BY ALEX STORY

“Persecutors are convinced that their violence is justified; they consider themselves judges, and therefore must have guilty victims,” wrote the late French historian René Girard in The Scapegoat (1986).

“The more unlikely the accusations,” the more fervently persecutors believe them—and the more total the destruction of the ‘guilty’ becomes.

He adds that the “absurdity” of the persecutors’ claims strengthens, rather than weakens, their conviction.

Lying, distorting, exaggerating, obfuscating, and dehumanising—all fuelled by an intense, guttural hatred directed at their chosen target—are their weapons in this war of attrition.

We must, therefore, view the ongoing violence—physical, moral, cultural, and religious—being inflicted upon Great Britain and her people today through the eyes of the persecutor.

The punishment we witness daily is meted out because, in their eyes, we are guilty.

In The Judgement of the King of Navarre, written by French poet Guillaume de Machaut as the Black Death ravaged Europe in the late 1340s during Edward III’s reign, Jews were accused of poisoning “rivers and fountains that had been clear and pure”, leading to “ten times one hundred thousand deaths” across “country and city”.

Guillaume de Machaut welcomed the ensuing massacre as rightful retribution for “this treachery”: “Every Jew was destroyed—some hanged, others burned; some drowned, others beheaded with axe or sword.”

“And many Christians died together with them in shame,” he concludes.

We are them: the scapegoats.
Blamed for everything. Guilty of everything.
Forsaken and unforgivable.

Examples abound, each more egregious than the last.

Each follows the same pattern.

Our greatest collective achievements are twisted into moral shame, becoming the deranged focus of their shrill, ceaseless, and mendacious attacks on what we were.

They fabricate a past to brand us as Evil, searing their delusions into history with white-hot irons.

Their lust for destruction is all that needs feeding.

Last week, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy hosted the Caribbean delegation The Repair Campaign to discuss reparations for slavery and colonialism.

Meanwhile, Jamaica announced its intention to petition King Charles to refer the issue to the Privy Council—advised, it seems, by our own perfidious Attorney General, Baron Richard Hermer.

The bill would run into trillions for Jamaica alone, unleashing a flood of claims from other nations. A trillion here, a trillion there—soon, you’re talking about a very large number.

To even consider acquiescing to this act of national self-destruction would be unprecedented. It would be treason of the highest order—nothing more, nothing less.

Unsurprisingly, David Lammy has backed reparations. Standing in Parliament in 2018, he declared: “As Caribbean people, we are not going to forget our history. We don’t just want an apology—we want reparations.”

Note, first, that he said “As Caribbean people, we”—not “as Brits” nor “as English people.” In other words, he sat in our Parliament to lobby for “his people” thousands of miles away.

He spoke on behalf of a foreign power.
He is now our Foreign Secretary.
As Richard Littlejohn would say: “You couldn’t make it up!”

Second, though his rhetoric has softened slightly, his core belief in reparations remains. By 2025, given his position, he avoided explicit cash promises—instead advocating for “non-financial” measures like “skills sharing”, a deliberately vague term that could mean anything or everything.

It is in such bureaucratic opacity that spineless serpents slither, lulling their prey before the strike. With this administration, when it comes to betraying the British public, prepare for the worst.

To accept any notion of reparations—even a fraction of the collective guilt Lammy and his allies seek to impose—is to invite our purposeful annihilation.

The absurdity of the claim, the character of those making it, and the advisors behind them are all evidence of our newfound status as scapegoats: we are, in the words of the Quran (98:6), “the worst of all creatures.”

Hypnotised by the drumbeat of lies, the British Lion staggers across the political savannah, dazed, as state-backed, Fabian-inspired hyenas tear chunks from this once-proud, undefeatable beast—all while it parrots the slogans that have stripped it bare:

“All cultures are the same.”
“Religion doesn’t matter.”
“Pooled sovereignty is progress.”
“Diversity is our strength.”
“They built this place, not us.”

Lammy, Harmer, Starmer—to name but a few—all endorse reparations in principle.

The Chagos betrayal, Gibraltar’s erosion, unchecked EU rule adoption, the invasion of our islands while we pay for the privilege of our own demise—these leave no doubt.

They have no intention of stopping. What arises from the rubble of our civilisation does not concern them.

The goal is the destruction of the guilty. We are Guillaume de Machaut’s Jews: the scapegoats, the target. We are the price they are willing to pay.

The reparations debate is the final piece of the puzzle. Now we know. We have no excuses left.

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Alex Story is an Olympian, entrepreneur and writer on economic and social issues.