Grilling and the Yookay Inferno

In recent months there has been a surge in the sentiment that “something huge is on the way” in Britain. I believe the main catalyst was the Southport riots in August 2024. That changed the tone of everyday life, subtly but permanently. Ever since, the tension has been steadily brewing. A mood of anger, frustration and despondency is now so widespread that even “those who grill” are feeling it.

Of course, it wasn’t the riots but how the establishment reacted to them. That establishment was (and still is) personified by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. His feckless response was the first in a whole slew of mis-steps by the newly-formed Labour government. They have somehow managed to anger many different, even opposed, groups in Britain:

• the working-class (Southport)

• the middle-class (inheritance tax)

• farmers (inheritance tax)

• pensioners (winter fuel allowance)

• small business owners (tax)

• Labour voters (welfare cuts)

• progressives (“island of strangers” speech)

• Gibraltarians (Gibraltar deal)

• Chagossians (Chagos deal)

• fishermen (EU)

• landlords (onerous energy efficiency rules and ban on no-fault eviction)

• the disabled (attack on disability benefits)

• home-schooling parents (tightening of rules)

• private school parents (VAT on school fees)

• Muslims (support for Israel)

• free speech supporters (the Online Harms Act empowering Ofcom)

• students (tuition fees increased)

• native Brits in general (mass immigration)

• pub-goers (proposed bans on outdoor smoking and “banter”)

… all got their own special reason to feel aggrieved. By the time Elon Musk brought renewed attention to the Muslim rape gang epidemic, everyone despised Starmer and his government. This was exacerbated by various revelations about how much Starmer knew about the Southport killer in August while he was denouncing the “racists”. Things got a little calmer after that, but were sporadically jolted by updates about the government’s treatment of Lucy Connolly (every time, reminding the public of its draconian behaviour last August). In the meantime, David Betz interviews about upcoming “civil war” started appearing on YouTube. Then the Casey audit was published in mid June and the mood was re-ignited all over again. Just a week later, the Glastonbury furore erupted, revealing the government’s slavishness towards Israel, amplified just another week later by its proscribing of Palestine Action. Soon enough there will be some new thing.

It doesn’t matter that the Boriswave happened under the previous Conservative governments, not this Labour one. It doesn’t matter that the same applies to the entire decade of the 2010s during which the flower of working-class England was casually brutalised by Pakistanis. Everyone knows that that atrocity reaches back at least to New Labour (1997), the parent of today’s Labour. Everyone knows also that, while Boris Johnson massively increased immigration, Labour would have done exactly the same. Certainly, they would have brought in gay marriage, as the Conservatives did, and certainly, they would have promoted trans just as energetically. And the less said about covid, the better.

In short, it doesn’t matter that the Britain of today was largely shaped by the Conservatives during the previous decade and a half, because we all know that said Conservatives were largely shaped by Labour. The two parties are completely indistinguishable and have been for more than two decades.

So the public’s loathing is not merely for today’s Labour government or the previous Conservative ones, nor for the Labour Party or the Conservative Party. Even the Liberal Democrats cheered on all of the changes imposed on our country. So did the Greens. All the parties are culpable, and all would be even more culpable if only they’d had more time in office to abuse us.

The public have distrusted, resented and even despised the government for many years. But, last August, I would say that all of those other emotions mutated into loathing. The long-time comfort blanket of saying the government were incompetent no longer worked. There is incompetence (especially in the Starmer iteration) but there is also very clearly an agenda at work. Decisions are made for reasons, which sometimes look like sheer malice. The people of Britain are realising, consciously, that the British government doesn’t actually work for them. Everyone feels disrespected and disenfranchised.

They felt it when Starmer said that the concern about immigration which motivated the riots - a concern shared by almost everyone - “doesn’t matter”. They felt it again with each of his subsequent betrayals, of course, but also with the unfolding reality of what Boris Johnson had done to the country. They feel it freshly now, with the news that the government are preparing an “Islamophobia” law which will criminalise virtually any attempt to discuss problems with Islam in Britain. People will also feel it when they learn that the government have assembled a “taskforce” to identify the causes of the Southport riots; the causes are obvious so the inquiry is clearly going to be a whitewash, but this is made even more clear by the people involved - an assortment of champagne socialists who will “find” anything, absolutely anything, but the actual cause.

The actual cause of the Southport riots is not Islam, the hijab or the Islamic call to prayer. Nor is it “urban Black culture”, “under-privileged youth” or “harmful rap music”. Still less is it Tiktok, X or any other social media platform. Nor is it “disinformation”, “fake news” or “hate speech”. Nor is it Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson. It isn’t even the Muslim rape gangs, though that certainly worsens things. The cause, really, is that the British public now believe their government despises them to the point of trying to destroy them, and has been dismantling their beloved country for decades while punishing them and filling their heads, and their children’s heads, with poisonous lies. The cause of the British public’s discontent is that they now see their own government as their enemy, and believe that it has been their enemy for a long time - longer than most of us have been alive. All of our lives, every single day, our government was betraying us.

But the government does not act alone. Its decisions need to be defended or lambasted by a probing media, justified or deconstructed by an honourable intelligentsia, and accepted or rejected by a timeless monarchy. So all of those institutions are also implicated against us. And indeed, we see them diligently supporting the government’s work. It is, as we in the Dissident Right often say, “the regime”. The government is merely one node of that.

This is why the British public’s loathing goes beyond the parties, beyond even the political system as a whole. It encompasses the NGOs, the corporations, the charities, and of course the legions of progressive celebrities and academics who, like the impotent but enthusiastic Lib Dems, cheered everything on from the sidelines. It certainly encompasses the mainstream media, with the BBC fast becoming associated with bias, corruption, complacency, and contempt for ordinary people.

In fact, I think the public’s loathing is rapidly expanding beyond institutions, to encompass the very beliefs which define our age. Connor Tomlinson, Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), Pat Condell and even Spectator journalists are now saying nearly everything I was saying ten years ago, but they are doing so without getting vilified. Meantime the Left, outraged by Anglosphere slavishness towards Israel, are moving in on the JQ - but they are (mostly) doing so without getting deplatformed. Those various penalties have become impossible to impose because so many of the public are now “based”.

They are rapidly moving towards a recognition of race itself, not just cultural friction. It is when you are driven to ask the question “what about us?” that you realise, by the by, that there is indeed an “us” - a people, a historical ethnic group. That is happening, so a slogan like “diversity is our strength” now seems like the humiliating falsehood that it always was, before the normies were degraded enough to realise.

The regime’s mistake was to keep degrading them - first with 2010s wokery, then with 2020s covid and the Yookayification of their towns. The result is the reduction in social stability, living standards and wealth prospects that is predictable when you bespoil an advanced country with huge numbers of Third Worlders.

The emergence into the mainstream of the “Yookay” concept is interesting because the MSM have not been able to neutralise it. They have tried; a BBC radio show attempted to “debunk” it and the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland tried to tone-police the idea out of legitimacy. Victorious because true, the concept persists and spreads, and the MSM apparently can’t ignore it.

That in itself interests me. Time was, they just ignored whatever they didn’t understand or like, and plastered over it with their own substitutes. They authored reality and called everything else “fake news”. But with “Yookay”, they seem unable to do that. It might be the dwindling predominance of the MSM, but I suspect it is something broader - an evaporation of the very fabric of our society, our general culture. In other words the MSM’s main problem is not its dwindling predominance, but that it isn’t even exactly sure what it is supposed to be defending any more. Neoliberalism, progressivism, globalism, multiculturalism…? These concepts once gleamed with newness and 2000s prosperity. Post-Rotherham, they seem dishonest. Post-covid, they seem authoritarian. Post-Boriswave, they seem grotty, shoddy, and very brown.

Everyone can see the reality, even those who desperately don’t want to - whose careers depend on them not seeing it. When advancing your career depends on blatantly lying, to speak is to discredit yourself. The safer option is to just stand still, keep quiet and hope for the best. (There is a reason Owen Jones has been silent on the rape gang issue since the Casey audit.)

Keeping quiet might elongate a few careers but it will not solve the issues at hand. If our intelligentsia can only “preserve” its credibility by ignoring the most salient issues of our age, then it has become terminally unfit for purpose. This leaves our society rudderless - worse, under control by charlatans. In that case, other people must take the helm.

That intuition - unguided yet hopeful, unlearned yet impeccable, as the masses’ intuitions always are - is what gives rise to the suspicion that “something huge is on the way” in Britain. Some people are speaking publicly of revolution.

Of course we should bear in mind that real life is not a video game. I always remember Kantbot’s comment about Jan 6th:

Imagine storming the Capitol of the United States as the government of the country literally fucking flees and then just wandering around the building confused about why the level isn’t ending instead of declaring a new government and issuing warrants for congressmen’s arrest.

Some of the most burnt-out people I know (albeit they tend to be of a certain vintage) still have a subconscious faith in democracy. They think that “exposing” the corruption will automatically cause… something… to happen. Kantbot’s description of the bafflement which ensues is perfect - “confused about why the level isn’t ending”. We have internalised the idea that “if you do the thing you get the prize”, so, even when we believe the regime to be corrupt we imagine that it will become uncorrupt if we bravely command it to do so. This presupposes an overarching system which is to some extent sympathetic to us, a system which the regime also must operate within. Like libertarianism, it feels heroic but in fact can only succeed inside a closed ecosystem of shared values. Well, the regime clearly does not share our values, and there is no overarching system to contain it and us. We are enemies on an open plain - no arbiter, no limits, and it’s a fight to the death.

But it will not be easy. The regime is discredited but remains just as powerful. How many British people have any experience of really opposing it? It will not change its mind just because you explain why it should. Instead it will flip a rolodex of ways to deprive you of everything, and select whichever is the most expedient.

The assumption, of course, is that the sheer numbers of people involved would overwhelm the regime and prevent it reaching for that rolodex. The idea absolutely hinges on that. These angry crowds would, at a guess, have to storm Downing Street or the Houses of Parliament and occupy them, withstanding onslaught by the police and army long enough to declare a new government. These people would have to be undeterred by the threats of death, beating, unemployment, imprisonment and reputational ruin, and there would have to be many, many thousands of them. In all likelihood they, or at least some of them, would have to be prepared to kill.

I suspect we will eventually see that sort of thing, and not far in the future, either. I used to think twenty to thirty years. Now I think five to ten.

As for what the regime will do in the face of such a cataclysm… I don’t think they know. There just seems to be so much incompetence around (in addition to the malice). I used to think they were very clever and had big plans in store for the West. I thought they were trying to build a police state, hence the diversity which will make that necessary. Maybe that is true, but if so they have imported the diversity too quickly and set in motion a chain reaction they didn’t want, didn’t expect, can’t slow down and won’t be able to defeat once it reaches the boil. The public might be accustomed to the lie of democracy, but the regime is accustomed to the fact of a docile public. If they ever “go ape”, the legendary subversion skills of Britain’s secret services will be useless. Already, Hope Not Hate seems an impotent farce, a knitting circle of bitter gay men trying to tone-police people talking about reality. That kind of tedious schoolmarm behaviour is the regime’s “soft” weapon, with imprisonment by kangaroo courts its “hard” weapon that, as it learned last August, only inflames the public against it.

In the meantime, I think the regime are just hoping for the best, going for hate speech convictions to delay the inevitable as long as possible. They are probably hoping that economic prosperity, if it can be achieved, will neutralise all of this. But it won’t, because it won’t be achieved, because the very diversity it would pacify stops it from being achieved. In fact, everything the regime promotes (and is ideologically bound to continue promoting) works against economic prosperity: fewer or no kids for high IQ couples, many kids for low IQ welfare families, many kids for Third Worlders, many Third Worlders, much race-mixing to dilute White IQ. Both ideologically and circumstantially, the regime is locked into a course towards disaster.

Everyone can now see that, and that the regime would only change course to placate us for a while. Ultimately, we are its target. Elites are often somewhat detached, but rarely if ever has one actively sought to destroy its own populace. In Britain, our elite’s disdain for homeland and ethnos is becoming so painful that we must rescue homeland and ethnos from them, no matter the cost to us.

This imperative towards group survival, conveyed by arguments moral, cultural, economic and political, is actually biological at core, and it is what the masses are beginning to feel in their bones. Everything else is falling away. Nobody cares any more about “fairness”. Nobody cares whether they speak English or were born here. Nobody cares how it will be paid for or how it will affect the economy. They just want their children to be safe. That is what one’s society is supposed to be for, after all, and in that supreme duty our society is not only failing but actually setting up failure, expensively and elaborately. This is a profoundly unnatural situation. No wonder biology is kicking in to put things right.

Alas, biology is not enough. There needs to be elite backing. Some faction of the elite has to face up to how bad things are and make the decision to “go rogue” - funding and organising the great unwashed. That hasn’t happened. I wondered whether Reform would be the stepping stone to that. Now it looks like Reform is going to be a damp squib - electorally successful but politically useless - so maybe instead, Rupert Lowe’s new organisation Restore Britain will be the stepping stone. Something has to make the situation just a bit more drastic, giving the green light to an elite faction to “mobilise”, and then I think we will see a rapid cascade effect on every side, bringing about the cataclysm.

But, for now, the dull managers who have brought us to this sorry state can continue maintaining it. And, because the situation can be maintained, the general public are still able to “keep believing”.

That is why I don’t think “it” will happen this summer.

No matter how hot it gets, the fact is that the British public have not yet suffered enough. Their wifi still works, their water is still clean, most of their daughters still walk home from school unmolested, and their half-Arab colleague still favours Jay-Z over jihad - for now.

And even as I write this essay, some stone-cold proof emerges that the public are not yet “ready”. In fact, a great many of them are still completely mesmerised - the young Left by coloured diversity, the middle-aged Right by Israel and Jew worship. The young Left will (I suspect) drift towards ethnonationalism once they realise that their coloured pets actually hate them. As for the Zio-cucked Right, I think they will be the very last to embrace nationalism. When they do, it will probably be out of fear for their own lives. Until then, they will remain entranced by Israel and repulsed by the idea of standing up for their own ethnic group.

So, it isn’t going to happen yet. Despite all the tension we feel in 2025… there is still time for some more grilling.