Having left Britain while out on bail, peripatetic thug Tommy has been floating around Europe, posting videos from variously exotic and expensive locations.
His 800,000 followers watch, listen and evidently pay attention. Tommy is living proof that an expert rabble-rouser doesn’t have to be physically present in the country to stoke up mayhem.
Following the Southport stabbings, masked thugs inspired either by Tommy or just by their own monstrous instincts, have gone on a rampage all over the country.
Bristol, Stoke, Liverpool, Manchester and Hull are on fire, and dozens of police officers who tried to stop the mayhem are in hospital. Today, similar riots are planned in Rotherham, Weymouth, Middlesborough and Lancaster, and police are spread thin.
English flags are flying, Nazi salutes are made, shops are being looted and burned. And not just shops: Liverpool’s new library was also torched, adding a nice touch to the practice popularised in Germany, circa 1933.
There the typological precursors of our ‘patriots’ yanked books out of libraries and burned them in the street. Our lot have introduced the time-saving innovation of burning the whole building, books and all. That’s one way to stop the boats, I suppose.
Meanwhile, Robinson continues to lay it on thick: “The British have been pushed too far. Once you start f***ing with their children, taking away their safety. What do you expect to happen?” Why, looted shops and burned libraries, of course. Did I get it right, Tommy?
Our papers and TV channels are having a field day, sputtering righteous indignation at such ‘far-right’ outrages. Yet anyone with a passing knowledge of geometry and some understanding of dialectics would expect that a spectrum that features a far right would also have a far left.
Yet our media refuse to countenance such a Hegelian equilibrium. Hence when BLM, Just Stop Oil or pro-Hamas fanatics do their own spot of rioting, they are never described as ‘far left’. The political spectrum our hacks envisage is oddly lopsided.
I often comment on the inadequacy of our political nomenclature. If you disagree, then you must believe that Margaret Thatcher and Tommy Robinson are political twins. After all, both are routinely described as ‘far right’.
Yet politics, right, left or centre, is usually a mere pretext for mass violence, hardly ever the reason. The reason is human nature, shaped as it is by original sin and unchecked by civilisation. Given the right motivation, propitious circumstances and a realistic hope of immunity, most people are capable of looting, arson, rape and murder.
When such cards fall into place, an inner voice thunders inside people’s skulls: Now you can! And when they get together in mobs, the collective scream is synergistically louder than the sum of its individual parts. Now we can! roars the crowd inwardly – and Muslim shops burn as bright in England, circa 2024, as Jewish shops did in Germany, circa 1938. Our own Kristallnacht is happening all over the country.
Riots can’t be stopped by rational arguments or by satisfying the mob’s political grievances, because their gripes are neither rational nor political.
A Jew set upon by SA thugs in Berlin would have wasted his breath trying to argue he didn’t really want to destroy Germany, and neither did he feast on the blood of Aryan babies. Similarly, the yobs who looted and destroyed a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Manchester, wouldn’t have been stopped by the management’s assurances that they had never run an illegal immigration ring.
If civilisation can no longer contain the beast inside man, the beast pounces, singly or in packs. When that happens, the time for cajoling, pacifying and assuaging has passed. The button for counterviolence has to be pushed.
Yet so far I’ve seen no reports of police acting decisively. No water cannon, no tear gas, no – God forbid – firearms. We are proud of our police going unarmed, which feeling is grossly misplaced.
It would be something to be proud of if Britain were so civilised and law-abiding that our cops didn’t need guns to protect the public and themselves. Alas, as all those photographs of bloodied policemen lying shellshocked on the pavement prove, that’s not the case.
Yet meeting violence with superior violence requires an inner conviction of being in the right. The frenzied mob has its evil spirits expertly whipped up by the likes of Tommy Robinson, and they have no trouble telling themselves that every time they hit a cop they strike a blow for England.
No one inspires our policemen the same way, and their own motivation doesn’t appear to be strong enough. If anything, some cops secretly (or not so secretly) sympathise with the causes assorted rioters claim as their own. We all remember the photographs of policemen ‘taking the knee’ during BLM mayhems, with the media winking at that dereliction of duty with avuncular approval. I wouldn’t be surprised if, likewise, many other cops think Tommy Robinson has a point.
Law enforcement is the cutting edge of civilisation, or else its bulwark keeping at bay the savage beast lurking in barbarians’ breasts. When the cutting edge is dulled and the bulwark collapses, there is no limit to what can happen.
Both civilisation and barbarism tend to leave their marks on people’s faces. Looking at the feral mugs of Tommy Robinson and his ilk, and also of the BLMers, Just Stop Oilers, anti-nukers and pro-Hamasers, one sees plenty of fodder for a future breakdown of order and civility in Britain.
And yes, uncontrolled immigration is a serious problem with severe consequences to the fabric of society. By all means, we must discuss it – but not with the likes of Tommy Robinson.
Common criminals like Tommy and extremists of any kind or hue, right, left, pink, red, brown or green, are to be excluded from civil discourse because they aren’t civilised. Their place is in prison, not at a negotiation table or in a debating studio.
It’s important not to exaggerate. For instance, the building you describe as “Liverpool’s new library” is the Spellow Lane Library Hub, which the BBC says “was opened last year to serve deprived communities.” “Deprived communities” is usually Newspeak for “privileged immigrants,” and I doubt if many copies of the works of Burke and Chesterton were consigned to the flames.
So I think Mr Yaxley-Lenin’s gang of tattooed scum were aiming to show how they feel about “deprived communities,” rather than how they feel about books. Note that the similar attacks on paintings by the differently-but-equally tattooed scum of the Far Left have nothing to do with their feelings about the fine arts.
Apart from that detail, I think you are, as usual, entirely correct in your analysis.
First, civilization cannot “contain the beast inside man” because society created that beast (from a noble savage) by filling his head and breast with unnatural wants and desires.
Second, after letting BLMers and “I don’t understand energy-ers” (sorry, just stop oil-ers) run riot in the streets (literally), the police must allow the same free reign to the immigration thugs – in the name of justice (as if the police existed for that purpose, ha!) and fair play.
Third, let’s imagine each of the aforementioned groups could get their way. Imagine England with: no Western institutions (no private businesses, no republican government, no families, no Christianity); no fossil fuels or petroleum products (plastics, lubricating oils, even tires for those electric cars); no Muslim immigrants.
Fourth, when can we change the language, as depicted in PJR’s comment, around “deprived communities”? If we are honest, we would describe most of these communities as “differently motivated”. Some people are, indeed, deprived despite their best efforts. But when vast communities ignore education and honest labor as a means to get ahead (undeprived?) and actually ridicule any of their neighbors who choose those paths, can we be forthright about the solution?
I agree with every word you say, except one: ‘republican’. This word is anathema to Brtish conservatives because we are all loyal subjects of His Majesty and hence monarchists. ‘Republican’ is in out lexicon fully synonymous with ‘subversive’ and ‘left-wing’.
Agreed. I typed “no government”, then paused and decided I needed some qualifier there as the BLM Marxists do want government, but not the kind you and I want. I only gave a second’s thought to it. I chose the wrong word.