The "Death to the IDF" lowlife Bob Vylan whips his barbaric audience into a frenzy of joy as he dedicates a song to Charlie Kirk—whom he calls "a piece of s--t; pronouns was/were... if you talk s--t, you will get banged."
Civilization or barbarism? The West needs to choose.
Wokeness teaches young ppl that leftist views on race, sexuality and religion are what morality is, and must be defended, as Abaraonye said ‘by any means necessary’.
Schools fail daily in teaching basic morality and universal humanity because we immerse children in woke ideology which divides us: Abaraonye is a product of this.
He doesn’t understand the sanctity of life and how it debases him to mock Kirk’s death, a man he not only knew, but who (unlike Abaraonye) had enough respect to dress appropriately for their Oxford Union debate.
Abaraonye showed Kirk the same lack of respect then, as he does now.
I hang my head in shame as a teacher for my profession. Abaraonye has no moral compass and while he is responsible for himself, we too carry the blame.
Abaraonye is a consequence of the moral degeneracy we have been promoting for decades. 🥺
i honestly read the first few words and thought
'at last, someone on left seeing sense and the need to speak to the working class'
this man does not have a clue about whats going on.
head up his own self righteous arse
Yesterday in London was a wake up call. Progressives in all our political parties,trade unions, religious bodies & civil society groups need urgently to start talking together about the campaign needed to tackle the rise of the far right & the organisational form that should take
Apologies for this. I had seen a clip on social media which did not have the full context, and had seen others making the same claim. The full exchange shows it was a debate about Biblical interpretation, not a call for the stoning of gay people. Kirk did have views with which I strongly disagree but this was not among them. Note to self - especially amid tragic and potentially deeply polarising events, be extra careful about social media, mis- and disinformation
Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd.
We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton.
I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
1.“The government doesn’t listen to us.”
2.“I want to feel proud of my country again.”
He wore a Union Jack, not a St George’s Cross as he said that one had been hijacked by racists.
He wasn’t there for Hopkins, Musk, or any of the professional ‘grifters’ as he put it. He was there to feel part of something bigger, though he admitted there were a lot of, in his words, “assholes” there.
He’s an electrician. He’s smart. He’s not racist, but he’s not “PC” either. He’s not a fan of Keir Starmer but he also believes Farage would be a disaster.
Oh yes, he’s a bundle of contradictions! But aren’t we all?
I don’t know what ‘box’ we put him or the millions like him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.
Some were. But not all.
This is about something bigger than immigration slogans or GDP numbers. For decades we’ve hollowed out our national life, underfunding and undermining the very institutions that once brought us together.
Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation, argued that when markets are “disembodied” from society, when land, labour, and life itself are treated as commodities
society pushes back. He called this the “double movement”: people seeking to protect themselves, to reclaim dignity and meaning when everything solid seems to melt into air.
That’s what I saw in my friend’s photos. Not just anger, but a demand for belonging.
We’ve replaced collective experience with atomisation. Without getting too nostalgic, programmes like the BBC’s Generation Game once pulled in millions every Saturday night, giving us something we could all talk about on Monday morning. Now we watch Netflix, Disney+, Prime, or Paramount, alone, in algorithmic silos.
Football used to be affordable and rooted in community; now it’s millionaires playing for the profitability of billionaires. The NHS, the post office, the railways - all chipped away, run down, sold off or centralised, leaving people feeling powerless and disconnected.
And don’t get me wrong: some kind of “Hovis Labour” nostalgia for the 1950s isn’t the answer. The country back then was often intolerant, grey, and deeply unequal. But what we’ve built since is a society that gives people little to hold in common, no collective story about who we are or what we’re for.
I reckon that’s partly why my mate marched. Not because he wants to turn back the clock. But because he wants to feel pride again. Pride in a country that is inclusive, fair, and offers a role for everyone. Pride in a nation that has a respected place in the world, tackles grotesque inequality, and gives people something real to believe in.
Polanyi warned that when democracies fail to provide a humane alternative, the backlash can turn authoritarian. This is how fascism grew in the 1930s, not because everyone became a true believer, but because millions felt abandoned and looked for strength, identity, and meaning wherever they could find it.
If Labour and progressives don’t offer that story of renewal, if we don’t rebuild our national institutions, restore collective pride, and re-embed markets within society, the far right will do it for us, in their own image.
And by then, it will be too late.
@xbasslichtie@kmckenna63 agree on the no point in voting.
so maybe this is the point of the march.
an example of what they are trying to achieve.
this is only my guess
https://t.co/W3c0yeCMQF
This is the fairest assessment of the Unite the Kingdom rally.
Sir Trevor Phillips went and saw normal, decent folk, a diverse crowd and hymns being sung. Those tarring it as “far-right” are projecting their own bigotry.
@xbasslichtie@kmckenna63 for an example of the frustrations that working class english feel.
this is a gay woman whose girlfriend is black.
https://t.co/jy0aiq6CDO
I hate to sound hyperbolic, but this is genocidal tier propaganda. These people have the support of the British state and the establishment. We are in very, very dangerous territory.
@xbasslichtie@kmckenna63 also
i would argue reform are left of the tories.
whether or not they genuinely mean what they say, they represent (or at least are trading off) the working class.
i suppose you could say like the labour party did when it formed to fight the managerial class.