The Great Yarmouth Revolution: How Local Democracy Is Fighting Back Against Centralised Power
“Let’s let the hands do the work. Let’s get out there. Let’s win the votes and let’s support these nine fantastic candidates who are putting themselves forward to represent their local people. So, thanks for coming. Let’s get out and do it. Tell people not only to vote themselves, get their families to vote, get their friends to vote, get everybody out there.”
There is some very important messaging in that video. Apart from the fact that Rupert Lowe is displaying his absolute marvellous skill at climbing up a ladder one-handed with something in his other hand, ready to shout at the electorate about what to do – and I think that is great – it is vitally, vitally important to everybody that Great Yarmouth First wins in Great Yarmouth.
There is a groundswell whereby we are seeing the fact that so many people all over the country are pissed off. Unfortunately, it is unfortunate for a lot of people, the fact that Restore Britain are not everywhere all at once in these local elections. They have had criticism from their detractors saying, “Oh, you have said it, but they have got to prove the concept.” There is no point in going out and plastering yourself everywhere and possibly coming off worse. You have got to stick in your battleground where you are known, where your power base is. Prove the concept, get it done, win the area, and then the sky is the limit, so to speak. That is the honest truth of this, really.
And one of the important things in there as well that Rupert said at the top of his ladder is: you must get out and vote. Family, friends, close people – anyone like that – you must get out and vote. No ifs, no buts.
The Turnout That Tells a Story
There is a little bit more footage from around that area today that is worth examining. This is a tweet that ended up on Rupert Lowe’s Twitter feed: “Vote Great Yarmouth First.” And there is a little bit of a video of him there.
“Right. Well, we are back here in my wonderful constituency, and we are all here. Look at this turnout. It is absolutely fantastic. I have just taken me about twenty minutes to walk down the queue again. This is real people turning out to fight for local democracy. So I am so excited about this. It is incredibly important today. This is the last push to effectively support nine very brave men who are standing in Great Yarmouth to represent their real people. None of them have been in politics before. They live locally. They know the constituency, and they want to stand up and change the way in which local government works. And this is a model which I want to see roll out across the entire country.”
Great Yarmouth is sending a message to the rest of the country about what can be done. What is so exciting is that people are coming from all over the country. There is someone here from Glasgow today. People came down from Aberdeen. They came from Fife. They came from Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester. There are some Scousers here. It is absolutely fantastic. And obviously, let us not forget the South of England. We have Cornish people from Cornwall, Devon, Sussex – all over the country, the Midlands.
This is people actually standing up to fight for their local democracy and their national democracy because they can see that it is slipping through their fingers.
This is an incredibly important day. If we win the seats here and start this local democratic revolution, and then it spreads across the country with time, we then win the general election. We can then change the country – and we are not going to do it unless we achieve both those things. Today is incredibly important. This is the beginning of how things should happen if real change is to be generated and effected.
The Funnel of Power
Now, the model Rupert described is actually the way things used to be. Do you understand that? What the establishment have basically done is they have taken the model – the way in which England used to be governed, which was very much at the county and shire level – turned it on its head, and concentrated all the power centrally.
That is called communism.
I had a very interesting debate with somebody on another YouTube channel earlier where he tried to imply that I did not know what I was talking about. He said I had been watching far too many YouTube videos and all this sort of thing. Well, actually, no. I read history. I read constitutional papers. I read interesting bits of law. I talk to people who are experts on the subject matter and put together the picture there. That is what everybody needs to do.
Before the 1911 Parliament Act, really, and back in the day, you had a situation where members of parliament and also local councillors were local people drawn from local households that were there to represent you and air your views and grievances. That is how it worked. That is how it should work again.
And if you imagine power like a funnel, right now at the top of the funnel is Parliament, the Commons, and the power is flowing down to the people. That is how it works right now. Well, that model is wrong. If you flip that funnel around, so you have the little bit at the top and the big bit at the bottom – the big bit at the bottom is the people, not Parliament at the top. The people, and all the power flows upwards.
That is the model that Rupert Lowe is actually speaking about, and that is the model we need to return to. Local democratic decisions from local people who know their areas, move that power upwards towards Parliament, win the general election.
The Test of Great Yarmouth
The only place Restore Britain will have any effect this time round is Great Yarmouth, because as the polls have showed on my channel, people are going to vote for who they are going to vote for all the way round until they deem it necessary to get rid of Keir Starmer. Come tomorrow, when Labour predictably get a good bashing at the polls, he will be gone. Obviously, the worry is what happens next.
Rupert talked about these local councillors. Here is one by the name of Glenn Hurr, and he will make an incredible councillor. Vote for him. Vote Great Yarmouth First.
From Couch to Councillor
Let us listen to this conversation.
“Right, Glenn. What a day. The big day where Great Yarmouth is going to show the rest of the country exactly how local democracy works.”
“It is going absolutely fantastic. I am humbled by the support that we are getting. I appreciate I am on your coattails, Robert, because they only know you and me directly, of course. But it has gone absolutely amazing, and I am really proud that I stood up. You will recall my wife said, ‘Stop complaining. Get out there and do something.’ And, if you like, I have gone from couch to councillor, which will be announced tomorrow.”
Glenn pointed out a dodgy Achilles, but he was confident it would hold up for the day. Then he added something important: “It isn’t about me, is you? You were wrong just then. It is about you. You have been brave enough to stand up, as have eight other people.”
This is an opportunity to send the rest of the country a message on how local democracy should work. We can start a revolution here in Great Yarmouth and change the way democracy works and should work. This is all about you. It is not about me. I am lending my support to you because you are all brave enough.
Great Yarmouth is a wonderful constituency, and we are all very lucky to be canvassing in such a beautiful part of the world. But the message has been very simple: local people resolving local issues for local people. It has been very simple, and that has been appreciated by everyone here. Glenn is local, his family is local, they are known locally, and that has certainly helped in getting the votes.
The Power of Localism
There you go. Local people solving local problems for local people. You cannot put it any better than that, can you? That is the way it should work. People then have an idea of exactly what goes on. That is a very powerful concept right there in Great Yarmouth.
If you can get them in there – I think there are nine seats up for grabs – you get them everywhere. It is all right. Nigel Farage was talking, saying he would be lucky if he gets one per cent. And people, including Sarah Pochin, were laughing and everything else – all part of the big club.
Well, we will see tomorrow morning, will we not? What happens? Hopefully, Great Yarmouth will wake up to some good news, and therefore there is hope for the rest of the country.
The Constitutional Crisis
The model that Rupert Lowe is proposing is not some radical invention. It is a restoration. For centuries, England was governed from the ground up. Local people knew their local issues. They elected local representatives who understood the nuances of their communities. Those representatives then sent voices upward, not downward.
The funnel was flipped. Power flowed from the people to Parliament, not from Parliament to the people.
Then came the 1911 Parliament Act. Then came the erosion of local authority. Then came the centralisation of power in Westminster. And now, after decades of this top-down model, we have a political class that is completely disconnected from the people it is supposed to serve.
The establishment has created a system where power is hoarded, not shared. Where local councils have become mere delivery mechanisms for central government diktats. Where the people have become passive recipients of decisions made by strangers in a distant capital.
That is not democracy. That is administration.
Democracy, real democracy, requires participation. It requires local people having a real say in local decisions. It requires councillors who live in the communities they represent, who shop in the same shops, who send their children to the same schools, who feel the same potholes and suffer the same rubbish collections.
That is what Restore Britain is trying to achieve in Great Yarmouth. Nine candidates. None of them have been in politics before. They are local people who finally got fed up with complaining and decided to do something about it.
From couch to councillor. That is not just a clever line. That is the entire philosophy.
The Betrayal of the Political Class
The reason this model resonates with so many people is simple: the political class has failed them.
For decades, the Conservative Party talked about localism while centralising power. For decades, the Labour Party talked about community while imposing top-down solutions from Whitehall. The Liberal Democrats talked about reform while doing nothing to change the structure of power.
The result is a political system that serves itself, not the people.
You see it in the way councils are funded – or rather, defunded. You see it in the way planning decisions are made – over the heads of local communities. You see it in the way public services are run – by distant bureaucrats who have never visited the places they are supposed to serve.
And you see it in the way politicians treat voters – as obstacles to be managed rather than citizens to be respected.
No wonder people are pissed off. No wonder they are flocking to candidates who promise something different. No wonder a ladder-climbing, one-handed Rupert Lowe, shouting at the electorate, is drawing crowds while establishment politicians struggle to fill a village hall.
Because at least he is there. At least he is in the community. At least he is not hiding behind a press release or a carefully managed photo op.
He is on a ladder. In the street. Talking to real people.
That is not a gimmick. That is a statement.
What Tomorrow Brings
Tomorrow, the polls will open in Great Yarmouth. People will go to the ballot box – hopefully in large numbers – and they will make a choice.
They can choose the same old parties that have failed them for decades. They can choose the same old politicians who have ignored them for years. They can choose the same old system that has centralised power and marginalised local voices.
Or they can choose something different.
They can choose local people solving local problems for local people. They can choose candidates who have never been in politics before but who understand their communities because they live in them. They can choose a model that flips the funnel and puts power back where it belongs – in the hands of the people.
If Great Yarmouth wakes up to good news tomorrow, if Restore Britain wins those nine seats, it will not just be a local story. It will be a national signal.
It will tell every council in every constituency across the country that the model works. That localism is not just a slogan. That people are hungry for real change, not the fake change offered by a political class that has run out of ideas.
And it will start a revolution. One council at a time. One constituency at a time. One general election at a time.
That is the honest truth of this, really.
