BY ALEX STORY
Millions of voices were shouting in anger.
The Britons outside looked from pigs to extremists, and from extremists to pigs, and from pigs to extremists again—but already it was impossible to say which was which.
To many, something strange had happened to our police. Once the thin blue line between order and chaos, they had crossed it, choosing the latter over the former. To most, they are now unrecognisable—both ideologically and physically—from far-left activists.
Things have changed a lot since 1987, when Starmer wrote in Socialist Alternatives, a quarterly publication to the left of Lenin. Back then, he was scandalised. The police, you see, stood in defence of “free enterprise” and, by extension, private property. Something, therefore, needed to be done.
At the time, Starmer truly believed the Soviet Union to be the workers’ paradise. Yet across the USSR, central control of the means of production was failing. As a potential remedy, the concept of “self-managing socialism” was developed.
What did it imply? The state would have only a coordinating role, while “various self-managing initiatives” would be “brought together” at “a local, regional, national, or international level,” Keir wrote breathlessly. Importantly, while self-managing socialism would be centrally funded by the taxpayer, it would operate Hydra-like from the “bottom up.”
In other words, the revolution would be decentralised but state-funded, executed through a dense network of “grassroots” organisations—charities, NGOs, councils, trade unions, devolved authorities, and anti-British nationalist parties.
As Socialist Alternatives made clear, the monolithic “middle-class, white, married, home-owning” man, steeped in a Christian worldview, would inadvertently subsidise his own demise. The focus of their hatred—their sacrificial workhorse, so to speak—would be the “pale, male, and stale” English Tory “scum.” After all, he had voted for Thatcher and opted for Brexit—unforgivable. He was, and is, filth.
Furthermore, Parliament would be bypassed as much as possible. Instead, government would be directed by special interest groups, or “minorities“—all “agents of socialist transformation” working for “an alternative socialist hegemony,” deliberately out of touch with an irrelevant electorate.
To make this work, group differences would need to be ignored. As they realised, there was “no a priori harmony between all the component parts of the alternative movement.”
Today, much of that vision has come to pass. We live under an alternative socialist hegemony. In this brave new world, the police and the Socialist Workers Party are in theological communion. The police, in other words, are impartial—but only from a Socialist Workers Party perspective.
How could such a transformation happen so quickly? A few milestones on that miserable road to perdition spring to mind.
In 1999, the Macpherson Inquiry was published, branding the police (outrageously) “institutionally racist.” Suddenly, hostage to its eternal ideological enemies, a police force afflicted by Stockholm Syndrome immersed itself, body and soul, into the infernal den of progressive politics.
A little later, in 2002, Blair’s Cabinet Office redefined the meaning of “charity.” Redefining words is a key tool in the Left’s armoury, designed to confuse long enough to make changes irreversible. Before Blair, lobbying “could not be a charity’s ‘dominant’ activity”—it could only be “incidental,” and therefore immaterial. But the Cabinet Office’s strategy unit changed that: charities must “perform a valuable role in campaigning for social change,” and “the guidelines on campaigning should be revised to encourage charities to play this role to the fullest extent.”
From then on, everything changed. Politicised charities received floods of taxpayer money. The revolution was, from that point, permanently funded. The Home Office soon began subsidising progressive, left-wing “charities” and sundry organisations. Worse, these groups were then hired by the police to teach—or brainwash—the officers who chose to remain.
In doing so, the police became increasingly entangled with the trade union movement, absorbing their new comrades’ intellectual shibboleths, particularly those of the Socialist Workers.
Here’s how the merry-go-round works:
- Stand Up to Racism, that ubiquitous rent-a-gob group of paid agitators—who insult the mothers of rape victims so callously—is linked to the Socialist Workers Party.
- The Socialist Workers Party operates through trade union networks, filled with progressive charities often funded by the Home Office.
To crystallise their cherished “socialist hegemony,” Labour passed the Equality Act in 2010, effectively becoming officialdom’s new constitution—replacing, in their minds, the 1689 Bill of Rights. Under this new paradigm, a long list of people with “protected characteristics” was created, excluding the “Tory” Englishman and establishing a de facto caste system.
The symbiosis between the Socialist Workers Party, its affiliates, and the police has been so successful that our very own flag has become a symbol of “hate.” Only a few years ago, it was our everything. Now, flags of other nations—existing or imagined, like Pakistan or Palestine—are waved as symbols of “multicultural emancipation.”
Having redefined “charity,” Labour then redefined “patriotism.” In a 2021 Fabian Society pamphlet titled The Road Ahead, Starmer writes: “Patriotism is an attempt to unite people of different backgrounds.” A nonsensical definition, entirely at odds with the Cambridge Dictionary, which states that patriotism is “the feeling of loving your country more than any others and being proud of it.”
But to Starmer, that is “nationalism“—which he claims is “just one arm of the rise of identity-based politics in the Western world that has done immense damage to the progressive cause.” It must, therefore, be eradicated.
The hypocrisy is astounding. The Left thrives on identity politics, institutionalising apartheid-like racism and division—all to destroy English conservatism and deny the nation, its flag, and its borders the power to unite, shelter, and protect.
To dismantle the old Britain, from Starmer’s perspective, one must peel the child from his mother, the mother from her husband, and the husband from his flag—creating a mass of acculturated, uprooted, and hopeless individuals, defenceless against the state’s overreach. In this societal flotsam, our daughters are the first victims; we are the last.
If we are now run along Socialist Workers Party lines, it is worth understanding the causeless—and therefore absolute—hatred they harbour for us.
In 2016, at a Stand Up to Racism conference, chants of “Tories out, refugees in!” rang out across the hall. The chant was nothing less than a policy announcement. From the Left’s perspective, England is Tory—and therefore, England must be emptied of the English.
In their binary, dystopian worldview, the choice ahead is this:
- Accept the rapes, humiliations, and your new non-person status, or
- Be branded a “racist.”
If you choose the latter, the Old Bill will do the rest—acting as servants of the new constitution under the approving gaze of the Socialist Workers Party and Starmer.
From this perspective, official Britain is telling us that we are no longer welcome in our own home.
Alex Story is an Olympian, entrepreneur and writer on economic and social issues.