… and probably too late for the largest portion of the British ruling cadre (such as it is, and to include their national establishment media, political and intellectual class) to emerge with any honor and credit – now that the industrial-scope sexual trafficking and abuse of mostly white lower-class British girls at the hands of Moslem and Pakistani men has blown up into an international concern. Abuse which was enabled and hastily buried away from attention because .. well, musn’t hurt the delicate feewings of a favored minority class by pointing out rampant lawlessness on their part. One mussent point anything so infra dig, don’tcha know, because they are an essential and obedient voting bloc for the Ruling Cadre … and the segment of the population that they prey upon are so … (shudder) deplorable. I mean, one just doesn’t! It would be so raaacist…
This has come to the apparent surprise of many supposedly well-informed parties. Which in turn surprise the heck out of me, because I’ve known about it and posted now and again since 2014.
“Wrap your mind around that, if you please that those bureaucrats, politicians and investigators whose profession and mission is to protect and defend their fellow citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them hesitated to act because they were afraid of being called racists… That many of the girls victimized were from working-class families or the English equivalent of trailer-trash, or from troubled backgrounds anyway just adds a dimension of particularly ugly snobbery. In order to maintain the benign mask of multicultural toleration and diversity in place, the ruling managerial and political class essentially sacrificed the children of the ruled class to a sexual Moloch … and kept quiet about it for years.”
I’ll say this for attentive scanning of international media sources, you will find out about a lot of curiosities, interesting people and historical oddities, and interesting and often amateur takes on witnessing events. Now, after another ten years of essentially shielding the perpetrators of industrial-level mass rape and sexual exploitation from meaningful prosecution, the British ruling class is finally having to face the wrath of the ordinary working and middle class – that wrath finally exploding into the open. I suspect that the desperate fury on the part of Two-tier Kier and his elite class allies stems partly from frustration that they haven’t entirely been able to squash people like Tommy Robinson, as well as other ordinary citizens bitterly resentful about having their ordinary and formerly livable, cohesive communities ripped apart … all because the ruling elite wish to dissolve the people and replace them with more biddable and obedient others.
Comment as you wish.
(Sorry for seeming distracted in this essay – my sister’s family home is in the evacuation zone for the Eaton Fire, which is burning down from the mountains into Altadena and parts of the adjacent suburbs. My niece and mother are in a hotel outside the evacuation zone. My sister, brother in law and nephew are together – we presume safeguarding their house.)
Best wishes to your family members in the LA area, Sgt Mom. Let’s hope they avoid the devastation.
However, more generally, we have to note that Californians have been voting for the same Democrat incompetents for years, virtue signaling on “climate change” while studiously avoiding the very obvious problems which were building up. Forest fires in Southern California? Not exactly unexpected. Sadly, blame for the failure to prepare for such an eminently predictable problem, including by voting for competence rather than DIE, lies with the people.
There is a strong analogy to the English Ruling Class disdain for the abuse of working class girls in that there has been no secret about this for years. Mark Steyn frequently commented upon it. All the Labour Party members who voted to make Starmer prime minister knew he had been in charge of hushing up this matter in one of his earlier roles. Sometimes we get what we vote for — good & hard.
As a side note, are ordinary English women realizing that they are once again almost bottom of the stack. The actions of Starmer and his group demonstrate that class is more important than female gender; ethnicity is more important than female gender. If it were not for white males, English women really would be at the absolute bottom of the barrel. But this is what they voted for.
To really hate the deplorables, well, Tommy, the best it requires a certain accent. Piers has it, Nigel has it, all these silly azz-hats have it. Just look at the names. Kier or Tommy. In hopes of a revolution, never too late for that.
The Lord protect those you love.
If govt is not going to provide it’s one most basic service, physical security, then what’s the point of even having a govt? Maybe enough people will wake up and realize that.
I spend a chunk of time every year over in the UK. I can report that the food has improved, so I enjoy my breakfasts while watching BBC news.
Last time over the news, every day for a week, was all about a Parliamentary Investigation into “Tainted Blood”. Sounded really bad, but as the story was spun out over time it turns out that it was this: A group of families of, mostly, hemophiliacs who’d gotten infections and died after blood component transfusions spend decades petitioning for financial redress and recognition, Yes, decades, as most of this happened in the 1980s and early 90’s! I was never able to quite parse out the facts, but there was sure a lot of emotion. And of course, these people were ill treated.
The blood mostly came from plasma centers in Icky Icky America, so plenty of hammering on that point.
This was a “Crisis” that could not be pinned to any current politician, and iirc was probably all Margaret Thatcher’s fault. Somehow. The solution of course is to write a lot of checks, and to say the NHS needs a lot more money.
Rejecting a national inquiry just because it might, nay, will show the nature of their current leadership, and that it will be difficult to make it Donald Trump’s fault, does not change the reality that inquiries on a national scale can be and are done.
Because I read only conservative press, I was aware of the rape gangs for many years. Not a single one of my associates or friends knew of it. When I’d bring it up, they’d look at me as if I were lying at best or a racist at worst. The MSM/DNC covered this up just as much as did UK media. They had the resources to cover the Trump baby balloons when he visited the Queen, they could have broken this globally years ago.
This is why the socialists had to introduce racism into the language, because class had become somewhat invisible in most Western countries. It was still there, but rising economic tides lifted all boats.
Race could never become invisible, because it’s all right there in front of your face. They trained people to be ashamed of the moment when you realize someone looks like you.
But Western societies, especially ours, set about overcoming that, too. If all men are created equal before the law, then the way any American looks is beside the point, and you can deal with them or not as equals.
But in societies a little more glacial and less economically vigorous as ours, that takes longer, because class is always still there. It never really went away. All the resentment and condescension has always been there.
It’s never been about race, only class. And now people can see it again.
Second paragraph correction: “when you realize someone doesn’t look like you.”
Great snarky piece. “… all because the ruling elite wish to dissolve the people and replace them with more biddable and obedient others.”
The Brits and Europe are the obedient…
Greetings from the great Dallas Snowpocalipse of ’25. We are on track to experience snow drifts as deep as 4″, oh, the humanity. The schools announced that they would be closed for the rest of the week the middle of yesterday afternoon, thus rendering parents absent from work. They had been in session for two whole days in a row, what do I expect. All out of an “abundance of caution”, the all purpose excuse for government being unable to deal with completely predictable events.
I have been aware of the grooming scandal for a good five years. The problem is that it has been going on so long as to spread culpability throughout the British establishment. That anyone mentioning it is guilty of racism is obviously something both benches will agree to wholeheartedly.
Smokey Bear has a lot to answer for. It turns out that neither you nor any power on earth can prevent forest fires. At best, or worst, they may be postponed, with each succeeding year adding ton after ton to the fuel burden, insuring the eventual conflagration is unstoppable. California and probably other states no longer have the ability to prevent a succession of uncontrollable fires sweeping across everything it their path until there is not enough left to burn. Talk of prescriptive burns are whistling past the graveyard, each few hundred acres requires miles of firebreaks to be constructed over terrain mostly too steep for heavy equipment and then weather conditions that might occur only a few days a year. From dust, to dust, is the path of all things, stasis is an illusion borne of the transience of human existence.
My sympathy for all those caught in these fires, all those before and those left to come. Even the most obnoxiously self righteous, hypocritical celebrities.
There was a theory out there that one reason the British ruling class has prevented a general inquiry is that it would unearth a lot more in the way of sexual scandal than just the Pakistan rape gangs. There has been a bit of sexual misconducts unearthed about elites, think Jimmy Saville and now Huw Edwards.
This is a dynamic being played out throughout Europe: Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium. Perhaps not as systemic and brutal as this, but there is a certain logic to this that extends beyond partisan and national boundaries. You have a minority who doesn’t assimilate and is assertive. At each step you have a choice, to crack down and deal with this decisively and have racial brouhaha or sweep it under the rug. Everytime you sweep it under the rug, it returns and the situation is even worse/
No-go areas, stabbings, Charlie Hebdo massacre and other assaults on those who blaspheme Islam.
As a side note, I get into arguments with people who for lack of a better term I will call the “Jay Nordlinger/National Review” crowd of Never Trumpers. They rail on Trump but when I ask them how will they address the very real problems people have they fall silent or mouth reductionist platitudes. That’s how you get Trump because the establishment, prim and proper, have no answers.
Same here in Britain. The ruling class, both Conservatives and Labour, had no answers to the rape gangs and since the victims were lower class they could be swept under the rug. To address the issue challenges all sorts of assumptions of the past 30 years.
Europe os a bit further evolved in its response than Britain. The political systems in France and Germany are straining under the weight of keeping the populist parties, RN and AfD, out. When I hear people complain about those “far-right” parties, I tell them that (even though I reject the term far-right) that they won’t exist if the existing parties actually addressed the voters’ concerns.
There are, lurking in the background here, the Epstein and, more lately, Combs prosecutions. In both cases, there are clear accounts that many people were involved and that copious video recordings, both overt and covert were made. Yet, aside from a couple of exceptions, crickets from the media. Combs has yet to survive what may be America’s most notorious penal institution until his trial, a trick that escaped Epstein.
I largely agree with what has been said above-particularly the original post.
I have some small caveats:
1) I do not think what we have in Britain is a ruling class. We definitely have a self-defining elite but I think the borders are too permeable to call it a class. It’s more a matter of self-identification and a willingness to mouth the prevailing shibboleths. Not entirely, of course, but largely.
2) Mitchell says “Race could never become invisible, because it’s all right there in front of your face” and that’s just not quite true in the UK.
We really don’t have the US’s obsession with skin colour and it’s a very common US mistake to assume that we do. I’m not saying that there isn’t some of that particular form of racism going on-mainly through the soft prejudice of low expectations-but most of the prejudice is much more Orwellian than that.
Of course, as DEI cr*p becomes more embedded, that will change. The most pernicious (and largely intentional) ill that flows from the focus on diversity is an atomisation of a society into distrustful, “armed groups” ad we are quite a long way down that road even without the ghastly behaviour of a large subset of immigrants from Kashmir.
Note that I didn’t say Pakistan, although that would largely be correct too, but it’s a more tribal and integrated (and horrendously dysfunctional) society than wider Pakistan
What’s happening in several European countries, including Canada, is the collapse of the parliamentary system of government. In such systems, the head of government is appointed by the legislature, not by election by the people. Thus, that leader is responsive to the legislature. And the legislatures themselves have become insular and incestuous — less responsive to the people.
And, in the midst of several converging crises, the people are finally noticing. They want something done, but their governments are blowing them off. The result is that the people are increasingly pi$$ed off.