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From the newspapers
“One in three Brits SUPPORT this week’s anti-immigration protests – and one person in 14 backs the rioting too, shock poll reveals.
Six in ten Brits (58 per cent) said they had a fair amount of sympathy for those involved in the wider peaceful protests. This included majorities from all party voters.“
[Daily Mail]
“Labour will end the use of large military sites to house asylum seekers and will instead ‘scatter’ migrants around the country, it has emerged.”
[Daily Mail]
Migrant-invaders, soon coming to a town, or streets, near you.
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The “antifascists”…
I do not “support” either side, but do support the ideal (which becomes a plan) of the European people evolving to a higher level, something that can only happen when Europe has an entirely or almost entirely European population.
I have had occasion to write about supposed “human rights” barrister Jessica Simor previously, most recently a day or two ago. Like so many other “liberal” and “human rights” types, her “liberalism” vanishes when put even slightly to the test.
“The reason the UK’s elite class is so hostile to Elon Musk and other dissenters is because they can sense they are losing control of the narrative and the conversation.
We are simply no longer in a world where the national conversation and what is considered “true” can be controlled by the same groups of people –who come from the same backgrounds, have the same values, the same political loyalties, and want the same outcomes. That era, when the elite class dominate what used to be the most important and influential institutions, is over. It is done. And, as @KonstantinKisin has rightly noted, it is never coming back. We are in a new era.
As I wrote in a book last year, many people in the West are rapidly giving up on “a national conversation” that no longer reflects their values, their voice, and which considers some groups in society, usually minority groups, to be more virtuous than others.
he elite class could have responded to this trend by opening themselves up; they chose to the opposite while also attacking anybody who questioned their consensus along the way.
This is why so many people are now flocking to new media –X, Substack, etc–all of which reflect how the game has changed, how the conversation has changed. And this new media, crucially, is insulating counter-cultural writers and thinkers who are willing to take on the broken consensus, professionally and financially.
Were they still in the legacy institutions these counter-cultural voices would be harassed, bullied, intimidated, cancelled, shut down and silenced. Just look at the amount of hostility I get from university academics or established columnists who think they have a right to control the national conversation, a palpable sense of entitlement. Well, they don’t. And they can no longer control the conversation. Because for the first time in history, we have a counter-cultural class, a counter-elite if you like, who are not only independent from the legacy institutions but are fully insulated and protected from those institutions. And through their reach, influence, and power, they can wield just as much influence over the national conversation, if not more, as the traditional elite class.
So long as ordinary people are willing to support and spread these voices the game has completely changed. The only people who have not realised this are the elite class, who even when they have tried to embrace new media have fundamentally misunderstood it.
Just look at the UK podcast circuit, the flagship shows. The same people. The same insiders. The same rotation of the same names who all cling to the same values but refuse to have any meaningful, serious, cross-cutting debate about possible alternatives. And just look at the reaction to the protests.
What much of the elite class, the elite conversation, considers “controversial” or “incendiary” views are entirely normal views out there in the country. Everybody can see this which is why public confidence and trust in legacy institutions is collapsing.
With a few notable exceptions, they refuse to open themselves up to alternative viewpoints and so are merely pushing more and more people to look elsewhere, hastening their own demise. Imagine for a moment if coverage of the UK riots and protests had only been available in legacy media. Imagine what that would have looked like.
This is why there are now two conversations going on in this country. What we might call the “approved”, official narrative that you see on legacy media, which is promoted by the elite class and which, in my view, looks ridiculous and out-of-touch with the country. As I said last night, if you really think what’s happening in Britain right now is because of a coordinated social campaign being led by Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and Elon Musk then you really need to reassess what you are reading and how you are living because you are completely disconnected from the country.
…what we might call the “unofficial” narrative that is largely playing out on new media and which despite being framed by the elite class as “misinformation” or “disinformation” is often grounded in reality. We can all watch the videos with our own eyes. We can all read. We are not idiots. We are not mindless lemmings. There is no putting all this back in the box.
Personally, I think the elite class in this country now has a choice. They can either engage with new media and open up the national conversation to alternative viewpoints or they can continue to double down, which in the end will only fuel the rise of alternative media, writers & thinkers. So if you feel the elite conversation is no longer sufficient or needs to be radically reformed then obviously come and join us at http://mattgoodwin.org but beyond that ensure you have a bunch of other counter-cultural perspectives in your timeline each day, and you are promoting alternative voices. Because now is the time to be doing that, not clinging to some outdated, narrow orthodoxy which has left millions of people feeling they have no voice in the conversation. In other words, don’t be a sheep.”
[Matt Goodwin]
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Starmer-Labour is no better than the fake “Conservative” Party which was so justly binned at the General Election. Sadly, the Cons were not binned enough, and can now still pose as an “alternative”; still the official Opposition. 121 MPs. Pity it could not have been 100 or, better still, 21.
Still, looking at Starmer’s first month in power (a month and 3 days), one can see that he has no idea how to be a Prime Minister, no ideology (beyond his craven support for Israel and the Jewish lobby), no ideals to speak of, not even any interesting ideas. He may only have been Prime Minister for a month or so, but has had years to develop a plan. As the Americans say, all we hear are crickets.
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“I joined Radio 4 Moral Maze tonight & explained what I think is behind the UK’s riots & protests. I think we need to end the policy of mass immigration, do whatever is necessary to regain control of our borders & completely revise our approach to integration. And I don’t think it should be controversial to say this.”
“The good news story here is the vast majority of Brits reject violence and disorder and do not blame immigrants themselves. But the bad news story for Keir Starmer, Labour and in fact much of the political class that has presided over this country for the last 30 years is that a significant if not substantial share of the British people now directly associate this unrest with the policy of mass immigration and display significant levels of support and sympathy for peaceful protest against this policy.
They could quite easily be drawn into some kind of wider peaceful protest against mass immigration. This is why I am continually urging Starmer and the gvt to wake up, get deal, and step back from their extreme policy of mass immigration otherwise Britain’s communities will end up tearing themselves apart.”
[Matt Goodwin]
The (Israeli) Jews are panicking. Their economy is collapsing. Both tourists and Israelis are trying to get out. The feared Israeli military machine has failed to completely crush Hamas in Gaza, despite huge devastation, and it may well be that, in conventional terms, Hezbollah is as strong as the Israeli forces in the North, leaving aside air power.
It may be that the USA should split into regions. I once saw a clever Economist Christmas special magazine that had a very compelling graphic of how the USA was already really a number of regions very distinct inter se. I think about 9 regions. That would have been at least 30, maybe 35 years ago.
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