I think it might be Doom O'Clock already

The sequence of events unravelling right now suggests we're closer to insurrection than we realise

Ballymena. Belfast. Berlin. Dublin. Magdeburg. Warsaw. Madrid. The Canary Islands. The list is almost a comprehensive A-Z of major European cities.

Google the words ‘anti-immigration protest’ and add any Western European country to the search, and you will see that what is happening right now in Ballymena is by no means unique. Civil unrest and mass demonstrations against uncontrolled migration is now commonplace in capitals of many Western nations.

We, of course, had our own dalliance with doom during the so-called Southport riots, leading to a draconian crackdown on freedom of expression that was so carefully choreographed in the courts, one is led to wonder whether the riots themselves were part curated through cynical infiltration.

We know from the recent Prevent document leak that the security services and their affiliates are terrified of insurrection. Unable to contain the problem of legal and illegal mass migration into the UK, instead the approach is to suppress reaction to it. But the temporary bung of fear following the Judge Judification of the Southport trials will only hold for so long. Because what happens next is harrowingly predictable.

Leftist activists will cause some form of severe disruption with their performative protests and will be seen to be given the softly softly treatment by cops.

There will then be an incident that the mainstream media and Government will be forced to try to conceal for fear of reprisals, similar to the Belfast blue touch paper of the alleged sexual assault of teenage girls by migrant men. Or a terror attack. But having seen the street activism of the Gaza mob or Socialist Workers go largely unhindered, the temptation to take to the streets will re-emerge. And the number will be far larger than after Southport.

It’s why the establishment will do all that they can to try to ensure Tommy Robinson goes back behind bars and is not in a position to symbolically head the resistance.

This time, two sides could well clash. Far left activists or Muslim mobs could find themselves face to face with patriotic protestors. As a wave of uprisings engulfs UK towns and cities, Starmer will pull the magic leaver created during lockdown - the order to Stay At Home. While having the effect of temporarily dampening the disorder, it will inspire consolidated counter measures. The fictional, fantasy ‘Far Right' will actually emerge into existence from a frustrated population that feels ignored and controlled. People who once watched on in horror as Britain began to unravel will be motivated to join online organisations and cells in sheer desperation. Meanwhile word will spread that Mosques must protect themselves and similar potentially violent mini militias will assemble in pockets of migrant populations.

The Hard Left, never one to miss out on anarchy, will be infiltrated by hostile states to ramp up tensions even further. And just as everything reaches a febrile tipping point, the lights go out.

Through either infrastructure interference, or plain bone headed Net Zero zealotry, black outs will become more commonplace around Europe. And under the cover of chaos and darkness, opportunistic looters and louts will wreak havoc. There will be little choice but to call in the army.

At which point, you are already there. Civil war, albeit the early murmurings, will have arrived.

Trump's response to the LA riots, deploying the Narional Guard and Marines, is necessary, regardless of Governor Gavin Newsome claiming the approach was tyrannical and inflamed matters. Just as Starmer did in the aftermath of Southport, the strategy is simple. Go in hard to deter any copycat clashes further down the line. But for the two statesmen, the circumstances they wish to protect and the side they therefore suppress is at counterpoint to one another. Trump knows that there will be more and more ICE raids around America, as promised during his campaign, and plenty of venal activists willing to sensationally oppose them. For Starmer, as illegals are placed in private accommodation in the heart of neighbourhoods and are no longer partially contained by being in out of town hotels, and as numbers continue to come in legally and illegally, there will be incidents that will enrage the native born population.

The peaceful rainbow nation we were promised 3 decades ago can never, and will never, exist. Humans are inherently tribal animals, and just as a zoologist may study a marauding pack of Bonobo monkeys, sociologists should regard an endless history of wars, conflicts and conflagrations as evidence of mankind's inability to regard themselves as One Human Race.

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So the only solution is to begin to reverse-engineer the mass migratory flows of the past 30 years with a slew of heavyweight policies that will provoke horrified outcry from the liberal elite, that the legislative lagtime on being able to meaningfully achieve anything of any significance, following legal challenges, redrafting of core legal canon, Great Repeal Acts and judicial reviews before even one person can be deported, will take at least two Parliamentary terms starting from a new government in 2029. Starmer isn't about to leave the ECHR, tear up the HRA, encourage remigration or ship a million illegals out any time soon. That would be the fate of his successor.

But even a Reform majority government won't be able to instantly send hundreds of thousands of people back home. Legal challenges will scupper any swift movement while leftist protests will raise temperatures even higher.

That it may end up being at the hand of Farage that the biggest uprisings take place, just as Trump is currently seeing in LA, is unlikely to escape him.

His language in talking about the technical difficulty of mass deportation and watered down rhetoric, alongside his disavowal of Tommy Robinson, is an effort to place himself as a serious, non-radical leader. It reveals he has a deep-seated understanding of the powder keg he could well inherit and fully cognisant of needing to get as many people on board as possible. It’s not weakness nor ‘becoming establishment’, it's a critical realisation of what's at stake and how fragile the situation is.

So if Reform were to take an entire term trying to unpick all the statutory straightjackets that would prevent a deportation strategy, amidst the din of protests, we are looking to at least 2035 before any serious action can manifest, by which point the temperature of the debate will be even more scorching.

As scenes of uprisings become more and more commonplace, normalised today when even just a few years ago, the prospect of large scale anti-immigration riots would have seemed slim, I am beginning to think things are unravelling much faster than I anticipated.

And it's hard to see a path back to peace any time soon.

The clock could well be about to chime Doom.

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