Orchestrated Attack

Loyalist violence was why the British Army was first deployed to Northern Ireland. The British State swapped sides very early on, but initially its Forces faced enemies who, topically, came against them with guns while waving the Union Flag, something that had never previously happened in all the long history of the British Empire.

The riots in Northern Ireland are being organised by outfits that have officially been illegal for many decades, but which in practice are now no more so than the one that organised an enormous funeral last summer for one of the grandest of its grand old men.

In Great Britain, we have National Action. Following the murder of Jo Cox, then the Government had to ban something, but Thomas Mair's Swinton Circle connected him to the heart of the Cabinet of the day. National Action was made the scapegoat instead.

Its proscription, however, is little or nothing more than a paper fiction. At least one of its members has been waived into the Police. An administrative cock-up has exposed him, so he has been bailed after conviction both of being a terrorist and of being a child pornographer.

Meanwhile, his brethren are turning up in enormous numbers with the helmets, shields, batons, horses, and attack dogs that no one else ever brings along. The footage is then edited to make the case for the criminalisation of protest. If none of them is also a member of National Action, then I am Edward Colston.