Following on from my earlier piece on here about the strange situation regarding the tardy announcement of terrorism charges being made against the alleged perpetrator of the Southport Atrocity, another person has noticed the stuff that the State would really like us all not to talk about. This person, Ben Cobley, a writer and former Labour Party activist,in an article called ‘We Need to Talk About Southport’ in Unherd magazine, talks of the standard procedures used by the government to stop people thinking about jihadist terror or its roots.

Mr Cobley said:

Something distinctly odd and unsatisfactory appears to be going on here. Certainly the timing of the police announcement gave off a bad smell, coming a day before the Budget. It was also notably delayed until a few days after a Tommy Robinson march in London, which would have been given fuel by the news.

On the subject of the soothing messaging that appears after every Islamic terror attack Mr Cobley added:

We all now know what this messaging demands. We’ve seen it before, following outrages from 7/7 in London to Manchester Arena, Liverpool Remembrance Day, London Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Reading, Parsons Green and Lee Rigby in Woolwich; as well as other largely unknown attacks happening at the fringes, such as in Hartlepool in 2023 and Burnley in 2020. Right-wing activists are familiar with the logic. Liberal-Left opinion managers know it like the back of their hands. So do the authorities, and they crank into gear whenever an attack occurs bearing the obvious hallmarks.

We all know instinctively that the system must defend diversity. It must be revealed as a strength, otherwise the meaning of our society is revealed to be fake: at best naive and mistaken; at worst mendacious lies, open for exploitation by those who mean us deep harm. The bold statements we used to hear about how such attacks have “nothing to do with Islam” are no longer convincing. Other tactics must be employed. Some things must be revealed and others concealed. And so the regime and its supporters go to war over “reporting”, “commentary” and “sharing information”. They say that this is a matter of responsibility versus irresponsibility, that it is legally necessary in order to not prejudice a trial.

But we get the wider message. We shouldn’t talk about it. We shouldn’t be concerned about the same pattern repeating itself. And we shouldn’t get angry about this information being withheld from us for nearly three months while people were convicted for overreaching in their anger.

This is an excellent article from Mr Cobley, who incidentally has appeared at one of the free speech oriented Battle of Ideas Festivals, but it is even better coming as it does from a man of the Left although clearly from the more free thinking part of the Left. I would strongly urge readers to go and look at Mr Cobley’s article for yourselves as it is an excellent assessment of the way that the British population are being lied to by their governments and told to ignore, even to their own detriment, the continually repeated patterns of an ideology, in this case Islam, going kinetic on the British people.