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When I was a photojournalist I saw and was in the middle of serious public disorder and I have studied and been horrified by stories of the animalistic mobs who took to the streets during incidents such as the Gordon Riots in the 18th century, which has led me to have a healthy disregard for vigilantism and mob violence. There are two reasons why I don’t cheer on the mob or applaud the excesses of vigilantism. Firstly, following ‘King Mob’, whilst it might feel good for a while for those participating, might not get the sort of result that the followers might want and that’s because ‘King Mob’ is a terrible and capricious ruler, who might eventually turn on his own followers. Secondly, vigilantes are not known for being too careful with adjudicating between who is genuinely guilty and who might be innocent but merely resembles or comes from the same community as those who really are guilty.
It’s clear that many Western nations, including the United Kingdom, have an awful lot of problems. We have problems with the violent and aggressive ideology of some types of Islam and with the mass immigration of people from cultures that have values which are diametrically opposed to our own. These problems and the people who cause them have brought great misery and horror to many people in Western nations. We have imported religious ideologies that hate us, misogynists whose hatred of women inspires them to commit untold numbers of sexual assaults and rapes, people from cultures where paedophilia is not a crime but normal for where they come from and people who have no desire to integrate with us or contribute to our societies.
These problems, which primarily affect the everyday, non-elite citizens of Western countries, have been created to a very large extent by Western politicians. These politicians supported mass migration, even from incompatible cultures, on the grounds of economic benefit or out of misplaced sympathy for ‘refugees’ or because they foolishly believed that every culture is equal to that of the cultures of the West. Some also believed in the idiotic ‘magic dirt’ theory, which postulates that a person arriving from some hellish, culturally, religiously and socially retarded shithole, such as Somalia or Pakistan to give but two examples, will suddenly leave behind the socially inculcated savagery of their homelands, once they set foot on Western shores.
The issues created by mass migration of incompatible people, which are not racial but cultural, are ones that, because they were created by politicians, should therefore be sorted out to the satisfaction of the West’s indigenous peoples and settled, integrated lawful migrant heritage Britons, by politicians via political means. The current problems may well need to be solved by radically different politicians from those we’ve currently got ruling over us, but a political means to sorting out the West’s currently awful predicament caused by excessive and inappropriate migration needs to be found. This is because the actions required to do this will need the organs and entities of the state to carry them out.
Wanting a political solution is, to me, also the correct thing to desire, because the alternative is to sort this matter out by non-Parliamentary, non-political means, which is truly awful. The non-political route is the route of mobs, of angry people lashing out, of firebombed homes and businesses, along with the sort of wanton destruction that can take a nation decades to recover from, if at all. It’s also the way that leads to the innocent being frightened and the guilty to run free, using the cover of disturbances, or to exploit the mistaken attention of vigilantes towards the innocent.
I think I’ve made myself pretty clear about my views on vigilantism and civil disorder over the years and, for more recent readers to both this and my other site, that I dislike it immensely because I know how so very quickly disorder that might have a politically legitimate root, can become something else entirely. The ballot box, not the bullet or the baton, is the way to go.
But what happens when the politicians and the political class have lost the confidence of members of the public? What happens when the political class not only create the base problems but exacerbate an already bad or tense situation by their actions? Also, what is the outcome when people try to use the legitimate political routes to solve problems, but the cries of the populace regarding the effects of the bad policies promoted by the political classes, are ignored by these classes? The answer unfortunately, is nothing good. That ‘nothing good’ looks a little like this: It’s the vigilantes standing in for police forces which have apparently abandoned the people they were sworn to protect. It’s the sense that all politicians are all the same type of rancid creature that hates you and it’s the growing acceptance that the political route has lost both its effectiveness and its legitimacy.
This is the sort of national political and social collapse into mobbery and disorder that most often happened in my lifetime to benighted third world shitholes, of the sort that many of us used to point and laugh at. But sadly it’s getting more and more difficult to argue against the idea that this sort of thing is happening in the United Kingdom.
The reason that this position is getting more difficult to argue is that the vigilantes and the mobs are already here and they are here because the political classes have royally buggered up, either mistakenly or because they followed malicious ideologies, or engaged in the idol-worship of international human rights and refugee laws. The recent disturbances in Ballymena in Northern Ireland are a good illustration of how bad the current situation really is.
Ballymena, like so many other places in the United Kingdom, has had unwanted and more than likely un-vetted foreigners dumped upon them by the UK government. Some of these foreigners are probably OK but a lot are not. These foreigners have been placed in hotels and private rented accommodation right across the country, in every constituent part of the UK. There are stories regularly published on social media from up and down the country of some of these foreigners harassing and sometimes physically attacking women and children, intimidating innocent members of the public, committing property crime, engaging in anti-social behaviour and in some cases becoming involved in the sort of religious extremist activity of a type that has its ultimate end in tragedies, such as the Manchester Arena Attack or the murder of a British soldier on a street in Britain’s capital city.
Ballymena has erupted in violent public anger following the arrest by police of two migrant teenagers allegedly from the Roma community who hail from Romania, for alleged sexual offences against a young girl. As these alleged sexual attacks followed on from allegations that Roma, and other migrants who have been dumped in the area, have been involved in similar and other crimes that resulted in desultory responses from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, tensions in the area were running high. The arrest of the two Roma teenagers and the prior allegedly poor response from the police to migrant crime caused locals to kick off and attack the house where the Roma had been placed by the UK government. The result has been several days of violent protests by local people against the problem of imported troublemakers being dumped on them.
The response of the authorities has been grimly predictable and mirrors how the Establishment acted during the violent protests following the Southport Atrocity last year when it all kicked off after a Rwandan heritage teenager stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift themed dance class. Just as happened following the Southport Atrocity, the protestors in Northern Ireland are being smeared and gaslit by local police and Establishment politicians in Northern Ireland as ‘far right’ and there has been a violent response to protestors by the police, with baton charges, dogs being set on protesters and even bystanders, and the use of drones. It is also being alleged that members of peaceful, integrated and contributory migrant heritage groups such as the Filipinos are putting notices up on their front doors stating that there are Filipinos in the house. The decent types of migrant such as the Filipinos are doing their best to distance themselves from the recent illegal migrant imports and taking steps to state that this particular building is not occupied by any individuals from the more troublesome, Middle Eastern, African, South Asian or Roma groups that the public are becoming increasingly angry about.
What’s interesting to me, is that there is apparently a cross communal unity growing between Catholics and Protestants, against the imported troublesome foreigners and the problems they bring in Northern Ireland. This is something, bearing in mind the history of Ulster, that is unusual even in the post Good Friday Agreement iteration of Northern Ireland. This could mean that the imported and allegedly dangerous foreigners who have been dumped on Northern Ireland are being seen as the primary threat to life and limb by both communities instead of each other. I’m also hearing rumours that the violent expressions of anger at the dumping of dangerous foreigners on Northern Irish towns and cities is likely to spread to both other places in Northern Ireland and also into the Irish Republic, which has long had a problem with violent, parasitical and antisocial migrants imported into Eire by their own political Establishment. Although it grieves me to see what should have been avoidable violence (avoidable if the Establishments of both the UK and Eire had not imported wrong’uns) rising and spreading, it would not surprise me one bit to see such protests spread to other constituent parts of the UK such as Scotland, Wales and England.
The disturbances in Ballymena and the many other places that they are spreading to and likely to spread to, could have been avoided. The Establishment could have refused to listen to the ‘refugees welcome’ idiots and turned these chancers away but they didn’t. They spread them around the country like so much poisonous jam on a sandwich. Many of these foreigners have entered the United Kingdom illegally, either by small boat or by making false asylum claims at airports and ports. Their presence is stressing the lives of people in towns and cities that are already stressed by economic inequalities and poor public services, by sucking resources away from local people, or by their bad behaviour, making already poor situations much worse. I’m hearing an increasing number of rumours from across the UK that when locals approach their local police forces with complaints about these foreigners, they are being brushed off with excuses for police inaction. The police are only getting involved when there are serious crimes such as rape or sexual assault or terrorism being alleged.
The result of indigenous and some of the settled law abiding migrant heritage communities being abandoned, or having the perception of being abandoned, by the police and other agencies to the depredations of recently arrived foreigners, represents a complete collapse in confidence and respect for the forces of law, order, justice and administration. This kind of collapse of confidence is extremely worrying, as it creates vigilantism to replace policing and street violence to replace what should be peaceful and respectful legitimate political action.
None of what we are seeing spreading in either Eire or Ulster, which may eventually spread into the mainland of the UK, is a good thing, either in the short or the long run. The disturbances and the removal of trust by the people in the State and its agencies to protect and help them will probably not end well. It may end with all the horrors that I have outlined above and then maybe a whole lot more that I’ve not considered, even in my wildest nightmares.
I’ve consistently warned that the West has problems with both Islamic extremism and supremacism, along with other problems related to the import of incompatible migrants which need to be tackled via peaceful political means. The problem is that those of us, including those of us who have had personal experiences in civil disorder, who warned what would happen if public confidence in government and police collapsed, were consistently ignored by the Establishment. Those who gave warnings of potential trouble were demonised, called names, arrested and sometimes gaoled for ‘hate speech’ ‘crimes’, whilst those who govern us continued to pile up the fuel for future conflict by packing already stressed and economically blighted areas with migrants who few people wanted, some of whom have brought crime and disorder to these communities. The violence in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the street violence that may spread to mainland UK might be carried out by the mobs themselves, but the accelerant for the mobs, in the form of the unwanted migrants and those other communities that have been prioritised and privileged by the Establishment, have been supplied by both the government of the UK and that of the Republic of Ireland.
I desperately and prayerfully want the violence to stop and have the state tackle the problems of incompatible migration and illegal migration, because the alternatives to political and parliamentary change regarding these issues is far far worse than many people might be able to imagine. It is not too late for political solutions and those alternative parties that exist need to stand up for those communities such as those of Ballymena and give them back their confidence in the organs and agencies of the state. When the time comes, I urge every Briton to pick up your ballot paper and vote rather than pick up bricks to throw. Taking the ballot box route will mean that Britons will be seen and remembered as decent people and not as violent monsters. I’m appalled at the violence and see it as evidence of serious societal and governmental failure. Therefore it grieves me immensely to have to say yet again ‘I told you this would happen’.
Coverage of the Ballymena disturbances
https://x.com/arisroussinos/status/1932535648725922206
More coverage of Ballymena
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1932716895242727832
Water cannon being used against those protesting about migrant sex crime and other migrant related pressures in Northern Ireland.
https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1932541342594281958
Establishment media outlet Sky News’s less than accurate coverage of the Ulster disturbances. However even these regime journalists are saying that the situation is serious and that disorder could last for weeks.
PSNI Police Inspector attempts to gaslight and deceive the public about the nature of the reasons for the Ballymena disturbances.
https://x.com/FSchomberg92906/status/1932568269166399968
The working class academic Dr Lisa McKenzie (a person whom I respect even when I disagree with her on individual issues) has said of the stresses that the local people of Ballymena have been subjected to:
My thoughts on Ballymena are the same as Southport if politicians constantly fail specific groups of people, ignore them & then use them to blame their own failures on whatever group it is that's the failure of politics not people. Anger is a natural response to being fucked over
For the record I agree with what Dr McKenzie has said, although I wish that this failure of politics had not occurred and that these undoubtably politically caused problems could have been sorted out politically.
Dr McKenzie’s Wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McKenzie
Allegations from Paul Golding of the Britain First group (not one I would normally support) claiming that anger over migrant dumping has also created disturbances in Newtonabbey in Northern Ireland.
https://x.com/GoldingBF/status/1932530890359377979
Regime journalist from Financial Times goes on BBC’s Newsnight programme to blame ‘populism’, ‘social media’ and ‘American political culture’ for the Ballymena disturbances and not the Roma alleged rapists themselves.
https://x.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1932561226082472422
My other blog site
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/
Sinn Fein’s leader in Northern Ireland and Northern Irish First Minister Michelle O’Neill rants about the protesters calling them ‘racist’ and ‘sectarian and promises to work closely with the Police Service of Northern Ireland to punish those who have protested. Lots of ‘diversity is strength’ type rhetorical wibbling in this statement but absolutely nothing about the alleged rapes and other bad migrant behaviour that kicked off the disturbances.
https://x.com/moneillsf/status/1932735595475882157/photo/1
PSNI officers are alleged to be under ‘sustained attack’ by local people.