At a recent campaign against a proposed camp for 1,200 migrants in my Sussex seaside town, I witnessed a regular presence of ‘anti-racists’, who each time stayed for a set period. They were all fed pizza from the nearby Papa Johns, presumably on the ‘account’, and at the end of their shift they swiftly departed, usually on a minibus. During their stint they held aloft placards produced by Stand Up To Racism, and chanted in unison ‘Fascist scum, off our streets’. Needless to say, they were almost entirely white, and not from my town. Although fewer in number, the counter-protesters had more visual and aural impact than the spontaneous, hardly organised protest that they were sent to confront.
At a recent skirmish in Epping, the counter-protesters were bussed in by police vans, presumably for their safety. Can you imagine a protester with St George’s Cross getting a free ride from the constabulary, other than to a police station cell? Two-tier policing is blatant – and intended to be so. Officers stand facing the protesters in an intimidating manner, with their backs tuned to the counter-protesters whom they protect.
If Orgreave happened today, the coalminers would have double foes: not only the police but also a well-choreographed entourage of ‘green’ activists. The strikers would be portrayed as ‘climate deniers’ who selfishly pollute the planet and harm children’s health (ironically the progressive left, despite their enthusiasm for Net Zero, continue to present Orgreave as a cause célèbre).
Counter-protest activism gained momentum on the founding of Black Lives Matter following the killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Since then it has been ubiquitous at any site of opposition to the establishment. Run by organisations lavishly funded by NGOs, such as George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, they are a useful instrument of a divide-and-rule’ strategy.
A stark contrast between protesters and counter-protesters is social class. The former tend to be of the lower middle class or below, while their opponents are typically university-educated public sector workers or students. They are helped by student unions and trade unions who, despite their anti-establishment rhetoric, are really on the same side as the establishment.
The white working class is castigated as an obstacle to ‘progress’ (whatever that means). In the Eighties this segment of society was portrayed by the Tory administration as regressive, with its self-destructive employment disputes led by ideologically rabid trade unions, and football hooliganism. Margaret Thatcher planned to introduce identity cards at football grounds (Luton Town was a pilot), and arguably the Hillsborough disaster was an inevitable result of the demonisation of fans (deaths were caused by the steel fence enclosing the terrace). The Liverpool supporters, cast as drunken Scousers, were easily blamed, and it took 40 years for truth and justice to prevail.
Today there is a resurgence of the anger sparked by the killing of three girls in Southport a year ago. Hotels, each harbouring about a hundred young male migrants, are again the scenes of protest in Epping and Diss. Protesters have gathered at the construction site of an enormous mosque on the edge of the Lake District. The village of Dalton reverberates to the sound of machinery, to the repetitive chants of the counter-protest, and to car horns supporting the protesters. White middle-class do-gooders, backing the insensitively located Muslim place of worship, shout at the supposed fascists across the road. The local Labour MP is among the lefties, making clear which tier each side is on.
The working class are targeted because they are the bastion of traditional British culture, warts’n’all. As these people cannot easily be re-educated, they must be demographically replaced. And when they take to the streets to complain of their plight, they are met by a potent combination of police and useful idiots with Socialist Worker placards, both funded (directly or indirectly) by the taxpaying protesters.
Editor’s note: An Essex police spokesman told the BBC that protesters were not bussed in and said: ‘Officers did provide a foot cordon around protesters on their way to the protest, where they and others were allowed to exercise their right to protest. Later, some people who were clearly at risk of being hurt were also escorted by vehicle away from the area for their safety.’ Extract from NIall MacCrae https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sinister-rise-of-the-counter-protesters/