A Week In The British Thug State (Podcast)

Ruminations on a week in British politics.

About ten years ago I was working on a 12-hour night shift at some hellish metal plating factory the job agency had sent me to. There were four of us working an acid bath, standing the very cheapest solid plastic wellies available, as we dunked large buckets of copper into the baths and liquid plating chemicals. It wasn’t a happy time and the men I worked with were scum. At 03.00 am one of the lads went to the coffee machine and returned with not four cups of coffee but three, and it didn’t take long until I realized I was the one who wouldn’t be getting a coffee, for no reason that I could discern. I was left with a dilemma, either risk escalating the situation and losing the job, or ‘‘cuck’’ say nothing and live with my cowardice. Feeling my father’s glower I decided I had to broach the scandal:

‘‘So where’s my coffee?’’ I said.

‘‘I didn’t get you one?’’ he said.

‘‘Why not?’’ I replied.

‘‘Because I think you’re an arsehole, mate!’’ he helpfully explained.

This little anecdote encapsulates very well the venality and insanely lopsided British Justice system. When Judge Tom Bayliss sentenced Sam Melia to two years in jail for posting stickers against mass immigration and white guilt, it was not because Melia broke speech laws but because of his ‘‘intent’’. This is to say, because of the thought processes and reasoning that led to him enacting the stickering campaign to begin with.

I guess it could be summarised thus:

‘‘If the slogans are not unlawful, then why am I going to jail?’’

‘‘Because I think you’re an arsehole, mate.’’

Sam Melia certainly isn’t alone in this. The British State thinks we’re all arseholes and tells us so daily.

‘‘I don’t like your politics, I don’t like your memes, I don’t like your whiteness or the mocking contempt with which you hold our diverse and tolerant Liberal Democracy, and I don’t like you…arsehole!’’