Rage Against The Brexit Machine

We are forming a popular movement that will reclaim and empower the centre ground of UK Politics through our project "Rage Against The Brexit Machine" and a series of music releases, starting with "Pants to Brexit". Our previous campaign helped decimate Theresa May's "landslide majority" into a "landfill Government". Naked populism brought us the Brexit referendum result. We will lay Brexit to rest via a populist approach that will expose the naked truth about Brexit and the compelling benefits of a Better Britain in a United Europe.

Goals

1. To start a popular movement to "take back control" of the centre ground of politics. We will do this via the release of a stream of pop songs under the banner "Rage Against The Brexit Machine". We aim to get the singles "Pants to Brexit" b/w "Jacob Rees Moog" and "No Jeremy Corbyn" to Number One in the UK music charts. We are currently speaking to Rage Against The Machine about a possible Christmas No 1.


2. To break "political paralysis" in major political parties through our unique brand of "multi-sensory activism" (mixing pop with politics). We launch the song "Pants to Brexit" at the Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth and we will "move the dial" of public opinion though the new understanding that "Brexit Means Pants".


3. To gain quality press, media and PR attention for the "Pants to Brexit" movement, based on our success in major national and international print, TV and web media:


Strategy and Costs

1. To record an album of songs under the banner "Rage Against The Brexit Machine", to reach deeply into popular culture and thus swing public opinion and that of Westminster MP's. Our chosen record label partner for this is Nub Records, a Guinness Book of Records winner. We are supported by Jon Morter, the man who got Rage Against The Machine to No 1 in the charts to beat Simon Cowell in order to make a popular footprint on our culture. We are in contact with Rage Against The Machine themselves, who may contribute a Christmas song to the project.

The song "Pants to Brexit" b/w "Jacob Rees Moog" (a Thomas Dolby / 19 styled retro futurist dancefloor groove) and "No Jeremy Corbyn" will be the first singles. "Pants", "Moog" and "No JC" will be launched via party conferences and a re-enactment of the famous "1977 Sex Pistols" styled boat party.

Estimated cost £30 000 over 6 months to write, record, package, launch and promote the singles and album in concert with others. Money earned from sales of the records will be ploughed back into the project until Brexit has been laid to rest.


2. We will offer keynote addresses and perform "Pants to Brexit" with a live band at political party conferences (Bournemouth confirmed, Manchester and Brighton tbc) in September, targeting latent Remain and wavering Leave MPs. In so doing we will influence public opinion on the fact that stopping Brexit is both possible and desirable.

A "1977 Sex Pistols" Thames boat trip will be part of the launch activity and a limited number tickets of tickets for this exclusive 40 year echo of the infamous venture is offered as a VIP experience. We will invite arch Brexiteer John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten as we parody the "Never Mind the Brexit Bollocks" Album. Make Brexit history with your presence on the Pants to Brexit boat!

Estimated cost £10000 over 3 months for 3 major events including all expenses.


3. To mastermined high profile media attention across print / TV / Radio .  We wrote a full feature article for The New European newspaper, featuring contributions from Gina Miller and rock stars. We have also featured on BBC TV / Radio, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, France 3 TV, ARTE, Daily Express etc. We will produce quality content through feature articles, letters to editors, contributions to Radio and TV using stories that capture popular interest and swing opinion amongst tired Remainers and Leavers in regret. 

Estimated cost £10 000 over 6 months including all expenses.

See examples of our work in The Telegraph, The New European, BBC Radio and France TV (in French). Click on pictures to access full media links:





Why, Oh Why Should You Back This?

We pay the EU approximately 37 pence a day or half a Mars bar for 70 years of peace, nearly 50% of our trade and free and easy access to Europe. This is about to change under Brexit. 14 months on and we already know a lot about the Cost of Brexit in terms of austerity, lost opportunities and the social costs, but I am still yet to hear of a package of credible long-term sustainable Brexit Benefits ... The Leave Campaign have had plenty of time to outline these ... I suggest they are not there to be found ...

Brexit is bad for jobs, bad for workers rights, bad for our public services, bad for business, bad for trade, bad for our children, bad for our United Kingdom, socially, economically, environmentally, politically and culturally as a leading nation in a global village.

Labour cannot afford its progressive reform programme with a £1 Trillion Brexit bill.  The Conservatives will return the UK to medieval times.  


How You Can Help

1. By giving a donation, small or large

2. By direct sponsorship - please contact us for details if you are a business or organisation wishing to back the formation of a centre ground party

3. By sharing the project widely via direct e-mail, text or word of mouth to potential donors

4. By social sharing via Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc. Blog about it and so on

Who Are We?

By day I am a business consultant, speaker and author of 7.5 books on business. Find out more about our talents at The Academy of Rock, Human Dynamics  and Virgin. My aim is simple and single minded :

BREAK BREXIT BEFORE BREXIT BREAKS BRITAIN

I led the Musical Direction of The No 10 Downing Street over the last six months, combining speaking, musical parody, comedy, performance art etc. Here is a showreel of some of our activities:


Why Do We Need The Money?

I will devote all of my time out from my business to do this. My experience of working with volunteers shows that, although good intentions and passion are guaranteed, more momentum is needed to fight the Brexit machine. I am the sole earner in my family and quite simply, I must support them, so some of your contributions will go towards that need, without which I cannot give my full attention to this. That said, I'll be taking just enough to sustain my family and the rest will be spent costs such as hiring studios, equipment for events, professional musicians, travel and subsistence and so on. A full breakdown of the expenditure will be published and the one for our previous project can be seen at "Change Election Votes". 

Who Benefits?

You and your children will benefit in terms of avoiding up to 10 years of economic and social ruin that we face under Brexit. Present estimates indicate a £60 billion exit bill and about £100 billion per year of austerity due to Brexit impacts.  That's £1 TRILLION of your taxes, student loans, pensions, NHS funding, social care ... and for what benefit?  I'm still waiting to hear the cost benefit analysis David Davis ... are you listening?  And all for 37 pence a day - what a waste!!

We are not saboteurs, traitors or snowflakes, we are true patriots. We believe in a Better Britain in a United Europe so let's do this together:

TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE CENTRE
          
Please write to me with any questions. To finish here's the orginal video I made for the project which has now morphed into this one.

Peter Cook