The fash must be bricking it. Paloma Faith, Fontaines D.C. and Lenny Henry are among the musicians, comedians and celebs who have just launched a new alliance, Together Against The Far Right. They’ve got a statement. And a demonstration planned for March next year. Far-right thugs, meet your match. The luvvies are reclaiming the streets.
You probably don’t need me to tell you that this new ‘alliance’ isn’t just railing against what anyone could reasonably call the ‘far right’. You know, the pathetic fringe of racist bottomfeeders who can usually be found crying in Zia Yusuf’s mentions or, much graver still, could be seen smashing windows and screaming slurs in minority areas during last year’s Southport riots. Everyone hates them.
But it turns out that Paloma’s definition of ‘far right’ is as elastic as her definition of passable popular music. ‘For the first time we face a far-right party topping the polls,’ reads the alliance’s statement. If you’re wondering if you’d briefly slipped into a coma, left blissfully unaware that the BNP had made an unlikely comeback, it’s because these slebs are actually talking about Reform UK – a party that could only be considered ‘far right’ by middle-class hysterics in desperate need of a history lesson or a dictionary.
We all know what real fascism looks like
We all know what real fascism looks like. Totalitarian control. Messianic dictatorship. Paramilitaries murdering leftists in the streets. A Darwinian struggle for supremacy abroad. The worship of war and violence. The mechanised attempt, in the Nazi case, to exterminate European Jewry. If you genuinely think this is what Farage has up his sleeve, I suggest you close the curtains and have a nice, long lie-down.
To claim that a political party, seeking democratic office, on a ticket of opposing mass and illegal migration, is tantamount to fascism isn’t simply insulting to Reform and its millions of supporters. Though it is. It is an insult to historical memory, to the millions who perished under an ideology that was boundless in its depravity and evil.
When they say ‘far right’, what they really mean is democracy. That’s been crystal clear since Brexit, when the British public’s democratic demand for national liberation from an overweening European superstate was despicably smeared as the prelude to a new 1930s. And it’s crystal clear today, when the cultural elites smear anyone who wants to finish the job of ‘taking back control’ of our sovereign affairs as donkeys led by demagogues.
You see that in Together Against The Far Right’s swipe at Reform. And, to be frank, you see it in their swipe against those who amassed at Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march in September – who also get a nod in the statement. You don’t need to be a Robinson fan (I’m not), nor buy his attempts to clean up his image of late (I don’t), to realise that you do not get 150,000 Brits on to the street to demand a white ethnostate.
I reported on the demo, and the contrast between the often cranky speakers and the generally reasonable attendees was striking. As was the relative diversity of the crowd. It was the call for patriotism, for less migration and more integration, that brought them out. There were a few racist scumbags who showed up spoiling for a fight. But as Trevor Phillips wrote at the time, the elites dismiss all those who attended at their peril.
There’s a grim irony in all of this, too. For if there is a black-clad, anti-Semitic, totalitarian ideology that truly stalks Britain today it isn’t coming from aging neo-fascists, or their pimpled, keyboard-warrior heirs. It’s Islamism, which is responsible for 94 per cent of all deaths caused by terrorism in Great Britain since 1999, and is currently the primary menace confronting British Jews, following Jihad al-Shamie’s murderous assault on the Heaton Park synagogue. Paloma and her pals don’t seem to have much to say about any of this. But they do count ‘pro-Palestine’ Irish rap trio Kneecap among their signatories, a group who allegedly chanted ‘Up Hamas!’ and ‘Up Hezbollah!’ – referring to two of the world’s nastiest Jew-killing jihadist terror armies – at one of their London gigs last year. They deny supporting either terror group.
Together Against The Far Right? This pleb-bashing luvvie alliance is united only in its conformism – and cowardice.
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