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Inchoate protests, inchoate framing

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Social meejah doubtless play a role in getting the mob onto the streets; but essentially what’s going on is spontaneous and barely organised.  We’ve seen variants of it before, with “summer riots” in Brixton and other areas over the years, and of course the 2011 “Tottenham” vintage.  On those earlier occasions it was the nastier end of the leftist spectrum that was kinda hoping it contained the seeds of the revolution; but no, just opportunistic hot-weather looting and anarchy.

Starmer (and many others) should be hoping that’s what we’re faced with now, though a lot of their own rhetoric – which we’ll come on to – isn’t helping.  One obvious scenario is that in a few weeks time it really is all over bar the backlog at the magistrates’ courts, tempered by whatever scope the prison system has these days for exacting 2011-vintage Starmerite-DPP justice.

Otherwise, to be blunt, it carries on until someone gets killed: that’s the horrible truth**.  What happens thereafter hinges entirely on the precise circumstances of that dread event: we could all come up with scenarios.

If – and it’s not certain – it does carry on, how does it get framed by the London-liberal-progressive consensus?  The two tribes clash not just on the streets (with the Police in the role of King’s Champion, maybe also with some lefty violence adding to the mix), but also in the ideo-conceptual space.

We know what the kneejerk left-liberal framing is, because it’s all around us.  “Tiny thuggish minority” is the opening gambit, as it was (correctly) in 2011: but they couldn’t help themselves moving directly on to “organised by the far right“.  And this is where the utter stupidity of the left starts to become plain.

Yes, you’ll be able to find some stuff in social meejah that can be labelled “organisation” if you’re dumb enough to frame it that way; but what you won’t find is a nationwide organising committee – because there isn’t one (yet).  There isn’t a political party involved, either.  The left cannot understand this – because their world is full of organising committees and micro-parties, and they assume that’s how stuff gets started.  (Similarly, they always refer to ‘capitalism’ as if it is a political movement rather than what it actually is, namely is a feature of human behaviour.)  They really, truly don’t want to consider the possibility of political spontaneity from the proletariat: they insist on, and believe in, having monopoly powers over that.  They are itching to have a proper little fascist party to demonise.  While they wait, it’s just arm-waving at the notional “far right”: they don’t want it to be as difficult to deal with as would be Actual Proletarian Discontent.

To the extent any party is even vaguely in the frame, it’s Reform (of course). But only peripherally so, because Farage is manifestly keen not to be outflanked by anything whatsoever to his right.  His recent performances scream this so loudly, it ought to be really obvious to anyone.  His strategy is to monopolise the right flank of British politics (whilst staying firmly on the polite side of outright violence), and roll up the Tories from right to left until he has a workable Parliamentary block: he desperately wants to avoid the irritant / potential stumbling-block of there being any genuine ‘political’ organisation to his right. 

The point is: there’s no such thing – yet.  What if the left somehow goads one into being?  It wouldn’t  be very good politics because if Reform gets outflanked in that way, eventually it gets subsumed by the Tories as happened with the Brexit Party in 2019: and the 2029 election looks rather different.

But long before 2029 is in view, what happens if a micro-party forms, that is more than just an instantly-outlawed EDL?  The answer is: it starts to have demands, and offers itself as the entity you need to negotiate with if you want the (ex hypothesi) continuing violence to stop!   Which leftist dickhead wants that to be the dynamics of the situation?  

But they just can’t help themselves.  In their uncomprehending denial of genuinely widespread discontent that could lead to widespread non-organised action, their doctrine effectively insists on framing its way into having a concrete bogey – of no genuine substance, but possible actual existence in a formal sort of way.  An actual group of people with a name.  A British gilets jaunes, if you like: coherent enough to have an identity (of a rather amorphous and hard-to-treat-with kind).

One interesting potential outcome is that Starmer might act as though he is indeed responding to concrete demands from a putative political entity, and preemptively start trying to appease it with whatever he kind-of guesses its demands might be.  (He won’t need to try very hard to figure that out.)  Funnily enough, the marxist left absolutely understands this situation: it never had any difficulty understanding the impetus behind Brexit. 

Right now, however, Starmer seems to be parlaying events into a belated attempt to re-gather the lost Muslim vote.  He has to be careful, because a parallel development is likely to be the formation of Muslim self-defence groups which he’d quickly need to distance himself from, and eventually to act against.

The Tories?  They can sit this one out because of course they have already been outflanked on the right.  Their task is to devise a mirror-image of Farage’s strategy: a plan for rolling up Reform from left to right.

Genuine pragmatism from Starmer would be to drop the ‘far right’ rhetoric (and tell the Beeb to follow suit); give the Police a pay rise; and carry through with the other line we’ve heard from ministers, which is to draw parallels with football hooliganism – and act accordingly.  Then go gangbusters – literally – on the small boats issue (it’s in the Manifesto!).  Get some money into the hands of responsible metro mayors, with significant strings attached.  Oh, and drop all ideas of votes for 16 year-olds.  

ND  

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** when I was a local councillor I sat for a while on the Road Safety Committee.  Residents were always coming forward with their demands for additional safety measures, always under the banner “Does Somebody Have To Get Killed Before You Do Anything About This?“  Basically, sadly, the answer is “Yes”. 


Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/08/inchoate-protests-inchoate-framing.html


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