ON Friday I went to the Conservative Get together management hustings on the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne with numerous different members of the native resistance in opposition to the Covid regime which has eliminated elementary freedoms over the previous two and half years. We discovered ourselves outnumbered by these don’t have any curiosity within the enlightenment worth of liberty – as most Conservative Get together members do at the least nominally. Of 150 anti-Tory campaigners, about half have been bearing Socialist Employee Get together placards and chanting ‘refugees are welcome’, whereas the opposite half have been hard-core Extinction Riot ‘terrorists’ with their accompanying flags and banners who proceeded to disrupt the assembly.
So we discovered ourselves protesting not solely in opposition to the Truss and Sunak supporters getting into the venue, but in addition counter-protesting in opposition to the shrill sanctimony of people that need extra worry and extra management. Between their parroted chants led by a person with a megaphone, we requested these middle-class Trotskyists and carbon nihilists whether or not they cared about older individuals struggling to warmth their properties, or that billions of taxpayers’ cash was being splurged not on public companies however on missiles for Ukraine. Solutions got here there none.
Earlier, earlier than the rabble appeared, we had taken pole place outdoors the corridor entrance. The queue was a captive viewers for our satirical utterances: ‘Welcome to the World Financial Discussion board puppet present’, and ‘If the reply is Truss or Sunak, you’re asking the improper query.’
Eastbourne’s Tory MP Caroline Ansell got here out, involved at us being allowed so near respectable social gathering members and clearly embarrassed by our ‘conspiracy’ theories a couple of new world order. Tory MPs would have us fake that the WEF doesn’t exist, regardless of each candidates for subsequent prime minister having unashamedly signed as much as a globalist organisation which is creating a technocracy of digital surveillance and useful resource rationing.
The environment remained good-natured and good-humoured. That was till the SWP/XR followers arrived. Most of their chanting was about immigrants, who they consider must be allowed to return as freely and numerously as they like, whereas Tories must be ‘thrown within the sea’. A handful of UKIP activists stood yards away from this noisy, diametrically-opposed group of individuals ashamed of their nation and its heritage. The SWP chief abusively railed in opposition to the aged white Tory members attending the hustings, although his personal gathering was, paradoxically however unsurprisingly, fully white (and lots of of them trying fairly wrinkled!).
A Labour supporter requested why we have been focusing on the opposite protesters – ‘aren’t all of us on the identical facet?’ Sadly, we’re not. The SWP/XR combo are the kind of individuals who needed harsher lockdowns, college closures and vaccine mandates. They’ve little interest in particular person liberties: their trigger is collectivist, within the naïve perception that the state means the individuals. They seem oblivious to the historical past of communism beneath Stalin and Mao. The distinction between us couldn’t have been wider: a gulf that mirrored not simply our opposing values however our sense of democratic citizenship. We have been making an attempt to enchantment to the Tory members, to speak and to make them conscious of our considerations. The SWP mob had nothing however contempt for them. Although cops have been positioned on the entrance, and joined by extra, a feminine XR protester with flag nonetheless received into the constructing and sat within the doorway. Earlier than she may use glue to cement herself, two safety guards managed to tug her out. This didn’t cease her from one other profitable dodge by way of the police line, whereas we later heard that different XR activists had infiltrated the viewers the place they disrupted Liz Truss by shouting ‘disgrace on you’.
Whereas the SWP contingent appeared to be preventing the final battle, caught within the previous dichotomy of Left versus Proper, the XR commonplace bearers are uncannily updated and on a roll. The whole lot has been going their approach, with the massive strides made by the Nice Reset over the last three years of the contrived coronavirus emergency. The Ukraine battle has threatened power provide, and heating payments are already rising exponentially. They don’t care: it’s what they need, a subsistence financial system. The political institution has been dutifully pursuing the identical agenda of those activists, albeit much less quickly, within the title of wokedom and apparently oblivious to the financial, social and political disaster it’s quick heralding. The one distinction is that the federal government are working in the direction of Internet Zero tomorrow, whereas XR are demanding Internet Zero in the present day. Pity the aged of their freezing properties this coming winter.
Our good-humoured however vocal protest was value it. The stage shouldn’t be left to those revolutionaries. We punched above our weight, going through each Tory members and eco-socialist protesters with factors they discovered laborious to face or unable to answer. They actually heard us, and noticed our giant placards. The irony of those Tory ticket-holders and their green-on-red opponents, supporting the identical globalist mission that can enslave them in addition to majority or extraordinary individuals whereas an elite lives on in protected luxurious, can’t be overstressed.
