The need for Fascists and right-wingers

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I could never vote for any one of the three rising little parties on the British right wing - UKIP, the English Democrats and James Hargreaves' Christian Party - in a million years, not if they paid me; and I have already several times said what I think of that crafty, far-sighted Fascist villain, Nick Griffin, and his electoral army of dupes and stormtroopers in disguise. So why do I think it would be a very good thing if a couple of dozen MPs from these variously unattractive groups were to reach Westminster in a week?

Let me tell you a story. When the Italian First Republic collapsed under the blows of the great Tangentopoli scandal, one of the side effects was a sense among some of the nastier groupings on the political fringe that they were somehow being justified and that the moral collapse of the political centre was their opportunity.

The city of Rome has the most ancient Jewish community on the face of the planet; it has also, alas, a tiny but obdurate and peculiarly nasty neo-Nazi underground, despised and emarginated even by the "respectable" fascist and conservative parties. These people started becoming more active, and their obvious target was the ancient Jewish quarter on the shore of the Tiber. Night after night there were threatening raids, insults painted on walls, assaults, threats.

The Roman Jews are nobody's punching-bags, and they complained vigorously. The authorities played their usual sympathetic but helpless roles, and the media politely condoled. Clearly, in a politically distracted country with serious public order issues elsewhere, nobody felt that a few assaults and writings on Jewish walls were at the top of any list of priorities.

The young men of the Ghetto drew their own conclusions and made their own decisions. And one night, when the Nazi thugs came to have fun, they were waiting for them, with knuckledusters, bike chains and steel rods.

Everyone was shocked, and everyone lectured the Jewish community about restraint and legality. But from then on, the Nazi rats stayed in their underground, and any time they didn't the authorities paid attention to Jewish complaints.

The whole structure of British society is under assault by the very people - politicians, bureaucrats and their media hangers-on in particular - who should have as their chief duty to defend it. It is about time that these people were put on notice that their assault on England, Scotland and Wales will not continue unpunished. And if that reaction has some thuggish features, so much the better: this class, which takes nothing seriously except power, may yet begin to take the country seriously.

Comments

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True. A lot of people do not understand that the only thing some people (i.e. bullies, thugs, etc.) are willing to respond to or respect is force. They are, more often than not, only bullies because other people are too timid to defend themselves when attacked.