IT’S ONLY been a week, but it feels like a year since December 28. Events have moved so fast – talk about a roller coaster – and really it was one I didn’t want to climb back on, content as I was nursing a newborn grandchild on my lap while watching old movies and, for once, letting the world (and TCW) get on with it. Then Nigel Farage, damn him, broke through my secondary oxytocin calm with his wonderful ‘digital membership tracker’ wheeze.
I couldn’t help but laugh when I looked at my phone between baby-holdings and saw his tweeted film of the numbers ticking up, thrown in big lights across Tory HQ on Matthew Parker Street. Next came Kemi’s ill-considered and far too hasty response; ‘wow’, I thought, ‘the naivety of those who’ve made her over-believe in herself.’ The week was only to get worse for her, as anyone who watched Farage’s Reform rally speech on Friday night already knows. It took me back to a few days before Christmas, when I found myself sitting opposite Suella Braverman on the tube. Her natural comportment as she sat there, exhibiting her intelligence, poise and gravitas, made me think ‘gosh, the Tories cocked that one up!’
Back to my disrupted baby bliss. Apologies to Nigel, but it may have Laura who was the first to kill my calm with an email on December 28, seething about Fraser Nelson’s article on Britain’s integration miracle. ‘Honestly, nothing to worry about,’ she wrote, citing him, ‘a millionaire football player whose name I don’t know nor need to know likes to put the family in matching jim-jams at Christmas, so all is fine in the UK. What kind of f**k-wittery is this?’
That was but the first of a flurry; the next was too incensed to repeat. I could ignore her no longer, and, shifting the baby to free my hand, I wrote back: ‘I feel a blog coming! King’s speech all over again – totally out of touch, multicultural cloud cuckoo land, idealised claptrap.’ That didn’t nail it, but she did, on fire in the blog which we published on Monday about the Conservative ‘royalty’ who have betrayed us. ‘He is having us on,’ it starts.
After tweeting it with my own somewhat acerbic comment, my attempt to slip back into ‘babydom’ was shattered by an X direct message alert: a complaint from Mr Nelson himself about my tweet. Suffice it to say, I offered him a right of reply on our pages that he’s chosen not to respond to.
New Year or not, Laura was still on the rampage, and justifiably so. For any who don’t know our TCW history, we have been highlighting the elites’ enabling of the grooming gang scandal since we started the site (see David Keighley’s 2014 article ‘Multiculturalism slays Rotherham’s young girls’, which we republished today). The Conservative elite ignored us and their own culpability. Few journalists or politicians, Laura reminded me, ever bothered to read the full sentencing reports on the gangs. She’d gone back to the 2013 Oxford judge’s remarks on rapine violence and torture inflicted on the girls there (remarks which were finally forced into the headlines across Britain with Elon Musk’s ‘Jess Phillips and Keir Starmer’ tweets acting as a catalyst). ‘I am not being silly in saying reader discretion is highly advised,’ Laura warned me.
It is indeed advised, for those of you brave enough to read her thread of key extracts that she later tweeted. ‘I don’t want to hear the words “diversity is our strength” ever again,’ her email concluded.
The concept has finally taken a real dent. After this week’s truth bombs, no one (except the whitewashing BBC) can deny the denial that has been going on for years or that, as John McGuirk wrote yesterday, this is something the so-called ‘far right’ have been right on all along.
With my peace shattered, yet feeling buoyed by Elon, The Great Disrupter, and his dramatic entrance onto the UK political stage, it was suddenly all to play for. It was time for me to get back to doing my bit and kick start TCW into the new year. Musk and Trump were laying out their damning condemnations of Starmer’s Stalinist policies, Reform UK had packed out their Leicestershire rally on Friday night, Zia Yusuf and Nigel Farage orated some barnstorming speeches, and my energy had returned. I knew then that Kemi and the decaying Tories had had it. Could they have attracted a rally of thousands in the first, very cold week of the new year? No. Nigel, extraordinary as ever and without a note, was on the attack. Brutally and wittily, he thanked Kemi for her membership help and went in for the kill: targeting her in her own constituency, he commanded the next day’s MSM’s headlines. You can watch the event here.
There was something missing, though. Their commitment to a public enquiry on the grooming gangs is, if belated, of course right, but IMHO a golden opportunity was missed by both Yusuf and Farage. They could have taken the opportunity to make a principled point about freedom of speech and the total unacceptability of censorship, especially in the form it has taken over Tommy Robinson’s solitary prison confinement – and don’t forget this – for a civil offence. Whatever Farage thinks about Robinson, his style of protest or methods, is beside the point. He does not have to like him or invite him into Reform, but the matter of ‘police state’ injustice and determination to silence him cannot be ignored.
Just as Kemi’s benighted accusation about fake membership numbers has given Reform a huge (thirty-odd thousand) bounce, so too did Elon’s retweet of Silenced – now on over 150 million views. They are not silencing him; rather, they are making him a martyr. Tommy, sitting in solitary confinement without any access to a phone or social media, unable to follow or read any of this, with very few visits allowed, is enduring one of the worst forms of torture, torture of which any citizen of this country should be ashamed.
I am not sure how, but, for the first time, he managed to get a message out yesterday that described in detail the inhumanity of his daily regime, which prison psychologists warn can break him. I fear he will be further punished for this. There is no benefit for anyone in this. It would be far better for his investigations, claims and analysis of corruption and criminality in some Muslim communities, as well as of the elites’ blind eye to it (while targeting Tommy instead), to be opened up for proper public scrutiny. That also means his release.
I was not really looking forward to another year of battling on with TCW, but some of the many letters of appreciation I received around Christmas not just moved me to tears, but strengthened my resolve to keep going with what I know, for many of you, is a uniquely important platform.
