We are at a crossroads and Brexit has very little to do with it

We are at a crossroads and Brexit has very little to do with it

When we went from analogue to digital connections and digital broadcasting, the options in terms of numbers of channels of communication grew exponentially. The old monopolies were no longer as relevant as they used to be become the coming of digital technology. New generations hardly watch the old television channels or listen to radio broadcasting. They have quite a few newer alternatives to choose from targetting them according to their own personal interests.

We talk about Facebook, Twitter and a few more channels. Well, they might be important in terms of numbers but there are quite a few more choices that can be even better choices in terms of reaching people we want to reach. If you don't like certain media or those running certain media don't like you because of what you think or say or write, then you have a myriad of other choices.

The emphasis put by politicians on certain specific media is not about what people say or write. It is the fear of losing control of what is being said or written. The old censorship tools no longer work and this makes the political classes extremely concerned. So they gather in Parliament or outside Parliament and make speeches about protecting the public when in fact they are only trying to protect themselves. They are struggling and they know it. Morevoer, the old channels that they control are no longer credible. Do you believe everything you hear on the BBC? No. Do you believe everything you hear on SKY News or Channel 4 or ITV? No. You learn to take everything with a pinch of salt knowing that there is a political agenda behind every news programme. Distortion, falsification and misrepresentation are the tools used to brainwash the masses. Demonizing is the strategy to try and stop people from listening to those the mass media don't like.

Forecasts based on old certainties are no longer valid when the said forescasts are issued by people who live in their own bubbles. This is why the political classes and the mass media failed to predict the outcome of the 2016 Referendum on EU Membership. They come up with the most laughable explaination of why they didn't get the result that they expected. They say that is was 'overspending in the campaign'\. They say that it was due to something written on the sides of a bus. They say whatever to try an explain their failure. Well, during the Referendum campaign practically all messages allowed by mass media were about Remain because the BBC, SKY News and others - so called mainstream media - campaigned for Remain. The scaremongering campaign went on and on and on. In spite of all that, Leave won the day.   

Quite a few Members of Parliament couldn't care less about the people who elected them and this is why we ended up with a country that voted Leave and a Parliament that is trying to avoid Brexit.

UK: Frustration is dangerous and will certainly fuel extremism

Frustration is dangerous and will certainly fuel extremism

For the first time, I am hearing people openly talking about joining paramilitaries and even National Action in the United Kingdom. Extremely high levels of frustration are creating a pressure cooker effect and the unthinkable might happen. 

At a gathering people spoke about using IRA tactics in Britain to fight against the political establishment and the mass media including BBC, SKY and others that have a very clear anti-British political agenda.

When it was mentioned that several serving soldiers were on trial for suspected membership of National Action, I saw the whole picture. No one in the British Armed can have certain ideas without the middle ranks knowing about it and this leads me to the fact that National Action is alive and well inside the British Armed Forces.

Banning an organisation doesn't get rid of the ideas that led to the creation of the said organisation. What is more, the present trend to prevent people from expressing what they believe (attempts to control Internet, bans and censorship carried out on Internet will only make things worse. When people are not able to express their feelings and ideas in writing, they will carry out attacks. Like an animal pushed against a wall, with nowhere else to go, people will turn violent.

Only yesterday somebody suggested that Police Forces are being readied to deal with Civil War in the United Kingdom because Civil War is coming. Spaces for dialogue are vanishing and the harsh approach put into practice by Police Forces in the United Kingdom show that it is self-evident where things are heading.

I reject the idea of going around publicly threatening individuals or communities but I do understand the level of anger shown by some who do go around threatening individuals or communities. More often than not we have seen members of Muslim Communities with placards talking about beheading those who do not surrender to Islam. We have seen them burning Poppies and insulting and threatening British troops and the beheading of Lee Rigby is a clear example of what is to come showing that what is written on placards is very much the announcement of what is going to happen in the no so distant future.