Shoot Them All

There are times when the press seem to conspire to convince us that the UK population is made up predominantly of foaming at the mouth right-wing bigots and racists. Just recently, for instance, in the wake of ‘Thirty Pee’ Lee Anderson’s inflammatory comments about the Mayor of London being under the influence of ‘Muslim extremists’, losing him the Tory whip, we had various ‘vox pop’ interviews with supposedly average voters in ‘Red Wall’ seats telling us how he definitely represented their views. The intent was clear, to make those of us not consumed by blind hate think that we’re out of step, that ‘average’, ‘ordinary’ people are obsessed with immigration, foreign extremists plotting to take over the UK and ridiculous ‘wokery’. It all dovetails neatly with the Prime Minister’s recent attempts to re-define ‘extremist’ by demonising protesters – while his immediate reference might have been those currently protesting for peace in Gaza, the wider intent was clear: to link the concept of public protests with that of extremism. If you go out on the streets and protest then you must have extreme views on the subject of the protest and therefore be an extremist. (Except, of course, if you are foaming at the mouth right wing loons protesting about lockdown, vaccinations, ‘fifteen minute cities’ or other crackpot conspiracies – they’re not extremists, just ‘concerned citizens’). The overall message is clear – if you aren’t a reactionary and anti-everything decent, then tough, you’ve already lost, so you might as well give up and don’t even bother voting.

But if one looks at the reality of the current political and media landscape, then one discerns a somewhat different story. Most obviously, the Tories are, according to the polls, facing a catastrophic slump in support. Indeed, the further right they move and the more they cosy up to the foaming at the mouth right wing nutter brigade, the further their support falls. Then there’s the news today that Talk TV, one of those ‘news’ channels that pumps out right-wing bile and is seemingly staffed by serving Tory MPs, is, in effect, closing down as an actual TV station and moving online due to a lack viewers. While its rival, GB News, might still be going, it is still running at a huge loss (like many of these enterprises, it is bankrolled by ex-pat multi millionaires who don’t want to live in the UK or pay tax here, but still want to try and influence public opinion and legislation), and keeps shedding ‘talent’ at quite a rate, (mainly because they keep coming out with stuff so offensive that even OFCOM can’t ignore it). So, it would seem that we aren’t actually a nation of bigots and that support for the right-wing loonies is actually pretty low. Despite what the largely right-wing controlled media would have us believe., this so called ‘silent majority’ is nothing of the sort – it is really a very vocal minority trying to shout the rest of us down.

Of course, my views on how this minority of extremist fruitcakes should be dealt with are well known in these parts: shoot the lot of them. Because, let’s face it, if they could, they’d do it to us – summary executions for all manner of imagined crimes against right wing lunacy. They could start by repurposing those ‘vox pops’: ‘Does ‘Thirty Pee’ Lee speak for you when he spews anti-Muslim hate?’ – if they say yes then BLAM! Shoot them in the head. Right there and then, Trust me, these idiots would soon start thinking twice about coming out with their moronic hate speech. Personally, I’m surprised that they haven’t already started doing this in the US. I mean, they had the perfect opportunity with those arseholes who stormed the Capitol on January 6^th – they should simply have sent in the military and rounded up as many of these idiots as possible, taken them around the back of Congress, split them up into groups and machine gunned them, group after group. Perhaps they could have got the cretins to dig pits, get them to stand in front of them, then mowed them down so that they fell back into their own mass grave. Then they could have made the next group fill in the pit, before digging their own grave and being machine gunned.

The right, after all, couldn’t really have objected to such measures: they’re all into capital punishment and always like to go on about how traitors should be dealt with – and I can’t think of anything more treasonous than trying to overthrow the legally constituted government of the United States. But that’s the thing about all this self-styled right-wing hardliners – they’re very keen on all sorts of harsh measures being deployed against law breakers and miscreants, just so long as it isn’t them on the receiving end. Which is why they spend so much time trying to argue that all the illegal things they’ve done aren’t really, it is a frame up, a conspiracy and they are being victimised by the ‘deep state’. Anything but take responsibility for their misdemeanours and accept their punishment – death by firing squad.

But getting back to the UK: Brexiteers, anti-vaxxers, racists, bigots, bull buggerers, members of Reform – put them all up against a wall and shoot them. Like I said, the spectre of summary execution would soon make them think twice about expressing their vile views. It also has the advantage of creating British jobs – just think of all the bricks needed for those walls, not to mention the bricklayers needed to erect them, not to mention the boost for the arms industry with all the bullets required, while those firing squads will certainly reduce the ranks of the unemployed. I look forward to the day when we can finally round up the likes of Nigel Farage and put them in front of a firing squad, (in his case, I think we should have the firing squad find they are out of bullets, so they have to fix bayonets and charge, instead). Just like their US equivalents, these right-wing loons and grifters surely couldn’t argue with their treatment – they don’t believe in all that liberal human rights nonsense, after all. So, let’s round up this ‘silent majority’ and deal with them once and for all – do to them what they advocate doing to us. Fight fire with fire and shoot the bastards!

Doc Sleaze