Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
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Epping council trying to close a hostel because of the risk of right wing riots is victim blaming in the extreme
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Amen
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Not just conservatives ,i would add reform as well
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HAROLD LASKI KLAXON!!! @originstorypodcast.bsky.social
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Many of us left X.
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When you have no policies & no one loves you the best you can hope for is the chance to become relevant again through your country being torn apart....... If a Reform / Conservative tells you they're patriots who love their country tell them to fuck right off!
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@davidallengreen.bsky.social We’ve been here before - this from The Very Bloody History of Britain part 2 from the 1990s on the Notting Hill riots of the late 1950s.
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It’s illogical to see these people as a problem rather than see their potential. We need more taxpayers to support our increasing elderly population.
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How about they go and drive Vance out of the kingdom?
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OMG.
The Frank Furedi.
He and I were at the University of Kent’s social science faculty together. He got a PhD, I got a 2-1.
Bloody hell.
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It is particularly galling when you realise the high proportion of participants in the demonstrations who have previous for domestic violence. 'We don't want these forinners comin' over here and beating up our women, that's our job'.
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Very good lessons from history, Laski etc. Thanks.
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the thing is it is a bit of hypocrisy with the Conservatives..... as a sexual predator basically caused the Tory party to collapse and be kicked out of GOV.
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More fabulous perceptive deconstruction of far R tactics and reasoning by @iandunt.bsky.social Plus wonderfully sweary at times.
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Both Reform and Conservatives like Badenoch and Jenrick are actively engaged in inciting violence. It's what gets the clicks.
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The violent bigoted thugs outside the asylum hotels are sick people. They are the problem not the desperate refugees inside.
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Think a better word is baying. The dam is going break soon IMHO.
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The speed that they normalise this awful drop in standards is staggering until you remember how quickly our country has been trashed since Cameron.
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Another great article. Thank you.
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Good piece. The BBC quote you criticise was a much more defensible downscaling of an earlier loose exaggeration. Essex police gave 2000, once, as the peak in Epping. The corrected version seems defensible. The initial version fits your argument
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There is nothing they won't do - no group they won't demonise, no lies they won't perpetuate, nothing they won't burn to the ground, just to get into power. Forget making the country better, people's lives better - it's just about power, status and wealth.
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Great piece. Tiny, pedantic point which I'm embarrassed to make, even as I'm making it: the Lionesses won the European Championship not the World Cup.
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What a tragic farce of a country. These overgrown children were given well over a decade to remake the UK in their image, at great and ongoing cost to the rest of us, and now they realise they're still not happy they think lynching a few refugees might cheer them up. Get them in the fucking bin.
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What people want is hope not hate, even those protesting outside hotels. Starmer promised that but so far has failed miserably to deliver. He is too focused outside the UK and even there he is not having any noticeable effect. We need a leader who can drive the country for the common good.
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What a brilliant piece of work
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Someone's adding a lot of kindling to that tinderbox, along with lighter fluid and matches.
There is no tinder box, just arsonists.
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Trans people have been warning about this for a decade. It was all ignored as the political-media class kept throwing fuel on the fire.
The BBC and Guardian are among the worst offenders and Starmer is by choice making everything worse.
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Spot on.
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it's horrific that you'd be willing to give up humanity just to avoid an awkward conversation
you're speaking from and for a very privileged group
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Modern British Conservatism, that of Burke, Liverpool, Peel, and Huskisson, was borne out of the fear of the mob violence of the Terror.
And now, their supposed political heirs are inciting the mobs.
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It doesn’t help that even most ‘progressive’ parties are accepting the tropes.
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Thing is it's been a damp squib. Having lost power the right are in the first stage of the five stages of grief, anger. Like 2 year olds having a tantrum because they can't get their way any more they just want to smash everything up.
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Meantime, Farage’s vigilantes take to the beaches 🫠 www.lbc.co.uk/article/on-t...
On the streets with Bournemouth's 'Safeguard Force' on first patrol in seaside resort | LBC
It’s a warm summer evening on Bournemouth’s bustling seafront.
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as well as Palestine protests and England women's football celebration, this summer London had a record-breaking Trans Pride ( >100,000 attendees, a number which the Guardian eventually endorsed in their one article about it, hours after the march ended. No other mainstream news covered it at all.)
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Just about to read it, but I'm sure it'll be great. This ridiculous pandering to a small group of racists is infuriating.
Proscribing a group campaigning against genocide whilst simultaneously almost encouraging a group of bigots and racists is an insane situation.
Can't they see where this leads
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Just listened. Excellent as always.
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Why the govt won’t do something about X, Facebook et al mystifies me. Just start limiting their bandwidth - if you make it frustrating to use then people will drift away. Easier than censorship and less discriminatory.
If the UK govt won’t take responsibility for the media in the UK then who will?
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They are whipping it up, they want to see rights and chaos in the streets. It’s not different to what the Orange POS and GOP did last year in the run up to 2024 election. This is the Tories and Deforms ‘they’re eating the dogs’ moment.
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That’s the riots in England and Northern Ireland?
Yet “Britain” is a tinderbox?
Seriously?
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Why are they doing this? Do they really think that rioting will bring back a Tory government? Or a Reform one? or, more likely, just bring in an authoritarian governement that they crave. The 1950's idealised Britain is not coming back.
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Unfortunately it’s working. Check out the latest by-elections on @britainelects.com
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Last summer, the fear of disorder was palpable, so much so that in Medway, undertakers along a planned demonstration route removed all bodies from their premises! But at the election, Reform and Conservative lost to Labour. That fear really damaged Reform’s support and this is a former UKIP seat.
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#FarageRiots
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You can tell they are panicking as they realise the violence might not come before the end of the summer from the ever more deranged headlines and articles.
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Has anyone attempted to explain the Living Marxism -> Spiked! pipeline?
I remember Chomsky once suggesting that hard left to hard right was a well worn path, that these people consistently craved power, and that all that had changed was how likely they judged a revolution to be.
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And Starmer's Labour has been fully complict in this vile slide, obsessed with winning those who voted for Brexit, Boris and Farage
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Yup, all very familiar in Northern Ireland…
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This so called Christian country has forgotten what Christianity is about.
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Consider this.
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Brilliant article.
It's Sarina, not Satina.
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Same with Trump. He is praying for a violent reaction to his secret police kidnapping innocent people and then he’ll impose martial law.
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Britain wake up.
Look what is happening in America.
The hate will not stop at the immigrant.
The right has moved from opposition to oppressor.
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Trump has taught conservatives that they don’t have to suffer the indignity of defeat and opposition - power is theirs by right and they should just take it by force.
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I work near a protest and wonder if it’s ‘rent-a-crowd’ of aggressive football supporters who currently lack a venue for their violence as it’s out of football season with no matches to attend.
Summer right-wing protests give them a substitute for the terraces until football season starts again.
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I particularly liked "Robert Jenrick - an experiment in what national socialism would look like if it was designed by Laura Ashley - ..."
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I actually Lol'd at this: "Robert Jenrick - an experiment in what national socialism would look like if it was designed by Laura Ashley" - All I can see now is him wearing a quasai SA uniform in a natty paisely teamed with high shine brown brogues.
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Also - all very fourth-century Alexandria, where bishops whipped up mobs into rioting, as they vied for power.
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Damn. Maybe I should give in to my kids and start playing TOTK. But that would distract me from ambling around Sengoku-period Japan looking for another shrine to practise my meditation at…
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V good
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Such a good article thank you 🙏
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Powerful interest groups are herding the populations of the liberal democracies towards carnage. The west is bankrupt and AI will make millions obsolete. The switch from shear don't slaughter to slaughter don't sheer has begun. Civil institutions seem powerless to do anything about it.
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Excellent article. Thank you🙏
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Conservatives like Hindenburg, Von Papen and King Emmanuel III brought Hitler and Mussolini to power so.
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Where do people find the time to go demonstrate miles away from home? In this heat, where do they find the energy?
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Another excellent, sobering analysis of the current RW noise, by the usual ghoulish suspects - a pitiful, venal echo chamber, aching for street violence, morally hollow. When, in real life, whilst nothing is perfect, most people are looking out of their windows & seeing life going on quite happily.
