Last September, British conservatives held a massive march through London. Estimates varied, but the crowd was at least 100,000 to 150,000 strong. We wrote about the march here. There was another Unite the Kingdom demonstration today. These events were organized in part by Tommy Robinson, and, although entirely peaceful, they are viewed as anathema by the British establishment.
Thus, Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced this year’s rally as “peddling hatred and division,” saying “we’re in the fight for the soul of this country.” Hatred apparently meaning love for one’s country, and the soul of the U.K. apparently consisting exclusively in importing millions of unassimilable third-world immigrants.
Out of a faux concern for safety, Britain’s Home Office banned 11 “far-right agitators” from entering the country to participate in today’s demonstration. One of them is Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek:
I can understand why Starmer wants to keep Vlaardingerbroek out of Britain. She is smarter, not to mention more charismatic, than Starmer and his entire cabinet, combined.
There was a second demonstration in London today, by anti-Semitic Muslims. France 24 described the dueling demonstrations in the terms universally used by the European establishment: “Thousands march in London for far-right, pro-Palestine protests.” It would be more accurate to say that the two groups were the normals and the demented jihadists. Prime Minister Starmer did not describe the genocidal anti-Semites as “peddling hatred and division” or, in any respect, threatening “the soul of this country.” They evidently are A-OK.
In today’s United Kingdom, to be patriotic is to be far right. As in last September’s march, Union Jacks predominated, with St. George’s Cross flags sprinkled in, along with the occasional Israeli flag and Trump banner:
It must be weird to live in a country where displaying your own country’s flag is “far right.” The green, white and red flags are the traditional, pre-Islamic flag of Iran. So these people are on our side in all respects.
Tommy Robinson (real name, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is a flawed man. But sometimes, in decisive moments, it is flawed men who step forward. Those who are noncontroversial, those with credentials, those whose manners are exquisite, are all on the other side. The side of cultural suicide. Whatever his faults, Robinson is standing up for the people of Great Britain, and millions of Brits are not cowed by the contempt they receive from the powers that be, as we saw in the British election just a week ago.
For his part, Robinson is what in any other circumstances would be considered a moderate:
Tommy Robinson urged the crowd gathered at his Unite the Kingdom protest to get involved in politics.
He said: “Are you ready for the battle of Britain? 2029 we have an election. We’re not asking anyone to go out and fight, but this is the most important moment in our generation.
“If we don’t send a message in our next election, if you don’t register to vote, if you don’t get involved, if you don’t become activists, we are going to lose our country forever.”
He added: “We have to get political, we have to get involved. I’m not going to tell you which political party you need to join. We’re a cultural movement. I’m going to tell you that you have to join a political party. I don’t care if it’s Reform, if it’s Advance, or it’s Restore, or it’s the Conservative Party. We have to locally get involved in politics.”
That is what the Left calls extremism. Today, many thousands of Brits gathered once again to express their patriotism and their desire for leadership of a once-great nation that is not bent on decline and, ultimately, suicide.
UPDATE: The “pro-Palestinian” marchers chanted, about Tommy Robinson, “Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk!” As far as I have seen, Keir Starmer and his ministers, the BBC and the British newspapers, have no comment. For whatever reason, they are on the anti-British side.
