Not NVDU, the National Violent Disorder Unit“, which the controversial new Labour Prime Minister of Britain, Keir Starmer, announced the other day as a new part of the British Police and National Security organs. There were other parts of the short statement that should send a chill up the spine of anybody who believes in civil libverties and civil rights – but then this is the island Orwell understood so well when writing Nineteen Eighty Four.

  • “This is not protest, this is violent disorder and action will be taken. So, this government will make sure you have got the powers you need and will back you in using those powers.”
  • Starmer met with police to discuss response to “crime” and “assault on the rule of law“.
  • New “national capability across police forces to tackle violent disorder“.
  • Shared intelligence and use of “wider facial recognition technology“.
  • Pre-emptive action – preventing getting onto trains.

It should be understood that these responses come not in the immediate wake of the riots and protests in London by supporters of Islamic Jihad against Israel, not in the wake of the violent riots in Leeds, and not in the wake of Muslim riots on Rochdale, including a crowd that attacked a police station, or even the British BLM riots of 2020.

No, this came in the wake of riots by in Southport by White people, angry about an incident where three little White girls were stabbed to death by a British-born descendent of Rwandan immigrants. But even without Starmer’s input you can see the way the British Police and other authorities already bend, which is against the current British population and in favour of whatever group the Left favours, from Trans to Illegal Immigrants.

Having read up on Starmer when he became Labour leader I had no doubt that he wasn’t as moderate as he appeared, even as he stripped the Party of the Corbynites to mak Labour seem more palatable. That’s just the usual trimming of the sails that any centrist party does with its fringes if they look like they’ll cause election losses – which the Corbynites certainly did, although it must be acknowledged that Corbyn got Labour a larger vote proportion in a losing election in 2019 than Starmer did in his landslide win this year.

But behind Starmer’s calm voice and manner is a nature that is every bit the authoritarian that Corbyn is, it’s just that his objective is not a pure Socialist state but merely an all-powerful one. The Working Class is noticing.

I wouldn’t bet on the next Tory government reversing any of this either. Seventy five years ago Orwell wrote of a USSR-style state in his native country and did not allow any sentimental mush about freedom-loving Brits to interfere with that story but instead peered into the British soul and saw what it would enable, given time.

Actually his novel, Animal Farm, also applies here: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.