Literally over the weekend, lampposts leading to my railway station at Weybridge in Surrey have been adorned with St George’s flags. I don’t know who put them up, but I do know it wasn’t Elmbridge council, as their flag of choice would be Palestinian.
My bet is that the council (a coalition of Lib Dems and Resident Associations) will leave the flags up as they recognise there is a political groundswell in the country right now, and if they did make the mistake of taking them down, the following night they would be back up again.
The Saturday rally of 150,000 people waving flags, not fists, is a political turning point. No longer can either Labour sneer (how is it that flag-hating Emily Thornberry is still chair of the Foreign Affairs committee?) or Tories ignore the feelings of the people.
Trevor Phillips, a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, wrote a good piece in The Times which should be required reading for all politicians, even Nigel Farage, who has been surprisingly quiet about the Unite the Kingdom march.
This is what Trevor Phillipps wrote; ‘’The overwhelming majority of the crowds waving flags and carrying crosses weren’t there for a fight. But they do have a cause.
‘’The angry protests outside asylum hotels are now metastasising into a simpler, broader message; stop immigration, defend free speech, revive Christianity. It is a compelling trinity for a country that feels angry and unmoored.’’
Nicely put.
Voters don’t know where to turn to for solutions. Despite having 412 MPs, Labour has no answers to the nightly news showing literally thousands heading our way, and with a government which not only doesn’t know how to stop them, but in truth probably doesn’t want to anyway.
While 150,000 waved flags, not fists, a leafy town revealed why this is a turning point — Kelvin MacKenzie
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To cap it all, we have a Prime Minister who, depending on which Labour MP is being asked, is either being kicked out later today, or 30 minutes after the November 26 Budget or next May when Labour take a terrible hammering in Wales, Scotland and most of the councils in England.
So, he’s about as useful as a chocolate teapot when looking for something big to be done. It’s not much better when you look across the divide at the Tories.
First of all, they are mainly responsible for the anger in the nation. Whether it was Cameron, May, Boris, Truss or Rishi, none of them did anything to stop the flood of migrants.
In fact, Boris was responsible for allowing a million legal migrants to come in one year alone. He has never apologised for that. Shameful.
The fact that he’s making millions by going around the world giving speeches about his personal genius makes me feel sick on behalf of all the voters he tricked into believing he had answers. The reality is, he had answers to his indebtedness.
Nigel Farage is the great white hope in all this. Like me, he has concerns about Tommy Robinson, who organised the spectacular demonstration which shocked the political establishment.
The reality is that the only time 150,000 Labour supporters would turn out is if they thought Starmer would be ousted by such a show of strength.
My sense is that the vast majority of those 150,000 will vote for Reform. Decent people. Law-abiding people. Family people.
All sick and tired of not having their views heard. Through migration, our nation has been changing dramatically for 30 years.
Either politicians start listening and acting, or ordinary people will stop believing in democracy. Neither Starmer nor Badenoch have shown they have solutions.
These could be perilous times.