I don't think it's possible to sum up the state of Britain better than the fact that Mike Freer, a gay MP, has decided to leave politics because of death threats from Islamist extremists. He explained that he narrowly avoided a confrontation with Ali Harbi Ali, an extremist who was given a life sentence for
KK: I sympathise, but hating these people isn't going to achieve anything. I suggest that the priority is to identify - name, position etc. - the individuals who are making these decisions. For example, who allowed Ezedi to stay here after his asylum applications had been rejected and (especially) after he'd been convicted of a sex offence , who was the 'priest' who said he'd become a Christian ... and who was it who then approved his third asylum application?
These people are ridiculous. We have the same problem in Canada. The worst sorts of unproductive, un-serious, power- and rent-seeking, verminous types, seek out power via political life.
I watched Newsnight and turned off the moment the Labour MP said the perpetrator's “asylum status was not the issue of concern". It was both shocking but also depressingly unsurprising. My read (which might be way off) was that she's happy for people people to take one for the team (team immigration) and be killed or mammed, rather than bring into question the 'diversity is our strength' pro immigration mantra. Being a minority, more immigration makes her feel safe. It both feeds into her a sense of victimhood and gives her a purpose. Its a means of making the country look a little bit more like her and less like the awful white majority, whatever the cost.
You write, "Abdul Shokoor Ezedi [is] an illegal immigrant who arrived in Britain from Afghanistan on a lorry in 2016."
Was the "lorry" strapped onto a cargo ship? Was it also a submarine? How can one drive a truck from Afghanistan to Britain?
Second, and seriously, you are right to hate these mealymouthed idiots because they have been fully compromised, having internalized all the hateful, vapid, socially corrosive cant from the neo-Marxist left. They will whine about "microaggressions" and call for struggle sessions while being stoned to death or burned at the stake.
Yes, as several people have pointed out, hatred is an awful emotion. But, in the past few years there have been the murders of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess and, now, fearing the same outcome, Mike Freer has decided to leave politics. And who can blame him. But we have to stand up to these assaults.: it is currently the most important topic that we face because these assaults threaten the foundations of our system. So, yes, awful as it may be, I think hate is the appropriate response.
The problem is the Bubbles. Both that of the Metropolis and of the Party. MPs elected by local constituencies, then move to the Metropolis - London, Washington, Wellington (insert your local capital metropolis) that is saturated in Critical Theory (read WOKENESS) and their political party who wants to remain in, or gain power. The MP is then told by both bubbles what to think, how to act and it moves them into positions that no sane people in their constituencies would counternance. Thus MPs get divorced from the localities that elected them and swallowed by the metropolis and the party. Therefore, they fail to truly represent those and their interests that the MP was elected to serve, and come to serve only vested interests of the Party and Metropolis. What is the solution - I don't know.
KK your article has kept me awake all night. It wasn’t anything that you wrote. I agree with you 💯and I feel exactly the way you do. You have ignited a fiery passion and a love for this country inside me through your words. From that love is born a hate for what is complacent complicity to all that threatens to destroy our country. I thank you for making it clear in which direction out hate must go, in stead of stewing in self-pity and doom. No, what kept me awake last night was the response you got from it. “oh, hate is too strong a word.” And, “hate is pointless and impolite”. They would rather point to individual problems and say, “look how terrible. Someone should be made accountable for that”. Walking ignoring the correlating factors in all of these problems.
I am not just worried about the government’s mode of complacent complicity but the rest of the countries complacency to that mode. “Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.”
I watched Francis engage in one of Peter Boghossian games. He asked a question as if this is a fact. “At what percentage do we surrender?” meaning to the extremists and terrorists when they out breed us. He asked it like when you see clouds in the sky and wonder “when is it going to rain?” as if it is a great certainty that it will happen. However, surely we would retaliate before we surrender. Are we going to be oblivious to what is happening around us? One day we hear “Allahu akbar” and say, “Where have all the British people gone. Oh, well we better surrender.”
Surrender not to survive but just to continue to be bred out of existence. The British politeness and inability to hate without apologising for it, is like the dodo, too easy to hunt and kill.
Konstantin please tell me I am wrong and there are more like you with the courage to have the passionate hate this country needs to protect it. To me this is like the Never Ending Story, where the “Nothing” is coming but it is the Government that is the “Nothing” allowing everything that will make our country nothing to continue.
Damn it KK, this is what happens if you travel the planet searching for the best minds to debate - at some point you can no longer tolerate the PR polished veneers of the superficial when back home - they just don't hold up to scrutiny and it hurts...it hurts because that once proud institution was once greater than the sum of its parts - an expression that sadly now only applies to its historic architecture.
Hi. I agree that hate is not the answer and I’ve been looking at DEI from a different perspective. We are focusing on race and gender but they are only part of the puzzle. The real issue is equity: equal outcome. In Canada, there has been widespread adoption of DEI by governments which means they decide our outcomes. We have anti-racism policies that declare that Canada is systemically racist due to colonialism (Western values). The government will dismantle barriers and if you read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and some of the other resources you learn that the barriers include individualism, capitalism, democracy and meritocracy. Take a look at the Wheel of Privilege and Power on the Canada.ca website to see all the categories of this policy. Think of this in terms of equity and how all of the identities will be collapsed into one band in the middle. This is already causing massive conflict and has had high human impact including a suicide after DEI training, loss of professional designations etc. We should not be fighting our fellow citizens but need to find a way to oppose the system - equity - that has placed us into conflict. I’m thinking of a petition to stop the use of DEI but I’m not sure our Canadian opposition government will do anything about it. Imagine a global change.org petition. Say NO to equity! Other thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome.
KK: I sympathise, but hating these people isn't going to achieve anything. I suggest that the priority is to identify - name, position etc. - the individuals who are making these decisions. For example, who allowed Ezedi to stay here after his asylum applications had been rejected and (especially) after he'd been convicted of a sex offence , who was the 'priest' who said he'd become a Christian ... and who was it who then approved his third asylum application?
Hatred is a poison, but also a fuel,
And in this case warranted.
Told you before, I'll repeat, you are not alone Konstanin.
These people are ridiculous. We have the same problem in Canada. The worst sorts of unproductive, un-serious, power- and rent-seeking, verminous types, seek out power via political life.
The only plague that will work is to stop voting for them. As Peter Hitchens quipped, it only encourages them.
I watched Newsnight and turned off the moment the Labour MP said the perpetrator's “asylum status was not the issue of concern". It was both shocking but also depressingly unsurprising. My read (which might be way off) was that she's happy for people people to take one for the team (team immigration) and be killed or mammed, rather than bring into question the 'diversity is our strength' pro immigration mantra. Being a minority, more immigration makes her feel safe. It both feeds into her a sense of victimhood and gives her a purpose. Its a means of making the country look a little bit more like her and less like the awful white majority, whatever the cost.
So the solution to Islamist hate is to resign. That’ll sure teach them!
First, I can't resist a cheap shot.
You write, "Abdul Shokoor Ezedi [is] an illegal immigrant who arrived in Britain from Afghanistan on a lorry in 2016."
Was the "lorry" strapped onto a cargo ship? Was it also a submarine? How can one drive a truck from Afghanistan to Britain?
Second, and seriously, you are right to hate these mealymouthed idiots because they have been fully compromised, having internalized all the hateful, vapid, socially corrosive cant from the neo-Marxist left. They will whine about "microaggressions" and call for struggle sessions while being stoned to death or burned at the stake.
Edited mixed construction
History tells us what happens next. The pendulum swings and everybody suffers.
Yes, as several people have pointed out, hatred is an awful emotion. But, in the past few years there have been the murders of Jo Cox and Sir David Amess and, now, fearing the same outcome, Mike Freer has decided to leave politics. And who can blame him. But we have to stand up to these assaults.: it is currently the most important topic that we face because these assaults threaten the foundations of our system. So, yes, awful as it may be, I think hate is the appropriate response.
The problem is the Bubbles. Both that of the Metropolis and of the Party. MPs elected by local constituencies, then move to the Metropolis - London, Washington, Wellington (insert your local capital metropolis) that is saturated in Critical Theory (read WOKENESS) and their political party who wants to remain in, or gain power. The MP is then told by both bubbles what to think, how to act and it moves them into positions that no sane people in their constituencies would counternance. Thus MPs get divorced from the localities that elected them and swallowed by the metropolis and the party. Therefore, they fail to truly represent those and their interests that the MP was elected to serve, and come to serve only vested interests of the Party and Metropolis. What is the solution - I don't know.
KK your article has kept me awake all night. It wasn’t anything that you wrote. I agree with you 💯and I feel exactly the way you do. You have ignited a fiery passion and a love for this country inside me through your words. From that love is born a hate for what is complacent complicity to all that threatens to destroy our country. I thank you for making it clear in which direction out hate must go, in stead of stewing in self-pity and doom. No, what kept me awake last night was the response you got from it. “oh, hate is too strong a word.” And, “hate is pointless and impolite”. They would rather point to individual problems and say, “look how terrible. Someone should be made accountable for that”. Walking ignoring the correlating factors in all of these problems.
I am not just worried about the government’s mode of complacent complicity but the rest of the countries complacency to that mode. “Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.”
I watched Francis engage in one of Peter Boghossian games. He asked a question as if this is a fact. “At what percentage do we surrender?” meaning to the extremists and terrorists when they out breed us. He asked it like when you see clouds in the sky and wonder “when is it going to rain?” as if it is a great certainty that it will happen. However, surely we would retaliate before we surrender. Are we going to be oblivious to what is happening around us? One day we hear “Allahu akbar” and say, “Where have all the British people gone. Oh, well we better surrender.”
Surrender not to survive but just to continue to be bred out of existence. The British politeness and inability to hate without apologising for it, is like the dodo, too easy to hunt and kill.
Konstantin please tell me I am wrong and there are more like you with the courage to have the passionate hate this country needs to protect it. To me this is like the Never Ending Story, where the “Nothing” is coming but it is the Government that is the “Nothing” allowing everything that will make our country nothing to continue.
I love KK and wish there were more like you xxx
Damn it KK, this is what happens if you travel the planet searching for the best minds to debate - at some point you can no longer tolerate the PR polished veneers of the superficial when back home - they just don't hold up to scrutiny and it hurts...it hurts because that once proud institution was once greater than the sum of its parts - an expression that sadly now only applies to its historic architecture.
Sadly, I think things will need to get a whole lot worse before any navel-gazing begins. And by then, …
Hi. I agree that hate is not the answer and I’ve been looking at DEI from a different perspective. We are focusing on race and gender but they are only part of the puzzle. The real issue is equity: equal outcome. In Canada, there has been widespread adoption of DEI by governments which means they decide our outcomes. We have anti-racism policies that declare that Canada is systemically racist due to colonialism (Western values). The government will dismantle barriers and if you read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and some of the other resources you learn that the barriers include individualism, capitalism, democracy and meritocracy. Take a look at the Wheel of Privilege and Power on the Canada.ca website to see all the categories of this policy. Think of this in terms of equity and how all of the identities will be collapsed into one band in the middle. This is already causing massive conflict and has had high human impact including a suicide after DEI training, loss of professional designations etc. We should not be fighting our fellow citizens but need to find a way to oppose the system - equity - that has placed us into conflict. I’m thinking of a petition to stop the use of DEI but I’m not sure our Canadian opposition government will do anything about it. Imagine a global change.org petition. Say NO to equity! Other thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome.
“Because the terrorists, extremists and terrorists are what they are.”
Exactly. At least the terrorist are honest and open about their motivations unlike the politicians who lie to us for their own benefit.
If everyone whose family is under serious threat gives up, where does that leave us?