Many racist people, groups or parties in the UK have now taken a lead from ‘non-racist’ politicians like Priti Patel, Boris Johnson and Suella Braverman. They now couch their racism around issues designed to draw others in. Consequently immigration, asylum seekers, a new mosque, inner city crime et al become trumpet calls to small town stormtroopers and bullies looking for a point to prove or a score to settle. But what point or what score? Immigration for instance is ‘only’ about protecting borders, making sure the NHS or housing stock don’t become ‘swamped’ by immigrants looking for free hand-outs and queue jumps that, in their view, white people never seem entitled to. Which in the real world can be countered by way of some inconvenient facts. We bombed countries like Libya, Syria and Iraq back into the Stone Age in our war against terror and then didn’t provide the cash or help to rebuild the infrastructure or introduce ‘democracy’ to make them habitable again. We also had a bunch of good-for-nothing Tories in power for years who decimated the NHS and couldn’t be bothered to build affordable homes. These same heinous layabouts then weaponised immigration as a cover for their own incompetence and lack of humanity. But, of course, the stormtrooper’s point or score isn’t about immigration or any of those other issues. It’s about racism pure and simple even if their racist leaders avoid the r word. The defence by racist politicians now often along the lines of, “I’m not racist but” and sold to white boneheads, currently underemployed by football firms, as a way to “take the country back” aka take the country back from the people whose colour they’ve never been comfortable with and who they blame for everything from NHS waiting lists (see above) to the failure of their club to win the EDL (EFL?) Cup. It’s almost as if racists can no longer admit to being racist. The NF or BNP never bothered with nuance or being thought of as anything other than a bunch of thugs who believed white is right and a punch in the gob for those who took exception. They didn’t need issues to saddle their racism to. They hated people of colour and also hated the whites who dared to fight against them. It’s what led to the formation of the Anti-Nazi League, Rock Against Racism and Anti-Fascist Action. The “I’m not racist but” brigade are just weird. Just ask anyone who lives near an inner city about Reform or the EDL, everyone knows they are racist. They are the modern-day equivalent of the NF and BNP but just can’t admit it. It’s almost as if admitting they’re racist will give them a bad name. That they’re afraid their relatives will rise from their graves and batter them like they battered the Nazis. And, just remember, if it’s Muslims and “illegals” today, it’s everyone else tomorrow.