Right wing television...

You know how it is, you're sitting there of an evening watching terrestrial television wondering whether there's anything better to watch apart from the BBC and other agents of the thought police and so you switch over to You Tube and lo and behold there's a whole new world of crap you can watch from extreme camping to pop star interviews and, of course, plenty of extreme right wingers guaranteed to make you angry. There's probably loony left videos on there too, but they don't appear to be as visible.

There's nothing better than a charismatic politician running a low-grade political party to get you wondering what you've been thinking these past few years and that perhaps you were wrong about this or that. Hell! You've been wrong about EVERYTHING!!! Throw in an issue that's bound to get the right wing agitated and a whole new shit show opens up and provides the entertainment you never thought possible.

How about trying to gain access to an illegal immigrants' hotel (that's asylum seekers if you vote labour) and never getting further than the front desk before 'security' - often people with false SIA badges and high viz jackets, themselves illegal migrants (or so you're led to believe) - stand in your way, invade your personal space and lead you (well, not you personally but the person filming the video) to exclaim, "Don't you touch me!" And then the tension mounts, the security detail follows the man around the hotel grounds until the police arrive and the man tells them that trespass isn't a police matter and kindly requests them to 'toddle off and catch some real criminals', ie the shoplifters who the police won't prosecute these days unless the amount stolen is over £200. Or burglaries where the police don't bother to turn up and prefer to hand out a police reference number so you can claim on your insurance. 

During the course of these particular videos you might hear from migrants who, you quickly realise, aren't fleeing a war-torn country at all but are merely in the UK to work or claim benefits or whatever else the UK has to offer these people. Being illegal has its benefits, we are told, but you can bet your life that if you tried to gain access to any country without valid documentation YOU, yes YOU, would get nowhere fast and you certainly wouldn't be given a four-star hotel and three free meals a day. 

Right wing TV is a Godsend! Not only does it make you angry and anti-government - not that that would take a great deal - it might make you write something on social media that'll land you with a few months of jail time. Jail time! You could be one of Sir Keir Starmer's political prisoners for heaven's sake and that might lead to a whole new career, including a trip to the USA where you can meet that lefty JD Vance and tell him how hard done by you've been back in the UK where free speech is rapidly being eroded by woke politics. Oh no! You're not allowed to incite violence, but is that what you're doing? Probably not, you might be a little angry about life because you've been watching too much right wing television. You might be sitting there watching You Tubers walk around a provincial city centre goading drunks and crack heads into lunging at them, just for clicks, or so they can put their bodyguard to good use, proving that the UK is not a safe place to be because of anti-fascist protesters and so-called 'patriots' fighting one another on street corners. 

Surely anywhere is better than the UK. Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, you name it, must be a little safer than Great Britain where the natives of these countries are fleeing war, or so we're told, they need a safe country but even when they land in one they need to risk their lives just a little bit more, crossing the channel in an inflatable dinghy for a night, a week, a month, a few years even, in a Holiday Inn or a Premier Inn where, who knows, they might meet Sir Lenny Henry, now that's Eldorado!

Do the migrants get given mobile phones and tablets? Are they paid £70 per week of taxpayers' money so they can buy cigarettes and drugs and then top up their earnings with a job in the gig economy? Who knows? Sounds like a great life! Wife and kids back home, the freedom to live the single life again, it can't be bad, can it? Fighting age men, we're told, but they're not going to enlist are they? They're more likely to be the enemy within, a secret army of their own that only need to be armed to make life rather unpleasant for unsuspecting Brits sitting in front of their televisions reading the right wing media while waving the union flag and watching right wing television. What was that? No, sorry, the Queen is dead.

Angry television presenters, angry You Tubers, angry people getting angrier by the minute as their country is invaded, yes invaded, by marauding gangs of men in grey tracksuits and top-of-the-range trainers paid for by the British taxpayer. It's a disgrace!  

And then, after you have finished your popcorn and noisily sucked out the last dregs from your clear plastic carton of Kia-ora orange juice, purchased from an imaginary usherette, you stop and wonder. Perhaps all of this IS the reality of the situation! You might find yourself agreeing with broadcaster Rylan Clark and take the view that yes, immigration has been good for the UK and for the NHS and that's all fine, but illegal immigration is a different kettle of fish because it's (ahem) illegal. You know that if you as much as stole a tin of baked beans from your local Tesco supermarket you would be slammed in jail for many years to come and lose your job in the process. Why, then, should somebody entering a country illegally be given a four-star hotel luxury life style for many years while their application for asylum is processed, not considered, but processed. Perhaps you yourself might consider throwing your own passport out of the window of a cross-channel ferry mid-journey and see how you get on when you arrive in Calais. Will you be fast-tracked to a luxury hotel, given a track suit and trainers and told that all your meals will be free until another passport is found and you can return home to the UK? Something says no, the most likely scenario will be your immediate deportation back to Europe's version of North Korea, yes, the UK, where comedians are arrested by armed police for inappropriate comments on Twitter. And you will start to question whether the UK still has free speech, like Sir Keir nervously said it did in front of Donald Trump recently. And when you arrive home, you'll switch on the TV and find Nigel Farage talking to Congress about the deteriorating situation in the UK. "Is it real or is it treason?" 

Union flags appear on lamp posts, all foreign-looking people are viewed with suspicion. Is that an HMO they're coming out of or do normal people live there? Who knows?

You wake up in the morning wondering why you feel bad tempered and then you make yourself feel even worse by watching coverage of Rachel Reeves, our beloved Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is planning to tax your house to pay for all the illegal immigrants in our hotels and unsuspecting HMOs dotted here, there and everywhere around the UK and you realise there's no escape unless you too jump into an inflatable boat and head across the North Sea to Scandinavia where everybody is happy even when it snows, but then you find yourself as headline news as one of many victims who died when their inflatable flipped over in heavy seas. Will you ever learn?

Will anybody learn, I wonder? A perfect storm is brewing politically in the UK with Nigel Farage's Reform party on the up and with Jeremy Corbyn's as yet un-named new party soon to be the left's answer to Farage. In other words, if, as Nadine Dorries was saying earlier today, that the Conservative Party is dead, then that means the Labour Party really needs to get its act together and fast. Yes, it has four years to do so (less if you listen to Farage) but if it doesn't get a move on then two extreme parties, one to the left, the other to the right, will be battling for power against the Lib Dems to be in Number 10. I don't want to see Corbyn or Farage in power or, for that matter the Lib Dems. So unless the Tories somehow get their act together or the Labour Party sorts itself out we, as a nation, could be in trouble. Personally, I want Labour to continue, but they must learn from their current mistakes. The UK electorate does not like extremes of the left or the right, but the left does itself no favours and always allows the right access to the seat of power by being pathetically woke (at present). The British public do want free speech, they don't want to see Irish comedy writers being arrested for a few controversial tweets about transsexuals, they don't like even the perception of two tier policing, they also don't want to be told that illegal migrants are more important than the British people. Reform with all it's extreme right wing baggage and it's threat to the NHS would be a disaster for the UK. Farage is a one trick pony, he's fine if he's talking tough about immigration, but that's about it: immigration and, of course, Brexit, which, in his eyes, was all about immigration anyway. Corbyn, while he means well, is not, in my opinion, leadership material and would equally be a disaster, particularly on the world stage. So the two mainstream parties need to get their acts together, immigration must be sorted out, the asylum hotels must go and a stricter regime needs to brought into play to calm the nerves of those who could vote Reform. Politicians generally must stop gaslighting the public (or the pooblic, as Angela Rayner might have said). I'm sorry to see her go, but she broke the ministerial code and that's her lot. 

I've said enough.