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[Braverman]: ‘So let’s stop pretending they are all refugees in distress.’ JimmytheGiant podcast, The ‘Migrant Crisis’ Destroying Britain, Youtube 2024
‘It is illegal immigration. It is economic migrants.’ ibid. Farage
There has been a very deliberate effort to confuse these terms. ibid.
Introducing the 2015 European migrant crisis. ibid.
It’s important to understand the gory bloody details of these conflicts. ibid.
Asylum seekers: People escaping genocide, war and slavery. ibid.
Oswald Mosley, once a young hunk-daddy with charm and charisma who was positioned to be a future prime minister of Great Britain, embarked upon this long and gradual journey into becoming Britain’s most hated and feared fascist leader. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Decline of Britain’s Failed Hitler
The mid 1920s he was actually mocking fascists: ‘black-shirted buffoons making a cheap immitation of ice-cream sellers’ … They elected him to Labour’s NEC. ibid.
After packing his sun cream, Mosley headed over to Italy and met with none other than Mussolini. ibid.
Mosley had completely reskinned … He really did capture Britain’s attention for a period of time. ibid.
Mosley would embark on these sinister-looking rallies. ibid.
An Aldi’s own-brand of fascism. ibid.
‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ ibid. Daily Mail headline 15th January 1934
This was called The Battle of Cable Street. He continued to organise these marches and rallies. ibid.
I’m pretty sure she’s the reason it rains all the time. JimmytheGiant podcast: Why Everyone Hates Thatcher
‘We don’t think she made Britain great. She destroyed everything that we made and handed us over to the bankers and the speculators.’ ibid. man on march
And that revolution was neoliberalism … It has made the rich very rich, but it left the poor to be fighting over the scraps. ibid.
While Thatcher was at university she read a book by Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. ibid.
[Thatcher] slams Friedrich Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty on to the table and told everyone, This is what we believe now. ibid.
Unemployment surged past 3 million. ibid.
David Icke for a period of time was Britain’s most ridiculed man. He was a laughing stock. But as time has gone on, he seems to have grown more and more support, more and more people that believe the things he says. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Dark Rise of Britain’s Alex Jones
David Icke, wearing a turquoise-blue track-suit appeared on television claiming he was the son of God. ibid.
This is insane mental gymnastics … very slippery. ibid.
‘Reptilian entities are behind this manipulation of human society.’ ibid.
30th July: A combination of events – declining living standards, social tensions, years of racist rhetoric from senior politicians, all the way to misinformation from members of parliament – all of these things created a recipe, a perfect storm, leading to an eruption of far-right race riots all across the country. JimmytheGiant podcast: The UK Riots That Broke Britain
These old BNP accusations that Muslims don’t belong in the West, that they don’t want to assimilate, that they hate us, that they’re taking your jobs, that they’re all criminals etc. ibid.
Tommy Robinson would have a rally 27th July in London. ibid.
30th July: An angry crowd started to gather in Southport outside of a mosque. After two decades of scapegoating immigrants, stoking Islamophobia, the Far Right took to the streets. ibid.
In the UK in the 2000s there was no word that could invoke as much anger as the word Chavs. No-one wanted to know one, no-one wanted to be called on, and no-one wanted to be one, but somehow they were everywhere … Where did they all go? JimmytheGiant podcast: The Death of the Most Hated Sub-Culture: Chavs
A staple of all chavs: Burberry. ibid.
Happy slapping became a national emergency. ibid.
The ASBO put restrictions on your life … a badge of honour. ibid.
[David Cameron]: ‘These are sickening scenes. Scenes of people looting, vandalizing, thieving, robbing, and it has to be confronted and defeated.’ JimmytheGiant podcast: The Forgotten Riots that Almost Destroyed London
For 5 days straight in the summer of 2011 England turned into The Purge. This was an insane time to live through. ibid.
The biggest riots in modern British history. ibid.
Rumours very quickly started to circulate. ibid.
Very hard to pinpoint the exact moment it went from a peaceful protest into a full-scale riot. ibid.
A very different Britain that doesn’t get a lot of publicity. ibid.
‘Owen Jones: Why chavs were the riots’ scapegoats’. ibid. online article 01 May 2012
The next morning the nation woke up in shock. We were now getting reports of the aftermath of the riots: entire buildings had been burnt to the ground, 26 policemen were injured, 55 arrests were made, cars were set on fire, and shops were being looted. ibid.
These copy-cat riots were popping up in all parts of London. ibid.
The police officer was the one who shot the other police officer, and Mark Duggan hadn’t shot anyone. ibid.
The UK has become synonymous with this image of rising knife crimes. We see these police pictures of some of the weapons they seize … How bad is this problem really? … Are they helping or making the problem worse? JimmytheGiant podcast: How Britain Created a Knife Crime ‘Epidemic’
The term ‘knife crime’ was an unofficial label. ibid.
The study claims that throughout what the media are labelling a ‘knife crime epidemic’, knife usage as a percentage of all violent crime consistently remained between 5% and 8% of all offences. ibid.
British gangsters – we love ’em … After Peaky Blinders I started looking at flat caps in Next. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Brutal Evolution of British Gang Culture
The Scuttlers started to make a name for themselves in the 1870s as violence between different groups of Scuttlers would pop off in Manchester. ibid.
Leading us to the Peaky Blinders! … It was based on a young gang from Birmingham … How crime started to become more organised. ibid.
The Battle of Cable Street: This was a crazy very important moment in British history. ibid.
A very Londoncentric view of gang culture. ibid.
Gangs in a sad way offer an identity and family unit. ibid.