Andrew Tate says he’ll introduce blockchain-based voting and a nationwide bitcoin reserve within the UK if his new Britain Restoring Underlying Values (BRUV) political social gathering ever involves energy.
Tate launched the social gathering final evening, publishing his social gathering manifesto that makes varied excessive right-wing guarantees, from the abolition of authorized support to non-British residents to banning LGBTQ+ content material from colleges.
The controversial alleged human trafficker teased his entry into British politics on Sunday when he requested his followers on X if he ought to run for prime minister. Nevertheless, he — and plenty of of these commenting on his obvious bid to seize the keys to 10 Downing Road — don’t seem to know how the UK’s electoral system works.
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A UK prime minister is barely elected if the social gathering they lead manages to safe sufficient constituency seats in parliament throughout an election. Somebody can not merely “run” for the function.
Tate’s lofty political aspirations come because the UK’s ruling Labour Celebration faces rising criticism from the likes of Elon Musk and different right-wing commentators. Particularly, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been attacked over his perceived inaction in direction of organized baby grooming gangs within the nation.
Musk claimed that Starmer was complicit within the “rape of Britain,” and referred to as one other Labour politician a “rape genocide apologist.” Nevertheless, whereas Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service in the course of the so-called grooming scandal, there’s no proof to counsel he was complicit in any manner.
Tall guarantees from Andrew Tate’s BRUV social gathering
The BRUV manifesto claims a bitcoin reserve would “future-proof Britain’s economy” as a “nation-resistant asset that ensures stability and shields us from economic coercion by foreign powers.”
Past its crypto-related guarantees, the manifesto additionally floats some notably right-leaning concepts round immigration, tradition, and crime. These embody capping the variety of non-British residents at 10%, implementing a zero-immigrant coverage with the assistance of the Royal Navy, and demanding that the BBC be “purged” and “get its topics from X.”
Not even fashionable artwork could be secure beneath Tate’s stewardship with the previous kickboxer promising to exchange it with monuments honoring British heroes.
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Tate’s manifesto, nevertheless, is simply plain sloppy. It offers zero sources for any of its statistics, makes use of AI-generated pictures, and options quite a few spelling errors. Some insurance policies are additionally so weird as to be laughable, together with the proposed 24/7 livestreaming of knife crime offenders in solitary confinement.
Since his announcement, Tate has additionally made some weird political guarantees on X, together with round Donald Trump’s claims that the US needs to be owned by the US.
“As unofficial Prime Minister of The United Kingdom I wholeheartedly support Greenland’s annexation into the American empire,” wrote Tate.
“I have sent a diplomatic cable to the Danish stating: ‘Fighting America is insanity. You’re cooked bruv. Give it up.’”
He added, “Finally perhaps the island can be used for something cool. Nobody even goes there.”
Because it stands, BRUV shouldn’t be at the moment an official political social gathering listed beneath the electoral fee. It additionally apparently noticed its official X account suspended earlier this week, nevertheless, after a quick alternate between Tate and Elon Musk, it was quickly again up and working.
Tate is at the moment beneath home arrest in Romania as prosecutors proceed to analyze allegations of human trafficking. The UK police got the all-clear to extradite Tate after his Romanian prison proceedings are completed as a part of an investigation into allegations of rape and human trafficking.
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