The Rise of Vigilantism

And some Thoughts on Restore Britain

The following article, ‘Beware the Starmerite Gladio’ looks set to become the most important thing I’ve written this year. I am becoming increasingly unnerved by the sorts of people pushing this ‘civil war is imminent XD!!!’ line. When the coiner of the phrase ‘the world’s most moral army’, Dominic Cummings (who by his own admission frequently talks to people within MI6 – this isn’t me insulting him, Dom’s political project sees this as a good thing) and Tommeh Robinson are all pushing the same narrative: you know this is something the deep state wants you to think, not something they are trying to hide. It is even more worrying that this would explain why the MSM are now fully backing Reforce UK (when you consider Reforce are basically being shilled by every major news outlet, it shows how ludicrous the idea they are genuinely popular actually is). It is definitely a foreseeable future that Farage is being brought in as a scapegoat for a British years of lead which will be spun as a civil war. All we know for certain is that there’s currently a lot of effort to prime people for a narrative that ‘the far right’ and ‘radical Islam’ are on the verge of violent clashes, and that any future violence in the U.K is the result of organic activity rather than the same arms shipments courtesy of Sir James Bond which arrived in Damascus c. 2011.

I am just begging people that, if in 2028, ‘the Caliphate of Leeds’ suddenly gains the capacity to start blowing up schools full of white English while Dr. David Bull’s village people all own AK-47s, to maintain some emotional distance and ask yourselves useful questions like: how, in one of the most tightly policed societies on earth, did these people get their weapons? When every previous Islamic terrorist group has, in some sense, relied on Western logistics, why is this one different even though it is located in the heart of the West? Who actually benefits from scaring the mass of middle class people into clamouring for a strong central authority to sort things out?

At the moment, middle class lib opinion is a black box to most of you. Ever since Musk brought X, you don’t actually know what these people are thinking anymore. They are not a majority and you don’t have to like them but you should recognise that they remain the main source of the country’s tax revenue, they are a voting bloc of 10% and can thus, if they agree, influence mass opinion and if there was ever the slightest chance of violence on the streets of Britain they’d vote to give King Chuck the Woke total sovereign authority to throw you in prison.

An addendum on this topic, people have been trying to force narratives like this ever since Brexit, it is a deliberate attempt to make Britain a smaller, weaker country. Everyone knows that absolutely nobody at the Canary Wharf or Epping protests cares about ‘the YooKay’ or sees ‘English’ identity as entailing Scottish Independence and doing a deal with our brothers in Ireland. If you’re a ‘nationalist’ who supports balkanising your own country, something nationalists elsewhere, in the Donbas, in Serbia, in Austria and France identify as the main antagonist of nationalistic activity, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Now, if we consider the civil war talk as MI6 and consider how MI6 has operated in other countries like Ukraine and Syria, this talk of regionalism is very, very worrying.

Of course, not everyone talking about civil war is an MI6 agent and I do not intend to make that allegation. They are, nonetheless, vaguely annoying. What annoys me about it, aside from the fact that, as a Lobby journalist, you personally know politicians and have been writing about politics for a decade, is that the prediction of civil war demands no actual critique of British institutions. How many people opining about blood in the streets have, for example, predicted something much more mundane – like the abolition of the Monarchy? Or replacing Parliament with a presidential system? This is how, btw, you can tell what they’re aiming for is a Years of Lead style boiling of the frog with controlled violence from state proxies to strengthen the centre; if they actually believed a civil war was coming, the first thing going would surely be Britain’s central organs of government. It is truly the height of absurdity that it is now more mainstream to believe Stevenage shall become the next Sarajevo but something as simple as chucking Chuck is still this loony, Islington sandals opinion you are not allowed to print in a serious paper. This is why ‘civil war’ is essentially a phatic opinion, it requires zero commitments on the commentator’s part to make this prediction, it is a lazy way for people who are, in reality, part of the Establishment to pose as Nostradamuses. The only people who have a right to claim credit for predicting the future fall of Guelphism are A) me, B) Peter Hitchens, C) Remainers who said Brexit would destroy the country (100% superforecasted right according to right-wing press c. 2025!!).

You’ll note, I’m not saying the civil war fears are fake, I’m saying what is being planned is very different from an armed struggle between two organic political forces. It is still helpful to push this narrative to help destabilise a future Reforce government, provided you understand what it is referring to. So, without further ado, let us examine the signs of organic dissent.

In the second quarter of this year, I read about the following events in one of the free papers they hand out on the Tube. TLDR. In a random West Country village. An anonymous local hero bulldozed a wall erected by a construction company blocking a pathway between several dwellings. As far as I can tell, he has yet to be apprehended. His actions received widespread support from the people living there.

This is the sort of story which would’ve been common in Britain up until the 60s, rare afterwards and completely unthinkable from 1997-2020. My first thought was to remember the few individuals who bravely resisted the compulsory purchase and demolition of their slum housing during the construction of the first housing estates. It is the perfect anecdote for the future historian studying the slow rise of civil disobedience in a society hurtling toward greater upset, perfect because it shows the same patterns of objective behaviour outside of a contestable and inflammatory political context: namely, mass immigration.

The rise of armed, irregular protection squads is one of the most novel developments in British society 2016-2025. Whereas the white riots were shocking, they were not unprecedented and only the extraordinary incompetence of Starmerism led them to become an event. The rise of permanent, at the moment peaceful but potentially paramilitary, groups aiming to usurp a key element of state legitimacy is another kettle of fish.

I do not cheer this behaviour because The Meritocracy, and all other projects of ambitious social engineering, requires a populace of obedient thralls who will not rush to the barricades when Sandra doesn’t get into the grammar school and Tschylles Amadeo Yagami IV (12 ans) appropriates the local farmland for his private spaceport.

At the moment the patrols seem to be in the rare but occasional spectacle of ‘community policing’ in Britain which is to say, it is generally done out of a desire to support, rather than aggravate the constabulary. What makes them different, or at least gives them the potential for differentiation, is the context of combating migrant crime. Migrant crime necessarily only affects non-migrants. The majority of migrants come from groups different from the dominant group in the United Kingdom. As such, these patrols have the germ of statehood in them viz. They implicitly represent a discrete body of people, rather than serving ‘the public’ of the existing state.

The formation of these groups poses a practical, aside from a theoretical, danger to the Windsor state. Thus-far, arbitrary arrests after riots have been justified with the canard the victims are not ‘local people’ (an absurdity – why does one need to be a ‘local’ to enjoy the freedom to protest? These are national issues). If the state were to crack down on the members of local protection squads, it would not be hard to find their names and addresses but it would involve carting off, in the dead of night, the fathers, sons, uncles, machinists, tradesmen and employers of whole streets. It would appear nakedly authoritarian in a way normies will blithely comprehend.

This brings us onto the last topic of this piece. I am quite disappointed in the direction Rupert Lowe has gone in. I failed to support him in the spring with sufficient enthusiasm as my intelligence briefings on Farage were mitigated. It subsequently became our dearest hope that Rupert Bear would spend the next three years calling Farage gay and suing Reforce for millions of pounds. Recent hires suggest that ‘Restore Britain’ (I am, in addition, amused that this outfit appears to have stolen the, albeit not especially original, branding for an earlier campaign group), will not function as a proper political party but as a sort of floating think tank, hiring “policy advisors” before something as elementary as founding local membership chapters. Such an outfit, at present, will be reduced to tweeting; it is true, Reforce does very little besides tweeting (and they don’t do that very well) but they have the mainstream press bigging them up and, even if you come up with original policies, the best you can hope for is Reforce or the Conservatives stealing them.

Given that it will not be a political party, I suggest Restore Britain starts to reposition itself as, essentially, a formal umbrella for these various groups: like the flag-raisers, the local patrols, the women’s safety campaign, the bladerunners and others who shall follow. Restore Britain will contact the locals involved in these groups, co-ordinate over different regions, help them set up a national body (“Citizens Policing Initiative” etc.), staff the London offices of this body with Restore employees (more recruitment is needed) giving them a corps of moderately competent people to do stuff like put out press releases, media management, social media content, national strategies and potential legal support. By doing this, Restore can start to use these groups to make serious demands of the government. Instead of, for example, demanding an inquiry into grooming gangs, the demand can be ‘all local police forces in towns with a grooming gang problem must be supervised by a citizen’s police force’ – as it stands, this demand is pointless, because nobody actually knows who represents the English population here, besides the toothless ‘police and crime commissioners’, the great benefit of this strategy is that such representation now exists. You will be building the grassroots apparatus to take over failing local institutions.

That is what ‘civil society’ means. It is about sticking a label and a spokesperson on vague discontent and suddenly finding you can speak for ‘forces’ accountable to nobody but history. At the moment, the local groups, while entirely well-intentioned, can always be smeared as ‘out of town extremists’ and when a figure with big media publicity like Tommeh Robinson shows up, the smear becomes reality as he becomes ‘the leader’ by virtue of his profile. These groups do not need aggressive coaching, simply a name and a national spokesperson who has their back with a platoon of lawyers if things go wrong. It is a mission which speaks to Rupert Lowe’s strengths, he has demonstrated A) a reputation for great integrity B) the ability to doggedly pursue people with litigious intent. These are the skills required of a professional Democratic agitator.