The ‘new Left’ are like the fascists of Oswald Mosley’s Black shirts
On Tuesday evening I attempted to attend the Lewisham East Hustings for the by-election. I say attempted because I couldn’t get in. Was it rammed to the hilt? I don’t know, but that wasn’t the reason.
The place where I was expecting to find the hustings was instead surrounded by a crowd of screaming people, pushing against a mass of police. What on earth had happened? I pushed through and tried to get in but was blocked by a policeman. ‘Why do you want to go in’ he asked? ‘I’m invited!’ – ‘What party are you?’ I looked round at the shouters – Racist! Racist! Racist! – I’m not a racist but I suggested to the policeman I probably shouldn’t mention my party – he took the hint and agreed, telling me to ask a senior policeman at the front.
So, I dutifully tried to push through the shouting mob, but got stuck. I asked the aforementioned policeman but he said ‘no one is going in, only out. We’ve had to shut it down’.
The aggressive woman in front of me then spat at a policeman. He quite rightly put up his hand, so she went for him and in the melee I got pushed to the side. I’m no scrapper and my heart was pounding: was I going to be trampled just for trying to attend a political debate? Had I been transported to a country where there is no democracy? No, I was in London, but I’m beginning to wonder…
‘Please let me on to the other side’ I asked a policewoman. We were indeed on sides – the peaceful candidates, supporters and audience leaving and standing on one side, the police in the middle, and the belligerent chanting mob – screaming Racist! at everyone – that I was caught in. ‘No’ came the answer ‘I don’t know who you are or why you want to go over there’… But then out of the blue came a strong voice ‘She’s alright – she’s with us’ – her arm grabbed me and pulled me forward. The policewoman believed her and let me through. I never was so glad to see anyone!
So, of course once on the safe side, I had questions for everyone… I had read Labour weren’t going to turn up – apparently ‘no platforming with the far right’ (it seems to me that the left considers anyone who isn’t Labour to be far right…. ). But many felt Labour didn’t turn up to the only hustings because they were so sure of winning. Our candidate David Kurten had to walk through to shouts of ‘UKIP scum’ and ‘Shame on You’.
The early arrivers of the audience had got in though.
The Speakers were allowed to go ahead and all made good speeches.
The local people wanted to know what each candidate was offering them – but the far Left will not allow this and once the speeches were over the police had to shut it down early for everyone’s safety as the chanting mob were not giving up. Democracy for them does not exist, they are not content to just place their vote, we should simply have no choice but to vote their way.
As people left the mob became as aggressive as they were when people arrived. It was like mass hysteria. I have done 3 hustings myself and it is nerve wracking enough without that. The candidates were brave, all of them. They stood up for democracy in the face of pure, extreme, fascist hatred.
Anyway, the ranting mob refused to disperse so after filming it all we retreated to the pub to discuss and watch the videos. Even the Lib Dem candidate had been screamed at.
We were shocked but in a way, it wasn’t that surprising. Things are getting worse everywhere. The Left and the so-called Antifa are in fact the new Fascists. They are extreme and will not tolerate any disagreement. We must all agree and virtue signal accordingly for fear of reprisals. Anyone who disagrees is a Racist. It is an extreme fundamentalism of politics. And it got me to thinking about the Blackshirts of the 1930’s….
The Black Shirts were a fascist group in the UK who tried to bring about a Hitler style movement in our country. They wore back shirts and would march through poor areas of London like the East End, assuming that those who were poor, oppressed and vulnerable were also stupid and would follow them. Fascism has never had any place in our country and they didn’t do very well. They soon faded out once war was declared against Nazi Germany.
My mother’s family lived in the East End at that time and were indeed very poor. There was the Great Depression and not many had work or money. People were desperate. Most were born into poverty and in those days there really was no way out. The masses were poor in general, whole boroughs were housed in workhouses. But poor doesn’t mean stupid and the Black Shirts got nowhere with the people of the East End.
My grandfather was born into a family of 6 children and his father died young, so at 13 he went to work to support his siblings and mother (who also worked). They often all lived in one room, as money was so tight. But they educated themselves, were avid readers, went to church, and one brother who was paralysed even taught himself Latin and got a job. But even though living in grinding poverty the poor people of London had no time for the Blackshirts or any form of fascism…. the only people who ran after them were tiny children looking for fun… and indeed the Blackshirts were viewed with humour, nowhere more so than in the areas of deepest poverty. As a Londoner born and bred, I heard these stories 1st hand.
But we now see the Fascists – the far Left – targeting the poor and the vulnerable, promising them everything to get them to follow them, and anyone who doesn’t agree must be named and shamed and attacked. The Far left thinks they can entice the vulnerable to follow them by posing as their saviours, but it is an insult to the vulnerable to assume they will follow anyone who promises impossible changes.
On the way home, a London chairman kindly drove us back to Central London. There was talk of how our country was being ruined – we all had ideas of how it would go: ‘Civil War!’ – we looked at the video of the self-styled anti racist woman interrupting David Kurten – ‘Comedy Gold’ for sure!
Then suddenly I looked out of the window and saw London Bridge and the Chelsea Embankment – the sun had set and the Thames was navy blue, lights were shining and the buildings were coloured gold – a beautiful sight – and I thought of how much I loved our country and especially my City. I thought of how much my ancestors had been through and yet remained honest and moderate, never resorting to fascism of any kind. We all stopped chatting and looked… yes it was indeed a beautiful sight, breathtaking, we are blessed to live in such a place. But what could we do? Where was all this going? How can we save our country, starting with London? Is it already lost? But to give up would be even more depressing….
When we all got out of the van the chairman who had driven us said we must all stand for election… we were smilingly pensive, but we knew we would, we weren’t ready to give up.
The Blackshirts will come in many guises. They are here now, stronger than ever in the form of the Far Left, Labour and Momentum. We got rid of the Blackshirt Fascists once before – we can and must do it again!
The links are to screen shots I ripped off a couple of videos of the event.
Do you recognise any of them?
Bob Spowart
Well done, Robert. David Kurten and I are separately taking this to the police (in my case, as to how the police can possibly justify their operational decision), so it is useful. Thanks. I didn’t know UKIPDaily allowed photos embedded in the comments. Can’t get them to work for me. See the yob with the dark and blue horizontally striped T-shirt in your first screen-grab – his back is to the camera? Now look at the very start here: https://tinyurl.com/welby007 and see him in full flow – right under the noses of the police. Please grab his photos and put… Read more »
Robert posted links – he did not embed photos. You can see the photos when/because you hover with your cursor over the link.
That is part of the clip I got the stills from.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by the police to allow this.
Here’s another collage I’ve done:-
Thank you for this account Janice. And thank you for speaking up so eloquently about the dangers we face from this thoroughly evil evolution of the Far Left. I too attended the hustings and witnessed and experienced the event and would also like to congratulate the candidates who did attend and speak. One candidate who did want to enter, but could not for her safety was endangered, was Anne Marie Waters. For the record. The mob won. The event was shut down, the police failed in their duty to protect citizens rights and facilitated the silencing of Anne Marie Waters.… Read more »
A moving and worrying article. You, and all the people who peacefully attended that husting are very brave. What can be done in the face of such hate? We are seeing a breakdown in our society it is very upsetting. We all know this has been simmering under the surface for some time, but this last few months has taken a leap forward. I was speaking to a mature school teacher some weeks ago. She told me that that as well as after school lessons there were now pre-school-day classes and that the authorities were considering extending the school-day officially.… Read more »
Thanks for the article and the long term perspective.
Am sorry that all happened, terrible menacing intimidation and verbal abuse.
It’s very unfair to compare the men and women of the BUF with the left wing vermin now known as ‘anti fascists’. The BUF were mostly brave patriots who had had fought in WW1 and seen their generation of men slaughtered for no reason. The ‘rape’ of Belgium, Kaisers ‘militarism’ were fake news of the 1910s. They with good reason wanted to avoid the same happening again. And we should not swallow the left wing lies about Cable street etc. The BUF were attacked by the same type of communist vermin that attacks patriots 80 years on. I don’t write… Read more »
Mosley went off the rails well before the war when he founded the British Union Fascists and adopted a venomous form of anti-Semitic posturing. The point that should be made, though, is that Mosley’s previous progression from the Conservative Party, through the Labour Party to the founding of his brief-lived New Party was driven by his espousal of very left-wing economic policies which the mainstream parties would not adopt. Now a state-directed economy plus anti-Semitic rhetoric – what strand in contemporary British politics does that resemble?
Let us not forget that Fascism, as formulated by the Italian Socialist, Giovanni Gentile, was not overtly antisemitic.
Also, the only reason why it is now viewed as a “Right Wing” concept is because it was a non-Marxist alternative form of Socialism to Communism.
No, fascism is not socialism at all. It was an alternative to it, not an alternate form of it. It had more in common with communism (state ownership of industry and commerce) than with socialism.
Many assume the Fascists and Nazis were the same.
Historically, the Nazis were Socialists (“National Socialist” = Nazi); they allowed private ownership of large corporations. Fascists were not and did not.
I will beg to differ. Giovanni Gentile, the originator of Fascism, was an Italian Socialist and he based his ideas on a non-Marxist form of Socialism where the Marxist “Class Conflict” was replaced by “National Co-operation”. Communism, based as it is on Marxism, is also a development of Socialism, taking Marxist ideas of Class Conflict to an extreme. There is, of course, the argument that “Socialism is what the Socialist says it is,” which usually continues to expound that, being the perfect system, Socialism, if properly implemented, could never fail. Ergo, any system calling its self “Socialist” that does fail,… Read more »
Your argument hangs – and therefore gets hanged – on the assumption that the left-wing are logical and consistent and therefore that their ravings and political connurbations lend themselves to being logically analysed, semantically and otherwise.
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I study the left-wing brain only from a professional viewpoint – how malformed can something be, but still fulfill some of its non-automatic functions adequately in order for the organism to survive and procreate.
Now, here’s the rub and the nub:
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Question: Which is more socialist – Nazism or Fascism?
Answer: Nazism.
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Do you disagree?
On the money, Janice!
I’m on the way back to Lewisham now, and will be there till the results are declared.
On my phone I have a great deal of material for which I will be pressing the Police – in attendance at the Count – for a response. This includes badge numbers of policemen who have questions to answer.
Results expected tomorrow (15th) morning.
Will they simply weigh the Labour votes? (JOKE!)
Not yet. They are still printing them up in Tower Hamlets…..
Nice one!
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I love the way we never lose our humour, even faced with all this!
When you think of it, why weren’t they moved on for threatening behaviour?
All these avenues were available to the police, given the antics of the mob: – issue informal warnings – issue s35 dispersal notices – arrest the worst ones, like the young thug in the T-shirt or the dancing pseudo-dog-collared crazed woman – arrest many for obstruction – baton charge them away – do nothing (no one had been hurt; no physical threats of violence had been made) Instead, these creatures of the Dick and the Khan chose to shut down a legitimate, advertised political hustings, an important component of our democracy. How far the Police have fallen. The scales have… Read more »
The results for For Britain and UKIP today will be interesting. Of the two For Britain is overtly anti-Islam and anyone that has voted for them will be aware of this. If For Britain do relatively well compared with UKIP will Kippers acknowledge that Islam is a concern higher up the agenda than they may want to admit?
We (UKIP) got more votes than the splinter parties (For Britain / Anne Marie Waters, Democrats & Veterans / John Rees Evans, Libertarian) all lumped together.
Excellent article Janice. The anti-fascists proclaim the virtues of tolerance, with their eyes typically shining with the purity of hatred that is the prerogative of extremists the world over. They base their campaigns on a sense of outrage that anyone, anywhere should dare to disagree with them. In their appeal to feeling over reason, force over argument, such activists resemble most those phantom Nazis they are claiming to ‘fight’. This is why, in a stroke of post-modern irony, anti-fascism is the new fascism. They are deadly serious, well trained and organised with full committment to their cause and we ignore… Read more »
They are probably all scroungers on benefits too; decent people are too busy earning a crust to get involved with them.
Yep.
As a taxpayer who, apart from a few weeks nearly forty years ago, has never claimed any state or other benefits at all, irrespective of “entitlement”, it is ironic that money extorted for me paid for the same evil stakes (used to hold the fascists’ placards) which they seemed to want to poke my eyes out with.
We simply *have* to find out why the police chose not to use dispersal notices (s35?) but instead shut down a parliamentary hustings. I don’t buy the “police today are numpties” explanation. This goes back to the Khan and the Dick.
Agreed!
The pips are being squeezed and they’re beginning to squeak.
Paedos calling us fascist! The joke’s on them.
Fascist paedos calling us fascist, actually.
And anti-semitic paedos accusing us of anti-semitism to boot… you couldn’t make it up.
The thickos’ absurd signs conflating antisemitism (which means anti-jews, irrespective of the technical definition of a “semite”) with islamophobia, though, take the cake. The greatest force for antisemitism in the world today is Islam – exactly as the Q’ran and Hadith make clear.
But then, if lefty fascists could do even elementary logic, they wouldn’t be lefty fascists, would they?
Janice – I was just having a count and it’s about ten years since I set foot in Blighty. As I sit here far away and read this and other articles, I’m beginning to wonder if I’d even recognise my native country if I were to return. I still have a very deep attatchment to my native land and I’m horrified and infuriated by what I read and things seem now to be deteriorating very rapidly. I get the feeling that it’s going to be a very intense summer in the UK and things are going to get very nasty… Read more »
flyer, the UK is a real curate’s egg; good in parts but much is bad. I do share your concern about Eurogendfor. Any who set foot in our country should be treated as an invader and sent home in a box. There is no alternative if our country is to be saved but preparation will be difficult.
Another excellent, well written and thought provoking article from Janice.
Thankyou