New Reform Party recruit, Rupert Matthews, has pledged to drive a stake through the 'dark heart of wokeness'.

Metro News reports:

Rupert Matthews is the author of more than 170 books, according to his page on Amazon – though his specialist subjects are history and the paranormal.

Among his most popular works are ‘Sasquatch: North America’s Enduring Mystery’, ‘Alien Encounters: Extraordinary Tales of Strange Phenomena’, and ‘Haunted York’.

This morning, he was unveiled as the latest defection from the Conservatives to Reform in a press conference hosted by Nigel Farage.

He told the press event he was aiming to remove a ‘dark heart of wokeness’ from the criminal justice system and accused British politicians of taking inspiration from ‘countries like Lebanon and Libya’.

Matthews said: ‘I daily face a fight against crime.

‘I see ordinary, hard-working people burgled, robbed and mugged. Shoplifting is getting out of control. Anti-social behaviour is turning too many of our town centres into an apocalyptic wasteland of lawless Britain.’

As confirmed by the UK's first AI MP, Labour's Mark Sewards, whose AI-powered Avatar was asked what were the biggest crime issues in his constituency and replied: antisocial behaviour, retail crime and the need for better support for shop workers. 

[https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/chatted-uks-first-ai-mp-said-something-unexpected-23839550/]

But back to Reform's apocalyptic wasteland of lawless Britain.

All we need is a Colonel Kurtz to remind us of 'the horror' we have got ourselves into by electing 'grocery clerks' to run the country.

Maybe Nigel should shave his head and put on some weight.

As The Stranglers might have asked: Whatever happened to Cool Britannia?