There’s been a bit of trouble at the Indian High Commission in London. This time it’s extremist Sikhs wanting an independent homeland who’ve been involved in a bit of aggro that resulted in windows in the High Commission being broken and one man arrested. The demo crowd involved in this incident doesn’t appear to have been of very much of a size, not if the vast majority of it had dispersed by the time the police got their arses into gear, which in this part of London and with a High Commission being attacked, would have been pretty damned quickly. This particular incident really does look like a few nutters. Excitable demonstrations about conflicts thousands of miles away are the sort of thing that the Met and City Police often have to deal with.
Still, it’s not good to see carbon copies of such conflicts on the streets of London. It could be the seeds of something pretty nasty and I could easily see a situation where London based supporters of a particular national/religious/ethnic/cultural/economic/political cause in ‘Country ‘A’’ clash with opponents of aforementioned cause in ‘Country ‘A’’ and the violence spreads. The potential problems of factional conflict among those of London’s migrant communities has been noticed with Patrick O’Flynn claiming that factional conflict has also recently involved Iranians and Eritreans. Mr O’Flynn said: “Factional violence committed by non-integrated minorities in London recently has featured Iranians, Eritreans and now South Asians too. Anyone would think that sustaining a cohesive society is more complex than just parroting “diversity is our strength” as the Mayor so often does”
Mr O’Flynn is correct. This is a non-integration problem. The default position for society for decades has been that having a greater diversity of cultures is more important than social cohesiveness. The doctrine of multiculturalism has allowed siloised cultures to develop semi isolated from the bulk of society. In these siloised societies old hatreds and grievences fester and are stoked and as our society now contains groups that groups that might be mutually antagonistic to each other living in close proximity in places like London, then it makes factional conflict more likely. Mr O’Flynn is also correct about the empty sloganeering of Sadiq Khan. Shouting ‘behold our wonderous diversity’ as Khan does really doesn’t do anything to stop various ethnic, national and religious groups from hating one another, only a proper integration policy could have done that. Instead of people learning to rub along and being encouraged to do so we got multiculturalism’s mess of mutually antagonistic ghettos.
All too often the news from London these days looks bleak, mad, frightening, bizarre and above all violent. It’s pretty melancholy reading the London news therefore it’s nice to find something that made me smile. It’s Sadiq Khan getting a full on social media shoeing from pissed off members of the public.
No you’re wrong. i live in an area of London with a substational racial mix and we get along fine until some white supremacist from a minority group comes along and tries to spoil it.
Well good for you. Maybe you don’t, or won’t see the problems of Albanian drug lords or African street robbers or the heavy weight organised criminals from the Turkish-Cypriot community, or the postcode gangs that take the lives of too many of London’s black youth, or the Somali gangs that make people afraid to go out at night. I also used to live in a relatively racially mixed area in London that it was mixed primarily because of the docks. Yes there were more Afro Caribbeans in one area compared to another and the Sikhs and Hindus mixed where they settled down and started businesses. There were of course arseholes who were genuine racists and obvious neo nazis, which I marched against, but people basically did their best to get on, wasn’t always perfect but people did try. However that broke down when the area became wholly minority and there was so wider society to counterbalance the desire to live among ones own in ghettos. Society can absorb a relatively small number of those who are culturally ‘different’ in some way to the majority, in that situation you can still rely on the social and cultural contract that gets those from elsewhere to become more culturally British, but increase the number and you increase the potential problems including the problems of cultural siloisation and inter ethnic group clashes. There are already bad turf wars in London between gangs and the situation will become worse and more violent if these gangster clashes turn from this into inter ethnic ones. If that happens then a lot more innocent people will be harmed and certainly a lot more than when London had Maltese, Italian and other criminal gangs in the ’40’s and 50’s, whose violence was relatively contained compared to today when random teenagers can get shot or stabbed merely for being in the ‘wrong’ postcode.
BTW I’ve marched against the NF, the BNP and the various offshoot groupuscules related to them. I’ve never seen any ‘white supremacist minorities’ among them with the sort of influence that you ascribe to them, You could I supposebe thinking about some of the Sikhs who might not have that much love for Islam, an attitude that they have for good reason as the Mughal Empire killed the same proportion of the population of Indian Sikhs as the Nazis killed in Europe’s Jewish population, which is roughly one third, however I would not describe Sikhs as being white supremacists.