“If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, asked last week, “how else can you describe them? That is racist thuggery.” It is. But there is another way of describing the actions of the rioters burning people out of their homes in Belfast, though ministers somehow cannot bring themselves to say it. Terrorism.
The violence there clearly meets the government’s definition: “the use or threat” of actions designed to “intimidate the public” for the purpose of “advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause”. Among these actions are “serious violence against a person” and “serious damage to property”. I happen to believe that the property clause blurs the issue. But either way, in what possible world do the Belfast attacks not fit the definition?
But, d’ye see George, terrorism in Northern Ireland works. Gets you elected to the Commons, made joint or deputy First Minister and all that sort of malarkey.
How could anyone of our sort of age not notice this?
But that’s the right sort of terrorism – the sort that doesn’t threaten Starmer.
George ought to be terrified.
The rioters are trying to get the government to notice the effects of immigration, those bad effects which fall entirely on the working class. The government frames this as racism (it really isn’t, it’s behaviourism) in order to avoid facing the real problem. The same thing is happening in many western countries but it MUST NOT be seen as a common problem to all, so we are not presented with news from other countries.
Quite. The electorate are condemned based on the actions of it’s nuttiest members, its complaints dismissed by association. The govt gets to absolve itself of responsibility for the practical, commonplace failures of it’s policies, based on the noblest of intentions associated with those policies.
And we’re confronted by the nauseating spectacle of wankers in parliament congratulating themselves on their united front in condemning those naughty rioters.
Hilary Benn is and always has been a traitor.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Objecting to violent primitives trying to decapitate people is terrorism, but violent primitives trying to decapitate people is just part and parcel of a modern diverse society.
So Georgie boy wants AntiFa and UAF to be proscribed now?
I’m on board, prosecute the lot of them; the Left have been allowed to get away with violence for far too long.
Oh, Hilary Benn can fuck off.
The reason why people are being targetted for skin colour is that it’s an easy heuristic in Northern Ireland. As a mate of mine said about The Crying Game, the republicans targetted black guys because they knew they were almost certainly military. You can’t do it in Northampton, but might work in Yeovil, where they last had some genetic diversity with a few roman legionnaires picking up some local girls.
too late for Yeovil now
Oh I dunno; the last time I was there the potential gene pool seemed to me to have been greatly expanded by Diversity of many kinds. What a shithole.
Six girls, aged 14 and 15, were groomed by two men who were jailed in 2016 for sex offences in Yeovil.
… The review found possible signs of abuse were missed by professionals, including an occasion when one girl had a pregnancy termination aged 15.
It also revealed one girl was visited by one of the men while she was an inpatient at a mental health hospital in Somerset, and got pregnant again.
The report said lessons must be learned after one of the girls was wrongly taken to court for alleged racial abuse against her abuser, while her abuser was not investigated until years later.
And finally, at the very end of the BBC article …
Mehmet Citak, 34, of Bradford Abbas, Dorset was convicted at Bristol Crown Court last year of two counts of rape and seven counts of sexual assault. He was jailed for 20 years.
Ahmet Kurtyemez, 29, from Swindon, was sentenced to 12 years for six counts of sexual assault.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-41844276
‘Lessons must be learned’
That should be engraved on the Blairite Establishments gibbets.
The lesson that must be learned is:
Why Did We Abolish The Rope?
And the lash, Grikath??
Also Hilary Benn/Labour generally/leftists more generally:
Off Topic but related to a recent post and another example of Moonbat’s style of thinking, there is a rather sneering article from Tanya Gold in Unherd today
https://unherd.com/2026/06/makerfield-crucible-of-resentment/
Tanya Gold. Yet another deluded, silly fat Hampstead cow.
Interesting piece Otto – for non-subscribers., here is a link to the whole thing.
https://archive.is/CHHp7
But not so bad that it beats being a lawyer in Pakistan?
They just fucking told you – no doubt also as a cipher for wider issues – that their boundary wall was damaged by a driver whom the police refused to charge because it was ramadan.
That is real, not dreamt (and you might say a good example of two-tier policing).
Is the attitude that allows this – and is being fought by Reform/Restore – ultimately existential?
Henry Nowak might say so.
It was pretty existential for the victims of Axel Radukabana, who was referred three times to ‘Prevent’. What’s more, the police were called about him six times, his own father found ricin under his bed, and his headteacher was accused by an unnamed ‘mental health worker’ of ‘racially profiling’ ‘a black boy with a knife’ because when she asked him what he was planning to do with it when he brought it to school he replied. ‘Use it.’
Valdo Calocane killed three people in Nottingham – it was existential for them, and the failures were very real, and intimately linked to the Reform/Restore wave.
His own mother said he was dangerous, but he was released from the ‘Early Intervention in Psychosis service’ despite being a diagnosed and known violent paranoid schizophrenic.
A warrant to arrest him was not executed for ten months before the killings.
Not long before, he Calocane had tried to batter down a neighbour’s front door, frightening her so badly she jumped from a first-floor window and badly injured her back. The mental health team decided not to section him, because ‘the team of professionals
didn’t live anywhere near him and their offices had secure locks, sorry, because they considered the research evidence that shows over-representation of young black males in detention.’It was existential for the young victims of the Manchester Arena bombing – a security guard thought the bomber was a wrong un but didn’t stop him because the fear of seeming ‘racist’ was very real.
And on, and on, and on, and fucking on.
So why wasn’t the driver prosecuted for driving while knowingly being in an unfit state?
That’s explained in the piece (I know it makes no sense to us).
That prompted an interesting bit of investigation. Reform flag? Didn’t know there is one. But apparently there is:.https://www.flags4sale.com/contact-us/ £25 a time. Except. Company’s registered address is a 3 bed semi in Bristol with a van on the driveway. I buy flags in China. 150cm x 90cm standard national flags €3.30 including carriage. Custom flags, image supplied, ordered as a batch about another Euro, discounts for large runs.
Nothing wrong with that. Shows enterprise.
By the way if anyone wants a truly erotic experience, try and find Lucy Worsley saying ‘entrepreneur’.
It is mind blowing.
Only “mind”, Otto? That said, she is a bit foxy. A pal of mine photographed her and said she’s dead sexy. This pal is a straight woman.
800% gross profit? FO! It’s just someone making a killing on the back of Reform. Could even be a Paki.
Presumably you order by the many dozen, though. I don’t know what the price should be, but doing individual orders, individual postage, various bits of UK law are going to push that up a bit.
Maybe we can undercut him, though? I’ll do website, customer service and despatch.
It’s something I already do. Already shifted a lot of Brasil, Paraguay, Argentina & Colombia. Fuck the Moroccans & the dagos can look after themselves. But I look at it as providing a service & I understand marketing & optimal pricing. So I’m not trying to screw the punters.
As for Reform, I’m not interested in marketing them. I just regard them with amusement. Another bunch of middle class public schoolboys destined to fail.
No… A Paki would have 800% *net* profit, and wouldn’t declare the rest….
Well said. As for Tanya Gold, I can’t bear her wittering. I once thought her writing stylish. I’ve come to realise it’s just clever-clever drivel. All she does is patronise the lower classes. Did she use the phrase “low-information”?
I used to dismiss her as a silly neurotic bint who could write but not think. Having read that Unheard article I’d say she is just another dishonest lefty cunt who is part of the problem. And dim enough to swallow bullshit from taxi drivers like “I used to be a lawyer in Pakistan”. Course you did mate.
The one amusing part of the article is her quoting the pro-immigration youngster who is by some way the thickest person she interviewed and couldn’t even get Burnham’s name correct.
“And dim enough to swallow bullshit from taxi drivers like “I used to be a lawyer in Pakistan”.”
“I had that Lord Harmer in the back of the cab once.”
This is telling:
yet the Reform supporters
One is believed unquestioningly, the other not.
Are journalists also following police guidelines on how to deal with coloured people?
Nobody is attacked because of the colour if their skin, it’s their behaviour and threat to the indigenous. It has been so since the days of cave dwellers.
During “The Troubles”, skin co.our played no part.
That’s only true insofar as there was no obvious skin colour difference between most Brits and most non Brits.
Western Bloke makes the (correct) point that black soldiers were targeted (off duty) in NI because their skin colour made it a pretty safe bet that they were soldiers – this being the period before mass immigration, and not that many black students (posing as a student was regular cover for Det and Special Forces undercovers).
A made of mine served with a black guy in 3 Para who was going out with a local girl and got into the very stupid habit of going round to her house in the evening for kisses, cuddles, and maybe more.
(He was apparently a big strong boy and thought himself untouchable.)
The Provos got him and a woman disembowelled him alive.
Ever tried being White nowadays?
I don’t want to live in a brown country, and am prepared to use violence to protect my children.
If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.
Lie. But I’d like to see George explain who he means, so he can be sued.
Damaging military equipment in the hope of preventing its deployment, especially in illegal wars, has long been treated as an act of civil disobedience motivated by conscience, and some juries have acquitted on this basis.
“Treason should be legal when we do it”
The court of appeal judgment managed to cast protest as terrorism and terrorism as protest. Palestine Action “is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open”. What??? Did the suffragettes plan their bombings, arson and assassination attempts – far more extreme than anything Palestine Action has contemplated – in open meetings in Parliament Square?
I wasn’t joking. This lunatic wants to legalise Islamist and left wing terrorism.
As Amnesty International explains, until recently the conscientious motivation of protesters was treated as a mitigating factor in sentencing.
Unless you’re protesting the mass rape, murder and dispossession of native Brits and Europeans. In those cases, your desire to protect white children is an aggravating factor.
The government has leant heavily on the assault of a police officer with a sledgehammer by one of the protesters, Samuel Corner. But, reckless and severe as the attack was, he was convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent: he panicked after being sprayed in the face with the incapacitant Pava and, unable to see clearly, lunged forwards to help another protester. In other words, violence against people was not the intent of the sole perpetrator, let alone of Palestine Action.
George thinks it’s ok to hit a policeman with a sledgehammer you brought to a peaceful protest, so long as you hate Jews.
So, in considering Benn’s question – how else can we describe what we are seeing? – there is a second relevant answer: one rule for the right, another for the left. In other words, two-tier justice.
Lol.
Here’s another way to describe what we are seeing: protestors in Southampton and Belfast are indigenous peoples demonstrating against colonialism. Those protests, by definition, can’t be racist.
Because racism is privilege + power and the Gang Rape Report released yesterday showed who has the power. 250,000 little girls, around 99% of them white British, raped, beaten and sometimes murdered by, overwhelmingly, Muslim settler-colonists who are privileged over the native population by every arm of the British government. Privilege looks like being able to wander into someone else’s country, be put front of the queue for housing and bennies, and the local police being too afraid to stop you committing rapes. Power looks like the British establishment bending over backwards to demonstrate how much it prefers brown migrants to their own people.
So no, those boys in Belfast are not racists. They’re social justice activists, albeit so far more peaceful than the “bombings, arson and assassination attempts” Monbiot admired when the suffragettes did it.
By the way, Samuel Corner, the Palestine Action man George defends above, is quite the lefty cause celebre. Amnesty International are also trying to obfuscate what he did, claim his prosecution is political oppression etc.
Samuel Corner picked up a sledgehammer and used it to shatter the spine of a female police officer who was lying on the ground crying for help. He was filmed on her body cam. This guy is a hero to the Left.
some juries have acquitted on this basis.
Because the jury was filled with brainless twats like you, George.
And by the way, Georgie, your so-called defence of the actions of Corner is a barefaced lie; it’s clearly deliberate. Wankers both.
Monidiot only notices things when he can ….
a) make money ranting about things he doesn’t agree with on in the Guardian.
b) people actually agree with him.
The latter is rare and essentially nonexistent.
I grew up, educationally, in Red Hot Red Nijmegen academically.
He is of the same “generation” as me.
And even then, he was…. Too Much…
Even for a socialist-progressive hellhole as nowadays Radboud University of Medicine is…
And that’s saying something because the leading Socialist Party for the next 20-something years sprang up one town over… and they were Maoist Socialist, with the Manifesto….
And. He. Was. Too. Much. For. Them.
Just to place Monbiot in the Pecking Order….
Monidiot only notices things when he can ….
Academia, and the midwit’s fascination with word games, has been an intellectual catastrophe for the Left, even as it delivered them institutional dominance. More delusional pinko slugs than ever, but like an LLM trained on the outputs of LLMs, modern progressivism is an incoherent babble of vague ideas that increasingly resemble random bits of furniture sticking out of the walls of the haunted mental Backrooms they inhabit. Half-digested, misshapen bastard spawn of Marx that should have been abandoned on a lonely hillside at birth.
The problem with the European Left now is that they are incapable of thinking. They cannot grok. They’ve been expensively educated not to.
So the evidence-based Smart people are now reduced to pretending not to understand things. And plain old fashioned brazen lying. It can’t be satisfying for them, modern progressivism is a shared delusion but one that no longer wins converts, because smugly pretending not to have heard of Rochdale Rotherham Telford Oxford Glasgow Birmingham London Manchester Arena etc. isn’t a persuasion play.
When British police chiefs preposterously claim there’s no two-tier policing in Britain, 250,000 rape victims disagree. Continuing to lie about the cost of renewables, when everyone can see their bills. The TV telling you how great Diversity is, when the Sudanese new neighbour you helped move in cuts your eye out. These things play to dwindling, and ever less enthusiastic audiences. The modern Left, in all its grotesquerie, is now Cronenberg’s The Fly, holding a merciful shotgun to its own insectile head. They have nowhere to go, we’ve speed-ran every conceivable form of leftist luxury belief insanity, including Loretta from Life of Brian, and it’s all turned out to be complete shit which makes everybody miserable.
Now, they’re in a Courland Pocket of their own Delusion Bubble and reality’s unwelcome artillery shells keep landing closer. This is why the Left craves fascism. They’re desperate for fascism, it’s why everyone they don’t like is a fascist. Not only does fascism mean, in their pointy little heads, extreme moral clarity in a psychodrama where they’re clearly The Goodies, and everything you do to The Baddies is ok (heh heh heh amirite Mr Corner?) But also because they all secretly long for a strong man with a powerful moustache to tell them what to do. Many of them are theatre kids, and you were never supposed to take them seriously in the first place. It’ll be a relief for them when Daddy is back in charge, and they can safely get back to LARPing as brave, daring thinkers back at the student union.
In their heads they’re the Rebel Alliance. But in reality they’re the Evil Empire.
A well written piece, Steve, except it gives the impression that they’re on the back foot. They may have a rot in their soul but it’s still only a potential, and there are millions of them and they hold essentially all the positions of power. And we have to change most of them rather than remove them, because we can’t have a modern technical country without them.
Ironically, Europe can now show the way. If Switzerland and Sweden can turn around, it gives permission for our twats too. It basically needs a propaganda campaign to make being a migration progressive the loser wanktard choice. The worst* examples should go to prison (even though we want to kill them, and they deserve it, it’s best they’re just imprisoned) but the more normie types should be made to feel they’ve been liberated from a madness. As you’ve said before, a preference cascade.
*Actually, the very worst cunts should still meet with accidents.
A well written piece, Steve, except it gives the impression that they’re on the back foot.
Ah but they are. I am Steve the White, and I come to you now at the turning of the tide.
They’re out of touch, they’re out of time, and all their ideas about how to fix the situation make them less popular. And ye, as I said unto you, Sir Keir denounced Transgender thrice before the severed cock crew. Progressives have the reverse Midas knack of turning everything to shit and I’ve never seen people this angry in my life.
Including the miner’s strike.
They may have a rot in their soul but it’s still only a potential, and there are millions of them and they hold essentially all the positions of power.
Yes but they’re Yesterdays Men already.
And we have to change most of them rather than remove them, because we can’t have a modern technical country without them.
Not really, on all points. Most libs are functionally useless people, or an active cost and drain on profitable activities – see, lawyers. The great, slimy pond that is the Third Sector, teeming with grants-chasing Tarquins who would die of exposure if left on a tropical desert island for 2 days with a bivvy bag, a hexamine stove with plenty of fuel, a lighter, and three weeks of rations.
When you drive around in your big car spreading heteropatriarchal white supremacy, you don’t see farmer’s fields with signs saying Vote Labour. Necessary people, the plumbers and bricklayers, hairdressers and electricians, they’re all “far right” now.
The worst* examples should go to prison (even though we want to kill them, and they deserve it, it’s best they’re just imprisoned) but the more normie types should be made to feel they’ve been liberated from a madness. As you’ve said before, a preference cascade.
Can you hear the people sing? It’s not like it was before 2024. I don’t think they’d dare try another racial psyop like 2020 BLM now.
Ever watched V for Vendetta and wondered how London got so clean and white? The ancien regime’s fate was sealed like all ancien regimes. When their people were in dire distress, and TPTB offered them prison cells for complaining. The tone I now hear coming from Westminster is fear. The Blob quivers. They have not the courage of conviction, but we do.
Met him. Long time ago. True believers are incapable of learning.
Like treason, its only terrorism if you don’t win.
“Serfs ye are, and serfs ye shall remain,” promised the Norman French impostor Richard II, betraying and murdering poor Wat Tyler, an honest Englishman who merely asked:
* Please stop enslaving us
* Plz stop poll taxing us to death 🙁
British establishment policy towards the indigenous population has changed little since 1067. Crazy how little they valued their own Samwise Gamgees and Farmer Maggots, the decent basic stock of our country, who had cheerfully marched to their deaths whenever asked by our much beloved and respected betters. They are saying your children have no more claim to this country, the only home the British people have on this planet, than a buck-toothed, stabby rapefugee who just turned up asking about fiki fiki and free housing. In fact, less – they have arranged it so your children, British kids living in Britain, are a second class caste to the often violent criminals the British establishment seeks to replace us with. 250,000: rape victims agree. Taught from primary school to hate themselves and their own people’s history, because it’s racist or whatever. Forced to pay for their own displacement and celebrate their own replacements.
No, I’m afraid the British establishment has horribly overreached itself this time. Drastic course corrections ahead.
To be fair on Richard of Bordeaux, it was William Walworth who stabbed Tyler.
I believe he used ‘villeins’ as the insult.
It is interesting to note that the Black Death de facto ended serfdom in England, but on much of the continent the opposite happened and the peasants were oppressed even more.
The Normans brought in the patronage system, in order to get some of the Anglo-Saxons onside to do their dirty work. It was the origin of our peculiarly unpleasant class regime. The Normans have receded but that next layer of nasty treasonous scum still exists in the upper middle class, and the scumery still filters into the next layers down. Such that plod hates Henry over a foreign freakbeard.
As with our regional accents, it’s amazing that it persists. But it does.