Restore Britain Watcher 🇬🇧

Restore Britain Watcher 🇬🇧 
 Semantic Summary 
 Automated news-monitoring configuration (not a profile of a person) tracking Restore Britain, the far-right party that split from Reform UK and emerged in mid-2026 as a more hardline alternative. Led by figures like Ben Habib, the party has pledged "the most ambitious programme of mass deportations ever seen in Britain" and is seen as pulling Reform further right. The watcher runs hourly between 07:00 and 23:00, delivering alerts via Discord, with breaking-news triggers for events such as a Restore MP being elected, Reform defections to Restore, or a Restore manifesto launch. It syncs a summary page to BookStack and sits alongside related watchers covering UK-wide and devolved-nations politics. Documented connections in this archive are to Reform UK and to Ben Habib, described as Advance UK leader and former Reform UK deputy leader. 
 Topic: Restore Britain (far-right party, split from Reform UK, more extreme on immigration)
 Created: 2026-06-05
 Frequency: Every hour 07:00-23:00 (at :12 past the hour)
 Delivery: Discord alerts (discord:beanfarmer)
 Cron Schedule: 12 7-23 * * * 
 Status: ✅ Active 
 Context 
 Restore Britain emerged in mid-2026 as a more hardline alternative to Reform UK. Led by figures like Ben Habib, they've pledged "the most ambitious programme of mass deportations ever seen in Britain" and are seen as pulling Reform further right. 
 Setup Summary 
 
 Watcher config: ~/.hermes/scripts/watcher-configs/restore-britain.json 
 Watcher script: ~/.hermes/scripts/watcher-restore-britain.sh 
 Cron job: 12 7-23 * * * (hourly 7am-11pm) 
 Delivery: Discord DMs 
 State dir: ~/.hermes/cron/watcher-state/restore-britain/ 
 Summary MD: ~/Desktop/Politics/UK Politics/restore-britain-summary.md 
 BookStack: UK Politics book 3, page ID 47 
 
 Key Queries 
 
 Restore Britain party 
 Restore UK politics 
 Ben Habib Restore 
 Restore mass deportations 
 Restore vs Reform UK 
 far-right Britain 2026 
 
 Breaking News Triggers 
 
 Restore MP elected 
 Restore wins seat 
 Reform defection Restore 
 Restore manifesto 
 Restore general election 
 
 State Files 
 
 .last_seen — SHA256 hashes of seen headlines (prevents duplicates) 
 .last_seen_titles — cleaned titles for fuzzy matching (85% threshold) 
 .last_trigger — cooldown timestamp (2h normal, 4h breaking) 
 digest-YYYY-MM-DD.log — daily event log 
 
 Initial Seed (2026-06-05) 
 First run captured baseline headlines to establish state. Subsequent runs only alert on genuinely new stories. 
 Related Watchers 
 
 UK Politics Watcher (broader UK coverage) 
 Welsh/Scottish/NI/Irish Politics Watchers (devolved nations) 
 
 BookStack Sync 
 Summary page synced to BookStack UK Politics book. Updated manually or via synthesizer cron if added later. 

 Known Associations 
 Auto-generated from cross-references in this archive. 
 
 Reform UK — 3 mentions · tagged 
 Ben Habib — Advance UK Leader, Former Reform UK Deputy Leader — tagged 
 

 Tags 
 
 anti-immigration 
 ben-habib 
 far-right 
 organisation 
 reform-uk 
 restore-britain