I’ve come to admire Peter North the political commentator. He doesn’t sugarcoat his diagnosis of what is wrong with the UK but nearly all of his stuff is worth reading.
In this piece that Mr North published on X he takes aim at those on the Left who cower and wet themselves over the ‘rise of the far right’. He said that those who bleat about this issue but fail to see that it’s liberalism’s own policies that have failed have no answers to Britain’s current problems. As a civic nationalist I believe that if civic nationalism is to be saved and ethnonationalism staved off, then the genuine grievances of British people need to be listened to and there must be more effort to enforce British values even if such enforcement offends the false gods of multiculturalism.
This piece by Mr North is well worth a read. You can find the original of Mr North’s piece via this link
Mr North said:
“If you're left wing and the "rise of the far right" keeps you awake at night, here's some advice for you. Get better arguments and start respecting your fellow countrymen.
If you're a parent with young girls, you're within your rights to worry about a migrant hotel in your community - especially since the government is setting them up without consultation or consent, and in conjunction with the local press is actively concealing migrant crime.
Meanwhile, you;re going to have to explain to people struggling to make ends meet why it's in their interests to pay tens of billions to accommodate low skill immigration cheats. Since you're essentially arguing for open borders (a distinctly neoliberal policy) you're going to have to set out the economic case as to why wage suppression is in the interests of young Brits.
Y'see, all that shtick about them being doctors and engineers doesn't wash, and most people correctly identify them as economic migrants. The public has a better grasp of the issues than you because they are more likely to live with the consequences.
Meanwhile your "billionaires" deflection shtick isn;t going to work. The majority of billionaires funnel cash into left wing organisations. They LOVE cheap replacement labour. And it's not billionaires out on the streets of London and Birmingham hack at people with machetes.
You're also going to have to explain why hard pressed brits should be paying billions in benefits to people who weren't even born here and don't work.
There's a reason ordinary people are drifting more towards the fringes of politics and that's because they can't get what they want from mainstream politics. the average normie doesn't want the Fourth Reich. They're not Nazis. They just want border control, which for some reason is too much to ask of the establishment parties.
If, then, you don't want people turning to ethnonatinalism, start enforcing those "British values" - which do not extend to tolerating Islamic sectarianism and stone age treatment of women. If you want to sell a civic identity, you have to explain what's in it for us.
If, though, you're sticking to the view that all border control is racist, as indeed are borders, and that your fellow countrymen are just ignorant brainwashed racists then they will simply despise you - and will stop caring about being called racist. But then we know why you don't bother with persuasion. Your arguments are poor. We know and so do you. You're simply wrong, and that's why liberalism is dying.”