It is becoming increasingly obvious today that the British public has lost the trust of the British state. An official attitude of fear and loathing can be observed wherever one looks. The recent hysteria over the Netflix drama Adolescence, for instance, suggests that in Britain’s teenage boys, the powers that be see a gurning, misogynist army of would-be killers in need of urgent re-education. The internet is now viewed as a frightening force to be censored and controlled; dissenting opinions or sentiments published thereon are aggressively punished. Rape-gang survivors righteously demand thorough investigations and accountability for these horrors – but inquiries are repeatedly put on ice lest the abuse that is found be so shocking that it provokes a backlash. On all issues of importance or sensitivity, the public, it seems, are to be treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed BS.
So it is that a report this month into the Southport response by the Home Affairs Select Committee has denied the well-founded public grievance that it involved any two-tier policing. This is obviously not true, most glaringly in how Muslim sectarian mobs were allowed to run around unpoliced, while violence at asylum hotels was (rightly) dealt with robustly. As ever, rather than risk engaging with this important, thorny issue, the response is to deny, deny, deny.
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