A new party has entered UK politics. Take Back Power seeks to ‘tax the rich and fix Britain’ and they’re planning a revolution that will replace parliament with ‘a house of the people’. Once the regime has been overthrown, Take Back Power will divide the country’s wealth in favour of the poor. About 300 supporters showed up at their launch event last Saturday in a semi-derelict municipal building in Tower Hamlets. Their media game is pretty good. The hall was dominated by a big screen that beamed pithy slogans and memorable statistics to the crowd.

‘James Dyson hoovered up £13.3 billion.’
‘John Ratcliffe is hoarding £17.04 billion.’

Their marketing team know that precise figures are more persuasive than rounded-up sums. To inflame the crowd against press barons, they displayed this soundbite.

‘Five billionaires control 80 per cent of the media.’

Take Back Power like to indulge in the kind of harmless buffoonery loved by news broadcasters.

And to make the case for open borders, they paraded a picture of a superyacht captioned, ‘Stop Their Boats’.

Take Back Power like to indulge in the kind of harmless buffoonery loved by news broadcasters. On 3 December the rebels dumped faeces outside the Ritz Hotel and posed with a sign reading ‘inequality is shit’. They set up a mega-projector that beamed ‘the rich are killing us’ on to the side of parliament. On 6 December last year, their stunt team custard-bombed a glass cabinet at the Tower of London’s Jewel House. The yellow dribbles have........

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