The British establishment was more afraid of the public than the rape gangs – The Spectator World

When history is written as it ought to be written , said the great Trinidadian Marxist C.L.R. James, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. On no historical calamity is this truer than the rape-gang scandal. When future scribes look back at this violent tear in the British social fabric, it is the forbearance of the public they will marvel over. It will dazzle them.

The specter of public volatility has stalked this scandal from the start. The establishment s irrational dread of the feral masses shaped its yellow-bellied decision-making. From the local officials who shied away from discussing the ethnicity of the rapists to the commentariat that barked far right! at any pleb who dared to utter the word Muslim , the great fear was always that truth might unleash savagery. We mustn t openly discuss this, they told themselves, because the rabble will rampage.

Even now, following the publication of Baroness Casey s stinging report on the failures of officialdom, angst about the throng swirls through polite society. A reporter asked Casey if she was worried that her findings might lead to civil unrest. Such terror grips the Home Office too. An insider says officials are quaking at the prospect of civil unrest following Casey s finding that foreign nationals make up a significant proportion of current rape-gang investigations.

What a brilliant if bitter-tasting insight into the anti-masses bigotry of the technocrats that rule over us. They hear that undocumented arrivals are potentially involved in some of the sickest crimes imaginable and their first thought is: Oh no, how will the white working classes respond? The imaginary violence of the low-information public causes them more sleepless nights than the real violence of the gangs of rapists.

via thespectator.com

Brendan O Neill