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However, these massive losses may not be attributable to the Conservative Party’s usual rivals in the Labour Party, but rather to a group of dissident Tories who have purposefully attempted to thwart their own party in this election to protest the moderate leadership of Rishi Sunak, which has embraced immigration and other socially progressive policies.
The campaign, called “Zero Seats,” was inspired by writer and YouTuber Academic Agent, who is pushing to give overwhelming power to the left-wing opposition party in an effort to send a message to the Tories.
Based on his own account, even Academic Agent himself seems quite surprised by the traction that Zero Seats has acquired, feeding on the disillusionment of Tories who oppose the progressive policies of their Hindu Prime Minister.
“Currently the regime is in a bad place, but things are especially bad in Britain. A few weeks ago, I started pushing the idea on twitter that the Tories should attain Zero Seats in the election, which quickly spawned memes and this particularly-excellent fan-made spoof campaign video which currently has over 30,000 views on YouTube and over 250,000 on Twitter. I have been stunned by just how quickly this has taken off and gone viral, including live enactments on Lotus Eaters and yours truly saying the phrase directly to Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News. In fact, so successful has been this organic campaign that Telegraph journalists are now retweeting conspiracy theories that I’m an MI5 agent working on behalf of Labour (and this in the same week as a scurrilous and libelous hit piece by discredited far-left activists). As things stand, with the hapless Rishi Sunak leading the Tories into oblivion, they are projected to be on 98 seats against 498 for Labour. This is not good enough. It needs to be Zero Seats versus The Labour 600,” Academic Agent wrote on Substack.
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Academic Agent characterizes British politics as a fake struggle between two parties representing fundamentally the same political forces.
“Liberal democracy is built on the illusion of opposition with the Tories and Labour locked in a mortal struggle for supremacy and power. However, the truth is closer to a pro-wrestling match. Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were presented as mortal enemies at WrestleMania 3, but they were good friends who were cooperating in a match with a pre-determined outcome. This is the difference between kayfabe and reality. The political kayfabe in British politics is something like evil pro-capitalist Tories versus good pro-worker socialist Labour, but by now everyone knows this to be a fiction. The truth is that MPs are members of a permanent political class who are united in their contempt for the British people, and who both agree with the central tenets of globalist technocracy, social liberalism (aka ‘woke’), and unlimited immigration. In 2003, the Conservative MP, Michael Gove, wrote an hilariously embarrassing article in The Times which declared in its headline: ‘I can’t fight my feelings anymore: I love Tony’. He was, of course, talking about the then-Labour leader and Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in a rare moment of breaking the political fourth wall. But you know all this, that’s why you support the idea of Zero Seats for the Tories,” Academic Agent continued.
The writer then elaborates that he believes it is necessary to undermine the notion of opposition in British politics in order to expose the illusion that the Conservative Party opposes their Labour counterparts in any meaningful, fundamental sense.
“So why is The Labour 600 good for us and bad for them? First and most obviously, it would obliterate the illusion of liberal democracy. In Shakespeare’s Richard II, there is a scene in which the deposed king forces his usurper, Bolingbroke (Henry IV), to watch the spectacle of the king ‘uncrowning’ himself. During this devastating scene, Richard asks for a mirror and then smashes it on the floor and looks at his face in the shattered glass. The illusion of the political formula of the period, which gave any king legitimacy – the Great Chain of Being – was now totally broken. Henry IV becomes king not through the Mandate of Heaven but by mundane Machiavellian facts such as having a bigger army and greater support among the nobility. From the point of view of the believer in The Great Chain of Being, the scene is unbearably tragic, and, indeed, in Shakespeare’s own time, it was omitted from public performance because it was considered dangerous to Tudor power. The Labour 600 would essentially be the same as Richard II smashing the mirror. For many people, this would be as traumatic because it would destroy the legitimating myth of our system,” Academic Agent adds.
If early results are any indication, the campaign appears to be experiencing some measure of success, poising Labour for a blowout victory and throwing Sunak’s political future into question. According to The Independent, one of the main beneficiaries of this campaign (based on the earliest results) has been Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, a right-wing nativist political force which appears to be triumphing over the Tories in Sunderland.
These dismal early results follow on the heels of a poll, released on the eve of the elections, which found that the Tories are now even more unpopular under Sunak than under the shambolic, short-lived Prime Ministership of Liz Truss.
Zero Seats is a bold gambit by the Tory Party’s right flank—one which attempts to change the direction of the party by giving overwhelming Parliamentary representation to their opposition. It remains to be seen whether these insurgents Conservatives will be successful in their bid to undermine a decades-long tradition of moderate Tory leadership.
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