I remember 2017, having to ask whether there was an evacuation plan in place if the country spiralled into post-election violence.
I had spent the best part of a year working on strategic communications to dampen the growing threat of widespread post election civil unrest being stoked up by the challenger alliance, but the growing number of videos of violent inter tribal attacks in the North and West being shared in our ops groups on WhatsApp, the pangas for sale on supermarket shelves, and the high risk tactics of desperation employed by the opposition from targeted assassinations, to coordinating protests and accusations of vote rigging made it palpable that despite our best efforts, certain counties could break into mass, perilous revolt.
Thankfully the national mood was not for anarchy. The repeated cajoling of disruptive forces fell upon a populace with limited succour for tearing their nation apart. I hope I contributed to that vital innoculation over the course of a year’s work.
Civil war is bloodier, more unpredictable and harder to resolve than conflicts between nations. There is rarely a clear frontline and the passions are feverishly brainwashing. It is hard to put back into a box and the scars can last for generations. It is not a quick and simple solution.
What is sending a shiver down my spine as I scroll through X is a seemingly perverse appetite for violent unrest in the UK, particularly from those on the fringes of the right.
Rather than look at the mass disturbance and anarchy in France with horror and fear, there is a sense of willing it to spill over onto our shores. The ‘influencers’ are rabidly spouting their cosplay crusader cries for counter battle, before a single Foot Locker in London has even been looted. An army of bots lies in wait, usually with profile pictures of Knights Templar or a roaring British lion, ready to artificially amplify the rubbernecking and ghoulish enthusiasm for anarchic drama.
What sickens me is twofold. Firstly, if we were to erupt into civil unrest what would these loudmouths do? Catch the number 68 bus to town with their Osmos to livestream it on their podcasts? It’s all very Black Mirror. I doubt any of them have any valuable battlefield expertise. Secondly, they are desperately oblivious to the fact that they are as much pawns in hostile state psy ops as the extreme Left.
Let me explain.
One of the reasons France and Belgium have likely erupted first comes down to the nature of their immigration, and also an established history of playing with Socialism. France and Belgium have long had an extreme left, given overall French voting sentiment has historically sat on the centre left compared to Britain. They are high tax, high civic demand societies where comparatively early retirement ages et al come with hefty fiscal price tags and rolling strikes. They have well documented penchants for protests, that often end with burning car tyres and water canons. We don’t have water canons in the UK. I saw them in action in Africa during that campaign, to whom we had sold them. But where the toxic cocktail of destructive Marxism wed with balkanised migrant communities really thrives is where there is a direct line between the activists, and the hostile states pulling social media strings.
Russia, Iran and China all use social media as an act of greyzone warfare, alongside flooding Europe with third world migration. The plan is simple. Divide and conquer. And Russia especially likes to play both sides. Whereas Iran and The Muslim Brotherhood flood social media with calls for intifada, antisemitic conspiracy and fund terror cells and proxies, China likes to play with neo-Marxism, seed funding high disruptor activism such as BLM. Russia likes to amplify both a knuckle dragging extreme right and anti-establishment far left in the hope that society becomes irreparably broken and Westerners turn against one another.
Broaden out the anti Western axis of China, Russia and Iran - and you get various satellite bad actors also playing a role. When thousands of Africans stormed Ceuta this summer, many of the organising social media accounts could be traced back to Algeria. Russia is Algeria's primary military supplier, providing the vast majority of its hardware, including advanced weaponry, and joint military exercises. It is formally part of China’s Belt and Road initiative, and shares a common vision for a multipolar global order. Meanwhile Iran and Algeria share strong opposition to normalisation with Israel and Western interventionism in the Middle East and North Africa.
Where are the bulk of Francophone immigrants from? The Maghreb. So if you wanted to quickly forge a nexus of propaganda online encouraging migrant youths to take to the streets and riot, a ready made construct is already in place. The Wagner mercenaries’ Africa Corps is also heavily present in Francophone African countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, enabling illegal immigration routes, with many ending up in French or Belgian banlieues due to linguistic ties.
So it is little surprise this is where the tragically predictable unrest has been instigated. France and Belgium will now have to face tough questions on how to begin to exorcise the metastasising mess they have riddled their big cities with, while being shackled to a wilfully myopic European Union. But it seems inevitable sweeping political change will be needed. Certainly the riots are precipitating a seismic moment in public opinion.
This buys the United Kingdom some time. The onerous videos of doomscape in French metropoli flooding social media timelines should serve as a wake up call, both to voters, strategists and politicians, while necessary action that one hopes will be taken by France provides moral cover to our own gutless politicians as well as being a potential canary in the mine for the rest of Europe. France may well have just become the Guinea Pig while we all need to figure out how to begin to reverse this toxic cultural vandalism of unbridled Neo-Marxism, mass migration and unregulated social media harnessed as a weapon of war by our enemies.
Russia knows this. They don’t want us to have time to get ourselves out of the mess. Hence why they are barraging our social media with Crusader Porn.
What would please the GRU enormously would be vigilantism sparking riots. Mobs of native men deciding to ‘take back the streets’ thus drawing militant Muslim men out of their mosques where caches of weapons are already stored. It is rather like the frog in boiling water. Moscow wants the temperature turned up to maximum to hasten bloodthirsty scenes on our streets. I want to see radical political solutions but I do not for a second want to see properties burned, lqndmarks destroyed, shops looted and people attacked.
In the 2023 Nahel Merzouk riots on the outskirts of Paris, TikTok and Snapchat were used both to organise and to gamify violence. Meanwhile online algorithms favoured high-engagement content, which rewards escalation and spectacle over disciplined messaging. It is increasingly becoming clear that hostile states and bots are behind much of the violence on the continent.
What enrages me are the drama-desperate armchair anarchists on the far right who are utterly oblivious to the fact that they are as much part of the coordinated plan as the Antifa mob by stoking up frustration and political inertia with their cocky one liners and solution-vacant demands.
They are ignorant to the fact that their unquenchable thirst for clicks leaves them as susceptible to hostile state manipulation as the very people they regard as the problem, all the while piling on the only political parties that stand a chance of solving these problems for not being radical enough, before they have even managed to take power. A lot of what these Restore goons demand has no chance of being effected in the real world. So these morons are effectively stripping support away from there being a peaceful solution while turning the national mood increasingly and dangerously dark.
They are not genius future leaders with mass appeal. They are silly, feckless boneheads being amplified by bot farms for the very reasons laid out above.
If Rupert-Fake-Lowe does enough to suppress support for Reform, who unlike the Tories, win in traditional Labour areas, thus ushering in a radical Left government, we will become France.
Our enemies know this, and so are amplifying at scale his knuckle-dragging, algorithm optimised diatribes.
Let me be plain. Restore Britain is the plaything of hostile states, and sadly too many brainwashed individuals have been so thoroughly duped, they cannot nor will not allow themselves to see it.
There is a reason political extremes garner the majority of their support from the younger generation. These are people who live the majority of their lives online. Who have limited real world experience. Who are over stimulated by the need for artificial dopamine via social media affirmation. Far-left parties such as La France Insoumise (LFI) and the Green Party in Britain have large youth followings.
Equally it is clear to see that in the UK, the further right fervour is an almost uniquely online phenomenon. Rupert Lowe is not a real world titan, but a sophisticated network of bot soaked social media profiles with questionable provenance and concerning amplification.
The man himself and in real time rarely emerges, just an industrial scale operation churning out memes, heavily edited videos and AI honed rambling posts online. He is basically Augmented Reality being pushed by hostile states online to further deepen the UK’s crisis.
I should know. They have established bot armies to specifically target me. Having had a full audit from various top cyber security experts, I have been informed of what is going on. Look at the comments under my posts from a year ago compared to today. Most of the deeply unpleasant crap is bot trolls with a handful of useful idiots getting swept up in their attack. A year ago my sentiment rating was 98% positive. I didn’t change. Restore Britain became a psy op.
Having worked at the most sophisticated levels of political strategy in foreign countries, and having recently been privileged to host the International Counter Terror and Cyber Summit in London, I know far more about how online psy ops work than puffed up podcasters could ever dream of, and have a network of extremely senior sources working in intelligence around the world who I regularly run theories past and get invaluable information from. So my visceral disdain for these arrogant fools is based upon justifiable concern.
They may get their kicks from posting with thinly disguised glee about riots in France and trying to out Farage Farage, but most of them were in nappies when others who have partaken in politics proper such as Nigel were warning about Global Socialism and risked a lot and sacrificed a lot actually trying to do something about it.
They may be wetting their pants at the excitement of their haughty commentary on Europe burning boosting their audience sizes, but they serve as an increasingly worrying anarchic wrecking ball which makes finding real world solutions to our country’s horrific issues all the more difficult, while equally hastening the time in which we have to do it. Their drumming up of catastrophe through emotive strutting may be the very thing that lights the blue touch paper here. And if they believe that civil unrest here would ever be a good thing, they are deranged and dangerous.
In a crisis, real men quietly get on with dealing with problems. Children scream from the sidelines.
They can throw as many vile attacks against me as they like online. I see what they are, even if they are too cultish to be able to look at themselves honestly in the mirror.
I hope you see what they are, too.
We cannot afford to accommodate this for much longer.
Well put Alex.
Simply put, I love this