Were the ‘Spontaneous’ Anti-Racism Rallies Even Real?

This is a tale of two placards.

Here’s one from recent anti-immigration protests in Middlesbrough on Sunday August 4th, pointing out that “Tom Jones is Welsh, Axel Rudakubana isn’t!”, Axel being the main suspect in the Southport mass stabbings of schoolgirls on July 29th.

Here, meanwhile, is one from pro-immigration counter-protests in Birmingham on Wednesday August 7th, arguing that “Migrants make our NHS: Stop the scapegoating”.

Guess which one of these two signs the media and political class will most approve of? It would be extremely easy for such superior persons to mock the Middlesbrough banner. Quite apart from its message, it just looks so… amateurish. It’s all done in crude capitals, barely fits onto the right-hand side of the sign, and the word “chld” has a missing ‘i’ in it and its makers haven’t even noticed. The Birmingham one is altogether more acceptable. Professionally printed, with bright block colours and easily readable, properly spelled text, with its right-on slogan cannily linking migrants back to the U.K.’s current national religion (its forthcoming one is Islam) of the NHS, it almost seems to have been produced via focus-group. Which, on reflection, it may very possibly have been.

The word ‘amateurish’, after all, is often just a synonym for ‘home-made’ – or, put another way within the present context, ‘real’. ‘The word ‘professional’, however, has altogether different connotations. Rather than ‘home-made’, it indicates something more like ‘factory-made’, ’precision-tooled’ or ‘specialist-designed’ – or, within the present context, ‘unreal’.

According to the standard media and political narrative, we are now told that, following a week of supposedly wholly “unrepresentative” and “fascist” anti-immigrant riots, on Wednesday night, under threat of an imminent neo-Nazi assault upon the entire nation, a far greater number of “real” people, representing the “true” nature of Great Britain and its shared collective values, took to the streets to show the world who the country actually was: a bunch of bleeding-heart hippies. If that’s so, how come the former protests all looked so incredibly amateurish, chaotic, but real, whereas the latter gatherings all appeared so impeccably professional, well-organised and artificial?

Perhaps it is because the much-vaunted anti-racism rallies did not actually take place at all.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Whiteness of Crowds

I do not mean to suggest the counter-protests literally did not take place in a physical, three-dimensional sense on the ground, or that photos of them were all faked. I just mean that, unlike the original anti-immigration ones, they seem far less organic and self-organised from the bottom up by members of the actual local community. Instead, they appear far more top-down in their nature.

Here, for example, is the full, uncropped image of the pro-immigration protestor in Birmingham on Wednesday, and his lovely, diversity-loving chums: 

I would remind you, this particular protest took place in Birmingham, a city where outside visitors are usually forced to play a game of ‘spot the white face’, one they can only usually win if they happen to be Caucasian themselves and carrying a large mirror. And yet here, it is more a case of ‘spot the black face’ (there is one hiding away in there: see if you can spot him yourself, it’s like Where’s Wally for armchair demographers).

That’s not a real Birmingham crowd is it? I mean, they’re all physically standing there, sure, this isn’t The Matrix. But, to echo Sir Keir Starmer’s recent post-Southport riots speech to the nation in reverse, they do look as if they may have been somewhat “bussed in”, as it were, like Keir claimed all his imaginary mosque-demolishing ‘Nazis’ were in Southport.

Now compare this suspiciously staged-looking scene to the fuller, uncropped version of the Middlesbrough sign-wielders:

Which looks more authentically unstaged to you? It’s obviously the latter, isn’t it? The gathering’s complete and abject mediocrity would tend to prove it. And I don’t mean this as an insult – unlike the counter-protesters, these poor people no doubt have massive, local, immigration-caused problems, and absolutely zero resources other than their own anger to tackle them with, as their direly-produced (but witty and honest) banner proves. With the smug, performatively cosmopolitan, comparatively well-resourced counter-protesters, it’s exactly the opposite.

Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much

I am reminded inescapably of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s 1991 text The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, in which, contrary to the title, he does not argue that the named conflict did not actually happen, just that it may as well not have done, for the watching Western TV audience at home. Baudrillard alleged that many bombing-raids the U.S. performed in Iraq had no actual military utility, but simply functioned to shape the narrative for TV-viewers: already-destroyed factories got a second superfluous bombing on a second night when there was no logical need to do so, purely to reinforce for viewers how overwhelming U.S. airpower was.

Likewise, it seems likely Wednesday night’s anti-racism rallies served no logical ‘military’ function, either. We are told their whole purpose was to counter a forthcoming far-Right conquest of the whole country, with violence being organised for around 100 separate locations by Nazis on the Telegram messaging app for that same evening. Police officially notified the public Britain was due to be blitzkrieged thus, as did the Home Secretary and PM.

But was this ever really likely? Britain’s actual full-on neo-Nazi fringe is tiny. If they really were planning to attack in 100 locations simultaneously, this would have to be done in the shape of 100 one-man-army Fourth Reich Aryan super-soldiers, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando. Sure enough, come Wednesday night, precious few anti-immigrant protestors took to the streets at all. The whole thing seems to have been at best a moral panic, at worst a hoax.

Instead, the main predictable result of the police, media and politicians pumping out this alarmist fable was to flood the streets with far-Left protesters instead (not that they are ever called that by most media, of course). Watching rolling-news coverage that night was to see a new, politically useful counter-narrative being born before our very eyes. As it became increasingly clear the Nazi army was not going to turn up after all, primarily because there wasn’t one, banner headlines changed abruptly from ‘Communities Braced for Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Invasion’ to ‘Pro-Immigrant Communities Defeat Far-Right Invasion’ instead. The overriding meta-narrative was clear. Set up expectation of imminent social disaster, then let it down with an outpouring of love, unity and collective public Muslim-loving: redemptive bathos on a grand scale.

But if no such invasion was ever due to actually occur, how could it ever have been defeated? If I hang a big banner from my window saying ‘Vikings Not Welcome Here!’ and then no Vikings do actually come, can I really take any true credit for the fact?

Stand Up Comedy

How ‘spontaneous’ was this impromptu outpouring of mass foreigner-worship? Read your Jean Baudrillard. Watching Wednesday’s anti-racism rallies on live TV, unlike ill-organised fuming men and women improvising missiles and firebombs before asylum hotels, I saw speechifiers addressing crowds with microphones, men in hi-viz jackets walking in front of crowds directing their path, and masses upon masses of professionally printed signs, banners and placards, most of which seemed to have been industrially produced by the Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) organisation.

What is SUTR? According to journalist James Bloodworth, it is a front for the Socialist Workers Party, an extreme Leftist body who, Bloodworth alleges, seek to recruit new members by luring them in with noble-sounding causes like anti-racism, as these appear rather less fringe. SUTR denies this, but what it cannot deny is that it is well-funded by the British trade unions: on its website, it specifically says that “Most unions are affiliated to SUTR as part of their work to combat hatred and division”, and as a result these same bodies have just been busily doling out cash to SUTR’s “Emergency Unity Fund” designed to pay for organisation of all those ‘grass-roots’ rallies you saw taking place on Wednesday.

Why are trade unions using their members’ fees like this? Don’t many working class people despise mass immigration because it pushes their wages down? Isn’t that one reason they have been protesting lately in places like Middlesbrough? Ah yes, but, explained the SUTR-affiliated Communication Workers’ Union to the minimum-wage thickos whose interests they claim to represent:   

This truth now firmly established, several unions listed as donating to SUTR on their site made promises of practical organisational support to the Wednesday night counter-protests like so:

So, the ‘spontaneous’ counter-protests were not really entirely ‘spontaneous’ at all, were they? They were actually fairly well organised from above. I’m not trying to claim there were no genuine local protesters at the counter-rallies. I’m sure there were plenty. But it wasn’t quite the 100% organic, grass-roots movement it was falsely portrayed as being, was it? The gangs of outside white-skinned people invading Birmingham on August 7th were actually the far-Left, not the far-Right.

Non-Spontaneous Human Combustion

Back in 2019, online outlet Middle East Eye published an excellent investigation into something called “controlled spontaneity”, a method of psychological control over the general population devised by the state following Britain’s last major riots of 2011.

Fearing more riots may erupt during the 2012 Olympics, should any terror attack occur during it, a project was designed with the intention “to shape public responses, encouraging individuals to focus on empathy for the victims and a sense of unity with strangers, rather than reacting with violence and anger” – in 2024 terms, that means holding up placards praising Bangladeshis for supposedly saving the NHS, rather than fire-bombing any more mosques.

The whole idea was to provide “an anaesthetic for the local community” by diverting public anger instead into becoming an orgy of saccharine “Princess Diana-esque grief”, with love being the drug considered to have the greatest soporific effect. Government psy-ops agents were co-opted to hand out free flowers to strangers in ‘impromptu’ displays of public-spiritedness, or paste up posters with pre-written, focus-grouped hashtags like #LoveWillWin or #UnitedAgainstAllTerror, designed to go viral online.

Within the current context, one wonders if the present 10-day wonder of #NansAgainst Nazis, which we are told was devised by a mysterious elderly Liverpudlian anti-fascism veteran known only as ‘Pat’, was another slogan designed by a PR expert then stored away just waiting to be unleashed as soon as ‘Nazis’, not Islamists, became the new temporary public enemy number one. (The nans have since magically multiplied like amoebas to defend random Muslims even further.) Here’s a handy list of other ‘heartwarming’ events from recent days printed by the Guardian: real or psyops? You decide!

Bee As One

It seems one of the places this plan of “controlled spontaneity” was put into operation was in Manchester, following the Islamist bombing of little girls gathered at Manchester Arena to see a concert by teen-pop idol Ariane Grande back in 2017. An interesting 2021 academic study of events organised by Manchester City Council in the aftermath of the atrocity shows how they were specifically designed to bring people together and brainwash them into thinking “there is more that unites us than divides us”, a palpably false slogan I’d love to see these same people try and push in the Gaza Strip right now.

The basic idea was to create a “community of affect”, or emotion, in which, via public singalongs of appropriate songs, like ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ by Oasis, rather than ‘The Wake-Up Bomb’ by R.E.M., people would be made to feel as one, and not go all Tutsi and Hutu on one another with machetes in the middle of the Arndale Centre. The bee, meanwhile, formerly an obscure civic symbol of Manchester as a hive of 19th-century industry, suddenly became reborn as an all-purpose emblem of togetherness – bees tend to all share the same opinions in their hives, you see, very few are independent-minded dissenters from enforced political consensus like Daily Sceptic readers. Did these newly ubiquitous bee-logos in question really just begin ‘spontaneously’ appearing printed or graffitied all over local T-shirts, posters, walls, etc.? Or were other, higher, forces at work here too?

With the concert of a popular popstar attacked, the bombing was also opportunistically repurposed to become “an attack on a fan community” too, rather than, say, an attack on underage white non-Muslim infidels, which is what the perpetrator presumably actually intended. That’s not very conciliatory an image, though, so instead innocent-seeming visual iconography relating to Ariane Grande was repurposed as peace symbols, with the bunny ears she sometimes wears on-stage being reshaped into a peace-ribbon, for example. In this way, the fact there is no genuine shared cohesive community in existence across multicultural, mass immigration Britain any more is disguised by constructing a wholly artificial pop-culture one instead. This was an attack not on white non-believers but on innocent little ‘Grandies’, or whatever the singer’s fans are called.

As the authors of the study show, the state-directed inducement of positive affects or emotions acts as “a resource for techniques of power”, with members of the public participating in “events planned by the municipal authorities, sometimes accepting the terms of togetherness offered by the city, and sometimes improvising responses that repurposed elements of the events”. In other words, the state provided a basic ‘framework’ of acceptable emotions to be expressed in public, channelled citizens towards them, then allowed them to semi-improvise around these themes semi-independently.

Peace, Love and Complete Misunderstanding

Due to such techniques, state manipulation of the public psyche becomes deniable. Not every poster or cuddly toy placed in shrines to the dead is a Government plant, nor has every placard or hashtag been designed by Svengalis from on high. But, once you’re aware of such devious psyops techniques, every local tribute, genuine or not, suddenly begins to look potentially suspicious.

Post-Southport, one local tribute to the stabbed girls was called ‘The Swifties Bubble Blow’, “Swifties” being Taylor Swift fans, as the children were stabbed whilst attending a Taylor Swift dance event. Here, local kids and their families were asked to blow bubbles into the sky thereby to “send kisses to Heaven” to comfort the dead girls’ souls, whilst a local musician sang “a heartfelt song”. Was this a real, organically-generated event? Or a state-generated pseudo-event?

The named organiser could well have been completely genuine. Then again, the ceremony does have distinct echoes of the state’s alleged controlled spontaneity plan post-Manchester to disingenuously relabel an attack from a non-white adult on little white children as a non-religiously motivated attack upon an arbitrary community of pop-star fandom instead. Now we know this kind of thing happens, we begin to become paranoid, capable of interpreting any expressions of grief as manipulative Government psyops campaigns.

My own opinion is that the Bubble Blow was indeed a real tribute, but I’m equally suspicious that state operators will one day try to imitate the previous Manchester Ariane Grande campaign by co-opting Taylor Swift imagery into future tributes in order to spuriously “bring us all together”. But if so, this would surely only end up being a mere sticking-plaster. Making people go all gooey inside over dead infants for a few minutes doesn’t really alter the fact that, once the music has stopped, the nation is still stuffed full of opposing camps who hate one another’s guts – do note how, within a week of the ‘healing’ Southport bubble-blowing extravaganza, Islamists over in Austria unaccountably still tried to kill yet more of her young fans with bombs and knives.

Controlled spontaneity is really just a form of temporary displacement activity, designed to distract us all from the unmitigated civilisational disaster being imposed on us from on high by a morally blind, immigration-addicted state whose agents then claim falsely to be able to step in and protect us all from the very problem they themselves have artificially created for no good reason. 

There was one remarkable image last week of true overriding unity between previously divided camps in Belfast, where men brandishing Irish tricolours and British Union Jacks marched down the streets together – in the name of kicking all the blacks and Muslims out. Somehow, I don’t think MI5 was behind that particular potential future Hallmark Cards image.