If you thought apocalyptic doom-mongering was the exclusive preserve of the Climate Change lobby, think again. We seem to live in an age when claiming that we’ve passed the point of no turning back and irreversible change is plunging us towards Armageddon is a significant industry, especially in the media. But then it probably always was.
As far as the Left is concerned, we’re facing the world being consumed by a conflagration of global warming and flooding, while the Right seems increasingly convinced that we’re only a few years, if not months or weeks, from social breakdown and fighting in the streets. But let’s not forget – the Left thinks that if we don’t all give up meat, live in yurts and forget the words ‘car’ and ‘aeroplane’ we’ll get all that anyway.
At the heart of this is ‘the Malthusian fallacy: forecast of doom predicated on one change that does not take other changes into account’ (Social Science Journal 2005). It all goes back to a newspaper revolution in the 19th Century that “sparked activists, influencers, disinformation and the Civil War” in an age that couldn’t even have imagined the internet.
Tim Stanley has written an astonishing piece for the Telegraph in which he claims that Britain is lurching towards civil war and that nobody has any idea how to prevent it. It’s a remarkable development that content like this has appeared in the mainstream press:
On one night in Westminster, I met someone who argued for voluntary repatriation, two generations back; a Labour activist told me we must “re-educate” Muslims; and Jacob Rees-Mogg, debating me on GB News, said Britain should take “zero” refugees. I spluttered a reply about the good Samaritan and staggered off to bed, confused and depressed.
For two decades I’ve argued for controlling immigration, and successive governments, including Jacob’s, increased it. Suddenly I’ve woken up in a land where everyone manically wants to reduce or even reverse it, and they’ve leapfrogged me into a pool of dark resentment.
Nigel Farage is mocked as a “dhimmi” for appointing a Muslim to chair his party; he looks nervous of his own supporters. Even Labour has turned on the Sentencing Council, which, for all its faults, was trying to fix a genuine racial disparity (it’s black people who tend to get longer sentences than whites, not the other way around).
On that last saga, so much hinges. It goes to the heart of how a society kills itself with kindness.
Stanley picks up on Louise Perry’s interview with the historian David Betz on Youtube, explaining that:
Betz argues that the conditions for a failed state we ordinarily apply overseas are now found here: frayed social contract, falling trust, polarisation. Into this mix Britain injected multiculturalism, encouraging millions to move here without expecting integration.
If you think “fear of the other” is a human instinct, the policy was mad to begin with. Combine it with economic decline and you invite ethnic competition over services and jobs.
Implicit in the Sentencing Council’s guidance is the belief that when you operate a multicultural society – packed with groups with different values and experiences, advantages and handicaps – the only way to achieve equal outcomes is to treat people differently. In this spirit, says Betz, the modern state acts like an imperial administrator, promoting the interests of preferred minorities while trying to avoid a riot.
Stanley is gravely concerned by how the celebration of diversity has been nothing short of dangerously divisive:
I grew up in a post-colonial world where we said “I don’t see race” and honestly, if naively, meant it. Over the past 30 years, liberal institutions have taught us to see race again – by stressing the wonders of diversity so persistently that some white people feel the State has actively taken a side against them. Ancient, binding concepts, such as “equality before the law” ring hollow. The latest Police Race Action Plan openly rejects the principle of “treating everyone the same” in favour of “equality of police outcomes”.
A situation in which millions believe cops are not impartial public servants but an occupying force is the headline metric of state failure. Mainland Britain has become Ulster.
It isn’t an endorsement of white resentment to acknowledge that it’s real and growing, that beyond the curated Question Time audience, millions have evolved from irony to nihilism to something more disturbing.
Such an article would have surely been unthinkable a few years ago, so why now?
In fact, the low level insurgency has already begun. Ireland has seen arson at asylum hotels. Last year, Britain had riots. Why did No10 insist that so many be thrown into jail? Betz notes that while Islamist terrorism is more lethal than far-Right extremism, there are only four million Muslims whereas there are around 50 million whites.
Were the latter group radicalised, things might go south very fast, hence some in the security forces clearly regard white Britons as the emergent threat.
Well, when “a formerly dominant social majority fears it is in danger of losing that dominance,” to quote Betz, it doesn’t surrender its position quietly – and yet this is what elites constantly tell the white working-class they must do, while refusing to abandon their own privileges.
With democracy abandoning this “formerly dominant social majority”, emigration impossible and aspirations unattainable, Stanley wonders how anyone could be surprised about the very real risks of violence and is perturbed about the State’s possible reaction. He reminds his readers:
Did you ever think the State could imprison us in our homes? And if it can isolate the diseased from the healthy, the vaxed from the unvaxed, do you think it can’t, or won’t, someday separate us based on race or religion?
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, Robert Jenrick, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, argues that everywhere you look Britain has become a two-tier country, and that we have only narrowly just escaped the recommendations of the Sentencing Council which were suspended the other day. These, Jenrick said, “would have discriminated against men, white people and Christians”, had they gone ahead, but form part of a wider culture of a two-tier society:
I recently unearthed the [Sentencing] Council’s immigration guidelines, which water down sentences for immigration offences to below the 12 month threshold for automatic deportation. If enacted, it will mean that hundreds of illegal migrants and foreign offenders will avoid deportation, blowing another hole in our borders.
Last week, the Telegraph uncovered that the Ministry of Justice published new guidance in January which states probation officers must give regard to an offenders “culture” and whether they might have been subjected to “intergenerational trauma” from “historical events” centuries ago. Yes, you read that right. This is bonkers cultural relativism that is not just wrong, but puts the British public at risk.
And it’s spread all the way to frontline police officers, who are being told by the NPCC that they should treat ethnic minorities more leniently, saying that it would be wrong to be “colour blind” and “treat everyone the same”. They are striving for “equity” not “equality”. It comes as no surprise that Labour’s policing minister gave it her endorsement.
The depressing reality is that the two-tier sentencing guidelines were really just the tip of the iceberg. Everywhere you look under Keir Starmer we have a two-tier system, where ethnic and religious minority groups are given special treatment. And instead of getting infrastructure and new homes built, his deputy, Angela Rayner, is wasting her time on a definition of Islamophobia that may afford Islam protections against criticism and satire that no other religions benefit from.
Jenrick claims that a two-tier system is laying the foundations for ‘social unrest’:
The social fabric of our country has frayed because of unprecedented levels of mass migration, coupled with the denigration of British culture. We now see the balkanisation of parts of our major cities and the proliferation of groups lobbying for ethnic and religious interests.
Also worth reading in full.
And if all that seems bad enough, meanwhile William Sitwell warns about the prospect of a summer of chaos at the hands of JSO V.2 aka Youth Demand:
To encourage folk to join their merry dance, they are branding themselves as a veritable Just Stop Oil 2.0, as glittering and tempting as an iPhone upgrade; joining together those two couture lines of protest: pro-Palestine and anti-fossil fuel.
“Young people are resisting,” they declare on their new website, conveniently forgetting to add the words “going to work”.
And then there’s lots of frightfully cross stuff. In fact, they give Dave Spart, that parody of a Left-wing agitator in Private Eye, a run for his money. “The Government is engaging in absolute evil… they are enabling genocide… contributing to the murder of billions to keep the fossil fuel profits flowing.”
Apparently ‘Youth Demand’ is planning:
Daily co-ordinated actions, with plans to “shut down London with swarming road-blocks day after day”. And, doubtless, a lot more. Think the usual soft targets of art galleries and sports venues. Yes, the very same places that offer “real quiet and sanctuary”.
For some, that sanctuary lies in the snooker hall, a diverting contest between two artists of the cue and cloth. For others, it’s a quiet road in London on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Yet this mob, with its fetish for protest and banging drums, frothing at the mouth and countenancing no reasoned argument; no nod, even, to actual reality (the sovereignty of a democratic country, the right to a warm home and hot water, for example), plan to disrupt and harass. And all the while not touching the, albeit phantom, “fossil-fuel elite”. But they will, for sure, annoy the living hell out of everyday folk going about their lives.
Worth reading in full if you’ve nothing better to do.
Come, let us take a muster speedily:
Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.
Shakespeare, Henry IV Pt. 1
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I think it’s easy to fall into the same echo chambers of doom and gloom. I’ve been down and dire many a times about “the current events”, whatever they were over the last 4 years…
I think in reality we’re just going through the same motions. Go outside and sit in the pub, go to the local park, chat with people living their lives. The overwhelming majority of non-internet folk really just gets on with it (and each other) perfectly fine.
Sure London is a shit hole, but the rest of us will be totally fine.
In an age where all interactions with authorities and many with companies are basically online only, it’s a safe assumption that the hypothetical majority of non-internet folk has long since ceased to exist.
That complacency is exactly how wars – it will never happen here – start.
Had you gone down the pub, the local park, and chatted with people in the late 40s and 50s and opined that within 30 years the coal mines would be closed, the UK would have no aircraft industry, or car industry, its textile and consumer electric industry would be gone, shipbuilding gone, they would call you doom and gloom merchant.
Sure. But living in a fever pitched state constantly only for the worse to happen regardless can’t end well either. History repeats itself and one can only focus on the here and now; community, family and trying to be happy is all we can do.
No ordinary Brit is “living in a fever pitched state constantly”!
Ok
The way to ensure the next generation enjoys what we enjoyed is to be ever vigilant and to remove those from power that seek to destroy the West as we know it.
Eh? Something had to be done otherwise you, and everyone else will be Dhimmis in a Muhammadan dominated state. The cowardice of us is apalling.
I think you are ignoring the issues which are real. I can understand why people do that. It is much less distressing andtakes up less time and effort.
Yes.
For ninety percent of the population everything is tickety boo but if they ever wake from the Great Denial there will be a hell of a lot of wailing and recriminations.
I get it. I’ve been close to violently enraged since Convid.
But I’m tired, boss…
Maybe.
Yes London Is a shithole .
But even elswhere things are going Downhill fast.
How? How do I get on with muhammadans who want to convert me, and my fellow countrymen into Muhammadan idiots, like them. And to lock up our women and introduce cruel punishments for medieval crimes?
We are being invaded and cannot, yet, fight back properly. Normie mindsets are why we are in such a crappy state.
It’s not just London which is a shit hole though, is it. So are Birmingham, Leicester and many other northern cities and towns …. and it’s spreading.
I live down in rural Dorset where formerly genteel Bournemouth is rapidly turning into a shit hole … and the enrichment is spreading out of the Bournemouth/Poole conurbation.
Our criminally demented rulers have replaced our formerly safe, orderly, low-crime, high-social trust society with its opposite. They did this deliberately – because the leftists hate the white working class, and the globalists (including many “Tories”) want to turn us all into interchangeable producer-consumer units who have no group loyalties. Hence, for example, the insanities of The Great Replacement, and the mass rape of our children at the hands of our rulers’ beloved population imports.
The question now is what do we do about it. My own belief is that nationalist revolution is the only way to save our people and our country.
But that’s exactly why the Communist lawyer illegally occupying the post of PM cracked down so brutally on the Patriot Protests last summer…because it was the ONLY TIME that ordinary Britons had risen up to vent their RIGHTEOUS WRATH against the deliberate destruction of their country and the murderous gang rape of their children by hostile, parasitic aliens forced upon them by successive treasonous governments.
It was the ONLY TIME, and though the Working Class Patriots were UNARMED, they were brutally crushed by the government, attacked by roving gangs of MUSLIMS ARMED WITH MACHETES, and denounced by Middle & Upper Class Britons everywhere.
Police have seized the legally-owned guns of the farmer Rupert Lowe, because of the false accusations of a Muslim with hearing problems (Rupert had said to him “I’ll cut this short” at the end of their political argument, which the Muslim with hearing problems and a penchant for Taqiyya, shrieked to police was “I’ll cut your throat” or some such nonsense.
How many MACHETES have been seized by police from the MOSQUES where an actual Muslim police officer told the Muslims to stash them? ZERO.
And how many times did police question the Imam at Southport Mosque where the Southport Stabber attended? ZERO.
The Irish government did the same thing to Irish Patriots when they held angry protests against the same Muslim Aliens murdering Irish children: the government cracked down brutally on the Patriots, while mollycoddling the Aliens, and all the protests died down.
That’s why I doubt very much that there will be a “nationalist revolution”, because the Communist/Liberal/Globalist Propaganda has been too successful in lulling the population to sleep, draining away their will to resist.
Farage is a dhimi as the article mentions.
None of the ‘parties’ represent me, and I am 70% of the population – white, normal, heterosexual, Catholic (whilst many others are professing atheists, ‘rationalists’ etc etc), worker, Father, and proud of my race, culture and heritage.
Of course there is going to be civil strife.
Interestingly, the Rona fascism is never mentioned. Medical Nazism over a non-existent bat virus, the LDs, the Stabs, the murders, the complete destruction of the ‘magna carta’ and my rights, apparently never happened.
The Rona coup only accelerated the inevitable slide into civil violence.
May I point out that British citizens identifying as Catholics are only 8.3% of the population. Those who were raised as Catholics comprise 13.7%.
The 1689 Bill of Rights gave PROTESTANTS THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS for self-defence, after the Armed Catholic Massacres of Unarmed Protestants.
The Protestant Church of England is the Established Church of This Land, with all the rights and privileges thereof.
According to the Law of This Land, no Catholic, Jewish, or by extension Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Maori Cannibal or anyone other than a
PROTESTANT may hold the posts of
MONARCH or MONARCH’S PRIME MINISTER.
This means that Catholic Truss, Hindu Sunak, and Jewish Starmer have all held the post of Prime Minister ILLEGALLY.
I haven’t checked your facts and figures, I don’t feel that I need to either, but I will say that that’s a very interesting point.
Most people just get offended, so thanks for taking it seriously.
Many also bring up Jewish Disraeli, Catholic Boris and Blair, but Disraeli converted to the Protestant faith in order to advance in Christian society, Boris converted at university after discovering he would be ineligible for PM as a baptised Catholic, and Tony Blair had to wait until leaving office before openly converting to his wife’s Catholicism. That’s also why PM Boris declined to join ex-US President Biden and his wife when they attended Catholic mass during their state visit to the UK.
Catholic Rees-Mogg is one of the few who knows and respects the law, and that’s why he has never put himself forward as a PM hopeful.
To his credit, Michael Gove pointed out the law when Teresa May took office as PM, saying that as a Closet Catholic, May had no right to occupy No. 10.
Catholic Robert Jenrick and Olukemi Adegoke Badenoch are similarly ineligible.
Even Labour has turned on the Sentencing Council, which, for all its faults, was trying to fix a genuine racial disparity (it’s black people who tend to get longer sentences than whites, not the other way around).
Implied assumption: It simply cannot be that people are sent to jail because they committed crimes! It must be racism!
It should be extremely easy to prove this: Compile a statistic of criminal punishment by skin-colour which shows that black people are consistently sentenced harder for the same crimes than white people. So, why isn’t the Diversitygraph doing this instead of pumping out essentially fact-free opinion pieces? This would certainly be a journalistic scoop if it were possible.
About 80% of prison inmates are male – it must be sexism.
We need to start sending more women to gaol and fewer men, therefore.
It’s 96% of prisoners, as of last year, that are men. Must be something or other to do with them being less likely to obey the law;
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/women-and-the-criminal-justice-system-2023/statistics-on-women-and-the-criminal-justice-system-2023-html
Mogs yes Indeed blokes make the law and break the law, and ladies help out by having babies.
Law of nature, love.
Having said that, there have been extraordinary women, whose significance must never be denied boudicca, Joan of arc, Maggie to name but 3.
And Florence Nightingale.
I like your clear reasoning.
Makes sense to me. Fair’s fair, after all, and Equality is Equality.
Black on black knife crime has been no secret.
There is never a “lurch” into war, wars always start years beforehand, and there is a slow slide that speeds up until the first shots are fired – then everyone is astonished that they hadn’t seen it coming, irrespective of how many warnings there had been.
Every war in history has been a clash of cultures, one trying to dominate another, or one trying to escape domination by another, or jealousy, fear,
So my view is there will be a culture war because it’s like a chemical reaction which has to happen when the mix and catalyst is right, and not just because of the foreign cultural influx but also the internal debauched woke culture.
May I just point out, from that excellent photograph above, to all those Leftists & Liberals & Mainstream Media & Middle & Upper Class People who Denounced those Patriot Protesters for “Trying to Burn Migrants Alive”, that
CONCRETE DOESN’T BURN.
And if the Patriots were trying to burn down the hotel, they wouldn’t have tried to burn a CONCRETE WALL with a couple of WHEELIE BINS in broad daylight in front of the world’s media.
In all these protests, no Muslims were harmed, no Third World Fake Refugees were harmed, ONLY WHITE PEOPLE WERE HARMED, and that includes white police officers.
A civil war requires two sets of elites who are opposed to each other. There is only one set in the UK.
Farage, like Cromwell, is effectively a member of the establishment. If Cromwell hadn’t acted like a king, the Puritan revolution may have been more enduring.
The system of governance known as diversity is operated by many at all levels of society. It shows no indication of cascade failure. The liberals become illiberal in operating it, but that is effective. Given the demographic vandalism, and the deracination, there’s no other arrangement. Rayner isn’t wasting her time. It’s the only thing left to her.
If anything, what is occurring is the Lebanonisation of the country. As in that country, people’s involvement in politics ends when they exit their front door. Their concern is with their own immediate family.
Starmer may announce the end of globalism, but the software of globalism has ossified into hardware, at least in the UK.
His announcement would really be an attempt to appease Trump. Globalism was created by the USA when they last reorganised their empire in the early 1970s. Now it no longer serves their interests, it is being replaced by something else by Trump’s team. Only von der Leyen hasn’t caught up yet.
That’s right all wars are basically between political élites, with the peasantry serving as expendables.
That Is why I really don’t want to even joke about It.
Its a serious business.
Yours is a great quote to remember:
“All wars are basically between political elites, with the peasantry serving as expendables.”
Here’s to civil peace in a civilised society…
…All citizens treated equally under rule of civil and criminal law
…Government and civil service put the interests of citizens above personal and party interest
…Nation that pioneered Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights, acts accordingly
That’ll do to be going on with – cease not from mental fight.
The Great Repeal Act
Beautiful post.
“hence some in the security forces clearly regard white Britons as the emergent threat.”
They could take the can’t beat them join them stance, after all, that is what Farage has done. Also, the armed forces sometimes side with their citizens.
Hopefully.
Well I sincerely hope not, war Is a hideous thing and civil war even more so, but large scale and occasionali violento civil disobedience seemed to be only language 2TK understands, so yes being it on.
Lets hit the streets in our hundreds of thousands and give the bastard something to think about.
Human relations are mostly governed by the rule of Tit for Tat. If Tom buys Harry a pint, Harry will probably return the favour. This rule does not apply to muslims. If Tom and Harry provide Mohammed with a free hotel room and a free mobile phone, Mohammed still has a religious duty to kill them or make them second-class citizens in an islamic state.
At long last, someone gets it! Well said.
Any country that brings in wholly different cultures, many of which are completely incompatible, and does not insist on integration, is heading for oblivion. Initially, when the percentages are low it seems fine and each new minority group can grumble that the majority seems not to accommodate them but, as the percentages rise, squabbles start between the growing minority groups and issues in the wider world are replicated within the country’s society. This process grows in amplitude and, if unchecked, leads to societal instabilities and unrest, with a real possibility of civil war. Look around the world and societies consisting of wholly different cultures tend not to be stable. The present trajectory of Britain can only be described as plain insane and the manner in which it has occurred as a tragedy for the nation.
Some form of Civil breakdown is perfectly understandable given the widespread anger and feeling of hopelessness amongst ordinary, native Brits. Demands for change can be achieved in ways other than street fighting.
Widespread withholding of government funds (eg Council Tax) is one way but it must be done as a populist movement not by an identifiable group set up to co-ordinate such non payments or Starmer’s army will come knocking.
Tim Stanley might not “see race” but non-British races do: see Laurie Wastell’s article above.
So the answer is, yes?
The fetid, over privileged scumbags of JSO, and other groups that pretend to protect the environment and illegal, unassimilable alien invaders (migrants), do not realise who they are angering. When the civil breakup starts, the angered ones will descend on the privileged bien peasant classes and take sweet revenge.it won’t be pretty.
Yes.