Britain First: a monster of the left’s own making

Brendan O’Neill

For you made this monster. Britain First is a mess of your unwitting creation. You, and your censorship, and your cowardice, and your pathologisation of concern about Islam, and your treatment of any questioning of mass immigration as tantamount to a hate crime, created the space for these new, ‘edgy’ right-wing movements to take root and expand. In making certain things unsayable, you paved the way for these largely virtual loudmouth outfits to say: ‘We will say the unsayable.’ Britain First is a cast-iron example of how the chilling of public debate never, ever fixes problems or disappears people’s concerns or prejudices; it merely warps them, and often worsens them, and forces them to take root elsewhere."
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From the comments -
Problem is, Trump is right.
Britain and Europe are being torn apart, culturally, demographically and politically because of mulsim immigration and the social chaos that it brings.
Parts of Britain and France and Sweden are indistinguishable from Pakistan...
FGM, honour killings, polygamy, cousin-marriage, niqab, sharia-zones, no-go-zones, gang-warfare, parallel legal-systems (sharia courts), acid attacks, knife crime, terror attacks, desecration of Churches, anti-Christian attacks, anti-semitic attacks, the list goes on.
And all Sharia May can do is virtue signal, where as Trump has the cajones to speak freely and honestly to the problems."
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https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/936211979613519877     
"What do you mean by “even you”? @realDonaldTrump is POTUS, and not your chef. He retweeted a video that exposes Islamic terrorists. All moderate Muslims appreciate what he did. Focus on the road and don’t use your phone when driving my brother. "

A man is dead. Are the witch-hunters happy now?

Brendan O'Neill
 But we do know this: Sargeant had been plunged into despair by accusations made against him as part of the increasingly febrile, nasty ‘Pestminster’ witch-hunt. And we know that the accusations did not merit police involvement – that is, they involved fairly mild behaviour, or ‘unwanted attention, inappropriate touching or groping’, in the words of internal Labour correspondence revealed by Sargeant’s distraught and angry family this morning. It is becoming difficult to avoid the possibility that Sargeant is a victim of the finger-pointing, due-process-demeaning cult of accusation swirling around the political sphere right now; that he was a working-class politician destroyed by middle-class hysteria.  .................The sexual-harassment hysteria is innately hostile to and even destructive of the idea of natural justice. Accusation has become enough to establish guilt. Witness the falling on to swords of MPs who have been merely accused, and accused of the most mundane kinds of behaviour, of things only the most prudish and immature of minds could consider crimes or misdemeanours. Kate Maltby complaining that Damian Green touched her knee, Jane Merrick saying Michael Fallon tried to kiss her. These pathetic accusations by actual adults have contributed to a climate in which even advances are reimagined as ‘sexual predation’ and anyone who once sent a saucy text or told an off-colour joke is instantly branded a pervert, a misogynist, on a spectrum with rapists, and unfit for public life. This is the Kafkaesque hell in which Sargeant found himself: where he didn’t know what he was accused of, but everyone felt pretty sure he was a ‘predator’, like all those other evil men."

Trump’s America is doing better than it seems

TONY ABBOTT MP 

"Contrary to dire predictions, Trump hasn’t started a shooting war or a trade one, although it’s a pity that the Trans Pacific Partnership is dead for now. There are no punitive tariffs on China. There has been no pre-emptive strike on North Korea. Both his diplomacy and his more assertive military posture seem to be working against Middle Eastern jihadis. Perhaps this is the restraining influence of the retired combat generals who are now his closest official advisers. Or perhaps he was always a shrewder man than the critics would allow."