Labour has seized the opportunity to promote a bogey man of the 'far-right', a justification for 'militant democracy' - Loewenstein's 1937 concept to pre-emptively curtail civil and politcal liberties to save democracy from fascism. (In the 1930s fascism was a real threat of course). In today's Britain the idea is to save Labour and socialism from a democracy that could turn against them by curtailing freedom of expression.
The Online Harms Bill is being reviewed (i.e. looked at for ways to extend it) and the new Racial Equalites Act, under which employers will have to start classifying employees by race, looks set to be extended further to include an offence of 'islamophobia'. Authoritarian control will masquerade as protection. The media will help promote this doublethink while Labour construct legal barriers to extremism, the definition of which will morph at speed into any oppostion to its program and world view. A divided and demoralised right will not be able to defend free speech.
Tolerant England is tolerating its own destruction. It's history is being rewritten by 'decolonisers' and the next generation is being grabbed now by a 'review' of the education syllabus overseen by an intersectional feminist. Academy schools that educate rather then indocrinate are to lose their exemption to goverment control. The new syllabus will apply to them for the first time since their creation.
Starmer believes himself to be morally good. His aims are (to him at least) just. But, as C S lewis once noted: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
The moral superiority of those who inhabit the elites entails contempt or disadain for the lower orders who lack the elites' superior insight and vision. It leads, as C S Lewis went on to explain:
"To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The imbecilic population who do not support Labour - i.e. 80% of the electorate - are about to pay a very high price for voting out the robber barons that were the Tory party.
Brilliant analysis, thank you Frank. The reaction of the Governing and Media class to these tragic murders and ensuing chaos has been nothing less than sickening.
In terms of the sources of the Government response it would seem the government has drawn on the template of the Lock down – Starmer is on record as eulogizing this time as the apotheosis of national unity. The pattern is clear too in the Government attacks on anyone questioning the established narrative, and by extension they have broadened the attack to scapegoating social media, evinced in the ubiquity of op eds attacking X.
There is a definite air the revenge in the approach taken by the Government and the Police, with a direct targeting of the White Working Class as a permanent ‘enemy within’. There seems to be a conscious effort to solidify the electoral alliance between the Urban, Professional and Public sector based middle class and elements of the British Muslim community into a permanent public display of opposition to the ‘turnip Ghost’ of the EDL; the rallies against the absent Far Right which were strongly reminiscent of the public applause for the NHS staff at the start of the Pandemic in their performative quality.
The response of many on the Right (and elsewhere) is to characterize this as a Far-Left (quasi Stalinist) coup. This I believe is a misnomer not just because the Left are politically bankrupt having been gutted by the twin forces of Islamism and Identity politics, but also there is something chillingly familiar in the bland technocratic approach to it all. When I consider the bleakness of the Government’s outlook, the brazenness with which the government is advocating censorship, the refusal to address wider social issues or possible remedies, the expansion of repression through the launch of a mobile tactical Police unit, this makes me wonder if the new government doesn’t bear a close resemblance to politics as practiced by Schmitt.
Labour has seized the opportunity to promote a bogey man of the 'far-right', a justification for 'militant democracy' - Loewenstein's 1937 concept to pre-emptively curtail civil and politcal liberties to save democracy from fascism. (In the 1930s fascism was a real threat of course). In today's Britain the idea is to save Labour and socialism from a democracy that could turn against them by curtailing freedom of expression.
The Online Harms Bill is being reviewed (i.e. looked at for ways to extend it) and the new Racial Equalites Act, under which employers will have to start classifying employees by race, looks set to be extended further to include an offence of 'islamophobia'. Authoritarian control will masquerade as protection. The media will help promote this doublethink while Labour construct legal barriers to extremism, the definition of which will morph at speed into any oppostion to its program and world view. A divided and demoralised right will not be able to defend free speech.
Tolerant England is tolerating its own destruction. It's history is being rewritten by 'decolonisers' and the next generation is being grabbed now by a 'review' of the education syllabus overseen by an intersectional feminist. Academy schools that educate rather then indocrinate are to lose their exemption to goverment control. The new syllabus will apply to them for the first time since their creation.
Starmer believes himself to be morally good. His aims are (to him at least) just. But, as C S lewis once noted: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
The moral superiority of those who inhabit the elites entails contempt or disadain for the lower orders who lack the elites' superior insight and vision. It leads, as C S Lewis went on to explain:
"To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The imbecilic population who do not support Labour - i.e. 80% of the electorate - are about to pay a very high price for voting out the robber barons that were the Tory party.
Brilliant analysis, thank you Frank. The reaction of the Governing and Media class to these tragic murders and ensuing chaos has been nothing less than sickening.
In terms of the sources of the Government response it would seem the government has drawn on the template of the Lock down – Starmer is on record as eulogizing this time as the apotheosis of national unity. The pattern is clear too in the Government attacks on anyone questioning the established narrative, and by extension they have broadened the attack to scapegoating social media, evinced in the ubiquity of op eds attacking X.
There is a definite air the revenge in the approach taken by the Government and the Police, with a direct targeting of the White Working Class as a permanent ‘enemy within’. There seems to be a conscious effort to solidify the electoral alliance between the Urban, Professional and Public sector based middle class and elements of the British Muslim community into a permanent public display of opposition to the ‘turnip Ghost’ of the EDL; the rallies against the absent Far Right which were strongly reminiscent of the public applause for the NHS staff at the start of the Pandemic in their performative quality.
The response of many on the Right (and elsewhere) is to characterize this as a Far-Left (quasi Stalinist) coup. This I believe is a misnomer not just because the Left are politically bankrupt having been gutted by the twin forces of Islamism and Identity politics, but also there is something chillingly familiar in the bland technocratic approach to it all. When I consider the bleakness of the Government’s outlook, the brazenness with which the government is advocating censorship, the refusal to address wider social issues or possible remedies, the expansion of repression through the launch of a mobile tactical Police unit, this makes me wonder if the new government doesn’t bear a close resemblance to politics as practiced by Schmitt.