Been awhile since I've logged back on, Starmtroopers cant stop me from shitposting though. I wanted to gage opinions on the Dr David Betz "civil war" talks. Whole thing feels very Astroturfed to me, it doesn't feel remotely organic and yet its taken root within the public consciousness quite quickly. You overhear the average joe bloggs talking about it in hushed tones now, the only thing I can remotely explain this phenomena as is the government and intelligence services trying to manufacture consent for further legislation to stifle the few freedoms we have. Everyday now people can sense that something is going to kick off, everyday for the past week its been reported that a child has been sexually assaulted by one of these filthy subhumans washing up. Remigration is mercy at this point.
I think the establishment is just very overwhelmed at this juncture. They have to fight a million PR-fires but are only capable of doing one at a time. Conservatives had stretches where they only received loud, singular criticisms on single major issues they could batten down the hatches on, and typically that issue overshadowed everything else. 2010-2014 was austerity, which immediately distracted from the platform the Tories campaigned on - reducing the 300k a year figure that got that high under Labour. 2015-2019 focusing purely on Brexit. 2020-2024, was Covid, its shelf-life extended due to "Partygate". There was some noise about trannies leading up the Cass Review, but I think pre-Southport the "
cost of living crisis" was what dominated things. Whilst low turnout was obviously a symptom of rising apathy with the system — the Rwanda scheme, widespread info of the boats and hotels, and massive immigration numbers, fed into this apathy, and also revealed the Tories didn't do a damn thing about lowering the numbers to normies — Labour's whole schtick is free shit and spending our money to a detrimental degree (like the Tories started doing) and nice platitudes about "helping people", which I suppose people want to hear.
But then it was just one thing after another:
August - Southport stabbings (Major catalyst)
September - Proposed cutting of Winter Fuel payments + plans to overhaul benefit system
January - OSA is officially switched on + Baroness Casey's inquiry into the rape gangs is launched (forced to do due to "protecting girls" kayfabe as a result of Southport stabbings + Crossbow killer)
May - local elections, Reform perform worryingly well & Labour MPs openly rebel against voting on welfare bill
Come June-July, it's like all of these things created a perfect shitstorm for Labour.
1. U-turn on Winter Fuel Payments, but this concession doesn't stop government whip from resigning, and also means Labour took a probably irreversible blow to the pensioner and scrounger vote for no reason. 9th of July vote still has 47 Labour MPs rebel despite amending it. Thereafter Starmer suspends members for participating in said rebellion, perhaps entrenching further discontent for him within.
2. Reform starts (and continues to the present) topping the polls regardless of pollster, forcing Labour to implement rhetoric that's at odds with its voter base to try and stop bleeding voters. Remember, when Starmer says we are "stopping illegal immigration", the lefties hear, "we're going to let poor helpless people
stranded in Calais just die?!?" and some of them sincerely believe that. This is also with Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) asking for Starmer to ban the burkha during PMQs. Reform support could = anti-Muslim sentiment, which carries "worrying" implications for them, and is basically the one thing they can't directly address, especially not when...
3. Zarah Sultana + Corbyn start a political party. It may be both popular with Muslims (it'll be
their party in all but name, especially if it keeps the colours of the Independent Alliance (Palestine). The fact it'll possibly attract both the youth
and Muslim vote could help Labour lose seats in the cities, so they can't risk ostracising this semi-reliable support base at such a fragile point in time...
4. Voting age is lowered to 16, which is also in conjunction with the OSA forcing age-implementation checks which ban anyone under the age of 18 from using certain sites, services, and from viewing particular content, and then all the counter-criticism is directed at older people with no regard for the fact younger people will be pissed about this (How many under the age of 20 would know who Jimmie Saville is?), meaning the millions of new potential voters had their problem ignored by the government and will likely carry the sentiment to the ballot box.
5. Baroness Casey's audit comes out, revealing the government both lied about the ethnicity of rapists but intentionally chose not to report info because it'd make the rapists look bad, and also revealed the claim that "whites rape more than non-whites" was a lie of omission rather than hard fact. Some MPs in the Labour government were outright complicit, giving further reason to hate the hordes we're bringing in. This is also with a new headline every couple weeks about some snafu relating to a government decision on immigration (1 in, 1 out; "We were paying the French to stop the boats?!"; Afghani smuggling under Tories) and one of the hotel migrants committing a rape, attempting a rape, or attempting a kidnapping in order to do a rape, leading to protests and marches were seeing now.
There's stuff I've left off or forgotten about, but Labour have
a lot of fires and they can't put any of them out without fucking themselves in one way or another. I think the protests might ease off after Summer as it won't be warm but the sentiment is still there and I genuinely don't see how you can make it go away at this point. Conservatives got away with their bullshit on immigration for 14 years but we're in a completely different game now since the biggest social media platform on Earth - Twitter - can't censor this shit even if they tried - there's just too much of it. Same with Tiktok.
TLDR: In contrast, I think the series of fuck-ups and justifiable public reaction to said fuck-ups make it feel very organic. It's understandable to be nihilistic considering the circumstances but I think a lot of people have been unhappy with the current state of affairs for so long they can't really imagine things changing, so when the public is reacting the way you want them too it can feel surreal.