So, today is EU election counting day, the day when all
the chickens come home to roost and the day that commentators like Dan Hodges
will see if their six-week rant in vilification of UKIP and all its supporters
has borne fruit. At first, a lot of observers sort of agreed with many of the conclusions
resulting from the reported thoughts and deeds of fruitcakes, loonies and
closet racists and many decided UKIP wasn’t for them. But then it started to become
a distinctly grubby game.
Here were all two-point-one major parties (It’s becoming
more difficult to describe the Lib Dems as even half a party) engaged in a
sometimes desperate united front to hurl some quite extreme accusations at a
party that attracted people who used to vote for them. People with unfashionable
opinions, sometimes formed through lack of knowledge, sometimes from grudges
held against others and sometimes just because they were barmy. People, in
fact, much like themselves and the voters who remained.
Then the results were in and a curious anti-London
sentiment began to grow as it dawned on ‘the people in the telly’ that
the rest of the country no longer regard London as a British city. Dear Dan
Hodges, who has been increasingly unhinged of late tweeted, “I'm bored of this "out of touch London
elite" narrative. Londoners aren't going to apologise for not being racist
throwbacks. Sorry.” and then got into a bit of a spat with me amongst
others.
But nobody was talking about ‘Londoners’, the beleaguered
former stalwarts of the blitz spirits and all that used to represent and unite
Great Britain, they were talking about groups of people who hold themselves
above the accountability most of us are subject to; people who live in a fairy
tale world where everybody is ‘enlightened’ and believes in the same studiously
correct things that they do. Where everybody is equal and equally entitled to
live as they wish. Where all people are good people and nobody seeks to control
others.
Meanwhile, as these lovely enlightened people were focused
on dredging up old non-stories about UKIP candidates, the islamic caliphate of
Tower Hamlets carried on doing what it has been doing for years. Electoral
chicanery is not only commonplace here, but has been known about for years. And
so entrenched is it that the UK government appears powerless to do anything to
change it. Please take a few minutes to read this remarkable piece by Andrew Gilligan
and then tell me that we have nothing to worry about.
This is not just happening in ‘That London’. In many
British cities, there is corruption and anti-democratic graft beyond anything
we have seen in the past as concerted islamist groups – under the cover of
politically correct ‘tolerance’ and crying racism - seek to control local seats
of power in order to impose their own ideology. The bigger prize and eventual
ambition for islam is to control all of Europe, all of the world.
The new London 'Elite'
So tonight, as the MEP results are returned and we wait to
see the appetite for change in Europe and calculate the odds of our ever getting a
referendum on our place in it, ask yourself this: If we can’t even control the
corruption in boroughs in our own capital, what chance do we have of ever reforming
the European Union? If we truly want a say on how the EU is run, we need to
start much closer to home.
