If you ever get your collar felt by the thought police then please ask them why they didn't turn up when my daughter was attacked by shoplifters in Aldi and when car thieves had a go at my car and cost me £900.
I also joined the Free Speech Union recently. It's not that I say or write anything bad or dubious about anyone or any group, but I have never been so concerned or depressed about free expression in this country.
It really feels like The State (not just the government, but politicians generally, judiciary, MSM, police, civil service, even academia) wants to control not just what we say, but even what we think.
This is becoming increasingly scary and horrifying but it shouldn’t be surprising. They’re simply following the Marxist playbook, curb dissent and criticism by censorship and clamping down on speech they disagree with, lock people up in order to frighten people into submission, cancel elections, take over private farming land in order to control food production and distribution……the list goes on.
Please join the Free Speech Union everyone. Even if you don’t need their services, they need the money to support people who do. And thank you Matt for speaking out so forcefully and giving the majority a voice.
I think he accepted it as a relief to his pride from the days when he among the elite, a boss of a chain of the new Academy schools, so liked by Blair and co but, -while in an interview he made a poorly judged remark and instantly became a pariah. So his pals had to drop him!
On the other hand it has had him realise how easily words said in public can change one’s life these days, this century. Let’s hope he does work from within to change a megalomaniacal ideology that is squashing the British traits of needing justice, fair play, truth.
Yes, join Reform, join the FSU, support Toby Young and Claire Fox in the HoL and elsewhere, support people like Matt Goodwin (who we might loosely call right-leaning) and Paul Embery (who we might loosely call left-leaning) [an illustration of the futility of using those terms to categorise everything including your salt and pepper] and DLTBGYD!
It gives him a platform from which he can say what he needs to say on our behalf. Join the FSU before it’s too late. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic, before it’s too late.
If he speaks in the HoL he will get better publicity than if he goes on a TV programme or writes a newspaper column. For example, the head of Migration Watch is on the TV all the time as he speaks in the HoL.
Shame his party allowed all this garbage to proliferate, we wouldn't be in this mess if the Tories hadn't been so socially liberal and woke. Theresa May declared herself woke and proud, they went down hill rapidly after that.
Yes,but their views are in the minority and the facade of democracy still has to be maintained, their shamelessness and degradation will be exposed. Look at Trudeau in Canada.They can be ousted, legitimately,but we will probably need to go through a chilling and oppressive couple of years,before the yoke is lifted and there is a reckoning, much like life under Cromwell.I hope!
I think that you are right Stephen. At least I hope so.
It’s pretty clear that we are very far behind the curve though. I’m not sure exactly why. But I suspect that the false dawn of the Boris ’realignment’ in 2019, which turned out to be a total chimera, has set us back a few years.
Boris dropped us all in the s**t when it comes to immigration and also Ukraine. We should have nothing to do with that war. There was a peace deal on the table and Boris convinced Zelensky to tear it up, leading tk the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, plus the financial cost to us with our contributions that we cannot afford! It's time we had a leader that puts Britain first and stops trying to help the world when our country is completely broke and broken.
Our money doesn't really support Ukraine, it is channelled via Ukraine and the US defence sector straight to every main stream politician's favourite company, BlackRock
I used to have friends in the Home office. They argued about those who went to St John's who weren't clever enough, doctrinal matters concerning transubstantiation and the Catholic Church and tickets for Glyndebourne. Now we seem to have people who might like to have worked for Beria,egging him on as to increasing the number of shootings that might ingratiate them with Stalin.
Yvette Cooper might wonder what on earth they have started, but maybe I'm being fanciful.
At the Free Speech Union’s farewell event for Graham Linehan, he was asked by a member of the audience his reason for leaving the UK to work in the USA. ‘Because it’s no longer a free country,’ was his reply. So true. So very sad.
At this point, I’m beginning to think the solution might be for all the home nations to declare independence from Westminster and Whitehall. It’s very clear where the rot lies and the effort of getting rid of it while keeping the current system intact might be impossible. Starting again from the ground up might be the only way.
It's a new disease called "Trump derangement syndrome" as I keep telling my sanctimonious progressive friends and colleagues. I secretly hope that one of them will report me to the Po's so when they come around to have a chat with me I can tell them face to face that they are three years late in turning up to investigate why my daughter was attacked by shoplifters in Aldi.
If only people would wake up! Britain is a signatory to UN Agenda 2030, and to the UN Compact on the free-movement of people. This means that by law, we must achieve Net Zero by 2050, which means that meat is banned, fertilizers are banned, dairy farming is banned, we must eat locusts, farms are converted into areas of solar panels and wind farms; flying is banned, driving is banned as is travel which is why everyone is to be shepherded into fifteen-minute cities; all houses must be heated by heat pump. On top of that we must allow anyone who wishes, to come and live here, which obviously means that the population will rise very quickly to over 100,000,0000, which will result in total gridlock on the roads and railways, hence the banning of travel, and extreme poverty, completing the conversion of Britain into a Third World Country.
Of course this will mean the end of Britain as a nation state, because it will be impossible to have any sort of social cohesion when there are so many different social groups living here, which is why all the ethnic minorities are given protected status and which is why two-tier everything exists; from policing to medical treatment to housing, ethnic minorities are placed above the indigenous population, in order to destroy the fabric of Britain as an historic state and replace it with an open-border land mass. This was all planned as far back as the Nineteen Seventies, during Heath's time when Britain joined the Common Market and a Government memo spelled out that joining the Common Market meant: 'of course this will mean the end of British sovereignty, but by the time that the public find out it will be too late'. This trajectory was turbo-charged by Blair, who initiated the Supreme Court, with Parliament subservient to it, and subservient to Brussels also, as well as the Human Rights Act which meant that minorities of any type were given superiority over the majority and the state was powerless to confront it.
Thus we reach the modern definition of 'Far-Right' to describe anyone who is proud of Britain, anyone who is Thatcherite, anyone who believes in fair-play, anyone who believes in freedom of the individual, anyone who believes in borders, anyone who believes in the rule of law being applied equally to every citizen, anyone who believes in achievement through merit, anyone who believes in deportation for foreign criminals, anyone who sees through the Net Zero scam, anyone who supports Reform, anyone who describes themselves as a Conservative, anyone who watches GB News, anyone who is frightened of Islamic terrorism, anyone who dares speak the truth and anyone who believes in common-sense and the evidence of their own eyes. Every oppresive measure this Marxist Government forces upon us is to enforce Agenda 2030 and the ending of Britain as a nation state, exactly as is happening in Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the EU. Our only hope is Trump, but whisper it, in case the Government label you Far-Right.
Totally brilliant. The only problem for this Marxist Oligarchy plan is thst we the real people of this country 'ain't standing for it. We say NO, NO, NO !
I agree with you Alan, but there are two problems that are almost insurmountable: 1, the vast majority of people are sheep and simply believe anything that they are told, especially by the BBC; and 2, throughout most of my life I watched as the subjugated people of the Soviet Bloc struggled to break free, but the state had complete control of everything and neither the Hungarian Uprising, nor the Prague Spring managed to overthrow their governments. We have an advantage over those movements in as much as we have SOME free media, but if our masters succeed in shutting it down (which they must do in order to maintain their hold over us) then we are stuffed. There is a reason why the first target in any military invasion is the tv and radio broadcasters. I honestly believe that Trump is our only hope, I really do; I pray that he realizes that the future of Western civilization hangs on his actions.
Two words-LECH WALESA who managed to do it for Poland. We went back there for a 3 week holiday during the cold war in 1964 (I was born in Salisbury, England) and brother was spying on brother for "the party".
My older cousin was a talented surgeon and she was married to a barrister and they were living with her parents, my aunt and uncle in a 2 bedroom flat !!
In the UK it would have been 6 bedroom detached with swimming pool in the stockbroker belt. They pushed the boat out for their western relatives and took us to the Opera, The Barber of Seville so even communism appreciated the arts.
An amazing man! Fancy going from shipyard electrician to President of your country and having dinner with the Queenof Britain at Buckingham Palace. Miracles do happen.
Behind all this the Fabián Socialist determination to create the Socialist Commonwealth by subverting not only democracy but the norms most believe in. It's not far fetched to say that what's going on is straight out of 1984. Destroy our beliefs and values and re write our history. We need to fight back. https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/when-is-33-7-more-than-51-89
Thanks for that link Michael. The response to the Brexit referendum by the elite class still makes my blood boil. I’ve been making myself annoyed by reading Tim Shipman’s excellent series of books on the subject. The attempts to overthrow democracy were what a real ‘insurrection’ looks like imho!
The article you link to contrasts the attitude to the Referendum vote with the reaction to last year’s election. I wrote about this very subject at the time. And how demands for ‘compromise’ when the results were 52-48% melted away when Labour won its majority with, as the article says something like 20% of the ‘potential vote’. You might find it interesting. It’s quite short. ATB.
Excellent article, thank you. We have a huge fight on our hands. Reform is no perfect, but it is time for real conservatives to leave the Tory party and stop splitting the vote.
Absolutely agreed. I admit I had high hopes for Kemi despite the warnings. She has turned out to be a total damp squib.
I am not a natural Reform voter, although I did vote for them last time. It seems they have the momentum at the moment. And good luck to them, they’re certainly filling the vacuum left by the hapless Conservatives.
yes indeed! If you wanted to destroy a people, first destroy their history. I also recommend the book by Frank Furedi, The war against the past. it is devastating. it shafts these swine with a thousand arrows
So BLM are pushing a far right narrative because their whole point is to accuse the police of two tier policing. The same applies to the Macpherson Report and all the leftists who have accused the police of institutional racism.
The racist far left have once again been doing exactly what they decry as far right in others.
It is fundamental to our way of life that this nonsense is stopped. Do they think we're frightened through being labelled 'Far-Right'? It's just a label that is becoming devalued through over-use. It doesn't stop people thinking what they think, it merely drives it underground and gives it greater potential to erupt into something far uglier in due course. Open discussion is what is needed. Children resort to name-calling because they don't have the capacity for reasoned argument or debate. Likewise the 'Far-Left' politicians we have in place at the moment know that they can't produce a sound argument in return so they seek to shut down the discussion. In doing this they drive more people to Reform UK and sign the warrant for their own demise. Bring it on! Time to lance the boil!
Multiculturalism has failed. Well it has but not with all cultures. One is , no matter how it deviates from the vision of social integration, protected from offence and criticism to exceptional levels. If one espouses those behaviors and attitudes based on Christian teachings one is labelled "far right"
If that's the case so be it I shall be reconciled to that. However the "Far right" of today is not what previous generations understood it to be. Interestingly the elites still attribute it to have the same meaning their fathers and grand fathers understood it to be. To the rest of us it's a meaningless,apart from recognising a level of human decency, cheap slur. Perhaps a slur to be worn as a badge of honour.
Talking of badges of honour, I've had the idea of button badges reading 'I'm a far-right extremist' with underneath in smaller print 'according to the government'. Perhaps I could get the FSU to produce some.
Yes Alan. We do mate. It’ll take until 2029 but when Reform win we must not forget what these Trotskyites have done, including Starmer who’s one of them, and there must be a payback including exploring opportunities to bring charges against them for abuse of power.
Joined the Free Speech Union several months ago when I realised where the wind was blowing. I am so angry that it has come to this, but I won't kneel for anyone. It's extraordinary that I have become politically active at the age of 65yrs. I can't wait for the thought police to come knocking on my door. For me it will be a badge of honour. NHCI's are the new ASBO's. Everyone needs to speak up and stand up to these ideological bullies.
One of the most ridiculous aspects of these NHCIs is that like Alison Pearson encountered when they would not tell her what her alleged crime was, or point out the offensive tweet, or who her accuser was or how they has been harmed by her action. How can you defend yourself in these circumstances?
Yesterday I joined The Free Speech Union. It seems this government is only going in one direction - shocking and sad for our country.
If you ever get your collar felt by the thought police then please ask them why they didn't turn up when my daughter was attacked by shoplifters in Aldi and when car thieves had a go at my car and cost me £900.
You can't expect them to deal with trivia like this when someone is being misgendered on Twitter
Joining the FSU is an absolute must these days. What a brilliant organisation.
I joined very soon after the election last July.
Joining the Reform party and donating time and money to Reform is one way to fight back against the Uniparty and the blob.
Yep, done that got the T shirt as well ☺
Yes I already have. Protect yourself and your own. We are living under a dystopian government and a few years more to go.
I also joined the Free Speech Union recently. It's not that I say or write anything bad or dubious about anyone or any group, but I have never been so concerned or depressed about free expression in this country.
It really feels like The State (not just the government, but politicians generally, judiciary, MSM, police, civil service, even academia) wants to control not just what we say, but even what we think.
Truly shocking. Truly Orwellian. Truly shameful.
This is becoming increasingly scary and horrifying but it shouldn’t be surprising. They’re simply following the Marxist playbook, curb dissent and criticism by censorship and clamping down on speech they disagree with, lock people up in order to frighten people into submission, cancel elections, take over private farming land in order to control food production and distribution……the list goes on.
Please join the Free Speech Union everyone. Even if you don’t need their services, they need the money to support people who do. And thank you Matt for speaking out so forcefully and giving the majority a voice.
Absolutely. The FSU is very much a beacon in the darkness.
The head of the FSU has just accepted a peerage so he joins Westminster/Whitehall from where this ideology happens. Rather bi-polar by the guy!
He can be a dissenting voice like Claire Fox and I’m sure he will be.
I think he accepted it as a relief to his pride from the days when he among the elite, a boss of a chain of the new Academy schools, so liked by Blair and co but, -while in an interview he made a poorly judged remark and instantly became a pariah. So his pals had to drop him!
On the other hand it has had him realise how easily words said in public can change one’s life these days, this century. Let’s hope he does work from within to change a megalomaniacal ideology that is squashing the British traits of needing justice, fair play, truth.
Did you get a heads up TT!? :). Today the news, - ‘ It will be headed up by Mr Holden, alongside Labour MP Graham Stringer, and Baroness Claire Fox.
However the celebrity signing is newly-ennobled peer Toby Young, a long-time free speech advocate [ ].
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2007298/APPG-Free-speech-labour
No I didn’t see that. Thanks Sarah, that’s great news. We need many more people to join in with an organised fight back.
Toby has done much good work. Pity he didn't turn down the peerage though. After all, the UK honours system is now a mark of shame.
Maybe you need to fight the problem from within?
Exactly. He's taking the fight into the heart of power. I trust him and back him!
Yes, join Reform, join the FSU, support Toby Young and Claire Fox in the HoL and elsewhere, support people like Matt Goodwin (who we might loosely call right-leaning) and Paul Embery (who we might loosely call left-leaning) [an illustration of the futility of using those terms to categorise everything including your salt and pepper] and DLTBGYD!
It gives him a platform from which he can say what he needs to say on our behalf. Join the FSU before it’s too late. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic, before it’s too late.
If he speaks in the HoL he will get better publicity than if he goes on a TV programme or writes a newspaper column. For example, the head of Migration Watch is on the TV all the time as he speaks in the HoL.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LsbRrTULpgA
Here’s Dominic Frisby to cheer us all up.
Dominic was onto this kind of things ages ago - he was correct!
I love that!😂😂😂
Robert Jenrick tweeted:
"The officials that produced this factually incorrect garbage are unfit to serve the public.
They should be fired."
which succinctly sums things up.
Shame his party allowed all this garbage to proliferate, we wouldn't be in this mess if the Tories hadn't been so socially liberal and woke. Theresa May declared herself woke and proud, they went down hill rapidly after that.
We are in the hands of morally and intellectually bankrupt ideologues, who seem hell bent on turning the UK into the DDR.
It’s genuinely scary Stephen.
Yes,but their views are in the minority and the facade of democracy still has to be maintained, their shamelessness and degradation will be exposed. Look at Trudeau in Canada.They can be ousted, legitimately,but we will probably need to go through a chilling and oppressive couple of years,before the yoke is lifted and there is a reckoning, much like life under Cromwell.I hope!
I think that you are right Stephen. At least I hope so.
It’s pretty clear that we are very far behind the curve though. I’m not sure exactly why. But I suspect that the false dawn of the Boris ’realignment’ in 2019, which turned out to be a total chimera, has set us back a few years.
Something else to blame Boris for!
Boris dropped the ball. Nigel must do better.
Boris dropped us all in the s**t when it comes to immigration and also Ukraine. We should have nothing to do with that war. There was a peace deal on the table and Boris convinced Zelensky to tear it up, leading tk the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, plus the financial cost to us with our contributions that we cannot afford! It's time we had a leader that puts Britain first and stops trying to help the world when our country is completely broke and broken.
Our money doesn't really support Ukraine, it is channelled via Ukraine and the US defence sector straight to every main stream politician's favourite company, BlackRock
Agreed Patrick. We’ve been let down too many times by false prophets!
They are attempting to usher in a new religion to rule over us!
I used to have friends in the Home office. They argued about those who went to St John's who weren't clever enough, doctrinal matters concerning transubstantiation and the Catholic Church and tickets for Glyndebourne. Now we seem to have people who might like to have worked for Beria,egging him on as to increasing the number of shootings that might ingratiate them with Stalin.
Yvette Cooper might wonder what on earth they have started, but maybe I'm being fanciful.
At least the DDR remained German in population, no mass immigration there!
I think I'd be prepared to tolerate even a DDR style government if it would restore an English England.
At the Free Speech Union’s farewell event for Graham Linehan, he was asked by a member of the audience his reason for leaving the UK to work in the USA. ‘Because it’s no longer a free country,’ was his reply. So true. So very sad.
I saw that. What a terrible reflection on the oldest modern democracy with our history of free speech and fighting for our rights. I am so angry.
This bureaucratic reaction seems to be very much of a piece with 'blame the knives for the stabbings'...
Yup. Exactly this Jason. I wrote about this very issue on my Stack today.
You did indeed - just read it!
So true and spot on Matt. Rebellion cannot be far away IMHO!
At this point, I’m beginning to think the solution might be for all the home nations to declare independence from Westminster and Whitehall. It’s very clear where the rot lies and the effort of getting rid of it while keeping the current system intact might be impossible. Starting again from the ground up might be the only way.
Like the old film ‘Passport to Pimlico’.
Could be a good idea!
If they see something as a “far right narrative” , fine thats their point of view.
The thing is still either true or not true.
Keep pushing these idiots to back up their claims with empirical evidence at every opportunity!!!!
The far right narrative i think has nearly run its course just like the Trump/Hitler bs of the last 8 years
Thanks Matt
It's a new disease called "Trump derangement syndrome" as I keep telling my sanctimonious progressive friends and colleagues. I secretly hope that one of them will report me to the Po's so when they come around to have a chat with me I can tell them face to face that they are three years late in turning up to investigate why my daughter was attacked by shoplifters in Aldi.
If only people would wake up! Britain is a signatory to UN Agenda 2030, and to the UN Compact on the free-movement of people. This means that by law, we must achieve Net Zero by 2050, which means that meat is banned, fertilizers are banned, dairy farming is banned, we must eat locusts, farms are converted into areas of solar panels and wind farms; flying is banned, driving is banned as is travel which is why everyone is to be shepherded into fifteen-minute cities; all houses must be heated by heat pump. On top of that we must allow anyone who wishes, to come and live here, which obviously means that the population will rise very quickly to over 100,000,0000, which will result in total gridlock on the roads and railways, hence the banning of travel, and extreme poverty, completing the conversion of Britain into a Third World Country.
Of course this will mean the end of Britain as a nation state, because it will be impossible to have any sort of social cohesion when there are so many different social groups living here, which is why all the ethnic minorities are given protected status and which is why two-tier everything exists; from policing to medical treatment to housing, ethnic minorities are placed above the indigenous population, in order to destroy the fabric of Britain as an historic state and replace it with an open-border land mass. This was all planned as far back as the Nineteen Seventies, during Heath's time when Britain joined the Common Market and a Government memo spelled out that joining the Common Market meant: 'of course this will mean the end of British sovereignty, but by the time that the public find out it will be too late'. This trajectory was turbo-charged by Blair, who initiated the Supreme Court, with Parliament subservient to it, and subservient to Brussels also, as well as the Human Rights Act which meant that minorities of any type were given superiority over the majority and the state was powerless to confront it.
Thus we reach the modern definition of 'Far-Right' to describe anyone who is proud of Britain, anyone who is Thatcherite, anyone who believes in fair-play, anyone who believes in freedom of the individual, anyone who believes in borders, anyone who believes in the rule of law being applied equally to every citizen, anyone who believes in achievement through merit, anyone who believes in deportation for foreign criminals, anyone who sees through the Net Zero scam, anyone who supports Reform, anyone who describes themselves as a Conservative, anyone who watches GB News, anyone who is frightened of Islamic terrorism, anyone who dares speak the truth and anyone who believes in common-sense and the evidence of their own eyes. Every oppresive measure this Marxist Government forces upon us is to enforce Agenda 2030 and the ending of Britain as a nation state, exactly as is happening in Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the EU. Our only hope is Trump, but whisper it, in case the Government label you Far-Right.
Totally brilliant. The only problem for this Marxist Oligarchy plan is thst we the real people of this country 'ain't standing for it. We say NO, NO, NO !
I agree with you Alan, but there are two problems that are almost insurmountable: 1, the vast majority of people are sheep and simply believe anything that they are told, especially by the BBC; and 2, throughout most of my life I watched as the subjugated people of the Soviet Bloc struggled to break free, but the state had complete control of everything and neither the Hungarian Uprising, nor the Prague Spring managed to overthrow their governments. We have an advantage over those movements in as much as we have SOME free media, but if our masters succeed in shutting it down (which they must do in order to maintain their hold over us) then we are stuffed. There is a reason why the first target in any military invasion is the tv and radio broadcasters. I honestly believe that Trump is our only hope, I really do; I pray that he realizes that the future of Western civilization hangs on his actions.
Two words-LECH WALESA who managed to do it for Poland. We went back there for a 3 week holiday during the cold war in 1964 (I was born in Salisbury, England) and brother was spying on brother for "the party".
My older cousin was a talented surgeon and she was married to a barrister and they were living with her parents, my aunt and uncle in a 2 bedroom flat !!
In the UK it would have been 6 bedroom detached with swimming pool in the stockbroker belt. They pushed the boat out for their western relatives and took us to the Opera, The Barber of Seville so even communism appreciated the arts.
Nil desperandum-We will win !
An amazing man! Fancy going from shipyard electrician to President of your country and having dinner with the Queenof Britain at Buckingham Palace. Miracles do happen.
Loved this piece. Now following your substack. Start writing!
Thank you.
Brilliant.
Behind all this the Fabián Socialist determination to create the Socialist Commonwealth by subverting not only democracy but the norms most believe in. It's not far fetched to say that what's going on is straight out of 1984. Destroy our beliefs and values and re write our history. We need to fight back. https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/when-is-33-7-more-than-51-89
Thanks for that link Michael. The response to the Brexit referendum by the elite class still makes my blood boil. I’ve been making myself annoyed by reading Tim Shipman’s excellent series of books on the subject. The attempts to overthrow democracy were what a real ‘insurrection’ looks like imho!
The article you link to contrasts the attitude to the Referendum vote with the reaction to last year’s election. I wrote about this very subject at the time. And how demands for ‘compromise’ when the results were 52-48% melted away when Labour won its majority with, as the article says something like 20% of the ‘potential vote’. You might find it interesting. It’s quite short. ATB.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lowstatus/p/conservatism-is-dead?r=evzeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Excellent article, thank you. We have a huge fight on our hands. Reform is no perfect, but it is time for real conservatives to leave the Tory party and stop splitting the vote.
Thank you Michael.
Absolutely agreed. I admit I had high hopes for Kemi despite the warnings. She has turned out to be a total damp squib.
I am not a natural Reform voter, although I did vote for them last time. It seems they have the momentum at the moment. And good luck to them, they’re certainly filling the vacuum left by the hapless Conservatives.
yes indeed! If you wanted to destroy a people, first destroy their history. I also recommend the book by Frank Furedi, The war against the past. it is devastating. it shafts these swine with a thousand arrows
So BLM are pushing a far right narrative because their whole point is to accuse the police of two tier policing. The same applies to the Macpherson Report and all the leftists who have accused the police of institutional racism.
The racist far left have once again been doing exactly what they decry as far right in others.
Excellent point re BLM, etc. Typical of their "it's ok when we do it" hypocrisy.
It is fundamental to our way of life that this nonsense is stopped. Do they think we're frightened through being labelled 'Far-Right'? It's just a label that is becoming devalued through over-use. It doesn't stop people thinking what they think, it merely drives it underground and gives it greater potential to erupt into something far uglier in due course. Open discussion is what is needed. Children resort to name-calling because they don't have the capacity for reasoned argument or debate. Likewise the 'Far-Left' politicians we have in place at the moment know that they can't produce a sound argument in return so they seek to shut down the discussion. In doing this they drive more people to Reform UK and sign the warrant for their own demise. Bring it on! Time to lance the boil!
Multiculturalism has failed. Well it has but not with all cultures. One is , no matter how it deviates from the vision of social integration, protected from offence and criticism to exceptional levels. If one espouses those behaviors and attitudes based on Christian teachings one is labelled "far right"
If that's the case so be it I shall be reconciled to that. However the "Far right" of today is not what previous generations understood it to be. Interestingly the elites still attribute it to have the same meaning their fathers and grand fathers understood it to be. To the rest of us it's a meaningless,apart from recognising a level of human decency, cheap slur. Perhaps a slur to be worn as a badge of honour.
Liberalism has hollowed out Christianity and is wearing it as a skin.
Our struggle is blood and soil. The English are an ETHNIC GROUP and deserve to remain a majority in their own ancestral homeland.
Well said, Roger Scruton is clapping in heaven!
Talking of badges of honour, I've had the idea of button badges reading 'I'm a far-right extremist' with underneath in smaller print 'according to the government'. Perhaps I could get the FSU to produce some.
Brilliant idea and a fund raiser for them.
FRE sounds a good talking poing
We need REFORM now !
Yes Alan. We do mate. It’ll take until 2029 but when Reform win we must not forget what these Trotskyites have done, including Starmer who’s one of them, and there must be a payback including exploring opportunities to bring charges against them for abuse of power.
Also Matt can you please stop putting pictures of Starmer etc. on your articles - I know why you do but I can't physically look at him any more!
😂 I always turn down the volume when he’s on tv. I keep imagining him with a peg on his nose.
It's affecting my ability to take news in - I know it shouldn't but I can't stand to look at him
Me too strangely, is he deaf or partially deaf ?
There seems to be a lot of it in Labour..Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves, Sadiq Kahn. Maybe it’s years of looking down their noses at the plebs.
I have a far more lurid, nay scatalogical, imagination.
You would be the one needing a nose peg in his presence, to keep out the whiff of Sulphur.
Joined the Free Speech Union several months ago when I realised where the wind was blowing. I am so angry that it has come to this, but I won't kneel for anyone. It's extraordinary that I have become politically active at the age of 65yrs. I can't wait for the thought police to come knocking on my door. For me it will be a badge of honour. NHCI's are the new ASBO's. Everyone needs to speak up and stand up to these ideological bullies.
Know exactly how you feel - had completely different plans for my retirement as well.
That said, boomers do seem to be natural rebels so maybe we shouldn't be surprised.
Took me until 73 well actually 72, joined Reform then!
Sir, you are a patriot!
Ay I am and proud of it, you too I suspect !
One of the most ridiculous aspects of these NHCIs is that like Alison Pearson encountered when they would not tell her what her alleged crime was, or point out the offensive tweet, or who her accuser was or how they has been harmed by her action. How can you defend yourself in these circumstances?
You can't as it is a "non-crime"standard processes don't apply
.