The Left “No Platform” their former heroes!
In recent months it has got some media attention that there is a widespread habit, particularly with Student Unions, but also with other Left-wing groups to “No Platform”, not just their obvious political opponents, such as the longstanding refusal to appear on any hustings or discussion panel with representatives of the BNP, National Front or any other so-called Far Right party, but also anyone who disagrees on any detail of Leftist dogma.
So over the last few months there has been the no platforming of Germaine Greer, the long-time leading feminist who has dared to say “just because you lop off your penis...it doesn't make you a woman” and so got herself banned by various student unions from coming to speak at the universities. Apparently it might lead to some of the poor little darlings having their “safe space” violated!
But in the last few weeks there has been the amazing spectacle of both Peter Tatchell, the leading Gay Rights campaigner, and Nick Lowles the founder and leader of the Leftist agitprop group “Hope not Hate” both being “no Platformed” for daring to criticise any aspect of Islamism!
Maybe a factor is that the Left in the UK is actually a much smaller number of people than was previously realised. Maybe we can get a clear insight into that by the fact that Jeremy Corbyn’s vote was only 251,417 people.
When you factor in that some of those were Conservatives trying to vote a wholly unelectable Labour Leader and that there might have been some few Leftists who did not register to vote for him, nevertheless we have got a good figure for the likely maximum number of the Far-Left in the UK.
That means that all their little squabbles are amongst a relatively small group and so it is perhaps not quite so surprising that they are “fighting like rats in a proverbial sack”. The other proverbial saying which seems appropriate is the ancient Greek comment “those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first made mad!”
Here is an article about Nick Lowles' “No Platforming”:-
HOPE not hate chief executive, Nick Lowles, ‘no-platformed’ by NUS for being ‘Islamophobic’
The head of a campaign which seeks to counter racism and fascism in the UK has allegedly been “no-platformed” by the National Union of Students (NUS) on the grounds he is “Islamophobic.”
Nick Lowles, chief executive of HOPE not hate, took to his Facebook to criticise Black Students - the NUS campaign which focuses on equality in education, black representation, anti-racism and anti-fascism - for its “ultra-left lunacy.”
As displayed in a tweet from journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, Mr Lowles alleged on Thursday that NUS Black Students was opposing a plan to invite him to speak on an anti-racism platform because he’s “Islamophobic.”
He continued: “Never mind all the work HOPE not hate has done challenging anti-Muslim hatred, it seems that some ultra left activists believe I’m Islamophobic because I have repeatedly spoken out against grooming and dared condemn Islamist extremism.”
Mr Lowles said the charge of Islamophobia was “obviously quite ridiculous.” The row comes amid a growing outcry against the trend of “no-platforming” at British universities following the revelation veteran human rights activist Peter Tatchell had been snubbed by students for his free speech stance
In a statement, Mr Lowles said: “I am an independent member of the Government’s Anti-Muslim hatred Working Group and over the last few years HOPE not hate, as an organisation, has worked closely with Muslim communities throughout Britain to defeat the politics of hate. Only last December, I co-authored the most comprehensive report into organised anti-Muslim hatred.
“My crime, it seems, has been to repeatedly call on the anti-racist movement to do more to condemn on-street grooming by gangs and campaigning against Islamist extremist groups in the UK and abroad. I make no apology for either position. We need to be consistent in our opposition to extremism - from whatever quarter it comes.”
He added: “The situation is almost amusing in its absurdity, but I want to stress that my beef is with a small group of ultra-leftists within the NUS, not NUS itself.”
Mr Tatchell has come to the defence of Mr Lowles. He told the Independent: “Nick Lowles and HOPE Not Hate have an extemporary, trail-blazing record of fighting racism and fascism. The idea that there should be any attempt to prevent them speaking is profoundly disturbing. It smacks of political sectarianism of the worst kind.
“There are many good people in the NUS, but it seems that a significant minority are more interested in fighting other activists than fighting real racists, fascists and anti-Muslim bigots.”
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I am beginning to believe that the hard left are tiny, however they do control the msm, education, tuc, nuj and financed by Marxist bankers. They are terrorists alright and we have under their occupation for decades. Let's call their bluff.
ReplyDeleteI do think that Muslims will start taking them out soon and that is what they are beginning to fear.
The jihadist planned his conquest of our lands long ago. They look for the weak points in the legal system, seek out disaffected groups and marginalised groups to use of their shills. Children from broken homes make perfect willing converts and deadly jihadist against their own people.
If there was ever a time to encourage the nuclear family and patriotism it is now.
Francis. There was a demonstration in Stuttgart recently for family values and the nuclear family and against Marxist fascism. It was countered by the far left who started a punch up. A German sociologist spoke of the growing divide between the Left and those who want to maintain Germany's traditional national identity. And he said that when the two clash and there is violence it is always the Left that turns violent first. That just about sums it up.
DeleteHATE not Hope, describes the English Democrats as a "hate-group" on its website. I once e-mailed Mr Lowles and invited him to give some examples of hateful language in speeches or articles by prominent ED members. No reply. I e-mailed again, referring him to my earlier message and asking for the courtesy of a reply. No reply. So I believe that the appropriate expression in this case is, "What goes around, comes around."
ReplyDeleteClive,
Weston-super-Mare.
Now this post has dismayed me to the extent that I am going to have my say. Peter Tatchell made himself an hate figure by his constant braying about Gay Rights, this is a new way of thinking for me. Well done Peter did not ever think of ever saying that, but you have got to admire the man for his determination to do the right thing, Shame on the NUS haters of free speech for. To No Platform this Group is making the NUS look petty and vindictive.
ReplyDeleteThese people always paint a target on their back, and therefore people naturally become suspicious. It is only a matter of time before this entire Supremacist doctrine of Political Correctness self destruct.
DeleteOn a slightly different matter the SNP have asked for thousands of Syrians to move into the Scottish Highlands. So they don't want English immigrants but are happy to welcome Jihadists into their land. What a bunch of supremacist Anglophobic cultural Marxists they are. I always wondered why they supported "Independence within Europe". Now I know why - they are Coudenhove-Kalergi agents and henchmen. Yuck.
I think I have referred to this before with a quip regarding Hope not Hate being hoist by their own petard. I think that Peter Tatchell may be getting a bit edgy as he realises that the globalism and international socialism and no borders rubbish of the Left has let in some of the most homophobic people in the world. I wonder if he saw the item on RT recently about the refugee centre for gay refugees only in Berlin to stop them being victimised by their fellow refugees. It's such a laugh! As I have said before, having been brought up in an England in which homosexuality was still illegal, I do think that that was wrong. But I also think that the majority would prefer it if this alternative lifestyle were lived quietly in the form of good friends, confirmed bachelors and spinsters etc as it used to be rather than paraded for all and sundry. And I do not agree with gay adoption purely on the grounds that I think children need a mother and a father to achieve a balanced outlook on life and that men, especially, need a positive male role model to help them integrate with other men. I fear that in gay adoption there may be lingering antipathy towards the opposite sex, although I could be completely wrong. But all this goes together with my previous statements about Marxist fascism and imposing the Left's ideology on the majority. As you say, they are probably a small but determined and violent minority but backed by the banks and big business who like the borderless Marxist world they have created as it makes their masterplan so much easier to achieve. The Marxists are their useful idiots.
ReplyDeleteThis links in with the EU debate as Cameron is coming up with a host of scare stories to make the English vote to stay in. They are now in a great hurry because if the EU collapses and Trump wins in America then their whole Coudenhove-Kalergi plan collapses with it. They want to keep the EU intact until they have got TTIP through when democracy will then be totally ceded to big business and the bankers. The next stage is union with North America and then a single currency for the US and the EU leading to one world government.
Russia and China as still sticking spanners in their works. Because of economic problems in China the whole globalisation nightmare is on the point of collapse just as they are getting closer to white genocide. Damian McBride, the former economic advisor to Gordon Brown, has written in the Daily Mirror warning of worldwide economic collapse as China falters. He has told us to stock up with tinned food and bottled water as the cash points will be frozen as the banks collapse. You have been warned. So this is their one world. We must fight it tooth and nail and each country must fight to preserve its national sovereignty and national identity. As Powell said, what a nightmare when the unique nature of mankind as witnessed by so many different nations and cultures is reduced to a brown unanimous mush.
In reality most mixed race people are bad tempered and angry. Very few are calm, ordered or logical. It has been said before that most Muslims are mixed race, and not homogenous. Perhaps this is mostly down to their grooming and raping of non Muslim women, the bye products being angry mixed race confused individuals. I am beginning to that islam should be banned worldwide. It is psychopaths who want it and want mass jihadist invasion into our countries. Kalergis never referred to jihad or Islam but I am sure he must have known about that death cult. Same goes with the Frankfurt School of Marxism. They knew what they were doing so concealed the evidence under the guise of human rights and diversity.
DeleteRussia Today covered an item about a very brave and feisty lady fighting for the Syrian Army against Al Nusra and the Islamic State. Her bravery even proved greater than that of some of her male colleagues. When asked why she was fighting, she said that she loved her country and wanted it to be back as it was before the Civil War began. She said that then it was stable and secure and it was her country. I think we all know how she feels. It was such a joy to travel around Europe in the 1950s and 1960s knowing that it was safe and secure even for teenagers on their own. Now you look at Europe, or the world, even and wonder if there are any safe countries left. This is all down to the one world plan which, as with everything Marxist, creates a race to the bottom and the lowest common denominator. Europe was a benchmark for the world, as was pre-1970s North America but no longer since the global south was pushed north for the benefit of the oligarchs and the Left. England was such a stable, homogeneous and happy country and now it is riven with frustration, anger, fragmentation, tension and conflict. But the Left told us they were creating the perfect world, so what went wrong? And then there is Canada, we all know that Pierre Trudeau introduced multiculturalism so as to break the British domination. But I wonder how many from the global south are living in Quebec as opposed to Toronto? Meanwhile, Trump seems to be doing well with his anti-globalist agenda but the vile Hillary - Wall Street's poodle - is gaining on Sanders. Doubtless, she will laugh when she achieves her goal of Assad being taken from the rear and then murdered as she did in the case of Ghaddafi. But there is a question mark of whether she will not first be arrested as the FBI are after her and then she will be replaced by the even more psychotic Joe Biden.
ReplyDeleteA gentleman called Glenn Beck has confirmed what I have begun to wonder about, namely that the US or those controlling the US and following the C-K Plan engineered the bringing about of the end of the European Empires after the War so as to make it necessary for the global south, left floundering after their collapse, to rush north. This would seem to make sense and the Plan's exploitative and destructive policies in the global south were designed to ensure that their push north was kept going for decade after decade and in every increasing numbers. Apparently, Merkel has suddenly realised that her great open borders tactic is backfiring poplitically and is thinking of closing Germany's borders so as to force countries to the south to take more refugees.
ReplyDeleteIn 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Syme, the Newspeak expert, disappeared, presumed to have been 'vapourised' - and Winston Smith's fanatical party supporting neighbour Parsons saw the inside of the Ministry of Love. In the end they come even for the goodthinkers. It is a predictable outcome of the narcissistic, paranoid and totalitarian mindset from which these brands of leftist politics emanate.
ReplyDeleteTommy Robinson, former leader of the EDL stated that he opposed one thing only - namely MILITANT Islam. He and his organisation were vilified by Lowles and his HATE not Hope outfit and labelled "fascists"
ReplyDeleteNow Lowles himself is being vilified by the uber-Politically Correct, for speaking out against precisely the same thing.
Clive,
Weston-super-Mare.
An Imam in Denmark has said that all apostates from Islam should be killed and that women taken in adultery should be stoned to death. He is advocating murder and taking Denmark back to a time it never knew even in Viking days when women were respected. My old friend, Ibn Thranholm, Danish journalist and fighter for Europe's shrinking Christendom, was put on to argue it out with a "British Muslim" but never got the chance. He just shouted over the top of her. This just shows how much his ilk respect women and that Europeans, the most advanced people on earth, have just about lost in their own Continent to those trapped in the Middle Ages. My left-leaning brother recently went to the British Empire exhibition in London. He was appalled as it was just violent anti-British, pro-Marxist, pro-global south propaganda. It is not only Muslims who treat women in this fashion. Indian Hindus regard them as second-class citizens and should never be allowed to forget that it was the British who stopped them throwing widows alive onto their husbands' funeral pyres.
DeleteAnother expression that comes to mind regarding the delightful Mr Lowles' being described as "Islamophobic" is "Hoisted by his own petard".
ReplyDeleteClive,
(as above.)
Some of my recent comments seem not to have made it to the blog. I don't know if Robin is a bit behind or whether there is another secret hand controlling the input as somebody else suggested. They were mostly about the EU referendum so I am not sure why. However, just as with the EU, the NWO seems to be on the verge of collapse if Donald Trump gets away with it. He has been laughed at and called a clown but he knows exactly what is going on. Sanders derided him for saying that our weather systems are being controlled and pointing the finger at China. There is quite a lot of evidence for such control. The Soviets developed it decades ago. But it is not the Chinese who are doing it per se but the NWO who have got control of the Chinese weather system. I have just been told that Pentagon insiders are on the verge of arresting the Elites in America. There are many
ReplyDeleteAmerican ex-service people, like General Wesley Clarke and Larry Wilkerson, who have spoken out about the machinations of the One World Elites over the last 100 years. And Senator Rubio will shortly have to stand down as he was involved in a gay porn, gay prostitution scandal that has now reached the MSM in America. If this happens then Trump will be nominated. Like Kennedy and Roosevelt, he does not need to be a poodle of Wall Street but is self-financing and like Kennedy wants peace with Russia and the smashing of the control of the banks and big corporations. You should all read a booklet put out by Leave Europe about TTIP. The EU has already made such a pact with Canada which may mean that American corporations will be able to take over Europe via Canadian subsidiaries even if TTIP is stopped. And come July, Tata Steel's Indian IT people will be taking over the IT at Heathrow airport because they are cheaper than the local alternative. Of all new jobs, three out of four go to other EU nationals or those from outside the EU.
Hillary is still facing arrest by the FBI. And Trump is alluding to it all, including who was behind the 9/11 attacks which were designed to launch the War on Terror which was aimed at fomenting terrorism from the Muslim world and directing it at Europe and North America. Our media, owned by the same people, are now laughingly blaming Putin for the refugee crisis and yet it has been leaked that it was started by George Soros for the benefit of the Elites.
There is another reason to be hopeful. I have been meaning to mention a recent poll that showed that the majority feel that mass immigration is totally destroying our national identity. It has taken them a long time to wake up. I realised that that was what was going to happen 30 years ago.
Thank you for putting that on Robin. The previous comments had been with reference to South Africa and the demand for decolonisation by the black majority. This involved stopping teaching in universities in Afrikaans, resulting in the burning of some university buildings. However, there are 11 native languages so teaching would either have to be in English or Afrikaans. And then white rugby players have been attacked. If the desire is for the whites to leave then so be it. As for the Afrikaaners, politically correct Holland and Belgium are unwilling to take their own back. Even if they were you would probably find that the EU would not let them. This brings me back to TTIP. What is planned is nothing less than the indentured labour that the British Empire used to be so good at. Whose empire it is this time I leave bloggers to work out for themselves. On that score, the British took Indian indentured labour all over the Empire, in particular to Fiji where they outbreed the Fijians and seized power. And yet we are told that only whites colonise other peoples and nations. Regarding the South Africa business, if this is the case then the global south has colonised Europe and North America and are we not allowed to react in similar fashion?
ReplyDeleteReturning to the EU referendum, I noted with alarm that a recent poll, if it is not rigged, had 40& wanting to stay in, 37% wanting to come out and 18% undecided. It is frightening to realise that two thirds of the British public do not grasp that they have been lured into a one world empire to be run from New York to serve as slave/indentured labour for an oligarchic elite. Well, if they care so little about the loss of democracy that they have already suffered then they deserve everything that is coming to them. They probably think it all comes down to making their foreign travel cheaper and easier. How easily are the sheeple manipulated and led down the garden path. Meanwhile, in America, apparently, the government is stocking up with ammunition - some of which is banned by the Geneva convention - in order to impose martial law, should Trump or Sanders win the election, or even Biden once Clinton has had to stand down. And despite the fact that Obama produced his birth certificate to quash Trump's allegations that he was not born on American soil, there is apparently proof that he was born in Kenya and it was a doctored document. Should this be the case then he could be incarcerated as well as Clinton. Should the bloodless, so far, revolution succeed over there then EU collapse is inevitable.
The Daily Mail has just told us that the EU is to decide our asylum policy so expect a Calais jungle coming to a town near you soon. The people of Calais have been in Paris protesting as their town has been virtually shut down and ruined economically. One French spokesman has said that if we leave the EU then the jungle will come to Kent along with our border post but the latter is down to the treaty with regard to the Tunnel not the EU. In either case, there is nothing that gets up the nose of the English more than being bossed around by the French so such a comment should help those demanding a Brexit.