They all got most indignant at the suggestion it was only racism, but with the veneer of “look over there at Islam”, and the claim “if it’s only about religion, then it can’t be racist”. Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who styles himself Tommy Robinson, and who is now on the run from an arrest warrant somewhere in mainland Europe, was a prime exponent of this ploy.
“Tell me what I said that’s racist” he would angrily and aggressively declaim in the face of anyone who used the R-Word against him. If you were especially unlucky, he would declaim it several times, but not to ensure you were unsettled and unable to get a word in edgeways, you understand.
Well, now it is not only in Southport that locals have been left to clear up following probably-not-really-spontaneous rioting. The town saw a shocking knife attack on a dance and yoga class for little girls; the suspect was British, not a migrant, not a Muslim, and had not come here on a small boat. So the rioting was, er, anti-Muslim. The local mosque was targeted and attacked. And so came the giveaway. It was never about Islam. It was just racism.
Because the suspect was of African heritage. Not a Muslim, but not white. So as he was not a Muslim, there would not be rioting targeting a local mosque, right? The Southport knife attack was as vicious as it was fatal for three of those little girls, but it had nothing to do with Muslims. So there would not be anti-Muslim rioting, because it was about Islam and not racism. Right?
“I have to say there are one or two questions. Was this guy being monitored by the security services? Some reports say he was, others less sure. The Police say it’s a non-terror incident, just as they said the stabbing of an Army Lieutenant-Colonel in uniform on the streets of Kent the other day was A. Non. Terror. Incident. I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. I don’t know the answer to that … a fair and legitimate question”.
Farage is, as usual, full of crap. As he is now an MP, he could have gone to Parliament and asked his “fair and legitimate” questions there. Instead, he chose to broadcast to his followers with an added serving of nudge-nudgery.
Now we hear that the far right are intent on organising more “protests”, for which read “excuse for the Gammonati to get aled up and kick off, then blame the cops, anyone who is not white, Rotten Lefties™, Scary Muslims™, and the MSM™”. Stephen Lennon, in between generating excuses for skipping the country so abruptly, is meanwhile sneering that the Southport stabbing suspect, who comes from Cardiff, does not have a Welsh-sounding name.
And Farage is hosting shows on Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”) telling the world that most of these Muslim chappies are OK people, but, and this is a big but, some of them, well, y’know … sharp intake of breath, are you thinking what he’s thinking, he’s only telling it like it is.
The rioting, though, nails both of them. It was never just about Islam. It was always about Good Old Fashioned Racism. We see the both of you.
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There will always be apologists for the far right. Politicians who deliberately starve children, deliberately deprive pensioners of the means to heat their homes and who promote the false "immigrants crisis" for their own gain - then show up at Southport in full-on hypocrisy.
There are varieties of apologist. These days some of them call themselves "the Labour Party". The very epitome of rotten-to-the-core hypocrisy.
Farage is a menace.
This has been long planned out. Suspecting, as everyone did, a Labour govt, who would be, according to the right, (both in govt and out), 'soft on immigration' the far right have set out to fire a shot across the govts bows. Reform and Tommos thugs are clearly in cahoots, the sickening events in Southport just gave them a new target in a campaign that will roll on over the summer. Worse, the police were unprepared for the level of violence and scale of the campaign. As with so many of the nations problems, that's down to the former Conservative govt. Their 'equality Tsar', in his made up report, told the govt, while there is a 'massive' threat from 'brown people' of an Islamic persuasion, there is no risk, at all, from the far right. Uh, huh..
These riots were going to happen somewhere regardless, it's this election's Jan 6 moment.
A great piece, unfortunately the many who have most need of reading this won't.
Spot on, Anonymous 15.47
The one person guilty of murdering 3 kids and critically injuring others before instigating drunken xenophobic rioting and attacks on mosques by football yobbos is, yes, The Quiffed Quisling!
'We want answers*', eh?
* Courtesy Stephen Yaxley-Lennon
Dear God, the Daily Mail BTL comments on this...
Anonymous @ 15:47 - you've not escaped onto the Mail Online comments sections, have you?
That was the single most disgusting statement made by a senior politician I have ever heard, enabled by the quisling mainstream media. Utterly appalling on so many levels. So called Democracy is over...
Yes, it’s hard to tell the difference in tone, language or rabid paranoia between one ‘treachery’ obsessive and another, eh
Bertie
It would have been appropriate if Starmer and Cooper had stayed away and left the local community to gather round and try to help the victim families. The very last thing they need is opportunist politicians taking public relations advantage of a terrible horror in a town they will never visit again. You can guarantee they won't repeat the exercise for the children they starve and the pensioners who die of hypothermia this winter. Apologists for them will of course come out from under the usual stones.
The victim families remain the only concern in this, not some tenth rate here-today-and-gone-tomorrow lying spivs.
Yaxley-Lennon is is no position to talk about names given the number of different ones he uses in the furtherance of his criminal activities.
How to get rid of the EDL Farage Daily Heil mob. Works every time.
https://youtu.be/1RX43xpy90k?feature=shared
I wonder how Mr Stephen McMaster, Tommy, Yaxley, Lennon, Robinson or whatever he is calling himself this week, how did his Irish mother arrive in the UK? A boat perhaps?
There's absolutely no excuse.
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I find it odd how these law and order supporting right-wingers who pour scorn on Just Stop Oil and other non-violent protesters, are so strangely sympathetic to violent thugs.
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For every so called rioter, there are many many more sat at home willing them on. If immigration is not curbed, what you are seeing now is a very small glimpse into the future.
I look forward to seeing many of these scum being woken at 5am by the police, dragged out of their homes in front of their kids and neighbours and then the inevitable tears as their employers sack them for 'bringing the company into disrepute'. 'FAFO', as I believe they say.
A logical development caused by a political and media class who peddle continuous far right lies.
Britain 2024....and getting worse.
I'm sure Anonymous Ad Nauseam will be delighted to know he shares the same ideological views of the real "Far Right" in blaming Starmer for all this. Horseshoe Theory and all that.
And here comes the new battle-cry of the fash: "Two Tier Policing". Well, I'm happy for Plod to kick the shit out of you and stamp on heads like they did in Manchester airport, which no doubt they approved of. Meanwhile "Kemi says 'we can't ignore tensions'", according to the Mail.
Anonymous 14.57
Yes, the last few days have clearly shown up (as if it was actually necessary) that you reduce language to meaninglessness if you chuck around terms like 'far-right' like a petulant kid with his Lego bricks.Language is important.
However, I see that he's changed his (very repetitive) tune somewhat. It seems that the usual suspects now 'peddle continuous (sic) far-right lies' rather than actually *being* far-right.
Baby steps........
Oo look.
Quisling apologists with the usual smear tactics. That's the usual far right apologists for
- A Zionist-without-qualification supporter of genocide, mass murder and apartheid
- A Starver of children
- A depriver of heated homes for pensioners
- A continuity politician for far right tory thievery
- And of course a proven liar and hypocrite
So no change there for the Quislings.
14:57.
Quisling "Labour" is still Quisling for a'that.
Despite the usual attempts to "Look Over There".
Horseshoe theory is so named because everyone who believes in it must have been kicked in the head by a horse.
Studies time and time again show the Liberal and right wing positions converging.
I don't agree with anonymous, but Starmer represents a philosophy that has allowed this to run rampant. This was including pinning rhetoric against Bangladeshis in the build up to the general election.
He now must find answers, not just on crime but the causes of crime. We can only beat the dark times by allowing the light to come in.
Horseshoe theory is proven true by the right and left both supporting censorship and state control where it suits them.
Only if by 'left' you mean 'Communist'. There is no such thing as 'Communist' state as defined by Marx. The only thing that separates fascism and Leninist states is that State control of production by fascist states is covert, allowing private sector businesses the illusion of having a free hand. Horseshoe theory in the real World is bunk.
No, no, no, it wasn’t about the far right. It wasn’t far right violence.
It was those patriotic nice men and women with nice swastika tattoos, hoodies, baggy shorts, black socks with black trainers.
Nothing to do with that nice Daily Mail by that nice Rothermere or that nice Sun by that nice Murdoch or all those nice TV and radio news broadcasters.
No, it was never far right. No, not never. And we've never had far right racist governments for forty five years, and this one isn't either despite what people are saying about kid starving and pensioners freezing.
No, none of it is far right.
And next week choco rations go up from thirty grammes to twenty grammes. Doubleplusjollygood. Wonderful Starmer times these. Getting better every day....
I thought Bertie would give the worst response.
Horseshoe theory isn't where two sides might agree for different reasons, it is a structural analysis (London since debunked) showing causation and correlation.
It can't also be something you've made up in your head. Liberals and right wingers are far more likely to vote for censorship.
In all honesty that's just how GB news and the Tory press (inside pages, the support for law and order must be upheld on the front) are portraying it. Just as, shockingly (well, maybe not 'that' shocking) some senior Torys are, including one Kemi Bedenoch. All very naughty, but well, if you 'will' allowed immigrants in, what do you expect? Is their line. As for Starmer and New Labour, we can see already that spin is the order of the day, with sod all substance. If they can't even follow through on their promise to re-nationalize our railways, the cops can forget any substantive support against swastika covered Neanderthals.
Horseshoe theory? Nothing to do with me, Mr Balls. (Not that it would ever be 'where' anything).
Try to read the names at the top of the posts more carefully. Or just have fewer Pimms on your picnics before rushing home to snipe.
18:05.
Ah, yes. The ol' "It wasn't me guv" ploy.
The plot sickens.
I don't think I ever said it was you Bertie. You should put down the babychams before posting.
Ed, 11.36
I see.
Your post as it stands seems to imply a stress on 'thought'. You needed to indicate a stress on 'Bertie' instead.
Be careful about trying to clarify things, though. Brer Rabid (above @ 21.16) seems to imagine that to do so constitutes recourse to a 'ploy', in fact the infamous 'it wasn't me guv' ploy, part of the elaborate general conspiracy that is life in the 21st century.
That is just bunk with no parallel in English grammar though.
You read it incorrectly and you're now doubling down. That is how JK Rowling went the way she did.
The power of Zelo St, eh?: Ed Balls is trending on TwitterX!
Ed 'Trending on Twitter' Balls 13.16
There is no 'correct' or 'incorrect' in an ambiguous statement, except in the head of the writer.
And 'no parallel in English grammar though' is not biguous at all.
(JK Rowling? Sorry, never been drawn to read any Harry Potter but don't let me stop you).
So I make a statement that in no way indicates you endorsed horseshoe theory and you then say I've been drinking? But that's ok because you've gone death of the author on us?
I suppose it makes sense to you Bertie.
And, no, can't say I've read Harry Potter myself. Tried the first Strike, wasn't for me. But, again that wasn't really the point was it!
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