Well, you can't say they didn't try. Over the course of an anti-Brexit campaign based solely on scaring people with the prospect of losing money, the political establishment in Britain pulled out all of the dirty tricks that have worked so well for it in the past: vastly outspending the opposition, doing their best to gerrymander the voting, rallying the global plutocracy to aid them in their scaremongering, decrying the opposition as xenophobic morons and whipping up "anti-racist " persecutions against them, and even pouncing on the still-warm corpse of a murdered woman to make a final attempt to sour the public mood against nationalism.
Even so, the public told them to get stuffed.
Should this not be taken as evidence that the British people, after all this time, have still not descended to the state of homo economicus? A race, long assumed to have degenerated into a mass of talking pigs, terrified of rocking the political boat for fear of spilling a few miserable pennies over the side, have shown an atavistic flash of courage that has no doubt chilled their masters to the bone.
Of course, it could just be that the public no longer respects the economic advice of people who have sold the entire nation to the profit motive and still reduced them to eating from food banks. But Polly Toynbee, a Guardian writer who is worth reading because she is too stupid to hide her progressivist nastiness and hypocrisy behind a decorous facade, thinks the problem is much more serious.
In an
article
that compares British nationalists to insects under stones, she
pontificates that "[democracy] relies on a degree of respect for the
opinions of others, soliciting support for political ideas without stirring up
undue savagery and hatred against opponents". She laments the breakout of a
"chilling culture war" in which ordinary people have begun to
"despise", "distrust", and "dehumanise" the poor
old political class.
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| "On Friday I'll get my country back. Britain will vote remain" |
This imbecile
of a woman is not right about many things, but I hope she is right about
this. A "culture war" would seem to imply that both sides, the
political elite and the nationalists, will fight each other. That would at
least make an interesting change from what we have experienced up to now,
namely a one-sided desecration of the nation by the likes of Polly Toynbee and
her high-flying friends while the people do little other than grumble in
private.
Is Brexit - or, more
precisely, can it be - the opening salvo in such a war? Obviously, we
should have no illusions about the Tories like Boris Johnson or "civic
nationalists" like Nigel Farage who led the Leave campaign: their idea of
British liberty is a zone of free-trade extremism "liberated" from
any vestige of Continental restraints on capitalism, in which they could merrily
sell the nation down the river to America, China or anyone else who showed up
with enough money to buy it up.
If these people had managed to achieve Brexit ten
or more years ago, I think they would have attained their wish. The British people
would have risen up to see off the square-banana SS brigade in Brussels, then sunk
back into comfortable slumber under the rule of their own elected politicians,
snug in the myth that the rape of their country was now being carried out with
their full "democratic consent".
None of this is so certain
any more. Many Britons who chafe at the rule of unelected Brussels bureaucrats now also believe that the political
oligarchy in Westminster
is just as bad, if not worse. America's
disastrous adventuring in the Middle East has damaged plenty of sentimental
British illusions about the wisdom of following our "cousins across the
pond"; and the anti-Western, racial-nationalist state of China hardly
had the decency to wait until David Cameron wiped the brown off his nose before
showing
its treacherous colours. Most of the ordinary Brexiteers I know personally
did not choose to vote Leave for trade reasons, but because they were desperate
to strike some blow for change in a rigged political system controlled by those
whom they are slowly recognising as their enemies.
Such change might come
sooner than expected. Brexit has provided the perfect excuse for the Scottish
National Party (SNP) to resurrect
the issue of Scottish independence, which was only narrowly seen off by a
vote of 55% to 45% despite an intense scaremongering campaign by politicians,
business elites and the media. Now that the English have led the way in ripping
up the arguments for stability, the Scots will have little reason to respect
them in a second vote. And although Scotland would push for
independence so as to rejoin the EU on its own terms, its actions would
inevitably widen fault lines on the European mainland, both between the EU and
the nation-states and within those nation-states.
This may herald the
beginning of a difficult time, in which states like Britain will face dire threats
to old symbols of security like territory, political unity,
nuclear deterrents and so on. But I think that we should align ourselves
with such movements towards independence, working our way into their activist
networks and guiding them in the right directions.
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| No cause for undue alarm. |
We on the Alt-Right know
that the nations of Europe are dying, not for want
of nuclear deterrents or trading opportunities, but for want of resistance to a
ferociously anti-European ruling class that has commandeered all existing
political systems and bent all existing national narratives to its purposes.
Opposition to this 'Citadel' has failed every time it has been channeled
through its rigged political systems; for it to succeed requires the creation
of new paths, which can be forced open both by breaking up existing states and
by creating parallel non-state forces to hollow them out from within.
The
British political class has just lost its coziest refuge from the anger of the
people. If Scotland chooses to go further and break up the Union, decades
of quasi-imperial propaganda about "multicultural, tolerant, liberal
Britain" will go down the toilet in an instant, obliging our discredited
rulers to invent new narratives for the individual nations in an era when the
public is increasingly unwilling to listen to them.
When I say that we
should try to guide independence movements in the right direction, I mean
that we should drive the force of their ire against the cosmopolitan ruling
elites in both the nation-states and the EU superstructure, and damp down
intra-European hatreds wherever possible. We should proclaim a general
movement for liberty from globalised, corporate-bureaucratic forces that rule
everywhere while being loyal to nowhere, and try to spread "independence
fever" as wide as possible throughout the continent of Europe.
We must understand that any attempt to build true and positive European unity
and cooperation must wait until after the anti-European political
establishments oppressing us have suffered death by a thousand cuts.
To the peoples on the
continent of Europe, the people of Britain must say that we have
"turned our backs on them" only to lead them to a greater freedom. To
the corrupt Westminster
oligarchy on our own island, which is perhaps feeling a little less secure than
yesterday, we must point our fingers and say: "You're next".
