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In cities all over England, so-called grooming gangs – that is, Muslim rape crews – have been in operation for decades, and news about them has made headlines on and off for years. In the last week or two, however, the issue has risen to the surface as never before. “Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is attracting attention,” wrote Charlie Peters of GB News on January 2. “It’s happened before, but now it seems different.” Indeed, Brendan O’Neill said in a recent interview that “a lot of people” in Britain appear to be hearing about the grooming gangs for the first time. How on earth is this possible?
In any event, one reason why the issue has returned to the front burner is that Jess Phillips, Britain’s Safeguarding Minister, has refused to order a government inquiry into child sexual abuse in Oldham, which is part of Greater Manchester. Another reason is that Elon Musk began tweeting (X-ing?) in condemnation of the government inaction on the rape gangs – and in support of the courageous Tommy Robinson, the Luton lad (now age 42) who’s been a target of the British establishment ever since he began blowing the whistle on them many years ago. On January 2, he posted: “Free Tommy Robinson!” It’s Jess Phillips, not Tommy, opined Elon, who should be behind bars. Elon’s tweets about Tommy and the rape gangs “exploded the political discourse in this country,” said British podcaster Carl Benjamin, a supporter of Tommy.
Tommy, as you may know, has been in prison since October. His crimes are as follows. First, in his documentary Silenced, in violation of a court order, he contradicted the official narrative about a young Syrian immigrant who was, as Tommy showed, not a victim but a thug. Second, also in violation of the same court order, he talked about that young immigrant on Jordan Peterson’s podcast, screened Silenced in Trafalgar Square, and posted it online (where it’s accumulated over 150 million views). Third, In supposed violation of the Terrorism Act, he refused to let the police access the contents of his mobile phone, which contained confidential information about his sources. This isn’t Tommy’s first stretch in the hoosegow. The powers that be recognize him as a threat to their power and are determined to bring him down on any pretext they can. As Lavrentiy Beria said, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” In short, Tommy is a political prisoner. And Elon understands that.
Elon’s posts about Tommy prompted a range of reactions. Tommy’s supporters were delighted. But many of Tommy’s critics were outraged at what they described as the attempt by a foreigner to interfere in British politics. Winston Marshall (who left the band Mumson & Sons after his public enthusiasm for Andy Ngo’s book about Antifa caused outrage on the left) shot these critics down tidily:
If it’s acceptable for British politicians to kneel for George Floyd, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to tweet about the victims of British rape gangs?
If it’s acceptable for Labour to send 100 staff to the US to campaign for Kamala, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to opine on British politics?
If it’s acceptable for Labour’s leading politicians…to slander Trump as racist, why is it not acceptable for Americans to criticise British politicians for the systemic betrayal of British children?
If it’s acceptable for Westminster elites to praise Biden/Kamala, why is it unacceptable for American elites to praise Farage?
Farage, of course, is Nigel Farage, longtime friend of Donald Trump and head of the Reform UK Party, which since its founding in 2018 has been positioning itself as the real conservative party, the party for patriots and ordinary people – in effect, the British equivalent of the MAGA movement. Nigel firmly backs calls for a government inquiry into grooming gangs. But in a January 4 interview – and here’s where things get messy – Nigel vigorously rejected the proposition that Tommy is a political prisoner. Tommy, he added, was not welcome to join Reform UK. Nigel even suggested, disgracefully, that Tommy has crusaded against the grooming gangs in order to turn a buck. (Sorry – a pound.) Nigel’s deputy, Richard Tice, agreed. Back in October, Tice dismissed Tommy’s supporters by referring to them as “all of that lot.” On January 5 he reiterated his distaste for Tommy: “I’m not interested in Mr. Yaxley Lennon, or Robinson, or a convicted criminal,” he told an interviewer for GB News. “I’m interested in how we get this country growing again.”
Disgusting. Yes, Tommy is a convicted criminal. So is every patriotic Brit who’s now in jail for expressing concern online about grooming gangs and other aspects of the Islamization of Britain. (And yes, Tommy goes by a fake name. So did Cary Grant.) The fact is that by setting themselves so firmly against Tommy, Nigel and Tice alienated a hell of a lot of voters, some of whom began asking: is Nigel leading a real revolution, or is he just controlled opposition? Tice’s “all of that lot” putdown drew furious comments online: “Tice & his demonization of Tommy is making me consider revoking my membership.” “Richard thinks he can have a grass roots movement without the grass roots.” “The problem is, if they keep saying we don’t care about Tommy, they actually don’t care about freedom of speech.” On January 4, YouTuber Paul Thorpe put out a blistering hour-long video in which he withdrew his support for Nigel. In addition, Nigel and Tice put themselves in a ticklish position in regard to Elon – who has expressed support for Reform UK and discussed the possibility of throwing some cash their way – and also, perhaps, in regard to Trump, who these days is even closer to Elon than to Nigel. On January 4, addressing Reform UK’s party conference, Nigel celebrated his friendship with Trump and described Elon as a supporter of Reform and of himself (but omitted to mention their disagreement over Tommy).
In the same speech, Nigel decried the grooming gangs’ predations – but instead of admitting that these predations are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon, rooted in the doctrines of Islam, he spoke about “the mass rape abomination.” Sorry, but to dodge the real issue in this way is cowardly and useless. The sad truth, alas, is that Nigel is terrified of alienating Muslim voters. Even when he was the face of Brexit – which, he argued, needed to be ratified so that Brits could put an end to mass immigration and control their own borders – he consistently refused to say that Islam was in any way part of the problem. He left the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2018 because its then leader, Gerard Batten, did acknowledge that Islam was problematic. Nigel said that he had no interest in “fighting a religious crusade.” Even if Nigel wanted to change his tune now, he could hardly do so, given that the chairman of Reform UK is – believe it or not – a self-identified Muslim named Zia Yusuf. (I call him “self-identified” because in a paean to Nigel last June, Yusuf spoke up for “equality under the law,” and freedom of speech and religion – not exactly Koranic values.)
Nigel isn’t alone in his ticklishness about Islam. Yes, it’s common all over the Western world – but it’s particularly endemic in the UK. In Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands, the police have been known, from time to time, to put down rowdy Muslim protests; in Britain, the cops consistently go after the people who criticize those protests. In no Western country other than Britain, moreover, are Muslims consistently labeled with the word “Asians” or with any other such euphemism. (Even the usually admirable editor of Spiked, Brendan O’Neill, in a recent interview about the renewed interest in grooming gangs, used the weasel terms “certain communities” and “Asians.”)
But there’s yet another problem that’s more endemic in the UK than elsewhere in the West – and that’s the class system. If Nigel and Tice were able to welcome Tommy Robinson into their fold, they might well have a winning movement comparable to Trump’s. But they’re constitutionally very disinclined to do such a thing. They claim to be spearheading a populist revolution – to be speaking for the downtrodden, the regular folks. But they can only go so far down that road, because neither one of them is a member of the working class. They’re men who wear Savile Row suits and who know how to dine at a three-star Michelin restaurant and who, quite simply, talk a certain way. They’re products of the British class system – it’s in their DNA – and try as they might, they can’t keep from looking upon the lower orders in pretty much the same way that Hillary Clinton does. To her, they’re “deplorables”; to Tice, they’re “that lot.” (And they’re not alone on the British right. The Telegraph is a conservative daily, but on January 3 its associate editor, Gordon Rayner, praised Nigel for having “no time for Robinson.”)
So when they look at Tommy they don’t see a hero, as I do. They see somebody who expresses himself in what they consider a vulgar manner. Douglas Murray is brilliant at laying it on the line about Islam while still sounding clubbable (as upper-class Brits put it, or used to). But every time Tommy opens his mouth to make exactly the same points as Douglas, he sounds, to the likes of Nigel and Tice, like a lowbrow bigot. The British elite, truth be told, has always viewed the proles as bigots. That same elite has also always had a thing – what to call it? a fetish? a yen? – for Arabs and Islam, the prime example thereof being Lawrence of Arabia. So the reflexive tendency of types like Nigel to keep a distance from people like Tommy has nothing to do with real differences of opinion. It’s entirely about a class gulf, a culture gulf, a style gulf.
After Elon and Nigel both had their say on Tommy, there was speculation that Elon, to please Nigel, might back off from supporting the lad from Luton. But that’s not Elon. On January 5, out of the blue, he tweeted, with devastating succinctness: “The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes.” If Elon’s expression of support for Tommy shook up British politics, this sudden thumbs-down for Nigel – the day after the Reform UK conference! – amounted to a category-7 earthquake. One is free to wonder how this will affect the Trump-Farage alliance. In any case, what matters is that Elon’s right. And after his tweet about Nigel, the latter’s unwillingness to grapple with Islam will almost certainly prove to be even more problematic for his fledgling party, which stands the best chance of saving Britain from the lunatic left and its Muslim allies. For what it’s worth, I’m with Elon. Dump Nigel, folks, and replace him with – well, if not Tommy, then with somebody like Tommy, someone who respects and understands Tommy, and someone who grasps the plain and simple fact that Tommy’s cause is Reform’s cause.
Thank you Bruce, many years ago the English Defence League was associated with an openly racist BNP and I didn’t support Tommy but I’ve learned about him and also learned the truth as I stopped watching the legacy media.
Look up his podcast called “Silenced” and hear the truth.
I was planning to join Reform but will wait for a while.
Turns out ‘the openly racist’ BNP was right all along. Instead Britain got the traitorous labour, conservatives and their support for the civilization-destroying Muslim rapists.
Replace him with Tommy is a great idea!
Meanwhile King Charles III ignores the Invasion of the UK while having citizens arrested for warning about the Invasion the UK is Under Attack and the King Ignores the whole thing
The king doesn’t govern, he just signs the papers presented by his government whose decisions he legalizes. He can consult and advise, but the PM doesn’t have to follow his advice or opinion, if ever made known to him/her. He doesn’t rule, actually, he is not even allowed to vote. It would take a particularly popular and bright sovereign (like Edward VII for instance) to overcome these principles and gain any kind of political influence in Britain’s politics.
He cannot make decisions but he has enormous influence, the globalist cartels invite him to everything for one reason only, his influence.
Besides Two Tier Kier behaves like a dictatorial king.
Maybe having a king who has no real duties but all of the privileges is a problem. Even though I am American, I will always miss his mother, Queen Elizabeth.
That is typical of royalty as a class or group. They, for the most part, are truly “above it all. They never have to breathe the polluted air of the big cities, as they live isolated and apart.
Reminds me of the one, way back when, who did not like the pope, so he “deposed” said pope and took his place. Even commissioned a team to put together his own translation of the bible, naming it after his royal self. The epitome of arrogance, I should think.
I do believe Lewis Carroll has the most accurate sense of all this. His portrayal of the Queen in his Through the Looking Glass is THE quintessential send-up o Brit royalty. A wnder the then bearer o the Royal Crown did not deal with Lewis as he could have done.
That’s a good one. Lewis Carroll and Kafka best showed the truth.
If that turd is a King, I’m God.
William should be King.
Charles was coopted early on, in the Saville days. He has never met a Muslim he didn’t like, all because he can see nothing wrong there at all.
While not the sole factor, many historians argue that a sense of British snobbery towards the American colonists, underestimating their resolve and capabilities, significantly contributed to the British loss in the Revolutionary War, as it led to poor strategic decisions and a failure to effectively address colonial grievances; essentially, the British did not take the colonists seriously enough due to a perceived social inferiority.
Bruce has made a similar point. You might say that Tommy’s crime is being working class and demanding a political voice. In America, that works.
Taking up your point, this same snobbery has the British Ruling class ignoring the Radical Islam, a political force that is taking over the nation. The no-go zones, a classic Islamic tactic, are only in areas that the ruling class does not live. The white trash girls are of no consequence to them.
I would extend your paradigm to say that the same snobbery has them losing the war against the Islamic Conquest of Britain. The “clubbable” Muslims, like Mayor Kahn, are the people they know. These upper class Muslims do not speak out against the conquerors either.. For them, they are a political base.
Lots of second sons came over here because there was no other way to make their mark in the world. They were still British, and should have been accorded the same privileges and duties of that status.
Very accurate observation.
I have read much of General Thomas Gage’s writings of the Revolutionary period. His assessment of the colonials as a military force was OH SO arrogant:” they will melt at the first sign o danger, and run like frightened rabbits. Then read his assessment, as sent to his King/Boss after the “incidents of” Nineteenth April 1775, starting at Lexington and thence on to Concord, and particularly on that infinitely long march back to Boston and suffering so thoroughly at the hands of those “stupid farmers with their squirrelguns” had to admit to his Boss (King) that “there are men amongst them who know very well what they are about”. Then he demanded ten thousand more troops be dispatched immediately. (I think he got only around eight hundred, barely replacing what he lost during the 19th April’s action.
” Nigel even suggested, disgracefully, that Tommy has crusaded against the grooming gangs in order to turn a buck.”
What an illogical and spiteful comment. That’s a heck of a way to make a quid.
Tommy is close to bankruptcy whilst Farage is a millionaire!
Nigel better than outright marxists but kind of half-assed in his response to uk invasion and izlam. He sort of gets it but not quite. Bit squishy equivocating
my thoughts, exactly. As this rape gang issue gets pushed forward, Farage sounds just like any other equivocating politician. The usual; “yes, but…” comes out indicating he is as spineless as those who allowed the invasion of GB in the first place. I suspect, if he gains any power at all, his followers are in for a big let down. He is not the answer for what ails England or the rest of GB.
The Scripture declares that “a workman is worthy of is hire”. Tommy IS a workman on behalf of those children the condoned system is so badly abusing and destroying. SOMEONE should be supporting him, and NOT in prison.
Herein I lose all previous respect for Nigel. Ignorant and didn”t want to find out.?? Peace with all Muslims at any price?
He sounds more like a French “surrender monkey” the more he speaks out. I heard a clip of him the other day, essentially, saying GB has been defeated by the muzzie invaders and it’s time now to figure out how to live with it. One can only hope the British people have a different idea.
Read The Ten Commandments again.
A Human can’t be G-d.
Are you saying Jesus was not God Incarnate Mohammed?
And your comment has nothing to do with the content of the article Mohammed.
But God can choose to become human, if He sees fit to do so.
Elon Musk’s father, Errol, has stated that people like Tommy Robinson have historically risen to power after being kept down and that he is the right man for the moment.
Further, Errol stated that Tommy will be the next Prime Minister or some such.
he’ll rot in the Tower of London unless the Brits rise up to take back their nation.
“many of Tommy’s critics were outraged at what they described as the attempt by a foreigner to interfere in British politics.” Seriously? In the historically, predominantly white, and christian country of Great Britain that now has within its government:
– 13 muslims in the House of Commons,
– 36 muslims members of Parliament,
– 28 musims in the House of Lords,
– 13 members in the Scottish Parliament & Senedd,
– and 4 muslims in Greater London Authority, including London Mayor,
not to mention the myriad of British towns now controlled by muslim authorities – while its First Minister Humza Yusaf is complaining that there are still too many ‘whites’ in Scotland’s government.
And some British people dare to declare that they are offended by a possible foreign interference in their affairs? Who do they think they are kidding? They are the ones who chose to deliver their centuries-old country into the hands of the foreign islamo-leftist clique that has nothing, absolutely nothing, not one iota of british-ness in them.
Hayek complained about the British newfound reticence to be confrontational about the growing socialism in that country after WWII. Unceremoniously showing Sir Winston Churchill the door after he rallied his country through that terrible war showed the beginnings of a sheepish and failing empire. The welcome mat put out to Islam has the Crusaders spinning in their graves.. The British Invasion of America by the Beatles and The Rolling Stones seems bolder than these current feckless attempts at survival.
These leftists are also rewriting history by claiming that the islamic world was ahead of the west but they lost their way.
The left has finally found a religion they like, only because they share a hatred for the west and freedom.
Taqiyya is their specialty.
And a this stage of the game it solidly appears to be the case that the mawzies have effectively overtaken Great Britain without firing a shot.
It appears the Social Justice Warriors have won and handed over GB to the muzzies. It makes one wonder if they’ll now offer up their young daughters to keep the peace.
The “elite” Globalists have a stranglehold on Europe via the European
Union. They are unelected and they are in charge. They are members
of the Trilateral Commission and the UN – and are the richest and most
powerful bankers-industrialists-politicians-technocrats-philanthropists
in the world. The Globalists have Islamized Europe in their quest for
the destruction of Western civilization. It is very likely that elitist Nigel
Farage is beholden to them, even in a small way so the last thing he
would ever do is confront Muslims or criticize Islam. Under his watch,
Muslim obliteration of the English way of life would continue.
When America threw off the yoke of brutal British oppression and
declared itself a sovereign nation – it formalized as its foundation the
idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with
unalienable rights. The boldest comeuppance against tyranny in
human history and the highest American ideal. For Farage to relegate
Tommy Robinson – who has revealed the truth about Muslim rape
gangs and British girls and suffered viciously for it – to the status of a
mere lowbrow of no consequence is a hallmark of the same old
oppressive attitude among ‘elites’ since time began.
The war the West is in is not racist, it is elites vs the working man. Elites want to rule over them and Marxism is based on a few top dogs ruling.. It’s that simple.
Elites have decided that Sharia is the best tyrannical law they can use against the rest of the world to keep them compliant. Thus they accommodate and bring in the Muslims.
What the elites do not understand is that despite their kowtowing to Islamomarxism the muslims are determined to rule and have their caliphate. So when the muslim demographic is high enough, the elites will be under domination too.
Ann – Absolutely. The racism is a tactic of Globalist elites
to divide and conquer us – borrowed from the old Marxist
tactic of pitting class against class.
The Globalists want a digitally controlled one-world
government in which humans are transformed into hybrids
with a brain chip-machine interface and into robots with DNA.
Their method is Transhumanism and their god is AI. As Muslim
demographics grow, their antiquated type of evil will come up
against all this when they both have their final showdown.
As for God-given individual freedom – unless AI can come up with
the formula for creating life out of nothing or non-life (which I
strongly doubt) and which no one on Earth is able to do at the start
of 2025 – then we will continue to submit only to the higher
consciousness of God and the American ideal of freedom will not
be extinguished.
Let’s not forget that Elon Musk’s other passion is transhumanism. I’m an American, and while I appreciate what he’s done with X and his contributions toward helping to elect Donald Trump, I don’t trust his affiliation with China (where Teslas are manufactured) or his desire to chip humanity and turn us into transhumans, whatever that means. He’s a very dangerous man.
It has always puzzled me why these elitists think they will remain in control after letting in Islam in such large numbers. Do they not read history books? Do they think Islam has undergone some fundamental change to their doctrine of world domination? It’s what I’ve heard called “pathological empathy”. They really do think there will be a benefit for their generosity. I can hear them now as they step up to the gallows: “But wait, you don’t understand!” Even then their sympathetic hearts will overrule their better judgment.
I have been a fan of Tommy Robinson going back to his English Defence League days in the early 2000’s. He has been under constant harassment since then with the B.S. pro Muslim legacy media leading the way. He has been called everything from a dangerous “right winger” to Hitler (sound familiar?). It’s amazing he hasn’t been killed during his various stints in jail.
The Leftists in the Brit government should ashamed and thrown out along with their leftist stooge PM Keir Starmer. They are the reason England is on the brink of a Muslim take over.
Robinson for P.M.
The takeover has happened already. It is precarious at this point, and only a rapid reawakening and a determined effort to set things aright again will prevent the already-entrenched mawzie rule being cemented for generations. Seems this Tommy chap could well be key to arresting the downward slide.
They’ll kill him, first.
I have always said politics is money. However this seems a bit odd considering the British snobbery. The Vanderbilts bought the duke of marlborough and we got winnie. It is an old answer. But being bought by a yank must have been very bitter indeed. In this situation I support Elon. He was a subject at one point I believe and has certainly experienced class warfare personally. The general population is too cowed to revolt. Britain is gone.
What I like about Elon is that as a once South African he was in the Commonwealth and understands its politics. So, along with his genius, he can speak with authority about what can be done.
UK maintains its lead in the international Islamopandering derby.
Let’s face it…
The fast increasing Islamic population in Britain is an existential threat. The rape gangs are just a symptom of this worrisome fact.
Nigel Farage previously had my goodwill and respect, but he’s entirely lost all that because of what he’s said about Tommy Robinson—who I see as an incredibly brave man who’s a saint for what he’s suffered to bring attention to the Muslim grooming/rape gang phenomenon.
Thank you, Bruce Bawer, for an excellent and insightful article. I suspect Farage has made a huge political blunder here—but maybe Britannia as a whole is just ready to self-destruct under the weight of its own pomposity and snobbery.
Bravo Bruce! Tommy Robinson is a very courageous patriot, and for this he again is a political prisoner. The evil establishment wants him to be killed in prison, as when a few years ago he was sentenced for contempt of court and imprisoned in a heavily Muslim prison where he was threatened. Fearing with reason Muslims working in the kitchen would try to poison him, he survived on sandwiches visitors brought in and lost thirty pounds. I believe this conviction later, but too late, was reversed on appeal. For speaking out for the young, mostly poor English girls who have been raped and otherwise grossly abused sexually by Muslim men, Tommy’s life as well as his wife and children have been threatened. Yet this very courageous hero of our time refuses to be silenced. As an admirer of Britain who had many friends there, it pains me to see that country, whc saved civilization by alone standing up to the all-conquering Hitler in 1940-41, has become a PC tyranny. Britain is not a free country.
Unfortunately they are victims of their class system. This prevents some from having equal punishment across the board. Plus they think they are better than Tommy because of where they were born and how they grew up.
I love America and am glad I can live here free and open. I doubt many of the Brits are going to be able to understand this situation at all.
If Elon Musk was thinking about giving money to a British cause, perhaps he would consider grants to ADF and to the Christian Legal Centre for the specific purpose of enabling some of the rape victims to sue their rapists. To the best of my knowledge, only one has done so so far, under the name of “Liz”, and she was awarded £425,000. If the Police can’t or won’t stop this atrocity, then perpetrators need to know that the Courts will hit them hard in the pocket.
Always succinctly right on, Bruce; bless you! I’m adding the link below to the equation. You’re right, S. Warren: The UK sure as hell is NOT a free country; let’s change the anthem name to “FOOL, Britannia…”
Oh, the LOST-algia!
https://edwin797.substack.com/p/sex-and-islamand-the-decline-of-the
Take Starmer out by force
That’s not how we do it.
Nigel Farage was interviewed by Steven Edginton on GB News. When asked if the demographic decline of the native white British population, from 87% to 74% in the last twenty years, was concerning,
Farage said, “No, no that’s not a concern of mine”.
When pressed on if, despite logistical challenges, it was Farage’s “ambition” to remove the over-a-million illegal immigrants currently residing in Britain, he said:
NO. NO, I’M NOT GOING TO GET DRAGGED DOWN THE ROUTE OF MASS DEPORTATIONS, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. […]
Enough said.
Very enlightening article on the issue of Nigel and Tommy, and where Elon, who I consider a hero in America, stands on this issue. Elon is right. Unless Nigel starts supporting Tommy and his supporters, they need a new leader. And the UK needs to be put on notice by Trump too, that Tommy is no criminal and should be released from jail!
Wow!! I forgot about the Brits being iron clad snobs,…their class system is what keeps us apart from them. So this is why Nigel looks down on Tommy. Really painful when we are trying to get justice and future protection for the victims of these horrid “Asians.”
Denmark and Sweden have apparently figured it out. They are enforcing laws in accord with their way of life. If folks don’t want to obey the rules, they can leave. I would love to see this courageous management spread.