From Elsewhere – A storm is gathering.
Like many other Britons who are engaged with politics and who are aware of how things such as the social contract, trust in politicians and trust in national institutions are crumbling, the fireman turned political commentator Paul Embery is looking at where we are now with a great deal of dismay. Sadly he’s right to do so. The country is indeed in a mess and it’s a mess that’s been made by Britain’s own political class.
Mr Embery’s assessment of the state of the nation is unfortunately correct and he’s also correct in saying that there might be a future situation where one spark turns what now peaceful protests against the middle class left’s mass migration experiment into something more troubling. In a piece on his Substack Mr Embery highlights how the increasingly voluble protests against the housing of potentially dangerous migrants in hotels are not confined to the sort of areas where we might expect trouble to occur but in those areas which have hitherto been untouched by trouble.
I’m very impressed by Mr Embery’s article not just because of how well written and accurate it is but because I know a lot about the areas and the situations he’s talking about. I know Epping where the locals turned out in their droves to protest the housing of dangerous migrants in their area as Epping was a place where I visited much as a child and I spent time with my family in Epping Forest, a place once known as ‘London’s Lung’ because it was a place of release and freedom for those housed in crowded and unsatisfactory conditions with no gardens and little greenery around them. I also know Dagenham where some of my family lived and where I lived for a while and I experienced the time when the people there, frustrated by Labour’s disdain for them, voted for the extremists of the British National Party as a last resort expression of anger. I’ll put some excerpts of this piece below but I would most strongly urge readers of this blog to go and take a look at the full piece by Mr Embery.
On the subject of the protests that have occurred in places where they might not have been expected to occur such as Epping and Diss in Suffolk, Mr Embery said:
What I found striking about some of the protests – Epping and Diss being obvious examples – was that, by and large, these were not the sort of towns or people that one would usually associate with rebellion or social discord. So it is a measure of how deep public resentment is now running over the immigration crisis – and, in particular, the requisitioning of hotels on a vast scale and at considerable public cost – that these places now find themselves centre stage in the debate.
Many protestors were parents worried about the safety of their children, particularly their daughters. While it is important not to tar all asylum seekers with the same brush – many will be decent people simply seeking a better life for themselves – data published recently and widely reported in the media shows that foreign nationals are far more likely than native Britons to commit sex crimes, with Afghanistan, a country from which many have arrived in the small boats, topping the table for the total conviction rate per head of the population for each nationality. So the concerns of the protestors are not irrational; they are grounded in reality.
The problem is that although the reality on the ground is that the vast bulk of these demonstrators against the housing of problematic migrants are normal ordinary Britons, the political Establishment and their media lapdogs are painting these protesters as being of the Hitlarian far right. As someone who has observed and sometimes marched against the Hitlerian far right in the UK I have to say that the Establishment are both incorrect and dishonest to paint the protesters in this manner.
Mr Embery also takes aim, rightly in my view, at the liberal globalists who have promoted excess numbers of migrants and the migration of those from cultures that are wholly incompatible to those of Britain. He went on to write about the demographic changes and the forced deindustrialisation that decimated places like Dagenham.
Mr Embery added:
The liberal globalists who ran things arrogantly dismissed the inevitable disquiet aired in Dagenham and other places experiencing a similar phenomenon as the intolerant reaction of closet racists and bigots. They were profoundly wrong. People were uneasy because their sense of order, and not their sense of race, had been violated.
As someone who grew up in London and in East London in particular I can vouch for what Mr Embery is saying. People were broadly tolerant, although there were exceptions, of those who were different in either skin colour or religion or both, but the mass migration we’ve seen in recent decades has destroyed that tolerance.
I agree with Mr Embery that we are not yet at the tinderbox stage but it might not be long until we are at such as situation and it will be an utter tragedy if we do get there because as I’ve so often said on here, ‘King Mob’ makes for a terrible, capricious and unjust leader for any nation or any cause.
I want to see our current problems sorted out via the ballot box because that’s the proper way to do things. I’m disturbed by the number of people who are saying to others ‘we are not voting our way out of this shit are we?’ Voting is the way out but I can understand the frustrations of those who have voted for parties who have promised the public faithfully that they would deal with the migration problems to the satisfaction of the majority but then go on to just prop open the doors of the nation even further, I’m looking at you Boris Johnson when I say that.
Like me Mr Embery wants to see a ballot box rather than a more kinetic solution to what’s happening. On this issue Mr Embery said:
In the end, the ballot box is a pressure relief valve. When the valve becomes faulty –in other words, when politicians do the opposite of what the public consistently demands – the pressure doesn’t go away; it simply breaks out elsewhere. That is precisely what we are now seeing in some of our communities – generally the ones that have suffered most from the effects of mass immigration.
I desperately hope that the government gets to grips with the situation. If it doesn’t, we can reasonably predict that the scenes that played out in Epping and Diss and all those other towns will be repeated elsewhere.
Like Mr Embery I want the elected government to sort out these problems and sort them out for the benefit of the majority population of the United Kingdom, that is after all what democracy is all about, providing the best solution for the vast majority of Britons. My worry is that nearly everyone in the political classes in the UK and in the mainstream media is so locked into an ideological bubble that says ‘mass migration good’. The Establishment is now so isolated from the population that I worry that they will refuse to do what is necessary and then we might see the pressure cooker with a faulty safety valve which is Britain today go off in an extremely messy manner.
Please visit Mr Embery’s blog and read the entirety of what he’s written as it’s excellent although somewhat depressing to read. You can find Mr Embery’s blogpost via the link below.