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Matt Goodwin #wingnut mattgoodwin.org

The latest attempted assassination of President Donald Trump has rightly caused shock, outrage, and disgust around the world. There should be no place at all for political violence and terrorism in Western democracies.

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Amid a radicalised left - which now routinely accuses its political opponents of not merely holding different political views but of being ‘fascist’, ‘extremist’, ‘far-right’, or ‘threatening democracy’ - President Trump clearly views a part of today’s left as being dangerously open to using violence, aggression, and harassment.

Clearly, when Trump points the finger at the left, the usual columnists, gatekeepers, and activists within the left establishment will roll their eyes.

But what if he has a point? What if he is right? What if, actually, a big pile of evidence suggests there is a much bigger problem with political violence on the left than the right? Here’s what you’ll probably never hear on BBC Verify or CNN, including lots of studies and surveys that do suggest Trump has a point.

While political violence and hatred exist on both sides — and should always be condemned — a large and growing pile of evidence suggests that parts of the modern left are far more politically intolerant than their right-wing counterparts.

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Routinely, we are told the main threat facing Western nations is not the far-left or even Islamists but the ‘far-right’ - fascists, authoritarians, misogynists, and so forth - while the left is presented as tolerant, compassionate, inclusive, empathetic.

But look at the evidence and a very different picture emerges.

[complaining about people feeling happy that Charlie Kirk is dead

Committed liberals and left-wingers […] are four times more likely than conservatives to believe that celebrating the death of a political opponent is fine.

Matt Goodwin #racist #conspiracy mattgoodwin.org

We are losing our country because of how its underlying foundations - a shared identity, a shared language, and a shared set of values - are rapidly crumbling.

That’s my argument in Suicide of a Nation, my new book that’s become one of the biggest-selling books in Britain.

Increasingly, with no unifying sense of who we are, and with a political class that is fuelling rather than fixing these problems, Britain feels more like a hotel than a home.

My critics, of course, disagree strongly.

They say there’s nothing to worry about. Multiculturalism is working just fine. Diversity is our strength.

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As I write in the book, while you’ll never hear about this in Westminster or on the BBC, the fact - from the latest census in 2021 - is that there are now 5.8 million people in Britain who refuse to share a UK, British, or English identity - up from 4.5 million a decade earlier. Nearly one in ten people in England now think this way.

They do not see themselves as a member of the UK, British, or English community but something else entirely, as holding what the census calls a ‘non-UK identity’.

The picture is even more dramatic in particular areas, where thanks to the disastrous policy of mass immigration, there are many large enclaves in the country that are filled with people who refuse to embrace our national identity.

Some people might not think this is worrying. They’ll shrug their shoulders.

But I do think it’s worrying. Because a nation without a strong, unifying sense of identity will eventually cease to be a nation.

Matt Goodwin #racist #wingnut mattgoodwin.org

Let’s be clear. Demands for slavery reparations are historically illiterate and deeply insulting. They also reflect a blatant cash-grab by often corrupt and failing states that are exploiting the sickness of wokeness and guilt that has taken hold of the West.

They are based on an extremely selective reading of history. Nobody questions the fact that Britain was involved in the slave trade. But what these extreme activists who have been fully indoctrinated in anti-British and anti-Western ideologies ignore is the major role Britain then played in abolishing slavery and enforcing this, too, when so many other nations refused to do so.

[…] It’s not mentioned because it complicates and undermines the woke narrative.

Nor, by the way, do they say anything at all about the extensive black-on-black slavery that went on during this time. […] Africans enslaved other Africans for centuries, from the African kingdom of Kongo to Omani Arabs on the East African coast to Fulani Africans in Nigeria. Yet nobody ever mentions this.

What’s also ignored […] is that while slavery is absolutely abhorrent and should always be condemned it is also true that Britain made enormous positive contributions to many of these nations, including but not limited to: the English language, common law, universities, effective administration, higher rates of growth, medicine, longer life expectancy, policing, and sanitation. As Heydel-Mankoo notes, if these nations were serious and consistent about their desire to ‘decolonise’ their nations then they would remove all these things, too.

Nor do these activists say much about how slavery is still practiced today, including across parts of Africa and Asia. […]

What we are left with, in short, is an ugly cash-grab. Forcing the hardworking, decent British people to send billions in foreign aid to nations that simultaneously demand trillions more in “slavery reparations” has to be one of the greatest Ponzi schemes of all time. Just look at the numbers.

Matt Goodwin #racist #conspiracy #wingnut mattgoodwin.org

Keir Starmer, Labour minister Jess Phillips, and the Labour Party are not serious about delivering truth and justice to the victims of the Pakistani rape gangs. This is the only conclusion one can draw after the events of the last week.

The Labour Party, the party that had to be dragged kicking and screaming into committing to a national inquiry to begin with, and Keir Starmer, the prime minister who less than a year ago derided all those who called for an inquiry into the mass rape of white working-class children as ‘jumping on the bandwagon of the far-right’, have never really wanted to prioritise the worst scandal in British history.

More interested in votes from Labour’s Muslim constituents than the pursuit of truth, more influenced by a ‘progressive’ ideology that presents minorities as good and majorities as bad, when it comes to Keir Starmer, as The Times pointed out this week, ‘a palpable sense has remained that he has never fully grasped why [an inquiry] is necessary’.

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And now, as we’ve seen in Labour’s cack-handed approach to managing the inquiry this week, a refusal by the Labour government to get its arms around the issue in the way it would were it to involve one of their favoured minority groups.

I mean, seriously, could you imagine the Labour Party responding to the scandal in all these ways were this to involve highly organised gangs of white men targeting vulnerable Muslim children?

Could you imagine how quickly Labour would act, how it would instantly remove any and every obstacle and barrier to finding those victims the truth and justice they deserve?

Instead, by dragging their heels and showing the same indifference toward the rape gang scandal as politicians showed toward the issue for decades, Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have now, clearly, lost the confidence and trust of the most important people of all –the victims.