Well done Matt. Keep fighting the good fight. I feel like the last week has been a concerted Psyop from the establishment. A false far right nationwide riot narrative that never materialised (directly after the COBRA meeting) and then the 'heroic far left counter protests', splashed wall to wall over every broadsheet. They're obviously terrified of the angered (peaceful) majority.
Which came first - the nationwide protests that the establishment, or the "counter-protests". No better way of allowing intimidation but to let immigrants initiate mass counter protests, especially where there is no protest to counter.
And Starmer and Rowley stand on there saying how well they'd Policed it and that they've got it undercontrol! They really think we are stupid. Wasn't it that nasty little man Nick Lowles from Hope not Hate that said there would be 100 protests 🤔 He is a dangerous man!
Only after consultation about the role of the police, oh, and by the way please leave your weapons at the mosque from where you can pick them up afterwards.
Who are this peaceful majority exactly? Few Britons support the disorder, with the vast majority saying it is unjustified and that the views of the rioters are not representative of the wider population.
‘Sympathies with the views of those taking part in the protests are somewhat broader – six in ten Britons (58%) say they have a great deal or fair amount of sympathy for the views of those peacefully taking part in demonstrations that were ostensibly triggered by the Southport murders. This includes majorities of Labour and Lib Dem voters (53-56%), as well as two-thirds of Conservatives (64%), with Reform voters are most sympathetic at 83%
No, Matt doesn’t think violent protest is justified at all, he’s quite clear on that. What he is doing is highlighting the fact that there are serious issues facing this country (we know what they are) that many people feel are not being addressed by politicians. In fact there’s a web of liberal-elite ‘actors’ (gov, NGO’s, BBC & MSM, universities, quasi-independent institutions, etc) that deliberately seek to exclude/limit mainstream views on a range of issues e.g. immigration, net-zero, gender self-ID, DEI. When did you last hear the BBC have a serious discussion about any of those issues?
There’re also huge economic disparities between the South East of England and the North (in particular) that haven’t been addressed for many years now, much worse than many other countries (except Italy perhaps). It’s a failure of politics that has led us to this point…simples!
It’s perfectly understandable that when people feel ignored and/or lied to, and have no representation in the political arena, they have to take to the streets (it happens in many societies, with dire consequences if you live in a totalitarian state). Of course some protests will be hijacked by people wanting violence, and they have to be dealt with. However, we’re definitely seeing 2-tier policing in action, and that just makes things worse!
Yeah the key is 'peacefully'. I would myself support 'peacefully' for any protest and why not? People can support 'peaceful' protest of any cause and if you want to peacefully protest the fact three children were killed, be my guest. However as you may have observed these protests were the opposite of peaceful, they were destructive and racist. Almost nobody supports them except a few here and a part of Reform though only a minority of even Reform felt the actions were justified though Matt seems to think they were justified , putting himself even in the minority of Reform voters.
I regard 'violent' protests not involving deliberate slaughter as 'unwise' but I can understand why people are driven to carry them out. The British public has been amazingly tolerant with regard to an influx of immigrants or recent citizens who in many cases have openly expressed contempt for the West and its institutions and are determined to overthrow them. Decent people including some immigrants and some Moslems recognize this ethical contradiction but their voices are not heard.
They didn't actually burn the place and apparently the people had gone anyway. I used the term 'unwise' on purpose. Hefty jail sentences when burglars get off with a tap on the wrist! I have no sympathy with young male asylum seekers with £3000 to spare jumping the queue, they should go through the proper channels like true refugees. We don't want these people here. I am however sympathetic to white working class people despised by the entitled educated class, a basket of deplorables and all that -- incidentally a class to which I sort of belong as an Oxford graduate but I am a traitor to my class. I understand people's frustration and desperation -- you don't.
I regard the reaction of journalists to the 'rioters', even journalists critical of the Labour party such as Littlejohn, as hysterical and even morally offensive. The people at Southport and elsewhere were convulsed with anger at the revolting crime, only one in a long series of similar crimes that are usually, though not always, carried out by Islamists as everyone knows. I don't want to encourage hitting the police or burning a police vehicle but I'm afraid I don't regard this as being on a par with deliberately killing (how many was it?) children at a pop concert. The elite journalists of course never lose their cool except when they shout at a waiter because their rib steak hasn't been cooked as they ordered it. The whole business was disgusting, indeed the original crime has been more or less forgotten and we still don't know the motive.
You seem to be confusing contemptible terrorism (the pop concert) with a horrible act of violence carried out by a sole Christian (reputedly autistic) teenager who was born in this country. Most of the violence was spurred by completely fake news , generated by people who want a race war (with quite transparent help from Russians) , hard to think of anything more despicable than trying to ferment that. The UK overall is thank heaven united in their repulsion for people who pick on a culture and attack it (which by the way is not to say the government might have made mistakes in immigration, but that has absolutely nothing to do with people who have lived here all their lives) . Little wonder almost all the media are united in their condemnation and thank heaven the main media cannot encourage riots and attempted murder as social media can. All the evidence suggests the public are right there behind these tough measures which is what makes Matt's contention that millions of people support him, so completely wrong. A few million are critical of the last government's immigration policy yes but those cheering on the riots and fulminating about the tough sentences (as many here do) are a tiny few, probably counted in their thousands.
People in polls probably don't dare say what they really feel. Why shouldn't we pick on a culture if it is a rotten culture? Do you support contemporary Islam? I bet you haven't read the Koran, have never been invited to share a meal with a Moslem family, have never had a close nominally Moslem friend, and have never lived in a house where the majority are Moslem. Naturally I tick all these boxes. The Moslems I know are scared of the Islamic thought police and don't really believe in it as a religion.
Why shouldn't we pick on a culture.? Because you are picking on people, that is why. What was attacked in the riots were people and the building they inhabit, and by chance I do tick those boxes you mention. Yes there are authoritarian 'thought police' if you want to call it that and we should do our best to supress them and any other authoritarian force in other cultures including our own but by what right does that mean you can attack anyone living in that culture. It is wonderful that ordinary British people of all types gathered to protect the victims from the bullies. We will not have clones of the Klu Klux Klan here. That I think is the real turning point and the lesson of all this.
Paul Mason shows his true colours here. Militant Democracy! Really! Shut down those who disagree with you eh? You absolute cretin. You stand up for tolerance and preach intolerance. What a hypocrite you are. Vile and dangerous. Ever heard of Maximilian Robespierre ? You remind me of him.
Basically socialism like communism wants to instil absolute conformity, I don't think it has ever been in favour of freedom of thought and expression. It has worked effectively for a more equitable society but, as Bertrand Russell said, "If the cost of having a more economically just society is the extinction of free opinion, the price is too high."
Heaven preserve us from idealists like Robespierre, and his modern equivalents (mostly socialists). Their problem is that because the world is imperfect, they don't know when to stop. They are like foxes in a hen house. Give me pragmatists running the show any day, even if some of them are rogues!
With her attitude she is definitely not English, how can you claim to be so when you profess hatred as she does. More mongrel as I’m sure she couldn’t find a home in India either being a liberal communist, she’s at least a walking talking oxymoron
Up until 1989, the Soviet bloc was a living cautionary tale for people in the West - how not to run a country, silencing political opponents and only having government approved mass media. We no longer have that example on our doorstep and many people seem to have forgotten that criminalising opinion doesn't lead to utopia. China and North Korea are too far away and culturally and linguistically different to be in the minds of Europeans. So, now the commentariat in Europe has regressed to bunker mentality - shoot anyone who disagrees!
Snag is, the Left REALLY believes its own nonsense with such religious passion, they think they have the right to torture like religious extremists past...and present.
Indeed. I was trying to have a rational conversation just this morning with someone 'of the left' (about Trump v Harris - if you really want to know) and it was pointless. You just cannot get them to reason or accept facts. And as for the hypocrisy....??
Trying to reason with a Labour politician is like trying to reason with a priest of religion. It's impossible. If you want to know what your up against read the speech given in 2012 in Tooting by Ed Miliband when he was leader of the Labour party in opposition and trying to find an alternative to Blair's lies to justify mass immigration. It reminds me of a sermon given by a lay preacher at the church my mother sent me to on a Sunday so she could get some peace. It was the sermon that made me realise that religion was not for me. One of Miliband's benefits of immigration was that one third of our 2012 Olympic Medals was won by athletes with parents or grandparents born outside Britain. He forgot to say that the athletes concerned mainly had mixed origins so that the weighted contributions were 15% with and 85% without ancestors born outside Britain. They're very good at that sort of thing. It's presumably why they chose to go into social rather than real engineering.
IDIOTology is idiotology, Mrs Bucket, political, religious, philosophical or other and all of it gets in the way of democracy and the will of the democratic majority on virtually every single issue of importance. This is why I favour Swiss Direct Democracy. The people have power, not the politicians. Democracy is a practice, not an idiotology of any kind.
One wonders whether the Left really does believe its own nonsense. I am inclined to think at bottom there is a niggling fear that they just might have got it wrong, but they are so far in they can't admit this without losing face, indeed without losing everything, their respectability, their self-esteem, and last but not least their income.
You write 'But the Brits had the vote in the July 4 general election ... and now they cry."
The only vote the Brits had was to elect a five year Liberal "elective dictatorship" as Lord Hailsham called it. No wonder they 'cry'! A five year "elective dictatorship" is the opposite of democracy.
Compare Swiss Direct Democracy and you'll see why I promote it as the ONLY democracy in the entire world and the only one worth having, as it puts the people in power, not the IDIOTologists of any and every kind. We should practise democracy like the Swiss do in order to be as successful as them at everything that matters for us and to our country.
Yes, Swiss Direct Democracy is a good thing. But there is a serious issue here, there are many, many people in this country who you would call IDIOTologists, they outnumber us (albeit perhaps not by as much as they think). And as a psychologist wrote, "It is ALWAYS dangerous to think differently from the majority".
Please define whom you mean by 'us'. When I refer to the 'democratic majority' I do NOT mean the Liberal Right of the Liberal Establishment, which I suspect is what you mean. I mean the ACTUAL democratic majority that is ONLY revealed by Direct Democracy, such as the Brexit referendum or the Swiss referendums.
At present no political leaders of any party in the UK are genuinely promoting Swiss Direct Democracy for the UK. This is because the leaders of every political party in the UK are happy to be ANY part of the Westminster Liberal Establishment's 'elective dictatorship', as Lord Hailsham called it, much to the chagrin of the entire Liberal Establishment which was furious at him for revealing the truth about it.
Yes, as you say, 'Swiss Direct Democracy is a good thing' but only for US, the people. It is NOT a good thing for the leaders of any political party in the UK because it takes their power away, which is why none of them would ever genuinely support it. If we want it, we have to get it ourselves, Robert. That's what I'm going to do, hopefully with your support, in due course.
By 'us' I simply meant the sort of people who write comments in this substack and who are concerned about the state of the country. Yes, you are dead right, Direct Democracy is NOT a good thing for entitled bureaucrats and the solidly entrenched educated middle class, but it is, in principle, good for the country. I think the ideas need to be fleshed out however and some people might be a bit put out by 'Swiss' democracy, we associate the Swiss with corrupt banks and know little about how its democracy works. Do you believe we should replace the military by a citizens' militia as the Swiss do? Maybe their maverick political system is sort of cultural and wouldn't catch on here, but I certainly wish we could move in that direction.
Get real about Farage, A. He's as happy as Starmer and Sunak to be a part of the "elective dictatorship", albeit the 'opposition' part. He would have gained 20 million votes if he had made Swiss Direct Democracy for the UK his way of solving the immigration crisis. He didn't because he doesn't want to give power to the people. He wants to keep it for his Westminster 'political class', just like Starmer and Sunak do. Nothing changes until everything changes.
The majority of people I meet either detest Farage because of his personality or think that he is a liar because that's what the MSM have told them. They are also suspicious of alternative electoral systems because MSM have told them that they lead to chaos. I find it difficult to believe that 20 million would choose for the Swiss model under any circumstance, let alone if Farage was selling it. I would be elated to discover I was wrong and will certainly look seriously at your proposals when you give us the details.
I stand with you Matt and am grateful for all you do . It must be incredibly hard having the barrage of hate thrown at you. I support you and am a member of GB news and The Free Speech Union . It is hard for our side to organise when the other lot control our government, media and institutions. They have clawed their way to a stranglehold on every organisation even the “National Trust” and rule all our public services . It’s hard to know how to move forward with this when the current “elite” are trying to close down free speech across social media, contemplating to bring in a specific definition of the “ offence” of Islamophobia . The Moslem leaders in the face of any opposition do what Khan is doing now and claim they are lovely people who are scared and don’t feel safe and the liberal elite run round trying to pacify and appease them. Musk is right we are heading for civil war literally or metaphorical and I hope those who are ethnically British, and those who have truly embraced British citizenship stay strong
I think Mr Paul Mason and those of his ilk - on social media and in the Labour Party, must have picked up on what has happened in Germany earlier this year, where NGOs supported by the German Government and especially their Home Sec, Ms Nancy Faeser, have created 'huge' (according to the generally left-green German MSM) demos to 'defend the republic' ... After all, Germany defines itself as 'wehrhafte Demokratie' (do google the expression!).
The suspiciously large numbers of professionally made posters carried by the brave 'counter demonstrants' would point to a created, well organised by government-adjacent NGOs, 'movement' with scant roots in the public sphere. The well-placed rumour of 'over 100 riots planned' which then didn't materialise also speaks for the creation of 'a popular, anti-racist, anti-riot' opinion.
And we're already getting a new page of the government's nudge written: a report in The Times today about the pitiful situation of acknowledged refugees 'being homeless' ... no, there was no mention of the homeless native Brits.
Well, experience has shown that, in the end, economic facts will squash ideologies. It doesn't have to last 79 years - tipping points can and will occur much faster.
Indeed it may take less than 79 years. Ed Milliband's despotic pursuit of Net Zero and Reeve's capital taxes in the next budget will kill off any prospect of economic growth and so eliminate acquiescence to Labour's one party state. Provided the right gets its act together Labour should be a one term parliament.
'wehrhafte Demokratie' was a historically specific feature of post war Germany and understandable at the time, but will be harder (one hopes) to implant onto British soil. Paul Mason et al will still try, are trying, and his use of the term 'militant democracy' was quite chilling. ( “Militant democracy,” was a term coined in 1937 in response to the rise of fascism - real fascism in the 1930's of course - and refers to protecting civil and political freedom by preemptively restricting the exercise of such freedoms!) 9/11 turned the US into a militant democracy with the Patriot Act and surveillance of the population. For anti-terror purposes it is a genuinely debatable matter. But defensive democracy so easily morphs into political tyrany - inevitably as power corrupts - and the DPP's intention to use anti-terror legislation to control domestic political dissent togther with the enhanced Counter Disinformation Unit (now rebranded post Covid) suggest Paul Mason is more than a lone nutter but has given expression, unwittingly or not, to what one suspects Sir Two Tier Kneeler is really planning. Reeves will be telling him and the cabinet the reality of Labour's project and so they will try and stay in power by other means. We should be very worried, very worried indeed.
On the plus side: most of us have learned well how we're being nudged and manipulated during the covid years, so what Sir TT Keir and his gang will do may be worrying but will eventually fail, as all such things do. Ms Reeves is probably being schooled right now by her mandarins who won't be eager to have their well-ordered lives disturbed by Sir TTK's machinations.
Just take that demand of forbidding 'X' in the UK ... isn't it beautiful to see how bereft of any scintilla of common sense these people are. 'X' isn't only a 'rumour machine for the hate-driven far etc right', it's an indispensable tool for industry, for the MSM (what would our dear hacks do without it!) and the government propaganda machine.
In any case, we British peasants are far more resilient than the Westminster elites realise.
When will Reeves discover that the magic ingredient missing from her economic pie is called increased productivity which is what you get from combining freedom of speech with the scientific method.
It is worth noting that at one of these "spontaneous" counter demonstrations where they just happened to find "down with fascists" banners on their way there a local (Dartford) Labour councillor took to the microphone to tell them all they should go and slit the throats of the Far Right Thugs, even going so far as to mime the action just in case they couldn't hear properly at the back. This proclamation was greeted with cheers and prolonged clapping. Remember Dear Reader, in case you were in any doubt, these are the Good Guys.
And yes, maybe we are at a tipping point. We are 53 years into fiat currency, aka liars currency. And historically such arrangements have all failed after about 35 years.
Very well written and thoughtful analysis Matt. You have so much support, and we are very grateful for having your voice on our side. Keep doing what you are doing, we will support you in the best ways each of us can. Never give up!
Thanks Matt for holding their feet to the fire with well articulated and well reasoned argument. Thanks also for pointing out that the majority in the country are actually ethnically English and are rather proud of our history and traditions.
They are frightened weak individuals and like rats pushed into their self made rabbit hole, are lashing out in the hope that they infect all others with their septic self centred ideology. They are to weak to debate so shutting down alternative views is the only way they feel they can win. In doing so, they alienate the vast majority, the silent majority. The irony is that if they got their way and Islam became the dominant force, they’d all be lined up with a choice no sane person would want to have to make…
My solution would be to send all these weak lefties to live in an Islamic State for a year. They may find that perhaps that is not to their taste after all.
The difference would be that the state controls every aspect of your life, not only what you are allowed to say or who you are allowed to criticize. The alphabet people would be first in line for prison at the very least. There are rules to follow on what you are allowed to wear, eat, drink, who you can hold hands with, who you can live with, etc. It's all fine as long as you follow the rules to the letter. The upside is that the punishments for transgressing the rules means it is a very safe country to live in.
Please keep going. As long as there are people like you and Konstantin I don't have to consider emigrating, at least not immediately.
I've got to say that people like Ash, that Irish academic and the Muslim woman on the Moral Maze seemed determined to misunderstand everything said by you and konstantin. And I'm glad that you clarified that ethnicity is not totally irrelevant to the concept of being British. I am a huge fan of Japan and have spent 6 or 7 months every year for the last twenty years there, but even if I were to finally up sticks and emigrate there (if they allowed me to) I would never claim to be Japanese in the same way that an ethnic Japanese, whose family has been in Japan for centuries or even millennia, is.
Ash Sarkar claimed the fact that the man who killed the three girls in Stockport was the son of Rwandan immigrants wasn't relevant. After all, white people also sometimes go on the rampage. However, I think it's relevant for the reason that Konstantin pointed out regarding Muslims. Since gang rape is 10 times more prevelant among Pakistanti Muslims than whites, why would we want more of them in our country? And similarly, since black men are 10 times more likely to have psychotic attacks, as the Stockport and Nottingham murderers apparently had, why would we want more of them? The elevated risk of both gang rape and psychotic murders, not to mention the well-known high crime rate among blacks, whether psycholtic or not, is surely reason enough to be wary about importing more or either ethnic group.
Indeed. Salman Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber, was also British-born, in Manchester, in 1994. He was the son of Lybian refugees, so also a second-generation immigrant like the Southport murderer.
In fact have there been white British men going on a murderous rampage? There was it is true Dunblane but that was a long time ago. Gangland murder is no better of course but professional criminals mainly kill rival criminals not ordinary members of the public and practically never children. The Southport killing appeared unusual and naturally made people think of Islamists who DO target children and female children especially. I can only suppose the perpetrator was on drugs. We still don't know any details about the 'suspect', his motives or religious beliefs.
Well done Matt. Keep fighting the good fight. I feel like the last week has been a concerted Psyop from the establishment. A false far right nationwide riot narrative that never materialised (directly after the COBRA meeting) and then the 'heroic far left counter protests', splashed wall to wall over every broadsheet. They're obviously terrified of the angered (peaceful) majority.
Which came first - the nationwide protests that the establishment, or the "counter-protests". No better way of allowing intimidation but to let immigrants initiate mass counter protests, especially where there is no protest to counter.
And Starmer and Rowley stand on there saying how well they'd Policed it and that they've got it undercontrol! They really think we are stupid. Wasn't it that nasty little man Nick Lowles from Hope not Hate that said there would be 100 protests 🤔 He is a dangerous man!
Hope not Hate and most of the Far Left are just useful idiots for the current regime.
correction: in first line it is meant to read "that the establishment warn of"
Only after consultation about the role of the police, oh, and by the way please leave your weapons at the mosque from where you can pick them up afterwards.
Politicians and senior police officers who cover up and enable the racially targeted abuse of working class girls are, objectively, far right.
Those who resist the abuse simply meet the minimum requirement for a decent human being, so unlike our dead eyed leaders.
It really does seem to have been a transparent psy-op. I honestly cannot believe how chilling this Starmer government has become so quickly...
Who are this peaceful majority exactly? Few Britons support the disorder, with the vast majority saying it is unjustified and that the views of the rioters are not representative of the wider population.
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/50257-the-public-reaction-to-the-2024-riots
Really? This is taken from the article you cite:
‘Sympathies with the views of those taking part in the protests are somewhat broader – six in ten Britons (58%) say they have a great deal or fair amount of sympathy for the views of those peacefully taking part in demonstrations that were ostensibly triggered by the Southport murders. This includes majorities of Labour and Lib Dem voters (53-56%), as well as two-thirds of Conservatives (64%), with Reform voters are most sympathetic at 83%
No, Matt doesn’t think violent protest is justified at all, he’s quite clear on that. What he is doing is highlighting the fact that there are serious issues facing this country (we know what they are) that many people feel are not being addressed by politicians. In fact there’s a web of liberal-elite ‘actors’ (gov, NGO’s, BBC & MSM, universities, quasi-independent institutions, etc) that deliberately seek to exclude/limit mainstream views on a range of issues e.g. immigration, net-zero, gender self-ID, DEI. When did you last hear the BBC have a serious discussion about any of those issues?
There’re also huge economic disparities between the South East of England and the North (in particular) that haven’t been addressed for many years now, much worse than many other countries (except Italy perhaps). It’s a failure of politics that has led us to this point…simples!
It’s perfectly understandable that when people feel ignored and/or lied to, and have no representation in the political arena, they have to take to the streets (it happens in many societies, with dire consequences if you live in a totalitarian state). Of course some protests will be hijacked by people wanting violence, and they have to be dealt with. However, we’re definitely seeing 2-tier policing in action, and that just makes things worse!
Yeah the key is 'peacefully'. I would myself support 'peacefully' for any protest and why not? People can support 'peaceful' protest of any cause and if you want to peacefully protest the fact three children were killed, be my guest. However as you may have observed these protests were the opposite of peaceful, they were destructive and racist. Almost nobody supports them except a few here and a part of Reform though only a minority of even Reform felt the actions were justified though Matt seems to think they were justified , putting himself even in the minority of Reform voters.
I regard 'violent' protests not involving deliberate slaughter as 'unwise' but I can understand why people are driven to carry them out. The British public has been amazingly tolerant with regard to an influx of immigrants or recent citizens who in many cases have openly expressed contempt for the West and its institutions and are determined to overthrow them. Decent people including some immigrants and some Moslems recognize this ethical contradiction but their voices are not heard.
I think 'unwise' is pretty mild for people trying to burn hotels with people in them.
They didn't actually burn the place and apparently the people had gone anyway. I used the term 'unwise' on purpose. Hefty jail sentences when burglars get off with a tap on the wrist! I have no sympathy with young male asylum seekers with £3000 to spare jumping the queue, they should go through the proper channels like true refugees. We don't want these people here. I am however sympathetic to white working class people despised by the entitled educated class, a basket of deplorables and all that -- incidentally a class to which I sort of belong as an Oxford graduate but I am a traitor to my class. I understand people's frustration and desperation -- you don't.
I regard the reaction of journalists to the 'rioters', even journalists critical of the Labour party such as Littlejohn, as hysterical and even morally offensive. The people at Southport and elsewhere were convulsed with anger at the revolting crime, only one in a long series of similar crimes that are usually, though not always, carried out by Islamists as everyone knows. I don't want to encourage hitting the police or burning a police vehicle but I'm afraid I don't regard this as being on a par with deliberately killing (how many was it?) children at a pop concert. The elite journalists of course never lose their cool except when they shout at a waiter because their rib steak hasn't been cooked as they ordered it. The whole business was disgusting, indeed the original crime has been more or less forgotten and we still don't know the motive.
You seem to be confusing contemptible terrorism (the pop concert) with a horrible act of violence carried out by a sole Christian (reputedly autistic) teenager who was born in this country. Most of the violence was spurred by completely fake news , generated by people who want a race war (with quite transparent help from Russians) , hard to think of anything more despicable than trying to ferment that. The UK overall is thank heaven united in their repulsion for people who pick on a culture and attack it (which by the way is not to say the government might have made mistakes in immigration, but that has absolutely nothing to do with people who have lived here all their lives) . Little wonder almost all the media are united in their condemnation and thank heaven the main media cannot encourage riots and attempted murder as social media can. All the evidence suggests the public are right there behind these tough measures which is what makes Matt's contention that millions of people support him, so completely wrong. A few million are critical of the last government's immigration policy yes but those cheering on the riots and fulminating about the tough sentences (as many here do) are a tiny few, probably counted in their thousands.
People in polls probably don't dare say what they really feel. Why shouldn't we pick on a culture if it is a rotten culture? Do you support contemporary Islam? I bet you haven't read the Koran, have never been invited to share a meal with a Moslem family, have never had a close nominally Moslem friend, and have never lived in a house where the majority are Moslem. Naturally I tick all these boxes. The Moslems I know are scared of the Islamic thought police and don't really believe in it as a religion.
Why shouldn't we pick on a culture.? Because you are picking on people, that is why. What was attacked in the riots were people and the building they inhabit, and by chance I do tick those boxes you mention. Yes there are authoritarian 'thought police' if you want to call it that and we should do our best to supress them and any other authoritarian force in other cultures including our own but by what right does that mean you can attack anyone living in that culture. It is wonderful that ordinary British people of all types gathered to protect the victims from the bullies. We will not have clones of the Klu Klux Klan here. That I think is the real turning point and the lesson of all this.
You're doing a fantastic job, Matt! Keep going. You are a voice for millions of silenced Britons 👏🏻
Yes and using reasoned argument with evidence as opposed to main stream media's assertions and insinuations
Paul Mason shows his true colours here. Militant Democracy! Really! Shut down those who disagree with you eh? You absolute cretin. You stand up for tolerance and preach intolerance. What a hypocrite you are. Vile and dangerous. Ever heard of Maximilian Robespierre ? You remind me of him.
The Left has to language mangle - 'Militant Democracy' - as it's ideas are abhorrent.
Very dangerous times, superbly summed up by Starkey, 'The beginning of Labour's police state: https://youtu.be/hHEVXOkcQb4?si=VcyrhQ5GvJRfaCBo
Mrs B. Just deleted my comment about editing. The three dots don’t have an edit button as far as I can see.
That's odd, maybe a Thought Police bug on your computer!
How does anyone have the ability, on this forum, to delete or edit someone's post. Surely that can only be done by the original poster or the AI bots?
Basically socialism like communism wants to instil absolute conformity, I don't think it has ever been in favour of freedom of thought and expression. It has worked effectively for a more equitable society but, as Bertrand Russell said, "If the cost of having a more economically just society is the extinction of free opinion, the price is too high."
Heaven preserve us from idealists like Robespierre, and his modern equivalents (mostly socialists). Their problem is that because the world is imperfect, they don't know when to stop. They are like foxes in a hen house. Give me pragmatists running the show any day, even if some of them are rogues!
He uses the Marcuse concept of repressive tolerance. He is an obvious disciple of him and Gramsci.
I ask who’s the “fascist” now? Fascism is rooted in the left, he’s the perfect example of such.
Admin. Is there a way I can edit my comment? Some glaring errors I need to correct.
it's the three little dots to the Right Tom
I can only find share , hide or report comment Mrs B ?
Sarkar is a truly obnoxious individual who really is toxic. A Corbyn babe.
With her attitude she is definitely not English, how can you claim to be so when you profess hatred as she does. More mongrel as I’m sure she couldn’t find a home in India either being a liberal communist, she’s at least a walking talking oxymoron
Who the hell is Sarkar? Never heard of him.
Excellent comment which gives a powerful sense of the battle in which we are now engaged. Matt's fighting spirit is an inspiration, at least to me!
When you are reviled and hated by the sort of people you mention Matt, wear that badge with pride.
Up until 1989, the Soviet bloc was a living cautionary tale for people in the West - how not to run a country, silencing political opponents and only having government approved mass media. We no longer have that example on our doorstep and many people seem to have forgotten that criminalising opinion doesn't lead to utopia. China and North Korea are too far away and culturally and linguistically different to be in the minds of Europeans. So, now the commentariat in Europe has regressed to bunker mentality - shoot anyone who disagrees!
As Elon Musk asked this week about the Starmer Polizei: "Is this Britain? Or the Soviet Union?"
Or any other two-bit dictatorship.
Snag is, the Left REALLY believes its own nonsense with such religious passion, they think they have the right to torture like religious extremists past...and present.
Indeed. I was trying to have a rational conversation just this morning with someone 'of the left' (about Trump v Harris - if you really want to know) and it was pointless. You just cannot get them to reason or accept facts. And as for the hypocrisy....??
It's like a cult - you just can't get through the brainwashing.
Trying to reason with a Labour politician is like trying to reason with a priest of religion. It's impossible. If you want to know what your up against read the speech given in 2012 in Tooting by Ed Miliband when he was leader of the Labour party in opposition and trying to find an alternative to Blair's lies to justify mass immigration. It reminds me of a sermon given by a lay preacher at the church my mother sent me to on a Sunday so she could get some peace. It was the sermon that made me realise that religion was not for me. One of Miliband's benefits of immigration was that one third of our 2012 Olympic Medals was won by athletes with parents or grandparents born outside Britain. He forgot to say that the athletes concerned mainly had mixed origins so that the weighted contributions were 15% with and 85% without ancestors born outside Britain. They're very good at that sort of thing. It's presumably why they chose to go into social rather than real engineering.
Dead right WOKE is a cult, the most dangerous one going at the moment. It's far more dangerous than the Moonies.
IDIOTology is idiotology, Mrs Bucket, political, religious, philosophical or other and all of it gets in the way of democracy and the will of the democratic majority on virtually every single issue of importance. This is why I favour Swiss Direct Democracy. The people have power, not the politicians. Democracy is a practice, not an idiotology of any kind.
One wonders whether the Left really does believe its own nonsense. I am inclined to think at bottom there is a niggling fear that they just might have got it wrong, but they are so far in they can't admit this without losing face, indeed without losing everything, their respectability, their self-esteem, and last but not least their income.
Hi A,
You write 'But the Brits had the vote in the July 4 general election ... and now they cry."
The only vote the Brits had was to elect a five year Liberal "elective dictatorship" as Lord Hailsham called it. No wonder they 'cry'! A five year "elective dictatorship" is the opposite of democracy.
Compare Swiss Direct Democracy and you'll see why I promote it as the ONLY democracy in the entire world and the only one worth having, as it puts the people in power, not the IDIOTologists of any and every kind. We should practise democracy like the Swiss do in order to be as successful as them at everything that matters for us and to our country.
Yes, Swiss Direct Democracy is a good thing. But there is a serious issue here, there are many, many people in this country who you would call IDIOTologists, they outnumber us (albeit perhaps not by as much as they think). And as a psychologist wrote, "It is ALWAYS dangerous to think differently from the majority".
Hi Robert G Mules,
Please define whom you mean by 'us'. When I refer to the 'democratic majority' I do NOT mean the Liberal Right of the Liberal Establishment, which I suspect is what you mean. I mean the ACTUAL democratic majority that is ONLY revealed by Direct Democracy, such as the Brexit referendum or the Swiss referendums.
At present no political leaders of any party in the UK are genuinely promoting Swiss Direct Democracy for the UK. This is because the leaders of every political party in the UK are happy to be ANY part of the Westminster Liberal Establishment's 'elective dictatorship', as Lord Hailsham called it, much to the chagrin of the entire Liberal Establishment which was furious at him for revealing the truth about it.
Yes, as you say, 'Swiss Direct Democracy is a good thing' but only for US, the people. It is NOT a good thing for the leaders of any political party in the UK because it takes their power away, which is why none of them would ever genuinely support it. If we want it, we have to get it ourselves, Robert. That's what I'm going to do, hopefully with your support, in due course.
By 'us' I simply meant the sort of people who write comments in this substack and who are concerned about the state of the country. Yes, you are dead right, Direct Democracy is NOT a good thing for entitled bureaucrats and the solidly entrenched educated middle class, but it is, in principle, good for the country. I think the ideas need to be fleshed out however and some people might be a bit put out by 'Swiss' democracy, we associate the Swiss with corrupt banks and know little about how its democracy works. Do you believe we should replace the military by a citizens' militia as the Swiss do? Maybe their maverick political system is sort of cultural and wouldn't catch on here, but I certainly wish we could move in that direction.
Get real about Farage, A. He's as happy as Starmer and Sunak to be a part of the "elective dictatorship", albeit the 'opposition' part. He would have gained 20 million votes if he had made Swiss Direct Democracy for the UK his way of solving the immigration crisis. He didn't because he doesn't want to give power to the people. He wants to keep it for his Westminster 'political class', just like Starmer and Sunak do. Nothing changes until everything changes.
The majority of people I meet either detest Farage because of his personality or think that he is a liar because that's what the MSM have told them. They are also suspicious of alternative electoral systems because MSM have told them that they lead to chaos. I find it difficult to believe that 20 million would choose for the Swiss model under any circumstance, let alone if Farage was selling it. I would be elated to discover I was wrong and will certainly look seriously at your proposals when you give us the details.
I stand with you Matt and am grateful for all you do . It must be incredibly hard having the barrage of hate thrown at you. I support you and am a member of GB news and The Free Speech Union . It is hard for our side to organise when the other lot control our government, media and institutions. They have clawed their way to a stranglehold on every organisation even the “National Trust” and rule all our public services . It’s hard to know how to move forward with this when the current “elite” are trying to close down free speech across social media, contemplating to bring in a specific definition of the “ offence” of Islamophobia . The Moslem leaders in the face of any opposition do what Khan is doing now and claim they are lovely people who are scared and don’t feel safe and the liberal elite run round trying to pacify and appease them. Musk is right we are heading for civil war literally or metaphorical and I hope those who are ethnically British, and those who have truly embraced British citizenship stay strong
Ash Sarkar is a potty mouthed Communist bimbo. How predictable the BBC would invite her.
Absolutely. Narcissism personified. And arrogant with it.
Nowadays I judge a person by the people he/she annoys.
And Matt, you are annoying all the right people.
Keep up the great work.
I think Mr Paul Mason and those of his ilk - on social media and in the Labour Party, must have picked up on what has happened in Germany earlier this year, where NGOs supported by the German Government and especially their Home Sec, Ms Nancy Faeser, have created 'huge' (according to the generally left-green German MSM) demos to 'defend the republic' ... After all, Germany defines itself as 'wehrhafte Demokratie' (do google the expression!).
The suspiciously large numbers of professionally made posters carried by the brave 'counter demonstrants' would point to a created, well organised by government-adjacent NGOs, 'movement' with scant roots in the public sphere. The well-placed rumour of 'over 100 riots planned' which then didn't materialise also speaks for the creation of 'a popular, anti-racist, anti-riot' opinion.
And we're already getting a new page of the government's nudge written: a report in The Times today about the pitiful situation of acknowledged refugees 'being homeless' ... no, there was no mention of the homeless native Brits.
Well, experience has shown that, in the end, economic facts will squash ideologies. It doesn't have to last 79 years - tipping points can and will occur much faster.
Indeed it may take less than 79 years. Ed Milliband's despotic pursuit of Net Zero and Reeve's capital taxes in the next budget will kill off any prospect of economic growth and so eliminate acquiescence to Labour's one party state. Provided the right gets its act together Labour should be a one term parliament.
'wehrhafte Demokratie' was a historically specific feature of post war Germany and understandable at the time, but will be harder (one hopes) to implant onto British soil. Paul Mason et al will still try, are trying, and his use of the term 'militant democracy' was quite chilling. ( “Militant democracy,” was a term coined in 1937 in response to the rise of fascism - real fascism in the 1930's of course - and refers to protecting civil and political freedom by preemptively restricting the exercise of such freedoms!) 9/11 turned the US into a militant democracy with the Patriot Act and surveillance of the population. For anti-terror purposes it is a genuinely debatable matter. But defensive democracy so easily morphs into political tyrany - inevitably as power corrupts - and the DPP's intention to use anti-terror legislation to control domestic political dissent togther with the enhanced Counter Disinformation Unit (now rebranded post Covid) suggest Paul Mason is more than a lone nutter but has given expression, unwittingly or not, to what one suspects Sir Two Tier Kneeler is really planning. Reeves will be telling him and the cabinet the reality of Labour's project and so they will try and stay in power by other means. We should be very worried, very worried indeed.
On the plus side: most of us have learned well how we're being nudged and manipulated during the covid years, so what Sir TT Keir and his gang will do may be worrying but will eventually fail, as all such things do. Ms Reeves is probably being schooled right now by her mandarins who won't be eager to have their well-ordered lives disturbed by Sir TTK's machinations.
Just take that demand of forbidding 'X' in the UK ... isn't it beautiful to see how bereft of any scintilla of common sense these people are. 'X' isn't only a 'rumour machine for the hate-driven far etc right', it's an indispensable tool for industry, for the MSM (what would our dear hacks do without it!) and the government propaganda machine.
In any case, we British peasants are far more resilient than the Westminster elites realise.
When will Reeves discover that the magic ingredient missing from her economic pie is called increased productivity which is what you get from combining freedom of speech with the scientific method.
Yes plus consultation but a top down approach such as that favoured by Labour does not do consultation.
It is worth noting that at one of these "spontaneous" counter demonstrations where they just happened to find "down with fascists" banners on their way there a local (Dartford) Labour councillor took to the microphone to tell them all they should go and slit the throats of the Far Right Thugs, even going so far as to mime the action just in case they couldn't hear properly at the back. This proclamation was greeted with cheers and prolonged clapping. Remember Dear Reader, in case you were in any doubt, these are the Good Guys.
And yes, maybe we are at a tipping point. We are 53 years into fiat currency, aka liars currency. And historically such arrangements have all failed after about 35 years.
Buy gold!
I googled wehrhafte Demokratie - ooo err....
Me too...sounds like an oxymoron...
A very perceptive analysis Vivian!
Keep going Matt,the people who attack you are authoritarians,who would happily turn the UK into the old DDR.
We have a Government,MSM ,civil service, academia and institutions acting in concert,it is truly disturbing.
When I saw Paul Mason,sneering at Nigel Farage being debanked,I felt that he had lost the feeling of what it is to be a citizen
Very well written and thoughtful analysis Matt. You have so much support, and we are very grateful for having your voice on our side. Keep doing what you are doing, we will support you in the best ways each of us can. Never give up!
Thanks Matt for holding their feet to the fire with well articulated and well reasoned argument. Thanks also for pointing out that the majority in the country are actually ethnically English and are rather proud of our history and traditions.
They are frightened weak individuals and like rats pushed into their self made rabbit hole, are lashing out in the hope that they infect all others with their septic self centred ideology. They are to weak to debate so shutting down alternative views is the only way they feel they can win. In doing so, they alienate the vast majority, the silent majority. The irony is that if they got their way and Islam became the dominant force, they’d all be lined up with a choice no sane person would want to have to make…
My solution would be to send all these weak lefties to live in an Islamic State for a year. They may find that perhaps that is not to their taste after all.
Bury Park, Luton, for a week would probably do it Iris.
The difference would be that the state controls every aspect of your life, not only what you are allowed to say or who you are allowed to criticize. The alphabet people would be first in line for prison at the very least. There are rules to follow on what you are allowed to wear, eat, drink, who you can hold hands with, who you can live with, etc. It's all fine as long as you follow the rules to the letter. The upside is that the punishments for transgressing the rules means it is a very safe country to live in.
Actually, most of the current Lefties who are cowards would, if faced by what you suggest, meekly fall into line.
Please keep going. As long as there are people like you and Konstantin I don't have to consider emigrating, at least not immediately.
I've got to say that people like Ash, that Irish academic and the Muslim woman on the Moral Maze seemed determined to misunderstand everything said by you and konstantin. And I'm glad that you clarified that ethnicity is not totally irrelevant to the concept of being British. I am a huge fan of Japan and have spent 6 or 7 months every year for the last twenty years there, but even if I were to finally up sticks and emigrate there (if they allowed me to) I would never claim to be Japanese in the same way that an ethnic Japanese, whose family has been in Japan for centuries or even millennia, is.
Ash Sarkar claimed the fact that the man who killed the three girls in Stockport was the son of Rwandan immigrants wasn't relevant. After all, white people also sometimes go on the rampage. However, I think it's relevant for the reason that Konstantin pointed out regarding Muslims. Since gang rape is 10 times more prevelant among Pakistanti Muslims than whites, why would we want more of them in our country? And similarly, since black men are 10 times more likely to have psychotic attacks, as the Stockport and Nottingham murderers apparently had, why would we want more of them? The elevated risk of both gang rape and psychotic murders, not to mention the well-known high crime rate among blacks, whether psycholtic or not, is surely reason enough to be wary about importing more or either ethnic group.
Indeed. Salman Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber, was also British-born, in Manchester, in 1994. He was the son of Lybian refugees, so also a second-generation immigrant like the Southport murderer.
In fact have there been white British men going on a murderous rampage? There was it is true Dunblane but that was a long time ago. Gangland murder is no better of course but professional criminals mainly kill rival criminals not ordinary members of the public and practically never children. The Southport killing appeared unusual and naturally made people think of Islamists who DO target children and female children especially. I can only suppose the perpetrator was on drugs. We still don't know any details about the 'suspect', his motives or religious beliefs.