In my Spectator column this week I’ve written about the wrong-headed attempt to blame the recent social unrest on bad actors spreading ‘misinformation’ online. Not only is social media a politically expedient scapegoat – see this piece in the Conversation – but just as many people on the Left have put out misleading information in the past week as on the Right, including the Prime Minister. Here’s an extract:
For all the talk of “whipping up violence”, this sounds like a case of blaming the messenger in much the same way that ‘pirate radio’ was fingered for the riots in Birmingham in 2005, and BlackBerry for the unrest in 2011. The authorities have already started arresting right-wing social-media users for stirring up racial hatred, which looks like another example of ‘two-tier policing’. After all, no such arrests were made in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, even though hundreds of thousands of social-media users in the UK ‘whipped up’ violence against the police by accusing them of racism. During one demonstration, which the BBC described as ‘largely peaceful’, 27 officers were injured. Social media companies were also culpable – more so than now – because they promoted pro-BLM posts and, in some cases, included a BLM logo on their platforms. But Sir Keir didn’t demand they should feel “the full force of the law”. On the contrary, he took the knee.
I suppose the Prime Minister could argue he wasn’t in charge back then, but that doesn’t solve the ‘two tier’ problem, because people on the Left have been guilty of disseminating ‘harmful misinformation’ in the past week and I doubt they’ll have their collars felt. Last Saturday, Nick Lowles, the chief executive of Hope Not Hate, tweeted: “Reports are coming in of acid being thrown out of a car window at a Muslim woman in Middlesbrough. Absolutely horrendous.” Those reports turned out to be baseless, but it’s possible they contributed to young Asian men engaging in running battles with anti-immigrant protestors in the town the following day. Indeed, you could argue that the PM’s statement blaming ‘far-right’ outsiders for organising the unrest in Southport – and singling out their attack on a mosque – contributed to the violence by Asian counter-protestors over the following days. Is Sir Keir going to urge the police to investigate his own role in “whipping up violence”?
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What a relief that someone is actually calling out the Leftist Propaganda shifting all blame onto “online disinformation” as an excuse for a draconian crackdown on social media! I’ve just read Toby Young’s excellent Spectator article, and must commend the Spectator for publishing that to challenge Stephen Webb’s unjust one the same day.
Muslim violence okay.
Burn Loot and Murder. Bend your knee.
Anti White violence. That is fine.
Raping, killing white girls. Enriching.
Destroying your national culture and state. The objective.
Muslims do not assimilate. They conquer. See Lebanon, ‘Palestine’, North Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, every EU city for info.
Yes, and the importance of Toby Young’s challenge to the ridiculous propaganda about “disinformation online mistaking Rwandan for Muslim” is illustrated by this:
UK Riots: Judge jailing men for violent disorder condemns ‘twisted ideology’ behind rioting (msn.com)
“A senior judge has slammed the “twisted ideology” behind racist mobs of rioters who were egged on by “complete nonsense” being spread online about the murders of three young girls at a dance class in Southport.”
The idiot judge is actually saying that there would have been no riots if only the rioters had known the Mass Stabbing Murderer wasn’t a Muslim asylum seeker from a dinghy!!!
Oh, so that’s alright then— he was an African “born here”, as commenter Monro also intoned, so he can stab as many kids as he likes, and there’s no need for rioting.
“And in a damning assessment of those behind the violence, Judge Menary said: “Quite what they were protesting about remains a mystery to many.”
Can you believe that???! Did he even bother to ask them, in his hurry to convict and sentence without a jury? This is how the Globalist Elites talk to the peasants.
The “twisted ideology” belongs to the Leftist judge, not the rioters.
The important aspect of it is that he is an immigrant because his parents are. It matters because many people feel displaced and they have no home. He was born in Wales and then shifted to Southport. Interestingly just down the road from a Mosque. Did he attend the Mosque? Will we ever be allowed to even know?
Something triggered in him to murder little girls who represent everything Muslims hate. He was also careful to make sure he did it before he was 18 thus getting a soft sentence. Who told him about that caveat? He’ll be out in 10.
Very good points! Southport Mosque was also my first thought, but there may also be a link to another evil agenda, typified by the placards reportedly being waved by some “anti-racist counter-protesters”:
“The Pigs Will Eat The Gammons!”
This is actually incitement to murder white people, and originates in Africa. The genocidal plan was openly featured in a “fashion show” at the Avignon Festival in France a couple of years ago, where African women paraded with spears, upon which were impaled dozens of plastic baby dolls, all of white babies. I can’t find the link to the photos just now, but will look it up tomorrow if I remember. It might have been from Radio Genoa.
Wait— found it!
“What the satanism is this”: Avignon Festival in France sparks backlash over Rebecca Chaillon’s controversial skewered infants theatre show (sportskeeda.com)
FRANCE: Avignon Performance Art Festival Features Caucasian Babies “On Skewers” – The Publica
Surely the details of this Welsh/Rwandan/Muslim guy’s origins are less important than the bigger picture that is entirely missed by this idiot judge! Out-of-control rioters didn’t come from nowhere; these men who’ve had the book thrown at them shouldn’t have done what they did – but what on earth do the hand-wringers on the Left expect!? They’e spent so many years watching their homelands being handed to immigrants – some legal, hard-working and benevolent, others – lots of others – illegal, feckless and malevolent. Obviously anger is simmering, just below the surface. We barely had a far-Right in this country before this; now of course we’re all far-Right if we don’t agree with the “refugees welcome”, bien-pensant liberals – and, along with public outrage of the legal and restrained kind, come those who behave in a less restrained way. Again – what the F**K did they expect? More elegantly put (can’t recall now by whom): “”The political class who have been waving the matches of identity politics around the petrol can of mass immigration are now ‘shocked’ that it’s suddenly burst into flames.”
Spot on. And have a look at this GB News article yesterday, describing how police were “forced” to protect 4 British Patriots who showed up for a non-existent march in Brighton, before 2000 “anti-racist counter protesters” descended upon the four young men like a swarm of locusts, waving Palestinian flags, screaming, slapping one of the four in the face, then applauding as the police put them into a police van and drove away to protect them from the baying mob, none of whom were arrested for assaulting the patriot. And still, not a single Muslim has been arrested for rampaging in gangs round the streets of England with machetes, disembowelling daggers and samurai swords.
Notice also that Two-Tier Kier took time to visit a mosque to reassure Muslims, but no politicians or clergy or royals or celebrities appear to have visited any of the 13 victims of the Mass Stabbing. That says it all, sadly.
Protest news: Police protect four demonstrators as counter-protesters descend on seaside town (gbnews.com)
Agreed, Richard, and we can be certain that whether he has UK nationality or not he will NOT be removed back to Ruanda once he is released, as he should be.
Farage has asked the Security Authorities whether the “alleged” murderer was “already on their radar.”
So far he hasn’t received a response. So I think we probably know the answer to that one.
Seriously, what is this? And is that a woman wearing an Amnesty International vest? If this guy doesn’t get sacked, and preferably prosecuted, then that’s all the proof of double-standards we need;
”From the “peaceful anti-racist” protest in Walthamstow yesterday:
A man appears to shout “We need to cut their throats and get rid of them”
Everyone cheers and chants “Free Palestine”.
Who exactly is this incitement targeted at?”
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1821492062686007800
Yeah I think ‘far right’ is yet another term that’s evolved to have a completely different meaning nowadays so it can be weaponized by the democracy-hating Leftards;
https://x.com/FatEmperor/status/1821492533458809089
Ha, take that, Mother Hubbard! And let this be a deterrent to all your colleagues that are cut from the same poisonous cloth;
”Labour suspends councillor after telling counter-protestors to ‘cut all the throats’ of political opponents
Now let’s see if #TwoTierKeir has his boy jailed
And while we’re at it, @AmnestyUK
want to explain why your personal cheered him on?”
https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1821521935223996605
https://www.gbnews.com/news/riots-labour-councillor-suspended-cut-throats Arrested about an hour ago, so we’ll see.
According to a rumour (Facebook comment) Labour Councils accross the country have been tasked with stoking up fear among muslim and immigrant populations. This has certainly been happening in Reading since yesterday, when the borough council and More Immigration Merrier! groups started issueing dire warnings about imminent danger of we-don’t-really-know, causing shops in town center to be closed early and barred and local mosques cancelling public activities to “bring in security” instead. As far as I can tell, the only reason for this is Jess-Phillips-rumours, ie, Labour politicans telling people to “Be afraid, be very afraid!” or, using that now famous phrase, “increasing the perceived level of personal threat by hard-hitting emotionalized messaging”.
If the powers that think themselves to be in charge, stir up enough hatred, fear and chaos it will give them the opportunity to introduce all the draconian measures and restrictions of movement/ speech/ thinking/ anything that comes to their small mind that they deem fit to be necessary. Forgetting that the more freedoms they remove will give those they restrict with nothing left to lose.
So we know that the police plant plain clothes officers in protests, primarily to work as ‘agitators’ in order to instigate violent behaviour and generally stir things up as an excuse for the police to make their move and start getting heavy-handed, arresting people. I think it’s entirely reasonable that this is happening with the Muslim mobs too. This then crosses over into the theory ( conspiracy? ) that the UN is behind placing migrants or other people from elsewhere into the crowds either as ‘agitators’ or to work alongside the police, gathering intelligence, as we saw with the truckers protests in Canada.
There’s a lot of talk among people across several countries ( Canada, U.S, Australia etc ) online about them seeing UN aircraft and other vehicles, people who work in law enforcement saying they’ve come across people with foreign accents without any official designation making up the numbers and getting heavy with peaceful protestors, like at the lockdown protests, for instance. There’s even posts going round of how to spot them. They’re called ‘Romeos’ here in the Netherlands, for some reason, and were commonly sighted at the protests.
Here’s one example. Check out the man in the vest top in the centre of the picture, constantly looking in the direction of the camera. I think one big give-away is to be on the lookout for earpieces, although that’s why many wear caps/balaclavas, so as to hide them;
https://x.com/Emanuel_Jag/status/1821105338998829223
Agent provocateur, a term often used for that rôle.
I Googled that. Now I’m inundated with FB adverts for sexy female (XX) underwear.
The messaging certainly works. Twice this week I have been asked if I feel scared at walking home at night “what with all the riots”. I’m over 70 and live in a very average part of a very average town. I have never seen a riot or arson and very much doubt if I would be a target of a “far-right thuggery”. I am more scared of being forced to accept a lift from 65 year old drivers who shouldn’t be on the road.
Yes.
“… to young Asian men engaging in running battles…”
Hindu? Sikh? Buddhist? Chinese? Thai? Malay? Korean? (The ones we dare not mention?) Do say.
Conflating race with culture is the problem here. Race does not determine culture, to say it does is racism, but it certainly does allow the ‘racism’ label and thus Fascist/Nazi/Far Right to be attached and thus vilify, demonise, use ‘hate laws’ to oppress and suppress reasonable concerns and fears. And the lazy media joins in.
“The Lazy Media”——-It isn’t “Lazy” to have to speak from the same script as all the other bought and paid for media. It takes a bit of effort.
I made this very point two days ago. We keep hearing from the left to “mind our language” so as not to whip up hatred and incite violence. Yet here we have the silly Prime Minister whipping up hatred against anyone remotely to the right of centre in Politics by lumping them all as “Far Right”
Sunak did exactly the same in his Downing Street address as he got drenched – lambasting the far right. He would be following exactly the same script as Two Tier Kier were he still PM. All establishment parties take their orders from the same people.
Because you used social media in a certain way in the past does not absolve you from culpability these days. On-line archaeologists constantly get scalps by digging up old posts and shaming the writer. But then of course 2TK has no shame.
Starmer in one month has done more damage than the Tories in 14 years.All roads on this lead back to Labour.
There is an interesting point I have noticed in the papers. I was sat over two pints in a Pub this afternoon reading The Mail. 12 pages were all about “Far Right Groups”. Why can’t they name who these “Groups” are? They don’t exist.
The guy who was attacked and bitten on the arse the other day, then beaten by Police, was on his way home from playing Bingo. The poor sod the Police pushed over in their eagerness to get at Mr Bingo was punched at least 6 times in the face. He didn’t do anything.
Not so far away the Police asked Muslims to hand in weapons to the local Mosque. Next to no arrests yet they attacked a Pub and kicked a white man unconscious. They were carrying knives and machetes.
The Chief Commissioner trashes a reporters microphone and throws it to the ground.Where are the charges against him?
Starmer deliberately stokes the flames and makes the situation far worse. Where are the charges against him?
If seeing and telling the truth is Far Right then I am prouder than I ever have been about anything to be Far RIght. I wonder what Far Right Group I belong to?
So much about the official response to these riots stinks to high heaven. The courts which are otherwise backed up with huge delays have managed to swing into action and process these cases with lightning speed, it is like a re-run of Judge Jeffreys and the bloody assizes. The hearings have been televised, it is as if the whole thing has been orchestrated to teach us all a lesson, shut up or you will be stuffed with both barrels.
This government does not want to listen to why people feel so annoyed and frustrated,it just wants to shut them up with the dead hand or totalitarian control, so far the actions of this Government have sent a cold chill down my spine, it is if the last lot were just a useless rabble but this lot have a sinister agenda to deliver! dark days indeed.
A bit of an exaggeration saying that Starmer has done more damage in one month than Tories have done over the last 14 years. The Tories have destroyed conservatism, institutionalised woke, thrown open our borders, trampled on our freedoms and liberties, jabbed the nation with a toxic jab, trashed the economy and declared war on the Russians.
Probably because a risk averse culture has taken hold in all government departments. The idea of covering your ass above everything else. If I take a strong decision I make a point about taking full accountability and giving a full explanation. Most people don’t care about the common weal they care about protecting their own shoddy arse. That is the real enemy because that blocks pathways to resistance. It is so widespread but then I suppose the really good folk were filtered out long ago.
Should the Authorities Investigate Sir Mark Rowley For Knocking Down A Strawman?Sir Mark said he was “really pleased” with how the overnight operation played out, after a “show of force” from police.
What has played out? He is presenting it as a success against the alleged plan for a night of “far-right thuggery” but was there ever likely to be widespread rioting?
I foresee the courts becoming choked with “hate speech” crimes based on arguably excessively bloodthirsty rhetoric. Perhaps there will be pressure on the police to confect a similar number of allegations against both the “far-right thugs” and the designer-placard-waving “immigrants welcome” enthusiasts, in order to avert allegations of “two-tier policing”.
More generally, the problem is not tattooed thugs pushing the boot in but the suit-wearing activists in the civil service police and academia pushing the agenda in!
I submitted a crime report to the Met about Rowley’s apparent Criminal Damage.
No response. Not expecting one.
Yea they should. FSU should demand an investigation. We must fight the left the way they fight us. No compromise. Make them feel the heat.
In over 2000 years, the indigenous black people on the continent of Africa never built or launched a single seaworthy boat to allow them to escape Africa. There was not a single two storey building built, just basic huts made with wood straw or stones. Not a single statue was erected to an influential black person. It was only when the dreaded white man arrived did that change. They don’t act or think or create as white people do. That statement was made by a black priest.
100% yes.
My reasons?
1) We know from the reaction in Northern Ireland that the trigger for the violence there was Starmer cancelling Rwanda – plain and simple. Deaf to the concerns of the 80% of the voters who did not vote for him and did not elect him. He clearly has no democratic mandate and especially not for cancelling Rwanda – and he has absolutely nothing to replace it with.
2) it was irresponsible to claim there were going to be 100 separate ‘Far Right’ demonstrations when that was plainly far left wing misinformation to make him look good when none of it happened.
The question is how come he and Cobra and all those police chiefs swallowed it hook line and sinker when there was no sound basis for it – it was a hoax.
So either they all chose to accept that nonsense or the state of criminal intelligence in the UK is dreadful and operates of hoax rumours of the most dubious spurious kind.
And if the latter is the case we should be calling on Starmer to resign and he should resign for so badly misleading the entire country.
3) he did not recall Parliament because if he made the same claims in Parliament he would be forced to resign for misleading Parliament.
4) which is worse? Misleading the entire country with false claims which cost the country so much just to make him look good or misleading Parliament?
WELL DONE TOBY FOR CALLING HIM AND HIS FAR LEFT THUGS OUT.
WE ALL SAW WHAT THEY DID THIS WEEK AND I HAVE COMMENTED SPECIFICALLY IN EXACTLY WHY THEY ARE JUSTIFIABLY CALLED THUGS.
THE DARTFORD COUNCILLOR WHO WAS ARRESTED LOOKED AND SOUNDED TO ME 100% LIKE A THUG.