I see you, the far right.
Who caught the house brick with his underwear? It’s you. Who, me? Couldn’t be. Then who? Iiiiiiiit’s… well, it’s all of you. I know you don’t like the label but guess what? If you’re six cans and half a bag of gack deep, with a lump of mortar in your hand that you're about to lob at a mosque for an appalling crime that had fuck all to do with anyone who worships there, there’s a good chance you might be far right. You can call yourselves heroes and patriots all you like but the rest of us can see you for what you are. What is it your favourite podcast bros and talking heads always say? The facts don’t care about your feelings.
These mindless rampages aren’t about justice for the mindless slaughter of those poor, innocent kids in Southport. One of the girls was the daughter of migrants - how do you think her parents feel now, seeing this anger and hatred against their entire lived experience play out in her name? You can’t even get your own justifications straight, with the stochastic terrorists provoking and justifying the violence having moved the goalposts half a dozen times already.
First the violence was because the Southport attacker was a Muslim extremist on a watchlist, until it turned out that he wasn’t. Then it was about mass immigration destroying our communities, until their pet hooligans started destroying our communities. Now they’re claiming it’s about Starmer’s heavy-handed police response, when just last week they wanted every copper going to put their boot through the head of any thug throwing punches at them.
This isn’t some noble crusade on the behalf of right-thinking people everywhere. You don’t tear up a garden wall to throw bricks at the police because you have ‘legitimate concerns.’ There are plenty of voters concerned about mass immigration and the impact it has, and they vote and engage in that conversation without resorting to braindead and reactionary violence. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with them on lots of things but I’m damn sure willing to bet good money that plenty of them are just as appalled at the rioting we’re seeing now as any lefty.
None of the pissed-up idiots hurling rocks, burning cars and punching anyone brown within reach have any interest in helping or healing anyone affected the horror that unfolded in Southport. It’s just an excuse for all of them - to either get the adrenaline rush of a brainless ruck with the police, or to earn a few more quid through their divisive grifts.
That includes the instigators, the gurning politicians who have spent years carefully building up this tinderbox with their divisive rhetoric. Most of them have had the common sense to at least pretend they’ve had no hand in all this but even now Farage can’t help himself. He’s chipping in from his home studio, cosplaying desperately as Prime Minister and dog whistling for more violence. He just can't help himself, with his two giant flags and his My First Actual Success In Our Democracy playset. Now comes with five thick as mince plastic MPs, critical thinking skills and opposable thumbs sold separately.
It includes the bought and paid for agitators, the shiny-faced, dead-behind-the-eyes spreaders of misinformation on social media, sat in their troll farms and on their shitty pretend news channels, whoring their outrage for coins regardless of the consequences. It includes the faceless billionaires who fund them. It includes the gutless thugs with two names and seven GoFundNazis hiding in Spain from the police, goading and poking and provoking a mob when they themselves would jump straight in a taxi to flee the country if the violence ever turned on them.
It includes the ex-EDL thugs and embarrassing hooligans showing their ‘solidarity’ with Southport by turning up to attack the police who dealt with last week’s awful attack, terrifying kids and residents on their streets, further traumatising a community who have already suffered unimaginably.
And yes, it includes the straight-up morons, the gawping onlookers who only came along initially ‘for a laugh.’ Your toddler’s instinct for sudden violence is no excuse. If you’re unable to control yourself emotionally and get dragged along the path to rioting in the heat of the moment, if you choose to ignore the facts of the awful case laid out before you and instead use it as some moronic justification to persecute and intimidate others, if you do far right shit with far right thugs - guess what?
You’re far right, and will certainly be treated as such in your upcoming court case.
I see you, the far right. I fucking see you.
Nice work Sam. I really don’t believe that most of these people have any kind of political ideology. They turn up because it’s a chance to have a ruck and smash stuff up with the side draw of a bit of looting. The idea that kicking the door in on a cosmetics shop is somehow indicating their displeasure with government policies is beyond laughable. They are just the mindless stooges of the Farage/Robinson/Tate triumvirate of bullshitting grifters. The sight of a drunk and gakked up goon with swastika tattoos claiming that he’s a patriot tells you all you need to know. Any pretense on the part of the political class of shock at this situation is disingenuous at best because they know what they have either done or watched being done. It was only a matter of time.
Every word is utter perfection