Well done to the Daily Mail. The Mail, in their unsubtle attempt to make sure that everyone knows that they utterly condemn the criminal actions of those who went on the rampage in August after the stabbing to death of three girls in Southport by the child of Rwandan immigrants, have put together a handy little chart on the who’s who of Far-Right Thuggery (or FRT for shorthand).
“MailOnline has collated the details of some of the thugs who have been sentenced including their mugshots, what they were convicted of, and how long they have been sent away for. You can filter the graph by incident location, allowing you to see who was convicted in connection with riots near you.
Some people have also been slapped with tough sentences for posting online with hateful content writing to encourage violence. To search for these people, filter the location by ‘Online’. Not everyone who has been sentenced can be named or pictured.
Due to the rapidly evolving nature of the situation, some may be missing from the data.”
That’s lovely from the Mail. Top marks. Perhaps when the Far-Right Thugs are released from jail the government could force them to wear some kind of scarlet letters FRT. Maybe, when the Thugs pass from this earth they will be buried in unconsecrated ground. And they’d deserve it too.
That’s the mood set by the media and politicians right now. I don’t know who put out the message to call all these criminals Far-Right Thugs but it has been a huge branding success. Huge. Although I suspect, rather like the Sinn Fein voters on this side of the Irish sea (who are consistently polled as the group most against the government’s immigration policy in Ireland) it will be news to them that they are on the political right, never mind the far-right. This bunch don’t look like they were voting Conservative all their lives, if they vote at all, which I suspect they do not. Can’t see them nodding their heads in agreement with Jacob Rees-Mogg on Question Time but I could be wrong. You Say Tomato, I say Tomato..
Anyway, the Far-Right Thugs of England have been taught a lesson that they will not forget in a hurry. Of course, the most obvious lesson is that you shouldn’t go around committing criminal acts, organising riots, throwing bricks at the police and in the worst cases attempting an arson attack on an asylum centre.
The other lesson, however, is that these FRT and the many thousands of others who also might have the wrong think to disagree with the British government’s (both New Labour and Conservative) open door immigration policy would do best to keep those thoughts to themselves. Those kinds of thoughts are now ‘legal but harmful’ and those kinds of voters are now surplus to requirements.
The Labour party and now government has been under enormous pressure by their Muslim voters and others on the left over their support for Israel in the war in Gaza. Labour lost some seats in the last election to a hardcore Islamist vote. So, keeping the moderate Muslim vote together is critical. Whether this coalition with the white working-class vote can continue in the long term is debatable. In August, Sir Keir Starmer made it clear which group is the protected one. It is the same group that enjoys elevated status in the legal system by virtue of their ‘protected characteristics’ in equality legislation.
So, what of the rogue’s gallery, the despised Far Right Thugs, formally known as the British white working-class? Take the widow and former welder, a one William Nelson Morgan, 69, and with three grown up children. He was a man of previous good character until he foolishly decided to take part in a riot. “Liverpool crown court was told he had been arrested when he refused to move as police pushed back a crowd of rioters. The court was shown body-worn-camera footage of Morgan being arrested. In it he says: “I’m English, I’m 70, all right – leave me alone!” He can also be seen to shout: “Get off me, I’m fucking 70, you pricks.”
The police officer attempting to arrest him replies: “Then why are you here? Why are you at a fucking riot, man?” Three officers were needed to arrest Morgan, who apologised to them afterwards, saying: “I’m sorry, I appreciate what you’re doing.”
Mr Nelson was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison after pleading guilty to violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon. Given Mr Nelson had no previous convictions and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity which usually earns you a third off your sentence, 2 years and 8 months sounds disproportionate to me, but there we are. You Say Tomato, I say Tomato..
As one judge said at a different sentencing hearing, “There is an obligation on the courts to do what they can to ensure the protection of the public. Consequently, those who deliberately participate in disturbances of the magnitude that have occurred recently must expect to receive severe sentences.”
But don’t expect to receive a severe sentence if you rape an underage girl. Amazingly you might not go to prison for that kind of offence as the prisons are full. “Rees Newman, 33, was handed a suspended sentence last December for the historic rape of a girl under the age of 14, in 2005.” He went on to breach the terms of his suspended sentence but avoided prison again. You Say Tomato, I say Tomato…..
In fact, the Far-Right Thugs did not have to actually be at any riots to find themselves detained at His Majesty’s pleasure. Mr Lee Dunn, a 51-year-old Sellafield worker was jailed for posting three offensive images on The Facebook. He was charged with posting offensive and racially aggravated content online. Mr Dunn was handed an immediate eight-week jail term — discounted by a third from 12 weeks in view of his guilty plea.
A former soldier, now Far-Right Thugä was also jailed for serious criminal acts. Peter Beard, 43 of Rotherham was a former soldier who served in Kosovo, Bosnia and Northern Ireland. He was jailed for two and a half years after admitting confronting police as they tried to protect a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham. Mr Beard was filmed on police body worn cameras at the front of a mob outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on 4 August.
You may know of Rotherham from the previous series called 100s of white working-class girls who were raped by Muslim men but police turned a blind eye for years, episodes 1, 2, and 3. But the Old Bill were not looking the other way this time. You Say Tomato, I say Tomato…
There was a Luke Morgan, who previously worked in a roofing firm before wrecking his life by taking part in criminal activities. Nicholas Sinclair, 38, of Birkdale was a manager at a scaffolding firm was also jailed for two years and four months after admitting being part of the violent disorder in Southport.
Declan Dixon only 22 years of age and had secured an apprenticeship to be an electrician. He travelled some distance to become a Far-Right Thug and take part in a riot. He was jailed for his criminality and lost his apprenticeship.
In using the term Far-Right Thugs the media and politicians would have us believe that when these rioters were not fixing your plumbing or training to rewire your kitchen extension or welding stuff or putting their lives on the line in Kosovo or working in the nuclear plant Sellafield, they were just harbouring the most racist thoughts. There they were, keeping the lights on one minute and just waiting to unleash their hate and far-right thuggery on whoever got in their way the next.
Does anyone really believe this? The sensible question to ask is the one asked by the riot police to the elderly widow “Then why are you here? Why are you at a fucking riot, man?” Why indeed? I don’t think these men are raging racists, although I think they were very idiotic to get involved in these riots, some of which involved very serious offences.
Before they all decided to transition from working class men to Far Right Thugs, these men had their uses, especially for the Labour party. These men were their base, not just scum to be paraded about on the front of the Daily Mail.
Previous generations of working-class men could be found toiling in factories in the industrial revolution; they were the engine of the empire on which the sun never set. You could also find many hundreds of thousands of them being shot to pieces in the Somme and later generations liberating France from the Nazis. But somehow over the last twenty to thirty years the British political elite, starting with Prime Minister Blair and continuing all the way down to Prime Minister Sunak decided they would operate an open borders immigration policy that would soon see these working-class men as surplus to requirements. We are seeing the results of that policy today.
These men committed criminal acts that deserved punishment. But it’s the open border policy of the governing elite that will have the greatest long-term impact on Britain, not the right-wing thuggery of plumbers, soldiers, builders and electricians.