What becomes immediately clear 48-hours after every atrocity in the UK — the Manchester Islamist bombing, Lee Rigby, David Amess, Southport, Henry Nowak, Belfast — is how drunk the political class is on suicidal empathy.
They must always show empathy to minorities and outsiders before displaying any genuine concern for their own people, the majority.
To them, you are “far-right”, “toxic”, “divisive”.
You are a problem, to be stigmatised, but never to be taken seriously.
You can register your dissent, but only to a point. And only so long as it can be managed.
Because if you protest, if you genuinely display any righteous anger, then you threaten the entire system, and “the narrative”.
And the grievance?
It is never to be seriously addressed. Only pushed to one side.
It morphs into utterly ridiculous and tangential debates about “social media”, “big tech”, “not looking back in anger”, “reclaiming the flag”, “tolerance”, “diversity”.
Anything but the real cause aka Islamism, mass immigration, broken borders.
These people have abdicated their responsibility and role as custodians of the nation.
They very clearly do not care about you or the country. We are merely an afterthought. An inconvenience to be managed.
All they want to do is show empathy to others, to people from outside our community, even if they end up destroying our country from within.
And that, ironically, is the road towards all the chaos and division they warn the rest of us about.