An inexplicable silence

9am Normally Microsoft’s clickbait selection is showered with droplets of wisdom from The Most Influential Man In British Politics Today, Nigel Farage MP. But today he seems remarkably absent, apart from a three week old story. In the light of the far right riots, you’d have thought Nige would be all over the media. Maybe he’s gone on holiday. Personally, I can’t see a great deal of difference between the rioters’ chant ‘We want our country back’ and the Brexiteers’ ‘Take back control.’ Hopefully Nige could clear this one up for us. Meanwhile we’ll wait and see if the thugs leave Clacton alone.
 
6pm No news yet of how Nige has condemned the riots. He may have said something, but it’s very rare for it not be reported, normally he’d be all over GB News or the Telegraph. We’ll just have to make do with ‘Lord Walney’ the former anti-Corbyn Labour MP Woodcock, ennobled by the Tories for his efforts on that front and who is now 'the government's adviser on political violence and disruption,’ who told Sky News ‘the Southport tragedy had been "seized on by far-right actors almost certainly aided and abetted by hostile states in creating and planning disinformation to put out false narratives".’ So these Nazi thugs who want ’our country back’ are useful idiots unknowingly working for Putin! I have to pinch myself. Didn’t we have riots before social media came along? What was that thing called—the Riot Act?