13 August - It could get worse
As you might imagine I have become the pub bore, quite
literally, passing on my live viewing of the so called and actual riots from
Plymouth to Newcastle to people whose knowledge came only from the BBC and The
Daily Mail. I think their eyes were opened. None were aware that Islamists waving
machetes have become a protected species (the police in Stoke asked them to
kindly return their weapons to storage) or that the brain-dead love to destroy
their neighbours’ houses.
It was not a sample that would satisfy a polling company because none were
aged under 45 and males outnumbered females two to one. Three were former Union
officials - I didn’t learn until yesterday that I have a cousin who was a Union
Convener, whatever that may be. Two were immigrants albeit not recent ones and
two were off the scale Left wingers. The remainder were as far as I know
normal law-abiding people but I do not know any extreme right wingers or
hooligans to add balance to my informal survey.
The Left wingers absolutely believed that the disturbances were
orchestrated by Nigel Farage and Vladimir Putin via the medium of Facebook bots.
Full disclosure time: I do not know what they are or how they might influence
people like me who only very rarely uses Facebook. The Lefties absolutely
refused to countenance that a theme of an Antifa rally was cutting the throats
of those who do not share their opinions.
Despite that there was an element of agreement across the board. People are very
unhappy. Their principal reasons varied somewhat. Tony Blair started it. The
Tories were absolutely useless throughout their 14 years. Austerity. Higher than
ever taxation. Uncontrolled Immigration. Rising crime and two-tiered
policing. The housing crisis and the loss of basic Freedoms.
It really doesn’t matter what the root cause of the discontent is; it is
undeniably there and it has bubbled to the surface.
The new Government has taken sides by promoting Islam through two Prime
Ministerial speeches and a meeting with their leaders. Public servants have been
richly rewarded at the expense of other taxpayers, pensioners in particular. The
native population has been shoved further down the Social Housing waiting list
and tyrannical new rules have been introduced making it an imprisonable offence
to observe criminal acts and one man is already in jail courtesy of a Judge in Northern Ireland.
Free speech has been curtailed to the extent that the police here speak of
extraditing foreign citizens for calling our politicians scumbags.
In Australia, Canada, Continental Europe and the USA social commentators are
comparing Keir Starmer with Kim Jong Un and encouraging their millions of
followers never to set foot in the United Kingdom.
The long term affects on our economy are incalculable and no one who was unhappy
a month ago is happier now.
That is dangerous. A discontented population rose up and now it is even more
unhappy. What will they do next?
The only light relief I can offer is to look up Kier in a Farsi/Persian to English dictionary.