Remainer luvvies have made gone out of their way to retail the narrative that Britain has undergone a lurch to the right and is increasingly xenophobic and intolerant. Course we know this isn't true. There will be no deportations of EU citizens and nobody wants to see EU citizens treated unfairly.
The reality is that the left have taken a lurch further to the left only they haven't taken the country with them, so from their point of view the country has moved to the right. If there has been a change of mood it is an end to public patience with the left's performative outrage stunts to silence anyone with even a pedestrian opinion that isn't in line with their own. They have the power through their online execution squads to demonetise video blogs and kill Twitter accounts for even minor transgressions against "woke" orthodoxy.
Ultimately, though, there is only so much browbeating people can tolerate before they snap. I think people have had quite enough of the finger-wagging and simply aren't prepared to self-censor anymore.
My question though, is why aren't the remainers right? We are still a tolerant country when we have no business being tolerant. This week the Manchester Evening News broke the story that a paedophile grooming gang was left to roam the streets of Manchester - and police knew who they were and exactly what they were doing.
As much as the police have covered it up, the media doesn't like reporting on it, and where it does it quite deliberately leaves out critical detail which none of us are surprised to see when it does come out. The media cites "legal reasons" but we all know what those reasons are. The government is keen to keep a lid on this because they fear if the whole truth comes out there will be a massive backlash.
Jennifer Williams, author of the MEN piece remarks on Twitter "I think the public is way ahead of the press on the Manchester child abuse scandal. The scale of the response from readers - and not even just readers, just people who’ve come across it one way or another - is way bigger than the media response".
She's not wrong. I've seen it for myself. I lived near a Catholic girl's school in Manningham, Bradford and recall the prowling cars packed with Pakistani men at closing time. The phenomenon is well documented but seemingly we can't bring ourselves to do anything about it. We have seen a number of high profile court cases which certainly shows the police are finally getting to grips with the backlog, but we are now talking of it in the past tense when the sad reality is that it's a here and now thing and as widespread as ever it was.
All the while we hear from the left how the tabloids are radicalising people and are therefore responsible for a growing intolerance. Something that in their eyes needs to be quashed, not by actually dealing with the problems the newspapers unhelpfully report on, but by silencing any open debate about it. This is partly why Labour took a beating at the polls. If at this point we are still tolerating it in our midst and not "on the march" knowing that police and social services are prepared to do nothing about it (and actively conceal it), have we simply slipped into a state of apathy?
We are now at a point where if a leftists hasn't called you a racist on any given day then it's because you haven't yet voiced an opinion. But that now holds no fear. It's surely better to wear that badge than be complicit in an epidemic of rape because it's inconvenient to the diversity narrative. If anything Britain has been too tolerant. It's bad enough that we have to endure this appalling abuse in our towns but it's an outrageous insult that we are expected to just put up with it.
But of course policy in this area isn't easy. Our legal system is based on a certain set of values that seeks to avoid discrimination. But for how long can we ignore the evidence? How long can we turn the other cheek to forced marriages, acid attacks, honour killings, inbreeding and mass rape? How much more mealy mouthed equivocation are we supposed to listen to?
Though remainers spin the lie that Brexit was motivated by xenophobia, there is no real evidence of that. Those who want to end freedom of movement do so for entirely rational reasons and though we can argue that the symptoms people experience could be eased by way of investment in skills etc, we know damn well that isn't going to happen. It perhaps takes something as radical as Brexit as a wake up call to a ruling class who are all too happy to ignore the problems (even pretending they don't exist) because they are insulted from the consequences.
In just about every major area of public policy we can see that robust and urgent action needs to be taken but we find government is unwilling or incapable of meaningful or useful policy interventions. The crisis we see highlighted in Manchester is symptomatic of a governing apparatus too absorbed by self-satisfaction to ever turn its attention to anything of consequence. The legal system is broken but it doesn't affect them. Our universities are useless, but it doesn't affect them. Pakistani ogres are raping their way through a generation of girls but it doesn't affect them. Ordinary people can't get on the housing ladder, paying exorbitant rents and only two bad months from homelessness - but it doesn't affect them.
In all this time the "liberal" establishment (they who decide what you can say and on what platform) have taken the view that it's our attitudes that need correcting and not the policies that bring them about. We've had twenty years of Stasi like censorship even to the point of facing disbarment from public debate for maintaining the belief there are only two genders.
Well there's only so much of this crap we can be expected to put up with. The left repeatedly assert that the "far right" is on the march. But then we are all to the far right of these degenerates. Sadly, though, we are not on the march when at this point we really bloody well should be. If the police are unwilling to arrest gangs of rapists and our politicians and media can't bring themselves to confront it, then at some point we shall have to take matters into our own hands. There has to be a limit to our tolerance.
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