Last night’s violence around the Bell Hotel in Epping Forest saw Metropolitan and British Transport police deployed alongside Essex constabulary. According to social media posts and police statements the hotel was damaged and officers were attacked. Social media posts seem to show a protester being run over by a police van driving at speed.
Today, police and politicians have condemned the violence, with the local MP, Neil Hudson, tweeting: “This is completely unacceptable… these violent scenes are no us, not Epping, not what we stand for.” The message from the police is similar, with their statement drawing a distinction between peaceful protesters and “others intent on offending”.. The message is clear. Violent protest is illegal and un-British.
But this violence has not appeared by chance. The most recent trigger was the arrest on July 8th of Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, a 38 year-old man who’d arrived in the country from Ethiopia via a small boat on June 29th, claimed asylum, and then been housed at the Bell Hotel. On July 10th, Kebatu was remanded in custody while awaiting his trial, likely to be in August. This wasn’t enough for locals though, who gathered outside the hotel last Sunday in order to protest. Meanwhile, two security staff responsible for protecting the hotel were seriously assaulted by a group of men. Of course, the police are treating this incident as racially aggravated.
Many locals want this hotel closed. Councillor Chris Whitbread, Leader of Epping Forest District Council, even issued a statement saying:
Let me be absolutely clear. Epping Forest District Council has consistently and repeatedly opposed the use of the Bell Hotel to accommodate asylum seekers. From the outset, we warned the Home Office that this site is entirely inappropriate.
Placing vulnerable individuals from a wide range of cultural backgrounds into an unsupervised setting, in the centre of a small town, without the proper infrastructure, support or services, is both reckless and unacceptable. It puts pressure on local services, causes understandable concern for residents, and is unfair on those placed in the hotel.
The Home Office must now face the reality of the situation. The Bell Hotel must be closed without delay. Our warnings have been ignored for too long.
So the local council has opposed this hotel being used to house asylum seekers “from the outset”. They want the hotel closed. This is not unreasonable. No one wants hundreds of strange single men, statistically far more likely to commit sexual offences, living alongside them and their families. The local school is less than 500 yards from the hotel. The fact that these men live at our expense makes it even more galling.
The majority of protesters were angry, but entirely peaceful, something which even Essex police recognised in their statements. Many parents attended, worried for the safety of their children. They mostly seem to be local people who have just had enough. As one mother said:
Every child’s right is to walk to school and not fear that they are going to be sexually assaulted or raped. We do not live in a Third World country. This is the United Kingdom the last time I looked.
It’s hard to argue with her words (and worth listening to all of them), and I’m sure they will have stirred the hearts of those hearing them. But words alone are not enough.
Should all the protesters have remained peaceful? Why didn’t they follow the proper processes? A letter to their MP or a Parliamentary petition perhaps. Perhaps they knew those options would make no difference. The British regime has ignored decades of elections where people voted against mass migration. This week we learned it gagged the press and Parliament in order to hide the migration of tens of thousands of Afghans at great cost. Politicians and civil servants from across the parties have consistently demonstrated that they place the safety of foreign men above that of British men, women and children.
So what are the people of Epping supposed to do? Democracy is a machine for keeping the peace and ensuring that power is handed-on peacefully. We vote because we trust that the system, however imperfectly, will reflect our will. But if people come to realise that their votes are ignored, that they are lied to and betrayed, what then?
It is no surprise that people turn to violence in such circumstances, and we are likely to see more such violence if the state doesn’t change course. This is made even more likely by the examples of the Harehills riot last year and the protests after the Manchester Airport attacks. In both cases concerted force caused the police and the state to back down. Similarly, last summer we saw a police officer persuading a group of Muslim men to leave their weapons in the mosque and go home.
We live in an anarcho-tyranny where the regime punishes those who are weak and compliant, while backing-down in the face of concerted opposition and force. People watch. They see who gets punished and who doesn’t. And they learn.
So what, really, did the regime – politicians and the police – expect? When everything else is exhausted, people will turn to violence, because violence is the only way of being heard. If the state doesn’t change course, and fast, we will see many Eppings.
David Shipley has sold fork lift trucks, worked in corporate finance, produced a film and served a prison sentence for committing fraud. He now campaigns for prison reform and works as a prison inspector. You can find his website here.
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Ed Miliband is an imbecile, Labour are deranged.
Even if we were to somehow miraculously reach the (Agenda) 2030 net Zero goals (absolutely no chance at all), we represent about 1% of the worlds population and therefore only 1% of global so-called emissions – so totally and utterly irrelevant. China and the US (plus others) are increasing their so-called emissions, and our paltry contribution comes nowhere near offsetting their increases.
Britain is leading the world in blind stupidity! How marvelous.
Sorry, if you don’t mind my asking, in which way was the policy of the Conservative Party government’s any different?
The most recent most aggressive Net Zero targets were passed into law by Theresa May’s government.
It wasn’t.
I think the analogy would be more like a WW1 general ordering the advance while safely tucked away nowhere near the front line.
‘Lions lead by donkeys’.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Let the anger build. We need rage.
I will never forgive Boris for his “build back better” speech, at a time when we were deep in lockdown and we wouldn’t have had to build back at all if they hadn’t F*cking taken a bulldozer to our way of life already!
Correct 👍
I never claimed they were, the article was about Labour (insofar as they are the incumbent government) and thick Ed.
The Tories were equally deranged, as were the plans put forward by the imbecile Lib Dems and even worse Greens.
I put forward no defence of any of the Uniparty. They are all braindead when it comes to Energy and “Climate”. It’s hard to believe any of them actually believe the insane rhetoric, but it appears some most certainly do, they appear to believe endless amounts of money can fix a non-existent problem!
Yes—-But they are NOT braindead about energy and climate. They know what they are doing. ———Following orders from the Davos World Government people who think the wealthy west living standard is too high, and Miliband is rubbing his hands with glee that he now has 5 years at least to lower that living standard drastically and he isn’t wasting much time.
Yes I think the Tories thought they would do us a favour and not have us pretend to save the planet till 2035, but apart from that they are all in on it, except Reform (at the moment) They all waved Net Zero through with no vote and no debate. They are all complicit in our impoverishment just so they can get a little gold star on their lapel from the UN/WEF.
The Tory policy was better in that they were doing it slower 🙂
Good point! All establishment parties are signed up to this madness which makes you wonder why so many people opposed to Net Zero still lent their votes to them just two months ago. Those who did appear just as crazy as the parties they voted for.
Will these morons leave the country once they have finished it off ??
Once they cease to be useful, they will disappear, though they don’t know that yet.
Why is the question?
The UK and Europe are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
They can stick to their green policy and failed attempt to get the world to follow the lead and crater demand for oil and gas.
Or they can go out into the market and buy oil and gas as the supplicant they are, to the nations they have hitherto controlled, or influenced or messed around with with various regime change shenanigans. That would mean accepting these nations as equals or even, God forbid superiors and relinquishing the status of world leading nations.
That’s what’s at play.
It’s going to be a tough next few decades for the former great powers.
It’s going to be a tough next few decades for us, the indigenous population.
Saudi Arabia was never colonized. Here are the top 10 oil producers showing yearly production in Barrels.
1 United States 14,837,639,510
2 Saudi Arabia 12,402,761,040
3 Russia 11,262,746,200
4 China 4,905,070,874
5 Canada 4,596,724,820
6 Iraq 4,443,457,393
7 Iran 4,376,194,355
8 United Arab Emirates 3,772,788,273
9 Brazil 3,242,957,836
10 Kuwait 2,990,544,137
Britain acted as a protectorate for the UAE and helped stop Marxist revolutionaries getting a foot hold – this is a good thing. Britain’s involvement in Iraq and Iran was similar to the UAE and that was to protect British and Western interests from Marxist revolutionaries.
These “green fantasies” are imposed onto us by the unholy duopoly of the US democrats and the UN and they’re implemented by a bunch of better fifth columnists lording over us in the name of their American and globalist masters.
Nonsense really deserves a second reply: European countries have been importing oil and gas ever since they started that as it was cheaper than continuing to mine their domestic coal reserves. Mining operations started to be shut down in the 1980s, ie about 40 years ago, and by that time, they were already only still running because the state subsidized them in order to enable them to compete with cheaper imported fuels. The OPEC had its heyday in the 1970s when the exercised a sort-of power globally but has again fallen by the wayside because there’s more money to be made by selling oil than by withholding it in order to play tradewar. Considering the time, mass oil and gas imports into Europe have probably been going on 60 – 70 years, IOW, the situation you predict for the future and you claim to be the secret motivation behind the idiotic Renewables! project must long since have happened. In reality, the second gulf war happened (driving the Iranians out of Kuweit) and the Russian wet dream of becoming a raw materials superpower won’t. Raw materials are useless on their own.
That about as many people fall for that as keep falling for Putin’s nuke-wanking doesn’t mean it makes any sense.
Here is a graph showing the different sources of energy for most countries. All fossil fuels are shown in black, nuclear – red, hydro – blue, ‘renewables’ -,green.
The UK’s energy mix is inconsequential compared to the rest of the world, and it is interesting that the smaller (or poorer) the country there is more ‘renewable’ as a proportion of that countries energy.
Interesting. Source please.
https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
I downloaded the .csv and saved as .xlsx. I filtered and extracted the data for each country on 2021 and rounded to zero (no decimal places).
Cheers mate. My own analysis of the ONS data is what made me 100% sure the ‘vaccine’ was a load of shite
Quite, Also, I’ve been in software testing for nearly a quarter of a century and I know that if you don’t test software properly you introduce risk, known and unknown. Boeing should also know this by now. When the pharmaceuticals received emergency authorization as well as immunity from prosecution that jumped out as a big red flag, but they don’t seem to care..
Yep—–About 85% of the worlds energy comes from fossil fuels, and that is NOT going to change anytime soon, which means nothing we do in this country will make any difference to global climate even if their junk science modelling is remotely accurate, which it isn’t. It is ECO FRAUD. The pathway to global socialism and Miliband is in his element.
Here is another view showing consumption over the years. The trajectory of renewables is not that impressive considering all the economic, environmental and social harm caused by
Year-ZeroNet-Zero. Notice the small dip during the plandemic.Ian Pilmer does a nice but long winded demolition of all this in Green Murder. He even questions that man made co2 has caused a significant rise in co2.
Even?
Why does the UK always have to be “world leaders” in every absurdity going? Take a look at the puss on that Moron above and it might help explain it.
We’re definitely world leaders in Orwellian propaganda and surveillance – something else to be proud of.
They seem to have fallen for Net Zero hook, line and sinker. Klaus must be very pleased.
The Uk as one of the originators of the Industrial Revolution and who benefitted from fossil fuels the most, must now according to the Eco Socialists at the UN, get rid of those fuels first.———–And our UN lackey Politicians , the likes of Miliband being the worst, are only too happy to oblige by reducing our standard of living. That standard of living is going to noticeably drop as Labour now have this huge majority. We will all be coerced into smart meters, heat pumps and EV’s.
If we had a halfway sensible King, we could at least expect that he would ask the Prime Minister whether it is wise to destroy the economy and millions of lives on the altar of Net Zero.
But we’ve got Charlie-Boy, who supports the madness (and expects to make a very pretty penny out of it).
The rot starts at the top.