communism’ ‘Communist’ ‘Cunt’ ‘Dago’ ‘Dagoe’ ‘Dagoes’ ‘Dagos’ ‘Darkie’ ‘Darkies’ ‘Darky’ ‘Darkys’ ‘Dick’ ‘Dyke’ ‘Dykes’ ‘Drunk’ ‘English’ ‘England’ ‘Enoch’
‘Fairies’ ‘Fairy’ ‘Fannies’ ‘Fanny’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Fascist’ ‘Fenian’ ‘Fuck’ ‘Fucker’ ‘Gay’ ‘Gender’ ‘Golliwog’
‘Gyppoes’ ‘Gyppos’ ‘Gippoes’ ‘Gippos’ ‘Gyp’ ‘Gypsy’ ‘Hamas’ ‘Hezbollah’ ‘Holocaust’ ‘Homo’ ‘Hun’ ‘IDF’ ‘Immigrant’ ‘IRA’ ‘Isis’ ‘Israel’ ‘Jew’ ‘Kike’ ‘Lesbian’ ‘Lesbians’ ‘Marx’ ‘Marxism’ ‘Mick’ ‘Mig’
‘Monarchy’ ‘Moslem’ ‘Mosque’ ‘Mossad’ ‘Motherfucker’ ‘Muslim’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Nazism’ ‘Netanyahu’ ‘Nigger’ ‘Orange’ ‘Paedo’ ‘Paedophile’ ‘Paki’ ‘Palestine’ ‘Palestinian’ ‘Papist’ ‘Pedo’ ‘Pikey’ ‘Pikies’ ‘Pape’ ‘Piky’ ‘Piss’ ‘Pish’ ‘Polack’ ‘Pole’ ‘Polish’ ‘Pope’ ‘Poof’ ‘Poofter’ ‘Priest’ ‘Putin’ ‘Prod’ ‘Proddy’ ‘Provos’ ‘Queen’
‘Branchform’ ‘Queer’ ‘Queers’ ‘Roma’ ‘Royal’ ‘Russia’ ‘Sambo’ ‘Sassenach’ ‘MSM’ ‘Scum’ ‘Shit’ ‘Slag’ ‘Slut’ ‘Taig’ ‘Terf’ ‘Tarrier’ ‘Tart’ ‘Terrorism’ ‘Terrorist’ ‘Tim’ ‘Trannies’ ‘Tranny’ ‘Traveler’ ‘Twat’ ‘UDA’ ‘UVF’ ‘Whore’ ‘Wop’ ‘Yid’ ‘Zio’ ‘Zionism’ ‘Zionist’
Also, make sure that you’re not a member of any weird online groups. You can participate in all of these through anonymous, alt accounts – just make sure they’re not easily accessible to any party researcher or journalist.
None of the above are silver bullets, but that’s not the point. A political movement needs foot soldiers as well as generals, and although firing one rifle doesn’t do much, firing a thousand does (it’s worth remembering that it often takes hundreds of rounds fired to knock out one enemy position).
Furthermore, progress comes one convert at a time – and conversion doesn’t come from one graph or slogan or conversation, but from repeated, even tedious exposure to new ideas. It’s early days, but we’re following in the footsteps of many other successful political movements. Keep calm, keep patient, and keep the faith and we’ll have a chance of winning this.
While personally, Mr Arcto, I am more of a Zero Seater, I do see the value in tactics, especially writing to your MP. It always annoys me when people don’t seem to realise that we can do both at the same time.
Internal and external pressure are not mutually exclusive. While I don’t think nor want to save the Tory party, I will certainly be sending that letter to my local MP.
Thank you very much!
Great post! I wanted to gauge interest on something related. I am considering posting on how to rise the ranks of civil service. It is currently what I am doing in the US, partly because I am a natural fit and partly because I think we need more rightists in powerful locations in the deep state. I don’t see many rightists advocating to enter the deep state, and I am not sure why. If I wrote posts on rising the ranks and being a better government manager, would anyone be interested in reading them?