NIALL MCCRAE
SO WE are all ‘far right’ now, according to our Prime Minister. To regard Keir Starmer’s words as tone deaf would be missing the point. Like he did after the Southport killings, the former Director of Public Prosecutions was quick to side with the minority over the majority after the largest-ever march of patriots last weekend.
‘Britain will never surrender the flag to those who use it as a symbol of violence, fear and division,’ Starmer asserted, failing to acknowledge the massive rally and the widespread concerns about censorship and immigration.
A more astute leader would not have made denunciation the main theme of his statement, just as a more conciliatory response to the Southport protests would have acknowledged the distress caused by the murder of innocent young girls.
Our flag, Starmer claimed (it was unclear whether he meant the union flag or St George’s cross), celebrates ‘tolerance and diversity’. That’s untrue, and the recent surge in flag-waving is defiance of the unwritten notion that we should tolerate our replacement.
What Starmer should be confronting is the visceral hatred for our country by the progressive left. To them, our colours are a red rag to a bull. Woke zealots at counter-protests outside migrant hotels would spit on their national flag, if they weren’t wearing covid masks.
Starmer’s message was intended not to alleviate but to exacerbate tension, while steadying his core support at a time when rats are thinking of jumping ship. Indeed, his boldness against the marching million was a relief to the profoundly troubled intelligentsia.
According to Jessica Elgot in the Guardian, ‘if there is a cause that could be said to unite all Labour MPs and members from left to right, it would be equality and anti-racism’ (she apparently attended the Diane Abbott school of arithmetic). Elgot noted that ‘many of them will have spent their early political lives in trade unions, student movements or charities – or working as human rights lawyers’.
She refers, of course, to Starmer, who implored courts to jail hundreds of Southport demonstrators, pronouncing their guilt before trial. Human rights are not for you and me, but for special interest groups including illegal immigrants.
Elgot hopes that Starmer’s emphatic defence of multiculturalism signals a shift to tackling the ‘progressive emergency’ indicated by the ‘biggest far-right demonstration in decades’. This would strengthen Labour, she believes, in complete ignorance of the reality of a rally populated by the very people that a successful party should strive to represent. Starmer is circling the woke wagons but this is merely political theatre
In his book The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite (2020) Michael Lind explained: ‘A class war has broken out simultaneously in Western countries between elites bound in the corporate, financial, government, media and educational sectors and disproportionately native working-class patriots. The old spectrum of left and right has given way to a new dichotomy in politics among insiders and outsiders . . . Technocratic neoliberalism – the hegemonic ideology of the transatlantic elite – pretends that inherited class has disappeared in societies that are purely meritocratic, with the exception of barriers to individual mobility that still exist because of racism and misogyny. Unable to acknowledge the existence of social class, much less to discuss conflict among classes, neoliberals tend to attribute populism as bigotry or frustration on the part of maladjusted individuals or a resurgence of 1930s fascism.’
For the likes of Jessica Elgot, anyone complaining about Muslim takeover of their home town must be a fascist. Indeed, the favourite chant of Stand Up To Racism agitators is ‘Nazi scum – off our streets!’ Trained in the tactics of Theodor Adorno, Saul Alinsky and Herbert Marcuse (whether or not they are aware of this), progressive activists do not debate or try to persuade their opponents, whom they have thoroughly dehumanised.
Lind foresaw Two-Tier Keir in observing how ‘the double standard applied to left-wing and populist protests by the establishments of the US and Europe has been Orwellian’. Just Stop Oil and Black Lives Matter are really pro-establishment, as confirmed by police practices and judicial proceedings that are at best lenient and at worst institutional encouragement.
He wrote: ‘The woke riots of 2020 were not uprisings from below. Carried out by the privileged children of the over-class, they were elite-sanctioned and elite-approved from the beginning. They were not rebellions from below, but pogroms discreetly sponsored from above.’
The strategy of the powers-that-be is to divide and rule, always favouring one side (the useful idiots) over those resistant to change. On Saturday the counter-protesters had a women-only section to lead the entourage under the banner ‘Feminists against Fascism’. This was a response to the ‘Pink Ladies’ at the forefront of the protests against illegal migrants bothering women and girls. We might ask where these feminists went when hundreds of English girls were raped by gangs of Pakistani-origin men. But the purpose was to stage-manage a scene of caring women against thuggish blokes.
Labour has these women, many of whom work in schools, universities, social services and the NHS, in its pocket, but only for as long as it remains the party of identity politics. Worryingly, some teachers whom we trust with our children’s learning are among counter-protesters calling local families ‘Nazi scum’. There’s a deep swamp of distorted morality to drain, but at least these woke women are being exposed. A regular protest chant is ‘never trust a leftie with your kids’.
With Starmer smearing everyone who attended that memorable and inspiring rally, the end is nigh for the Labour Party, which is now on the same downward spiral as the Tories. I’m happy with that prospect, but there’s a nagging doubt in my mind. Is the destructive tendency by design? Is it a problem-reaction-solution mechanism to prove that democracy doesn’t work, so that we accept government by AI? I guess that they’ll keep the facade of elections running for a while yet, with Guardian commentators cheering for their side, while patriots wonder where to turn next.
This article (Instead of smearing the ‘far right’, Starmer should be tackling the Britain-hating left) was created and published by Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Niall McCrae
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