Soft totalitarianism

Many are asking whether the British people are finally waking up to the realisation that they have been treated with contempt for decades by successive governments on the issue of open-ended immigration from around the world. The evidence for this possible awakening is the continuing protests outside hotels holding illegal immigrants, the sudden appearance all over the country of the flag of St George under the campaign slogan ‘raise the colours’, and the huge patriotic rally in London organised by Tommy Robinson.

The liberal elite are claiming that these protests are being orchestrated by the ‘far right’ with the intention of establishing their own territories from which immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded. But the reality is that they are almost wholly initiatives of ordinary local residents who have finally started to notice that the authorities are largely indifferent to their concerns. The problem is that we have been living under a regime of increasing soft totalitarianism, in which the priorities and agenda of the elite have become far removed from the interests of ordinary citizens.

The issue of immigration is only the most visible manifestation of a wider problem. The liberal elite that has been ruling us for decades is not particularly interested in the concerns of ordinary citizens but instead prioritizes a quite separate agenda. This has two main strands: the surrender of national powers to external international bodies, and the promotion of the interests of favoured minorities and of fashionable causes.

So, it does not much matter which political party is in government since the same top-down agenda will continue to be implemented. This agenda is driven by the left through a largely behind the scenes network of activists in universities, broadcasters spearheaded by the BBC, public sector bureaucrats, teachers, liberal media outlets, creative industries and trade unionists. These policies are then given shape by the political parties, principally Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens, Scottish and Welsh nationalists that (with the exception of the nationalist issue) share the same objectives and compete only on which party can best deliver the same agreed outcome.

Politicians of these parties all brand the Conservative Party as ‘right wing’, demonising the Tories as uncaring, bigoted, racist, reactionary, etc. The reality is very different, since far from rejecting leftist subversion, they are happy to collude in its implementation, with the result that the election of a Conservative government provides minimal protection against the determined and vocal scheming of the hard left. However, despite this appeasement Conservative politicians gain no benefit, the vitriol against them continues unabated. To be fair, some Tory backbenchers do voice their opposition to the prevailing narrative, but they are largely marginalized.

So, what is the agenda that is driving this soft totalitarianism? Well, it is the furtherance of the ideology which has become known as ‘woke’ which promotes the interests of favoured minorities at the expense of the majority and denigrates nationalism whilst surrendering administrative control to international bodies.Favoured groups are ethnic minorities, particularly Afro-Caribbeans and Muslims, militant feminists, homosexuals, those claiming to be ‘transgender’ plus green alarmists. The mechanism through which woke liberals operate is a ratchet effect whereby a genuine grievance is raised and then rectified, which leads to a campaign to address additional less deserving complaints, which eventually results in an outcome where the minority calls the shots and the majority is openly discriminated against and/or denigrated.

Black people were once subject to a ‘colour bar’ preventing them from accessing places and services open to the white population. Legislation was introduced to put a stop to this practice, but the allegations of discrimination did not end there. So, we now have a situation where white people can be debarred from jobs which are only open to ethnic minorities, immigrants largely occupy social housing that was originally built for white residents, black people dominate advertisements and disproportionately fill positive roles in TV dramas as well as falsely appearing in historical dramas. White people are condemned for their ‘white privilege’ and for their colonialist past, particularly slavery which was abolished two centuries ago. Islam is likely to be given special protection when the government’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ is revealed.

The private activity of homosexual men was for a long time criminalized and thus they were persecuted by the state. The repeal of this legislation was clearly the right thing do. Once the risk of criminality was lifted homosexuals soon started to proselytize for equal rights, and their cause became a cornerstone of the liberal elite. Despite the fact that they could never procreate same sex marriage was legalised, a patently meaningless innovation given that the purpose of marriage has always been to provide a stable background, recognised by wider society, for the upbringing of children. ‘Gay Pride’ marches started to appear although it was never explained why what many regard as a deviant and promiscuous lifestyle should be celebrated. So, we have now reached a situation where criticism of homosexual behaviour is deemed ‘homophobic’ and risks criminalisation, matters having turned full circle on this matter. At the same time heterosexual male behaviour has been branded by activist feminists as predatory, the result is a climate in which heterosexual men are increasingly imprisoned for uncorroborated sex crimes sometimes alleged to have occurred decades ago, and normal physical attraction is condemned for ‘objectifying’ women. White liberals, particularly male, are curiously addicted to guilt tripping and self-flagellation.

Various dubious causes have emerged to become the bedrock of the woke agenda, such as uncritical support for the climate change hoax, the belief that people can change their sex by self-declaration, and that outside bodies such as the European Union and European Court of Human Rights provide superior forms of government to parliamentary democracy. These are all top-down ideas embraced by the political elite and imposed on the rest of society in the face of much scepticism.

Nigel Farage has recently compared Britain to North Korea. On the face of it this appears nonsensical, but there is some truth to his claim. Farage cites the case of an Irish TV comedy script writer who was detained at Heathrow airport by five armed police officers for some allegedly ‘transphobic’ tweets, and a well-publicised case of a woman given a hefty prison sentence for threatening comments about illegal immigrants in hotels. The language and tone of both comments were disgraceful reflecting the degeneracy of our times. Nevertheless, the response of the authorities to both remarks was wholly disproportionate. In North Korea citizens can get into serious trouble for criticizing the regime, but this is far from the case in Britain where politicians can be lampooned and ridiculed with no consequences. However, it is a different matter when the ideology is undermined or challenged, particularly when favoured minorities are involved. So, under soft totalitarianism the modus operandi employed against dissidents is cancellation leading to possible loss of employment, and increasingly the threat of imprisonment under the guise of combatting ‘hate-crime’.