What did you expect? Britain's protests reflect DECADES of elite failure
My thoughts on the latest atrocities in Britain -and the reaction to them
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I am angry. I am upset. And I am deeply disillusioned with the direction of Britain.
I’m writing this post after a horrific mass stabbing at a children’s dance group in the town of Southport, which left three children dead and another eight injured.
These poor children thought they were going to a Taylor Swift themed dance class; they ended up being murdered.
And who murdered them?
The son of immigrants from Rwanda.
I’ve thought about many things since.
But the one thought that keeps coming back to me is this.
When a nation cannot protect its own children something has gone terribly wrong.
And something has gone terribly wrong in this country.
We can all see it, we can all sense it, even if we dare not say it out loud.
The creeping sense of lawlessness.
The overwhelming sense of hopelessness.
The now inescapable conclusion that we’ve simply let too many people into our country who hate who we are.
And a growing sense of desperation, rooted in the knowledge that nobody in power has any serious control over the country —over its streets, borders, future.
This is why many ordinary people are now taking to the streets to vent their anger and frustration over not only the senseless murder of children but over the general direction of the country, with some —wrongly in my view— taking this anger out on police officers and emergency service workers
In response, these protestors are being widely criticised by much of the media and political class as ‘far right agitators’, ‘violent thugs’, and ‘extremists’ who have been swayed by ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’, and irresponsible ‘populists’.
And I certainly have no doubt there will be violent thugs among them. I will say again —violence against police is never justified.
But here’s my question.
What did you expect?
Seriously?
What do you expect ordinary British people to do given the deeply alarming things that are now unfolding around them, in their country, on a daily basis?
Just look at what’s unfolded in the last month alone.
On July 4th, at the election, several Muslim MPs were elected to the House of Commons after a campaign of abuse, harassment, and intimidation, displaying zero respect for our political institutions and ways of life.
On July 11th, the new Labour government announced it would release 5,000 prisoners early in September, with most having served 40% of their sentence.
On July 15th, we learned London’s Metropolitan Police had not solved a SINGLE petty crime -burglary, car theft, phone theft- in three years, across 166 areas.
On July 17th, it was reported that a Jordanian refugee, Mustafa al Mbaidan, who had assaulted a female police officer in Bournemouth, was spared community service on the grounds that he cannot speak English.
On July 18th, two asylum seekers, Yousef Garef and Amin Abdelbakar, who stole a Rolex worth £25,000 from a tourist, were spared jail.
On July 18th, that same day, mass rioting in minority communities broke out in Harehills after social services took four Romani children into social care.
On the same evening, rioting broke out in East London’s Bangladeshi community, following political unrest in Bangladesh, with rocks thrown at police officers and cars smashed in communities that are majority Muslim.
On July 23rd, it was announced that Anjem Choudary, Britain’s most famous Islamist, was to be sentenced for directing Islamist terror on Britain’s streets.
On the same day, a British Army Officer was repeatedly stabbed outside his home by Anthony Esan, a member of a minority community.
On July 26th, protests broke out after footage emerged of Greater Manchester Police taking action against Fahir and Amaad Amaas —two brothers who were later revealed to have severely assaulted armed officers.
On July 27th, six arrests were made after a drive-by shooting in the town of Watford.
On July 29th, reports emerged that a man had been stabbed to death, with two others injured, following a knife fight in a park in East London.
On the same day, there was the mass stabbing and murder of children in Southport.
On July 30th, a mass brawl involving machetes erupted on the streets of Southend.
On the same day, it was reported that a homeless Kurdish migrant had pushed a man onto the tracks at a London Underground station after feeling ‘disrespected’.
And, also on the same day, it was reported that another 3,000 migrants have entered Britain illegally on small boats since Labour took power less than a month ago, taking the total number of crossings by mainly young male migrants from countries like Afghanistan, Eritrea, Sudan, and Syria to around 130,000.
What do you expect?
When we see individual stories like this, in isolation, there is a very real risk that we become desensitised and accustomed to them.
It becomes the ‘new normal’.
It’s a classic case of boiling the frog.
If you want to boil a frog in hot water, as the saying goes, then start by turning the temperature up slowly. Get it right, and the frog won’t even notice it’s getting boiled.
But when you see all these stories together, side by side, the sheer scale of the lawlessness, the chaos, the breakdown of social order, and the glaring loss of control becomes impossible to ignore.
And all this against the backdrop of many other things that reflect the fact that the country is not really a country that we recognise anymore.
A string of Islamist terrorist attacks.
The murder of an MP, police officer and soldier by radicalised Islamists.
The mass grooming of young white girls by Muslim gangs up and down the country.
The imposition of mass immigration.
The total collapse of our borders.
The rise of double-standard policing, where ever since October 7th radicals and extremists who hate who we are, who hate the West, have been allowed to parade up and down the country while anybody from the white working-class who dares to do the same is automatically branded a ‘far right extremist’.
Again, what do you expect?
Two or three decades ago, these shocking incidents would have sparked a national conversation about the declining state of law and order and how to regain control.
But now, amidst a new ruling class that can no longer tolerate any criticism of the elite consensus, they either pass us by or are reframed so that the ‘real’ story is never actually about the real story.
It’s about ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’, ‘populism’, ‘racism’, or anything other than the actual cause.
And in the days ahead …
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