The Glastonbury Panic Over Illegal Entrants Exposes the Middle-Class Left’s Hypocrisy on Immigration
The panic at Glastonbury over illegal entrants and “over-crowding” exposes the middle-class Left’s hypocrisy on immigration, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
The band Idles, for example, called Nigel Farage “a fascist”, and sang a song in praise of mass immigration (“My blood brother is an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant/ My blood brother’s Freddie Mercury/ A Nigerian mother of three”) while the crowd proudly held aloft a rubber dinghy filled with dummies dressed to look like Channel-crossing asylum seekers.
This display of compassion was of course deeply moving. Which is why I was surprised to read, on the final evening, that the festival had been “thrown into chaos” by people entering the site illegally, after buying fake wristbands or swarming over the security fence. Apparently, this caused fans to “panic” about the resultant “overcrowding”.
But hang on a minute. Surely those fans should have welcomed the new arrivals with open arms.
After all, anyone willing to risk their life climbing a 13ft fence in order to see Coldplay is clearly desperate. We should be showing these poor people compassion, rather than furiously calling for them to be arrested and sent back where they came from.
No doubt some regulars will say, “But these numbers are unsustainable. It’s making life a misery for people who are already here. Also, we know nothing about all these people who are flooding in illegally – they could be dangerous criminals.”
Quite plainly, though, anyone who spouts this hateful, far-Right rhetoric is a fascist. The only way to defeat the gangs selling fake wristbands is to provide a safe, legal route into the festival. And that means removing the fence, so anyone can walk straight in.
In fact, the people who have bought tickets should be made to pay out of their own pockets to feed and accommodate all the people who got in without tickets. It’s only fair.
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We are all utter hypocrties. Sometimes its just wallowing in masturbatory self-satisfaction and sometimes it is simply lack of consideration of facts and circumstances. Can we not come together as a group defined as hypocrites? That’s the real test – if you are able to laugh at yourself. Lets face it in your worst moments you were far worse than the people you are criticising and singling out. And if you do that then it it usually to massage your ego one way or another. This is a teaching in spiritual science, avoiding the tendency to do this. It is even spoken about in the gospels.
Speak for yourself
I disagree. You will inevitably be a hypocrite if you have no principles, but merely base your opinions on whatever is the current fashion.
Statements exists independently of the people who made them and conjectures about the hidden motivations why they were made. They stand or fall on their content. People openly speculating about other people’s hidden failings are either trolling or engaging in disinformation tactics. And they usually only communicate information about the one person they’re really intimately familiar with — themselves.
Here’s the shorthand…
The idle (get it?) wokeys are definitely, definitely in favour of illegal immigrants coming to our shores, breaching our borders, helping themselves to state benefits and firmly believe they should be welcomed with open arms.
The idle wokeys are definitely, definitely NOT in favour of illegal queue jumpers coming to their weekend party, breaching the security border to gain entrance and then disrupting said party because its overcrowded, while paying naff all for the experience. They expect the organisers to ensure this never happens again.
What am I missing?
Nothing, I think. It’s always a big difference if they’re gatecrashing your party or the party of someone else. To these guys, Britain is the party of someone else and particularly, of someone elses they don’t particularly like and who wouldn’t ever come to their concerts.
Exactly
Well put
Thanks 👍
Here is an even better acid test. —-If families of migrants covered in headscarves move next door to these people let’s see what happens to their placards with “Refugees Welcome Here” on them
Brilliant comparison by Michael Deacon exposing the middle-class Leftist hypocrisy on immigration! And it has all been done deliberately, forced upon every western nation by the Globalist subversives.
Here are two photos showing the shocking result of the invasion, the Canadian football team in 2000 vs. 2024:
Keith Woods on X: “https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f1e8-1f1e6.svg Canadian football team in 2000 vs. 2024. So tragic. Few countries are undergoing population replacement as rapidly as Canada. https://t.co/YIIJv9qjIO” / X
You know what they say, people become culture warriors because they are too pussy ass to be real warriors. And most of the culture warriors don’t actually do anything. Just wait and see where your types end up when things get really bad. You will be discarded like rubbish. From a survival perspective the first thing to do is disgard toxic rubbish like you.
They beat you and yes now this is an open door country and will contnue to be so. A million new people every year. Get to know them. To love them. Because their sons and daughters will own this land long after you are extinct.
Talk about reading with eyes shut – or trying to.
There are very few if any posting on DS who agree with you and most will fight to stop the immigrants. We don’t want them.
Like when? This has been an ongoing agenda since the 1950s. You wanted cheap labour okay I can understand that. Surely there comes a point where the costs outweigh the benefits? No even cheaper labour. Eastern european labour wasn’t cheap enough lets go for sub-Saharan Africa. Okay you made your money was it really worth it?
No….Rivers of Blood come to mind.
We were never asked. I observe that more and more people are waking up to what is happening so there will be NO ‘getting used to it’.
I think it was Glastonbury 1999 when they were licensed for 105,000 and reckoned they had 250,000 on site. Nearly got closed down by the environmentalists complaining about too much urine in the streams.
In the years after that they built big fences. A bit of an arms race since then.
Yup first Metal Fence was in 2002.
You threw it down the toilet thirty years ago and now you’re all hot an bothered. It is gone forever. All I ask is that you understand that the meaning of Islam is submission. Submisson to what? That is where you as a human being are supposed to pick up on the truth vibrations.
Do you think the band misspelled their name? Because what a totally dumbass name to call yourselves. And their ‘music’s the pits! Still, at least the attendees at this particular music festival weren’t in any danger of getting killed, injured or kidnapped from these ”illegal entrants”, so there is that, what with the amount of Palestinian support evident that weekend; ”The two most bourgeois events in the social calendar — London’s Pride parade and Glastonbury — often coincide. This at least gets them both over and done with tout suite, and removes a small but very disproportionately vocal and culturally powerful layer of the upper-middle-class, away from the rest of us for one blissful weekend. There is always some defining, desperately cringe, spectacle to emerge from these events. It looked like Glastonbury’s entry this year was to be its inauguration of a “lesbian tent” that was actually full of delusional straight blokes. But that, incredible thought it was, was swiftly superseded by Banksy’s boat. This was an inflatable model of the kind of inflatable dinghy that regularly crosses the English Channel, complete with inflatable kiddies aboard. It was released onto the crowd, which were appreciating the performance by pop group Idles of… Read more »
“And their ‘music’s the pits!”
I couldn’t agree more and I have very eclectic tastes.
What current pop music do you like, that’s much good? I’m out of touch with current pop music. I think I might like Richard Hawley if I listened to him more. All the other music I listen to is old, the most recent is Adele.
Richard Hawley is a favourite. A brilliant musician and singer songwriter. His music goes up another notch when you see him live but his shows sell out in minutes. He is a ‘must see.’ Favourite band – Editors. I love their music and live they enter another division. My brother didn’t really ‘get’ Editors until he saw them live. He went to Barcelona to see them last year and tells me it was one of the best gigs evah. Joy Division / New Order – their music will last to eternity. Love ’em. Listening to “Love will Tear us Apart” as the finale to a gig really does make the hairs on the back of the head stand up. Life confirming. Radiohead, Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, David Bowie – genius, The Smile, Thom Yorke’s Radiohead offshoot, The Stranglers – great live, Public Service Broadcasting, phenomenal, Public Image Ltd – absolutely incredible live. John Lydon is a star. Portishead – three beautiful albums. Please come back. A bit of Oasis or High Flying Birds, Mumford and Sons, (I know), The Lottery Winners, Skinny Lister – one of the best live bands out there. Fat White Family. Leonard Cohen, his last four… Read more »
I would throw in Metallica, Judas Priest, Motor Head (Ace of Spades) Venom (first British Black Metal band) Don’t mind some nineties dance tracks too. As for Electro, try Scratch Massive (French band).
Some good news – UK Column News are back on YouTube, full programmes and subjects by blocs.
Brilliant.
Here’s a taster:
https://youtu.be/6CqF_of48FQ?si=fbQlqBUNWp-bWoEk
How long will they be back on there and is there any point when Russell Brand does all his tasty stull on Rumble.
Ron, I am a UK Column subscriber and they helped massively when this shit show started. Proper journalism.
I pay the fiver subscription too but never seem to be able to view ‘Extra Time’. Not sure why they do extra time anyway, they can just stay there. It does piss me off if the subject is of interest and they say they’ll save it for extra.
https://youtu.be/iFpSmbkWWNs?si=dsbMa50KJ4NKSA_i
Elcom and Ofcom combining to keep Independents out of the elections.
No…surely not.
Actually yes as I know only too well.
“My blood brother is an immigrant”…..He just raped my sister, oh well!
I did security there beck in 2002 and that was the year they put this metal fence around the perimeter. It was boring in the day, had some old woman coming to me asking is anybody has seen her Gate that was obviously used as a makeshift ladder. Night time was manic and my mate, I quote ‘shit himself’ when approached by around 10 guys from Liverpool. Remember on the CB someone asking fir assistance because a cow was giving birth, and someone told him; watch very carefully, it will change your life!
“In fact, the people who have bought tickets should be made to pay out of their own pockets to feed and accommodate all the people who got in without tickets. It’s only fair.”
Reparations?