Yet again, we have another summer of disorder on the streets here in the UK and also, over the water in Ireland. Disorder with its roots in inter-communal tensions. Disorder centred around the question raised by some of who does and who does not belong in these islands. Disorder that’s being fanned by elements with very deep pockets and sinister agendas. Disorder that unless people take a few steps back to think through the situation and realise they’re being played, looks set to get worse. Disorder that looks increasingly likely to lead to some form of civil conflict, as I wrote about at length in this piece: Civil war? 21.2.26:
When it becomes clear to the ‘patriots’ and the ethno-nationalists that their demands are not going to be met through the ballot box, what comes next? What Restore Britain are doing is making the formerly unacceptable, acceptable. Intentionally or not, they’re emboldening those who want an ethno-nationalist state to take action outside of the electoral arena. This is what makes Restore Britain and their ilk dangerous. By spouting the rhetoric they do, they’re effectively giving people permission to start taking action on the streets. Action that will be moving on from run of the mill street protests…
There’s a lot that’s being said and written about the roots of the disorder that we’ve seen so far this summer. There will undoubtedly be a lot more that will be said and written. At some point, I intend to compile a reading list of the more thoughtful, nuanced pieces that are getting written about the volatile and increasingly dangerous situation we’re facing. For the moment, what I wrote in the Civil war? piece linked to above is what I’ll regard as my initial take on where we are. What I want to do with this piece is look at the consequences that will be arising from the ongoing street disorder and the way it appears to be getting whipped up online. The aim of this is to get people to take a few steps back, and as calmly as is possible under the circumstances, start to think about how all of this is getting used and manipulated to impose an agenda that will eventually strip us of many of our freedoms.
Online safety is being touted as an issue by the UK government. Now I’m not going to say that the Internet, and social media in particular, is perfect because any casual observation will reveal that it’s becoming an incredibly toxic environment. The question is this – is the Internet making society increasingly toxic, does it just reflect back an already toxic society or, is it a complex interplay between the two? I’m of the opinion that while the Internet is a mirror of an increasingly dysfunctional society, it also plays a role in amplifying that dysfunctionality. In other words, there’s a complex feedback loop that if we’re being totally honest with ourselves, is defying any attempt to unravel and understand it.
Looking at social media over the last few weeks of street disorder, it’s all too obvious that actors with very sinister agendas are going out of their way to inflame tensions. There are already moves in place to restrict social media access to under 16s. As an aside, knowing how tech savvy many under 16s are, somehow I can’t see that really working without a considerable degree of friction! With recent events on the streets of the UK and Ireland, there have been calls from some quarters for access to social media to be restricted for everyone in times of ‘crisis’. Calls for clampdowns on social media are nothing new but, given the goals of the ‘great reset’ a.k.a.Agenda 2030, those calls from certain actors are intensifying. This has been touched upon by a number of commentators, this piece being just one example: Quick Take…The (Well-Timed) Belfast Riots – Kit Knightly | offGuardian | 10.6.26:
The timing of all of this is very interesting.
As we have covered in detail, the UK is in the midst of a “controversy” over social media – with the government moving to ban children from accessing it or bring in other tyrannical measures for the purposes of harvesting private data.
In a similar vein, five days ago, Labour’s deputy Leader Lucy Powell was calling for a “misinformation clampdown” on social media.
On Saturday, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall was in the papers expressing “concern” over the role of social media during times of unrest, and wishing they could “do more”.
While I find that social media can be pretty abhorrent at times, being a believer in free speech, I can’t go along with calls to restrict or block it. Bellends have the right to let the world know that they are indeed, utter bellends. We have the absolute right to judge that people are bellends and to respond in the appropriate manner. That may be by blocking them or, ripping the absolute piss out of them. These calls for online restrictions are made using concern for ‘safety’ as their prime justification. That’s the safety of online users who may be offended by the bile that’s being spouted on social media by some elements. What is also expressed is the concern that social media platforms are being weaponised to mobilise people to take to the streets. All very praiseworthy if you take the expression of these concerns at face value.
Let’s take the concerns that social media is being weaponised to get people out onto the streets to create mayhem. I’ve seen footage of residents being burned out of their homes by Loyalist mobs in East Belfast simply because they have dark skins. In short, it’s a racist pogrom. One that it’s been claimed has been inflamed by social media. That claim has more holes in it than a garden sieve. It was the fathers and grandfathers of these Loyalist scum who back in 1969, burned Catholic residents from their homes, forcing them to relocate to other areas of Belfast where they would feel safer. There were lists of people they wanted to ‘remove’. This was all done by word of mouth. Removing access to social media in the current circumstances will do nothing to stop the initiation of a racist pogrom, nothing at all.
Social media, abhorrent as it can be because it’s a mirror of a dysfunctional society, offers a degree of transparency. Without social media, I would have to rely on the mainstream ‘news’ to keep up with what’s going on. Obviously I have to view social media with a critical lens and question the veracity of what I read and see. The worrying thing is that too many people do take what they read and see on social media at face value without thinking about whether they’re being played and/or manipulated. That sadly is down to an education system that no longer appears to teach critical thinking skills to the mass of people. That’s because the powers that be don’t want people who can think for themselves and ask difficult questions that would pose a threat to their authority.
The now almost inevitable clampdowns on social media will be justified in the name of ‘safety’ and ‘de-escalation’. Using those justifications will ensure the support of those people who still have some investment in the social system as it is. That’s even though that investment is eventually going to be thrown back into their faces as the hammer starts to come down on all of us. Restrictions on, and the eventual blocking of a growing number of social media platforms is about controlling the populace. The manipulation of social media has pretty much done the job of atomising and dividing us. The question is, what happens next?
Unless there’s a miracle, the social disorder in the UK and Ireland is going to spread this summer. The social media landscape as we currently experience will likely be very different come the autumn. That’s because it will be cited as a major factor in the spread of social disorder and therefore, something that has to be clamped down upon. I’ll be very surprised if we’ll be able to access platforms such as X come the autumn. The owner of X, one Elon Musk, has been very vocal in his support of the anti-migrant protests across the UK and Ireland. That’s even when they have led to rioting and pogroms. Musk knows that the UK government are itching to ban his platform. He knows that he faces losing a significant number of users and also income. Yet he persists with his inflammatory rhetoric. Which begs quite a few questions relating to how far into the project of Agenda 2030 he is and how much of what we’re seeing is scripted theatre? There are people better qualified than me to go down those rabbit holes – when they post something of interest, I’ll be happy to share it with you:)
So at the very least, we face a massive clampdown on social media. At the worst, we face a state of emergency and possibly, some form of martial law. A situation where a fearful populace will gladly accept whatever measures are imposed by the powers that be in order to restore a degree of ‘stability’. That’s the ‘stability’ offered by what to all intents will be a digital prison. The implementation of which starts with a clampdown on social media. It then moves on to pushing through various forms of digital identity in order to know who is and isn’t ‘legitimate’. Whether it’s Starmer, Farage (Reform) or even Lowe (Restore) who eventually end up imposing digital identity is immaterial. Yes, I know Farage and Lowe have mouthed objections to digital identity but, when both have expressed a desire for ‘mass re-migration’ I can’t see how that could be implemented without it. Beware of Trojan Horses and all of that. Then as a further measure of control, there’s Central Bank Digital Currency. The ultimate form of control as it can be programmed to determine what you can and can’t spend money on. The kind of control where an ‘emergency’ situation can be used to justify implementing it. The problem is that we’re being pushed towards that ‘emergency’ situation.
As I’ve written more times than I care to remember, it’s the playing out of the problem / reaction / solution scenario. Problems that have intentionally been allowed to develop in order to generate a reaction from an increasingly pissed off population. Ever since 2024 and particularly this summer, it’s only too clear that we’re now at the reaction stage of this scenario. ‘Reactions’ that once you start looking, it becomes all too clear are being manipulated and even orchestrated. Aided and abetted by an over-supply of useful idiots. Ones who as things stand at the moment, are unaware of their role in justifying the aforementioned ‘solutions’ that will eventually be imposed upon us. This is something I wrote about at length in this piece: Please...don’t get played… 26.2.26:
If we want to stop this, we have to take the fight to the predatory elite right at the top who are pulling the strings. It’s no good attacking the pawns because you know what, that’s exactly what they want us to do. They want the level of civil strife this would create in order to start implementing their ‘solutions’. Should a so called ‘alternative’ party such as Reform get into power and then fail to deliver simplistic solutions such as mass re-migration, there are elements out there who will step in to bring disorder to our streets. All to plan because that’s exactly what the elite want To put it bluntly, you are being played in order to give them the reaction they want to justify their ‘solutions’. Please...don’t get played… Don’t give them what they want because we’ll all lose.
The useful idiots, what to do about them? I’m talking about the ones who respond to the rage bait on social media, spread it around a bit more and take to the streets without questioning what they’ve read. For clarification, those who are taking to the streets as a result of frustration and anger arising from lived experience, while obviously I don’t agree with their perspective or the course of action they’ve chosen to take, I’m not classing them as useful idiots. They’re the people that somehow we need to reach out to in order to persuade rather than cancel. It’s the morons online who don’t even think or look before sharing rage bait. That’s look to check the AI generated images they’re sharing which even on a cursory examination, prove to be utterly risible. As an aside, all of this falling for AI shite may well be the subject of a future post.
Somehow, we have to think of a way of reaching people who are falling for rage bait and AI shite, and persuade them that taking to the streets is not going to do them or us any favours. All it’s doing is giving the powers that be the justification for imposing their aforementioned solutions upon us, ones that will severely limit our freedoms and utterly change the way we live. There are no easy answers to this that’s for sure. It means finding a way of getting people to see the bigger picture, join the dots and not get distracted by rage bait. The inevitable clampdown on social media is going to make reaching these people even harder than it already is. Should a state of ‘emergency’ end up being declared after a summer of strife on the streets, then getting our message across is going to be even harder than that. Regardless of the difficulties involved, we have to keep trying to alert people to what’s being done to us, why it’s being done to us, and who the shadowy bastards in the background are who will benefit from us being totally screwed down. There we were hoping for a nice quiet retirement – that aspiration is definitely on the back burner now!
