The Guardian has noticed....

Après eux, le déluge

The Guardian just got slapped in the face with a dead fish.

This doesn’t bode well for UK society (the story…..not the Guardian fish slapping — that’s always a good thing).

The most stable democracy on the planet has always benefited from a combination of civic nationalism and moderate and institutionally mediated/expressed class conflict. The new multipolar world will pit Islamic-urban communities against more rural small and big C Christian communities, social liberals against social conservatives and libertarians against authoritarian.

Typically the Guardian ignored the ethnic/religious genie completely. Leftie scribes reach instinctively for the possibility of electoral reform. This is odd — since proportional systems in Europe are precisely what have allowed the much lamented ‘far right’ and ‘fascist’ parties to gain a foothold. Bring it on, I say. Things could hardly be worse in the UK.

It is funny though, that the Grauniadistas with all of their sociology degrees and close reading of the Prison Notebooks, simply don’t understand the nature of political conflict. Progressives have never been willing to recognize the necessary and benign nature of civic nationalism. Social democrats never understood that the welfare state was necessarily an exclusive solidarity — and existed only as a function of a strong, cohesive ‘we identity’. Now, because of uncontrolled mass migration and the final death throes of Anglicanism, civic nationalism is in real danger of being replaced by ethno-nationalism — and they blame it on ‘fascists’ and ‘populists’.

Perhaps most strange is that they still persist in misdiagnosing their putative allies and enemies. The Pharisees of woke politics actually see Farage as a kind of devil — a fascist, up there with Hitler (and Trump - LOL). But like Trump, Farage is a very British moderate. Like MAGA, Reform is actually the last and best hope for L'Ancien Régime. This is because they are essentially civic nationalists parties which combine an insistence on national solidarity with a moderate class politics. Ironically, these are exactly the ingredients that created Clement Attlee’s welfare state and Roosevelt’s New Deal. For sure the political economy is different. But then the world has changed. We now have a better idea of what works and what doesn’t (any kind of central planning for instance). We are moving rapidly into a different technological paradigm. Immigration control, assimilation, integration and civic-national/class solidarity rooted in the iconography of ‘everyman’ is without doubt the only political foundation that has any hope at all of anchoring our societies through this new Great Transformation.

Starmer and Badenoch both point to implosion and catastrophic failure. Whether Farage has the political chops to follow through is a different question altogether. Probably not.