The New Peterloo imminent?

The recent riots and protests have reminded me very much of the Peterloo Massacre. Not the massacre itself, but the tensions that brought about the massacre.

The Wikipedia entry is here if you want to read more: Peterloo Massacre - Wikipedia

After the Napoleonic Wars, there was a slump in textile manufacture, so people were laid off and those still employed had their wages cut. Additionally the Corn laws kept the cost of bread artificially high. Two pressures that forced the workers and the non-workers into abject poverty. 

Peterloo is actually an area of Manchester city centre originally called St. Peter's Field, now modern day St. Peter's Square.

The boroughs around Manchester had no political representation. Remember, this is the time of the rotten boroughs and when "one-man-one-vote" had yet to come into being. 

The boroughs of Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Blackburn, Rochdale, Oldham, Ashton-Under-Lyne (my home town) and Stockport had no political representation at all.

So rightly the people of those boroughs and others felt they had no way of bringing about political change.

So they organised and activated. They started printing flyers and started mass demonstrations. The demonstrations would it was hoped, put political pressure on those that did have a vote (wealthy landowners) to bring about change in the law and some relief for the working class. 

Two years earlier, the "blanketeers" a group of workers carrying blankets for comfort marched on London in an attempt to highlight their plight. But to no avail. The demonstrations gathered pace and became larger.

The elites didn't like the working classes organising (much like today they realise the power of the working class and especially fear the numbers - the working class far outweigh any other).

So the decision was made that the demonstrations had to be suppressed.

Hence why the Cavalry charged the crowd of 60,000 in St. Peter's Field with their Sabres drawn, killing 18 and injuring many hundreds more.

The fallout of the massacre was many-fold. It was a pivotal moment in UK political history.

The first being the formation of the Manchester Guardian newspaper, which then went on to become the Guardian. Sad to say they have last their roots in the support of the working class, because they are the one calling the marginalised people of the North "Far-right" and "fascists". 

The other thing that happened was the creation of the six acts. (See the Wiki).

Proving that history repeats itself, one of the acts was the Misdemeanours Act, which sought to increase the speed at which people could be prosecuted by removing bail and increasing the speed of court proceedings. 

Sound familiar to the haste in which yesterday's batches of protesters were convicted and sentenced?

The Seizure of Arms Act was just that: it allowed the authorities to enter a property and seize any arms found therein and additionally arrest the owner.

The Seditious Meetings Act sought to regulate meeting over 50 people by requiring the permission of a magistrate or Sherriff.

The other parallel with today is the attempt back in 1819 to regulate the flow of information and the suppression of the production of flyers and information provided in opinion pieces by newspapers.. 

The Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act put a stamp duty on newspapers, increasing the cost so that the workers may not afford them. Publishers were also required to post a bond, for if they ever transgressed the act.

Back then the printing press was the information medium, today we have the government talking about internet suppression laws, misinformation and disinformation laws.

So much changes over the years, but so much stays the same. 

It's all about supressing the working class. 

The Labour party directly descended from the Manchester slums described by Engels some 25 years after the Peterloo massacre. Those ides promoted by Engels and Marx, the Socialist doctrine, is the cornerstone of the Labour party. A party now playing the part of the rotten politicians of the Peterloo era, supressing and arresting the working class that have a legitimate grievance against the government.

I can't begin to express the fear that the establishment have regarding these protests. The scale and the number puts the fear into them just like it did back in 1819. 

Are we back to 1819? It's very similar.

We have a government artificially raising prices through government policy, that they could, if they had the will change and reduce prices. We're back to the era of the corn laws and inflated prices thanks to direct government intervention to raise, not lower prices.

The poor are suffering thanks to direct government intervention. If the net zero policy and all the associated taxes and tariffs associated with that policy were removed, the pressure on the poor would be reduced. Energy would be cheaper, fuel would be cheaper, cars would be cheaper (and less complex), the list goes on. If po9licy on housing and the pressures on house prices were changed, the poor would have a better chance of buying a house.

But it seems an influential minority outside of the democratic sphere, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum amongst others seem to be driving economic policy to the detriment of the people in this country.

So the poor are angry. They are angry because they see successive governments deliberately making their lives harder. They also see successive governments making the lives of those coming from outside easier. 

So, they will protest. And protest. And Protest. They have protested for years with no change in the political will of successive governments. They are now resorting to the only thing government really responds to.

And the government, the Socialist I will remind you, the Socialist government of this country has acted in the thuggish way of the Whigs and Tories of 1819 and started to fast-track people through the courts. Exactly like 1819. The government have also started to talk about limiting or censoring the internet. Just like the government of 1819 when they put a duty on newspapers, to put them out of the reach of the poor.

We have come full circle. The Peterloo massacre heralded in the Socialist movement, what movement would be heralded in by this uprising of the poor?

 

Labour Councillor Calls for Throats to Be Cut. How The left Have Abandoned Their Roots.

A Labour councillor has been suspended from the Party after calling protesters in the North Racists and calling for their throats to be cut.

He shouldn't just be suspended, he should be having his door sawn in half, kicked in and should be immediately arrested by the Police for hate speech.

Or is calling for the killing of so-called far-right people acceptable?

I thought calling for the killing of any group of people would be a hate crime.

Like the so-called far right Sam Melia was jailed for two years for distributing supposedly hateful stickers.

This will be a true test of hate speech laws and their application.

I fear I already know the outcome.

How the Left have lost their roots. Originally the left were the champions of the oppressed working class, now they have abandoned the still oppressed working class. To excuse this abandonment they have invented the fallacy of "white privilege". Yeah all you folks that get substandard housing, poor education, poor health outcomes, poor work opportunities are in fact better off than people in your country just by the colour of your skin. 

It's a fiction made up to allow the university educated champagne socialists to distance themselves from the workers and the class the left historically supported.

Now additionally because the working class don't think the same as the internationalist Marxists that dominate the left nowadays, they further label them racist, fascist, far-right.

The left are posh scumbags, elitists. They are more like the fascists that took over Germany, they think they are better than everyone else, better than everyone that thinks differently to them.

Two Tier Policing: Evidence a-plenty and now it Goes Mainstream.

In this Telegraph article there's a clear indication of the two-tier Policing now in place in the UK and Kier Starmer's support for it. And if the Telegraph is saying it, you can pretty much say the cat is out of the bag and the evidence is clear.

The classic was this interview:

Now tell me, what is the difference between the disorder on both sides? On both sides, the majority protest peacefully, only the minority cause disturbance. So why is the Muslim side treated different than the non-Muslim side? Why do the Police hide from one side and the other side is met with riot gear and batons?

How is it that one side can openly display large bladed weapons in public when anyone else can be arrested and charged?

Why, if the Police do their work without fear or favour, did they not deploy when cars were attacked and the pub was attacked as it shows in the video? 

But as the Telegraph article at the start of this blog says, the difference in Policing or the two sides is stark. Despite the protestations of Senior Police and the government, the difference is plain for all to see. 

Government continues to bend the knee to minorities. It's now beyond a joke. But the question is: why? This has gone beyond virtue signalling, it's gone beyond pandering to an oppressed minority. The Muslims of Great Britain are not oppressed. Actually the truth appears far from it.

Why exactly are the Government not stepping in to Police these riots fairly? Especially when this then fans the fear of a two-tier country. 

In my next blog, I'll tell you exactly why. It's all to do with money. LARGE sums of money. And Supra-national organisations and treaties past governments signed up to.