Restore members: Do you think English people ‘deserve’ grooming gangs?

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Here follows a direct unedited quote from the ‘Campaigns Director’ of Restore GeeBee, Private Pike, written half a year after he helped launch a crowdfunder for a non-statutory inquiry into Pakistani Rape Gangs:

“England is getting what she deserves. Let me say that again: England is getting what she deserves. It’s not the globalists. It’s not the elites. It’s not the foreigners.

It is us.

Our malaise is the fault of no one but ourselves. Mass immigration, demographic chaos, organised child rape gangs, cultural vandalism, an economy on the brink of collapse, an education system that teaches self-hatred, a media with no regard for the truth, a political class whose treachery knows no limits — none of these are the ultimate cause of the present condition of England. They are symptoms, downstream consequences, of something far more fundamental. And each one is our fault.

We, the English, have forgotten who we are. We — all of us — have indulged in the poisonous fruits of modernity. We have looked the other way while our sons and daughters stripped themselves of dignity. We have allowed our culture to debase itself. We have invited evil into our Kingdom — and in every case, we have done so willingly. We have delighted in sin and turned our backs on God.

We are not the beset-upon victims of an unfair world. We have been docile and complacent, made weak by the decadence of modernity. We have given ourselves to worldly things and rejected the eternal moral principles that once made us the greatest civilisation in history.

In their place we have embraced a religion of the self. Our culture’s moral centre of gravity is “the individual” — whether that takes the form of woke identity politics, hedonistic self-indulgence, or the endless pursuit of wealth. Popularity, not truth, is our social and political currency. Pride is celebrated as a virtue and humility is in short supply.

And what is it that those of us engaged in the political struggle are fighting for? England is not worth defending merely because “something something the shires” or “something something our grandchildren”. England is unique among nations as a defender of truth, reason, and faith — we are the protagonists of history, leaders of all mankind, and we have chosen to abandon our post.

A mere political revolution will not save this country from the collapse that now looks all but certain. What is required is a revolution of the soul. The English must remember who they are and what their purpose is: the pursuit of truth, the defence of reason, the banishment of evil, and the glory of God.

Failing that, England burns. And rightly so.”

It is faintly ironic that the lowlife who wrote the above screed almost shares a name with Charlene Downes, the fourteen-year-old girl from Blackpool who was, allegedly, raped and murdered by a Pakistani grooming gang before being butchered, ground into meat and then served into kebabs for customers. Five years after her death, Charlene’s sister, Emma Downes, was charged with racially motivated assault after fighting the brother of the man who had been charged with murdering her sister.

Twelve years later, in 2021, another of Charlene’s siblings, Robert Downes, then 30, died from a heroin overdose in his room. “Robert was never the same after what happened to Charlene”, his mother, Karen Pike said. “We never got justice. It had a massive impact on all of us.”

I wonder if Private Pike would care to tell Karen Pike that what happened to her daughter, her other daughter, and her son was in fact her fault? That their family, along with the rest of us, deserved the rape, murder, the deaths of despair, the state manufacturing claims of racism to oppress you – because they failed to be sufficiently Christian. Because they turned away from God. Because they ‘embraced the decadence of modernity’. Because their conception of society centred too much on the individual.

Perhaps he’d contrast the morals of her daughter with those of her likely persecutors, British Muslims, who Pike would like to ‘commend for their resistance to the totalising ultra progressive liberalism that has totally taken over our society’, telling her that he admires ‘the piety and conservatism of Britain’s Muslim community’, concluding that the White British community could ‘learn a great deal’.

“Karen, you must understand, what happened to your daughter was a symptom of our decadence! A ‘poisoned fruit of modernity’. England burns. And rightly so.”

I do not ask that you apologise for your thrashing about. Only that if the doubts are beginning to grow, that you let them.