The National conservatism and the beliefs underpinning the first UK ‘NatCon’ conference are not my cup of tea. The movement prioritises national independence and ‘takes inspiration from Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher.’
Left-wing ban NatCon
First news of the worst things that are going on are hard to pin down as Left-wing publications were banned from NatCon.
There were rejected applications for press tickets from supposed left-wing outlets.
OpenDemocracy, Byline Times, Novara Media and JOE were knocked back “due to high demand and limited space” weeks in advance, reports OpenDemocracy.
AR-15 assault rifle
When recently elected Trump-backed senator JD Vance of Ohio mentioned that he attended a raffle event where the prize was an AR-15 assault rifle, a prolonged ripple of applause broke out.
Here is a recent story about a mass shooting, by someone suspected to have used an AR-15 style assault rifle.
David Starkey
In a speech to the National Conservatism conference David Starkey claimed that groups such as Black Lives Matter were attempting to destroy “white culture” and “do exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust”.
He then said: “The determination is to replace the Holocaust with slavery. In other words, this is why Jews are under such attack from the left, there’s jealousy, fundamentally. There is jealousy of the moral primacy of the Holocaust and a determination to replace it with slavery.”
Only a week or do ago during the coverage of the coronation on GB News he was accused of racism for claiming that Rishi Sunak was “not fully grounded in our culture”.
Germany ‘mucked up’ speech
Now over to Douglas Murray who said: “I see no reason every other country should be prevented from feeling pride in itself because the Germans mucked up twice in a century.”
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