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This not not a fight the UK government can win using the old playbook It has been interesting to see the predictably alarmed reactions to the huge march in London organised by Tommy Robinson et al.
One remark I heard on a video was “The most alarming aspect of the event was just how normal the vast majority of the marchers were… the sort of people you’d meet in a country pub, or at a half-time queue for the loo or a concert.”
At first, my reaction to hearing that was “surely the normality of the crowd should have made the march less alarming”… but then I realised the marchers not being stereotypical bovver boys makes plausibly labelling the demonstration as “far-right” vastly harder.
Yes, I can see how that might alarm some people as the magic words racist, fascist, and far-right lose their power from years of overuse and the fact there were reggae bands and alarmingly black faces in the crowd.
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Relax. The person on the video will soon hit on the Brechtian solution – normies are the root of the problem and must be replaced with new normies.
Whoops ! That’s getting close to Tommy-talk.
I rather suspect that such was the topic of conversation inside Whitehall during the march.
Subotai Bahadur
Your march and our assassination are going to get the same treatment by our “leaders.”
They’re going to sit back quietly and not push anything, on the theory that the Right can’t sustain anger for more than a few days, that we’re all normies and have lives to run, that once we get it out of our system everything will quiet down, that our rage will just dissipate.
In the past, they’d be correct.
Any positive result will depend on that not being true anymore.
So, we’ll see,
I watched my favourite vlogger on Youtube and was really impressed with how relaxed the crowds seemed. There were enough there to cause the Police real problems, but it was wonderfully relaxed. I was both amused and disgusted in reading the online Guardian to find that I had been watching thousands of Far Right protestors being Racist and wanting their country back.
From the other side of the world (New Zealand ) keep up the good work.