Matt I agree with every word, and am so grateful to yourself , Nigel, Zia and others at the top of Reform for having the courage to speak out so powerfully .
Nothing but complete regime change will end this woke hegemony I hope to God people get behind Reform .
I hope the people of Makerfield send a powerful message that we have had enough and return a Reform MP
The entirety of what happened to Henry is distressing beyond belief . The grief and distress of his family knowing their boy died under such circumstances is beyond comprehension .
Personally I was proud to see the people of Southampton stand up for Henry last night, and disgusted that the “anti racism “ lot also turned out, missing the point entirely .
Speaking as a northerner , but not a Manc , I assure you Brian Burnham isn’t king of anybody , certainly not out of Manchester and I think his support is a very mixed bag even there. King of the North gets up my nose every time I hear it 🙄
Yes. Another self styled mirage by Labour. The Morrisey specs and Everton shirt are fake. They play with words. Starmer was promoted as a centrist, he’s anything but. They even talk about a ‘soft Left’ faction that includes people like Miliband. Makes it sound like a cuddly teddy bear. They are hard Left. Labour lie and deceive. About time the public and especially the media judged actions not words.
Agree. The ‘anti racism’ mob are violent thugs. Yet fly under the radar of the authorities. About time that was flagged too. But it won’t be because the Left think their ‘cause’ is pure and righteous. That’s the issue. Delusional.
Just really well said Matt. But we’re not changing course unless a true right of centre government come in. Even now the government are not learning or listening. The Home Secretary seems to have more to say about protestors than the murderer. Just like Southport. What are people to do when governments stop listening? And ‘full force of law’, what does that even mean since the ‘law’ is not even handed and has lost its meaning. Personally I want chaos to ensue. Because it seems the only way. Britain is broken.
If Justice is not blind it fails or becomes lynch law. The left have perverted our laws and stirred up community problems in the guise of DEI. Ghettos and Religious MPs are not our way. We need a reset, starting with banning postal votes for all but the chronically disabled. We need our Common Law to operate as it was intended.
Why couldn’t successive governments have had a policy of “everyone is equal irrespective of colour, race or creed.” No. They had to meddle with what would have been the perfect outcome by either not trusting white people to “give up” favourite status when 99% would have been happy to. Instead they meddled with social engineering and Blair loved “rubbing the white middle class’s noses in it.” Is it any surprise they’ve created a “shit show inside a monster wrapped in a disaster” to misquote Churchill.
Britain’s public services are plainly struggling. Whether it is policing, the NHS, local government or the civil service, many voters see institutions that appear increasingly concerned with process, targets and fashionable management theories while basic performance deteriorates. It is hardly surprising that frustration is growing.
Critics argue that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programmes have become part of the problem, creating bureaucracies more focused on identity and representation than competence and delivery. Supporters counter that such policies are intended to ensure fairness and widen opportunity, not undermine standards.
The truth is that neither side has a monopoly on wisdom. Public services require both professionalism and impartiality. Any system that promotes people for reasons other than ability will eventually fail. Equally, blaming every institutional failure on DEI risks overlooking poor leadership, weak accountability and decades of political drift.
Reform UK has tapped into this public anger by promising radical change. Whether it possesses the experience and talent to translate protest into effective government remains the question voters must answer. It appears much of the country is looking in that direction.
The country has never been like this since I was born (yeah long time ago), but I am optimistic now, for the first time in years. So many people have at last woken up.
I am trying not to let it be all consuming but it’s a daily challenge! My wife and I joined Reform and have gotten over our fear of canvassing and so appreciate lots of positive feedback on the doorstep. I would be feeling more confident if it wasn’t for the rise of Restore - though perhaps its main role will be to keep Reform “honest” on immigration?
Well said Matt. Thank God for your good sense and humanity. We face a wall of robotic misguided and deeply prejudiced left wing useful idiots adopting the playbook of totalitarian regimes. I pray that the citizens of Makerfield tick the Reform box.
Matt - your rage and concern shines through your article. It is felt by every decent, sensible, none brainwashed citizen of our country. We do recognise that DEI needs to be rooted out in all institutions- that is obviously a given. But how is the average ‘man on the street’ supposed to do that? This is not like refusing to buy Chinese goods……it is not in the power for the general public to have that kind of effect on the establishment apart from through the ballot box - and that prospect is not immediate. We can refuse to deal with companies who project the DEI image - but the state systems? You talk against public protests because of the fear of things getting out of hand - but nothing will happen without governments actually being challenged and what other course is open to us?
This tragic death is certainly a turning point - we have had enough and will not bow to insults like ‘racist’ any more. We will be more inclined to verbally assert ourselves rather than just keep quiet. But that does not change the mindset of the BBC, the civil service, the arrogant educationalists brainwashing our children as we pay for the privilege through our taxes. Is a national strike a way forward? Or do we actually need to resort to civil disobedience before ‘the establishment’ realise that this is OUR country - not theirs; that WE pay their wages and they can only do what WE gave them a mandate to do. The Parliamentary system has been destroyed by this socialist scum of a government and the whole ruling system needs to be revisited - Starmer has proven just how dangerous an ideological and tyrannical leader can be under current rules and we need a complete rethink of how our country is governed - and the entire question of why we have a monarchy that does nothing when the country suffers. I would appreciate your thoughts on the way forward from this ‘mark in the sand’ Matt and thank you for your article to bring this discussion into the open.
The demographics are only going to get worse and worse for White people. Ultimately White people will need to step over the old Left v Right paradigm and organise for their own collective interests.
White people need political representation and advocacy.
Everything else is a sideshow or containment operation.
My parents were from East Ham and even in the 70s they knew it was going to collapse. It was dreadful for them to live through. Particularly as they had believed that WW2 was all about keep England English.
I lived in Limehouse for 10 years while working in Canary Wharf. The A13 was like a land border. South of the A13 was white with some wealthy and decent Indians primarily. North was 95% Muslim. There was zero integration and people seemed to fairly happy with the segregation they had created themselves. Multiculturalism is alive and well but exists in parallel without integration. It’s no way to run a country.
Absolutely right. In all respects, but particularly about the knife. Even if this scumbag felt racially abused, how did he think that stabbing five times is an appropriate response?
Here is a newspaper article I cut out and kept, from the early 1990s, as I thought it might well prove significant. The article is by Peter Jenkins, It was the first time I encountered the term 'political correctness'. Jenkins finished by stating the importance of being aware of its 'contagions'. Clearly it was highly contagious, and has led to very serious harm.
Peter Jenkins
(The Independent, 1990-ish)
The Follies of the Politically Correct
A cultural revolution is rampaging through American universities. It has received little attention so far in the British press. It is the “politically correct” (PC) movement, and it is a phenomenon both fascinating and disturbing. It bears some resemblance to the “loony left” in its Ken Livingstone phase, but is more serious than that because of its implications for academic freedom and the cultural traditions of the United States.
There are two prongs to what is going on. One has to do with behaviour or speech. A growing number of campuses have adopted PC codes, some of which are fairly innocuous, some plain silly, and a few offensive to First Amendment rights, which guarantee the freedom of speech. The codes are designed to curb behaviour which might give offence to racial and ethnic minorities, to women, or to homosexuals and lesbians. One code, at the University of Connecticut, prohibits “inappropriately directed laughter”; at Michigan, it is forbidden to assert that homosexuality might be a psychological disorder subject to treatment. I am not suggesting that it is; the point is that one is not allowed to advance the hypothesis, and the Michigan code has been challenged in the courts as a breach of the First Amendment.
On PC campuses there is an approved vocabulary for reference to blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, and so on, and it is spilling over into all walks of life, including the law and journalism. The New York Times style book now requires the term “adult male” in place of “man”.
The second prong of the PC movement is more sinister. Humanities departments are repudiating the “canons” of Western civilisation in favour of multiculturalism. Thucydides and Plato, Shakespeare and Milton, Goethe and Voltaire are categorised as DWEMs – Dead White European Males – and struck from reading lists. At the far extremes of the movement Nubian hieroglyphics replace Roman numerals in what is dubbed “ethnomathematics”, and “feminist science” is preferred to science. Desperate attempts are made to trace the origins of Western civilisation not to the Greeks but to black African sources. The thrust of the PC movement is towards the repudiation of the whole Western cultural tradition. The biggest DWEM of them all is Christopher Columbus, who is blamed for the import of Western culture in the first place.
In accordance with deconstructionist theories, the texts of the Western canon are seen as coded embodiments of the power structures of the societies in which they were produced and, therefore, rife with racism, sexism, etc. One culture, according to multiculturalists, is no better than another: there is no such thing as impartial knowledge or “reality” in the philosophical sense; everything is relative, subjective, a matter of opinion. But instead of treating this view of the world, which is perfectly arguable, as another opinion, it is being promoted into a dogma, leading to the purging of reading lists, the suppression of free speech, and the persecution of “politically incorrect” teachers.
The fashionable intellectual theories of Foucault and Derrida are one inspiration for the PC movement. It is no coincidence that the radicalisation of the social science departments in the Sixties has migrated to English, French and comparative literature departments. The veteran left-wing intellectual, Irving Howe, attributes it to “a time when all the once-regnant world systems…. From theologies to ideologies, are taken to be in severe collapse”. But PC also has sources in the affirmative action programmes adopted by many universities. At Berkeley, California, for example, blacks and Hispanics are admitted with test scores of 4,800 out of 8,000, while white students (and Asians) require scores of 7,000 for admission. According to Dinesh D’Sousa, author of the vogue book Illiberal Education: “Each year state schools such as Berkeley and the University of Virginia turn away hundreds of white and Asian Americans with straight A’s… while accepting students from under-represented groups with poor to mediocre academic and other credentials”.
This breeds racial resentments, which the PC codes are designed to curb and amend. But it also leads to renewed efforts by the multiculturalists to flatten the playing field by cutting out Chaucer or Milton in favour of more racially appropriate, and easier, texts. Among the worst victims of this, says the Marxist historian of slavery, Eugene Genovese, are qualified blacks whose educational attainments are devalued and who find themselves ghettoised into Afro-American studies. Complains Genovese: “We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society”.
The PC movement appears less a student-led revolt than an attempt at cultural transformation imposed by college teachers and administrators of the Class of ’68. Old leftists and new conservatives are rallying together in defence of the liberal tradition. Few dispute the desirability of a multicultural curriculum; it is the intolerant zeal of the extreme multiculturalists that invites comparison with the McCarthyism of the early Fifties. Maybe it will blow itself out like other American fads. The innate silliness of much of it encourages that hope. But for the moment the PC movement is subverting the cultural foundations of the US and we should be on our guard against its contagions.
The last sentence, with “and we should be on our guard against its contagions,” sums it up perfectly; however, we failed to so guard against it, and now look where we are! 😨
Thank you for posting this Ian. So, the students of ‘68 became the academic leaders of the 1990s and have been recruiting in their own image ever since. It’s going to be a long journey to rebalance this but I hope Henry can make a dent.
Matt I agree with every word, and am so grateful to yourself , Nigel, Zia and others at the top of Reform for having the courage to speak out so powerfully .
Nothing but complete regime change will end this woke hegemony I hope to God people get behind Reform .
I hope the people of Makerfield send a powerful message that we have had enough and return a Reform MP
The entirety of what happened to Henry is distressing beyond belief . The grief and distress of his family knowing their boy died under such circumstances is beyond comprehension .
Personally I was proud to see the people of Southampton stand up for Henry last night, and disgusted that the “anti racism “ lot also turned out, missing the point entirely .
This cannot go on .
Welll said Lesley. I totally agree.
I was going to add my comment but you've said it all for me.
I hope and pray that Reform win in Makerfield. That would be a turning point for the good.
"King of the North"?
Aarrgghhhhh.
Disaster.
Speaking as a northerner , but not a Manc , I assure you Brian Burnham isn’t king of anybody , certainly not out of Manchester and I think his support is a very mixed bag even there. King of the North gets up my nose every time I hear it 🙄
Yes. Another self styled mirage by Labour. The Morrisey specs and Everton shirt are fake. They play with words. Starmer was promoted as a centrist, he’s anything but. They even talk about a ‘soft Left’ faction that includes people like Miliband. Makes it sound like a cuddly teddy bear. They are hard Left. Labour lie and deceive. About time the public and especially the media judged actions not words.
This Northener wholly agrees with your comments.
Good man Ken !
Agree. The ‘anti racism’ mob are violent thugs. Yet fly under the radar of the authorities. About time that was flagged too. But it won’t be because the Left think their ‘cause’ is pure and righteous. That’s the issue. Delusional.
Just really well said Matt. But we’re not changing course unless a true right of centre government come in. Even now the government are not learning or listening. The Home Secretary seems to have more to say about protestors than the murderer. Just like Southport. What are people to do when governments stop listening? And ‘full force of law’, what does that even mean since the ‘law’ is not even handed and has lost its meaning. Personally I want chaos to ensue. Because it seems the only way. Britain is broken.
Very well said, Matt.
"Anti-racism" is simply racism against white people.
KICK IT OUT.
If Justice is not blind it fails or becomes lynch law. The left have perverted our laws and stirred up community problems in the guise of DEI. Ghettos and Religious MPs are not our way. We need a reset, starting with banning postal votes for all but the chronically disabled. We need our Common Law to operate as it was intended.
https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/colour-blind
I agree,and Reform will not deliver, Restore Britain is our only hope.
We need a reset. Lowe's ego is not that.
Farage has an enormous ego,but he has no integrity.
Reform is a party with an organisation that can end the Uniparty rule. Lowe supports Labour.
Why couldn’t successive governments have had a policy of “everyone is equal irrespective of colour, race or creed.” No. They had to meddle with what would have been the perfect outcome by either not trusting white people to “give up” favourite status when 99% would have been happy to. Instead they meddled with social engineering and Blair loved “rubbing the white middle class’s noses in it.” Is it any surprise they’ve created a “shit show inside a monster wrapped in a disaster” to misquote Churchill.
Britain’s public services are plainly struggling. Whether it is policing, the NHS, local government or the civil service, many voters see institutions that appear increasingly concerned with process, targets and fashionable management theories while basic performance deteriorates. It is hardly surprising that frustration is growing.
Critics argue that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programmes have become part of the problem, creating bureaucracies more focused on identity and representation than competence and delivery. Supporters counter that such policies are intended to ensure fairness and widen opportunity, not undermine standards.
The truth is that neither side has a monopoly on wisdom. Public services require both professionalism and impartiality. Any system that promotes people for reasons other than ability will eventually fail. Equally, blaming every institutional failure on DEI risks overlooking poor leadership, weak accountability and decades of political drift.
Reform UK has tapped into this public anger by promising radical change. Whether it possesses the experience and talent to translate protest into effective government remains the question voters must answer. It appears much of the country is looking in that direction.
I can’t remember feeling as pessimistic about the future of our country and I have been around a bit.
The country has never been like this since I was born (yeah long time ago), but I am optimistic now, for the first time in years. So many people have at last woken up.
I am trying not to let it be all consuming but it’s a daily challenge! My wife and I joined Reform and have gotten over our fear of canvassing and so appreciate lots of positive feedback on the doorstep. I would be feeling more confident if it wasn’t for the rise of Restore - though perhaps its main role will be to keep Reform “honest” on immigration?
Me too, Steve, me too.
Well said Matt. Thank God for your good sense and humanity. We face a wall of robotic misguided and deeply prejudiced left wing useful idiots adopting the playbook of totalitarian regimes. I pray that the citizens of Makerfield tick the Reform box.
Matt - your rage and concern shines through your article. It is felt by every decent, sensible, none brainwashed citizen of our country. We do recognise that DEI needs to be rooted out in all institutions- that is obviously a given. But how is the average ‘man on the street’ supposed to do that? This is not like refusing to buy Chinese goods……it is not in the power for the general public to have that kind of effect on the establishment apart from through the ballot box - and that prospect is not immediate. We can refuse to deal with companies who project the DEI image - but the state systems? You talk against public protests because of the fear of things getting out of hand - but nothing will happen without governments actually being challenged and what other course is open to us?
This tragic death is certainly a turning point - we have had enough and will not bow to insults like ‘racist’ any more. We will be more inclined to verbally assert ourselves rather than just keep quiet. But that does not change the mindset of the BBC, the civil service, the arrogant educationalists brainwashing our children as we pay for the privilege through our taxes. Is a national strike a way forward? Or do we actually need to resort to civil disobedience before ‘the establishment’ realise that this is OUR country - not theirs; that WE pay their wages and they can only do what WE gave them a mandate to do. The Parliamentary system has been destroyed by this socialist scum of a government and the whole ruling system needs to be revisited - Starmer has proven just how dangerous an ideological and tyrannical leader can be under current rules and we need a complete rethink of how our country is governed - and the entire question of why we have a monarchy that does nothing when the country suffers. I would appreciate your thoughts on the way forward from this ‘mark in the sand’ Matt and thank you for your article to bring this discussion into the open.
I know it’s a struggle, but the ballot box is the only way to rid our country of this filth.
The demographics are only going to get worse and worse for White people. Ultimately White people will need to step over the old Left v Right paradigm and organise for their own collective interests.
White people need political representation and advocacy.
Everything else is a sideshow or containment operation.
We’re already living as parallel communities with different immigrant cultures. Where the cultures meet it usually turns into a disaster.
My parents were from East Ham and even in the 70s they knew it was going to collapse. It was dreadful for them to live through. Particularly as they had believed that WW2 was all about keep England English.
I lived in Limehouse for 10 years while working in Canary Wharf. The A13 was like a land border. South of the A13 was white with some wealthy and decent Indians primarily. North was 95% Muslim. There was zero integration and people seemed to fairly happy with the segregation they had created themselves. Multiculturalism is alive and well but exists in parallel without integration. It’s no way to run a country.
*keeping
Henry Nowak died in a river of blood. Enoch Powell was misquoted and excoriated,but he was right.
I think it is too late for inquiries and hopes for peaceful change.
Yes he literally would have done, with a punctured lung. These wooden tops need jailing.
The political elites and the institutions that support them appear to be wilfully deaf,dumb and blind to the UK version of a Groundhog DEI Day.
On the button as usual Matt, but I'm angry and sad in equal measures. I'm even speechless - which doesn't happen very often!
Absolutely right. In all respects, but particularly about the knife. Even if this scumbag felt racially abused, how did he think that stabbing five times is an appropriate response?
Here is a newspaper article I cut out and kept, from the early 1990s, as I thought it might well prove significant. The article is by Peter Jenkins, It was the first time I encountered the term 'political correctness'. Jenkins finished by stating the importance of being aware of its 'contagions'. Clearly it was highly contagious, and has led to very serious harm.
Peter Jenkins
(The Independent, 1990-ish)
The Follies of the Politically Correct
A cultural revolution is rampaging through American universities. It has received little attention so far in the British press. It is the “politically correct” (PC) movement, and it is a phenomenon both fascinating and disturbing. It bears some resemblance to the “loony left” in its Ken Livingstone phase, but is more serious than that because of its implications for academic freedom and the cultural traditions of the United States.
There are two prongs to what is going on. One has to do with behaviour or speech. A growing number of campuses have adopted PC codes, some of which are fairly innocuous, some plain silly, and a few offensive to First Amendment rights, which guarantee the freedom of speech. The codes are designed to curb behaviour which might give offence to racial and ethnic minorities, to women, or to homosexuals and lesbians. One code, at the University of Connecticut, prohibits “inappropriately directed laughter”; at Michigan, it is forbidden to assert that homosexuality might be a psychological disorder subject to treatment. I am not suggesting that it is; the point is that one is not allowed to advance the hypothesis, and the Michigan code has been challenged in the courts as a breach of the First Amendment.
On PC campuses there is an approved vocabulary for reference to blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, and so on, and it is spilling over into all walks of life, including the law and journalism. The New York Times style book now requires the term “adult male” in place of “man”.
The second prong of the PC movement is more sinister. Humanities departments are repudiating the “canons” of Western civilisation in favour of multiculturalism. Thucydides and Plato, Shakespeare and Milton, Goethe and Voltaire are categorised as DWEMs – Dead White European Males – and struck from reading lists. At the far extremes of the movement Nubian hieroglyphics replace Roman numerals in what is dubbed “ethnomathematics”, and “feminist science” is preferred to science. Desperate attempts are made to trace the origins of Western civilisation not to the Greeks but to black African sources. The thrust of the PC movement is towards the repudiation of the whole Western cultural tradition. The biggest DWEM of them all is Christopher Columbus, who is blamed for the import of Western culture in the first place.
In accordance with deconstructionist theories, the texts of the Western canon are seen as coded embodiments of the power structures of the societies in which they were produced and, therefore, rife with racism, sexism, etc. One culture, according to multiculturalists, is no better than another: there is no such thing as impartial knowledge or “reality” in the philosophical sense; everything is relative, subjective, a matter of opinion. But instead of treating this view of the world, which is perfectly arguable, as another opinion, it is being promoted into a dogma, leading to the purging of reading lists, the suppression of free speech, and the persecution of “politically incorrect” teachers.
The fashionable intellectual theories of Foucault and Derrida are one inspiration for the PC movement. It is no coincidence that the radicalisation of the social science departments in the Sixties has migrated to English, French and comparative literature departments. The veteran left-wing intellectual, Irving Howe, attributes it to “a time when all the once-regnant world systems…. From theologies to ideologies, are taken to be in severe collapse”. But PC also has sources in the affirmative action programmes adopted by many universities. At Berkeley, California, for example, blacks and Hispanics are admitted with test scores of 4,800 out of 8,000, while white students (and Asians) require scores of 7,000 for admission. According to Dinesh D’Sousa, author of the vogue book Illiberal Education: “Each year state schools such as Berkeley and the University of Virginia turn away hundreds of white and Asian Americans with straight A’s… while accepting students from under-represented groups with poor to mediocre academic and other credentials”.
This breeds racial resentments, which the PC codes are designed to curb and amend. But it also leads to renewed efforts by the multiculturalists to flatten the playing field by cutting out Chaucer or Milton in favour of more racially appropriate, and easier, texts. Among the worst victims of this, says the Marxist historian of slavery, Eugene Genovese, are qualified blacks whose educational attainments are devalued and who find themselves ghettoised into Afro-American studies. Complains Genovese: “We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society”.
The PC movement appears less a student-led revolt than an attempt at cultural transformation imposed by college teachers and administrators of the Class of ’68. Old leftists and new conservatives are rallying together in defence of the liberal tradition. Few dispute the desirability of a multicultural curriculum; it is the intolerant zeal of the extreme multiculturalists that invites comparison with the McCarthyism of the early Fifties. Maybe it will blow itself out like other American fads. The innate silliness of much of it encourages that hope. But for the moment the PC movement is subverting the cultural foundations of the US and we should be on our guard against its contagions.
The last sentence, with “and we should be on our guard against its contagions,” sums it up perfectly; however, we failed to so guard against it, and now look where we are! 😨
Thank you for posting this Ian. So, the students of ‘68 became the academic leaders of the 1990s and have been recruiting in their own image ever since. It’s going to be a long journey to rebalance this but I hope Henry can make a dent.
How is Reform's campaign in Makerfield going?