It can’t be over stressed just how crazy the “small boats” shit was. All sorts of crap was going down in Britain and elsewhere but the BBC would be small boat news. All day every day. It was insane. I listen to a few BBC radio shows and mostly scrub through the news as it was insane small boats small boats small boats small boats small boats.
Britain doesn’t even get many refugees!
When this was last mooted (ID Cards) the “plan” was to make it as cost neutral as possible. which meant a £97 charge per non-exempt adult (£170 in 2024 £).
As a parent of two under 10 in 2007 this was something we could ill afford.
With the normalisation of “Jenga” stacking of subcontracting for govt. infrastructure builds, the cost would be exponentially more now.
They were copying a nasty trick that worked in Australia, roughly 15 years earlier. It’s still political poison here, it worked so well. It’s maddening.
Very pleased it didn’t work as well in the UK.
… can anybody explain this flag
‘A dark day’: anger in Rotherham after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers
I have seen graffiti that read something like “ACAB 1488” people are weird.
Stephen “Tommy Robinson” Yaxley-Lennon was interviewed by Alex Jones:
What a terrible headline. He said that civil war was inevitable, not the riots. He said they were the result of immigration.
Everything he said was much, much worse than what the headline said which is bland.
Hope Twitter gets hit by the ban hammer. If it was Muslims promoting violence you know it would happen. And not just in socialist Europe or “sue you in Britain” but in “Free Speech” US where people have in fact been put in prison for long stretches for carrying TV channels on cable that the US government doesn’t like (Muslim ones obviously. Inciting mass murder of Muslims is centrist speech on cable news.)
Posted that in the wrong place.
Activist?
Bravo, Max!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1ek8zdf/sad_to_report_farright_english_rioters_coopting/
national-“anarchists” are fake anarchists, same as “anarcho”-capitalists and “anarcho”-monarchists. You can’t have anarchy and hierarchy at the same time, one always overrides the other.
They think they’re anarchists, but they’re actually fascists? Or they see anarchism just as a state of chaos, not a political worldview?
There are chaos capitalists, could these guys be better described as chaos fascists?
I think it’s the usual “fascists attempting to co-opt radical and revolutionary aesthetics” bullshit, that lead to boneheads, nazi punks, and fascists in the hardcore techno scene.
Totally… the National Front (I believe it was) saw an opportunity to recruit from the punk scene by bringing in bands into their movement in order to recruit disaffected young white, working class men (in part a reaction to the Rock against Racism movement). they had some partisans in the Oi! scene and of course, the most well-known was probably Skrewdriver. The Special’s song Ghost town is essentially about that period in the late 70s where there was intense fighting between right wing and left wing punks…
