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It took only a few weeks for the authoritarian instincts of Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s new leftist Prime Minister, to erupt from him like so much pent-up lava scorching its way through the country’s towns and villages. Violent criminals have now been given early release in their thousands from the UK’s overcrowded jails to make way for working-class Whites who wrote slightly emotive tweets about mass immigration as part of the widespread disorder, understandable fury and fear, sparked by an ethnically-Rwandan teenager stabbing three little girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in July. Working-class protestors against this terror were condemned as “far right thugs” by “Two-Tier Keir” — a nickname referring to the fact that Whites are treated far more harshly and dealt with far more quickly than Labour’s foreign or educated clients.
With the riots, Two-Tier Keir’s motives were obvious but they are far less obvious with regard to his proposed banning of smoking outside pubs. This is what makes the policy, overtly a matter of improving public health, all the more pernicious. It is dressed up as something noble — a logical extension of the banning of smoking in pubs which began in 2007 — but, as with everything that emerges from the Labour Party, it is no such thing. It reflects paranoia, Machiavellianism and plain leftist resentment.
As all the businesses around them collapse into Middle Eastern kebab shops, money-laundering “Turkish Barbers” and garish “nail salons,” the pub remains the last bastion of English culture and specifically of White, working-class English culture. It is a place where ordinary English men and women can congregate and exchange notes converse about how Two-Tier Keir is destroying their country — creating a kind of Anarcho-Tyranny, in which traditional crime is not policed but “thought crime” is dealt with quickly and punitively in order to demoralise and control the population. The proles can express their genuine views in such a place; away from the prying eyes of New Labour’s politicised police who gleefully spy on their tweets and Facebook posts.
As such, the pub is dangerous: it is a breeding ground for discontentment and dissent. Banning smoking in the vicinity of pubs will keep working-class people, many of whom smoke, away from The Royal Oak and The Jolly Farmer, and industry leaders agree that it will lead to pubs closing down. So, pubs will shut down, meaning that working-class discontentment is easier to monitor and, so, repress. This all makes sense because, as I have explored in my book Woke Eugenics, leftists are very high in mental instability and in negative feelings. This makes them paranoid — meaning that, for them, there is every motivation to stop working-class people from freely exchanging views.
As I also explore in the book, mental instability is robustly associated with Machiavellianism; the desire for power and control over others. This logically followers as if you experience the world as a frightening and hostile place then you will want to take control of it. The pub represents a lack of control: people get tipsy or drunk and lose their inhibitions to varying degrees. They might, in this alternative state of consciousness, make remarks that incite others to be critical of the Labour Party and immigration and the various way in which Labour is destroying all that was ever good about Britain — high trust, free speech, low crime, impartial public bodies, sound public services — in order to crush dissent. Pubs are therefore a danger, so it is better if they are shut down.
The pub also makes working-class people happy. They can relax after a long day with a few beers and some cigarettes with their friends and other like-minded people. But why would Labour want them to be remotely happy? It is far preferable that they are depressed people who see life as meaningless and lose the will to fight to improve their lot; unlike people who are anxious. Proneness to anxiety is something which strongly characterises leftists. It follows that working-class people need to be isolated and lonely so shutting down the pubs is clearly an excellent idea.
Also, it should not be forgotten that there is something quite profound about English pub culture. In going to the pub, you are not merely having a drink. You are participating in a ritual in which your ancestors participated all the back to the Middle Ages, with some pubs being hundreds of years old. This link to the past is reflected in pub names that refer to pre-industrial England, historical events, English kings and noblemen, English folklore and long-dead national heroes: The Jolly Farmer, The Royal Oak (when the future King Charles I hid in an oak tree to escape the Roundheads), The Old King’s Head, The Foley Arms, The Green Man, and The Duke of Wellington. As English writer Sean Gabb has argued, you achieve a revolution by cutting the connection to the past. This leaves people confused, lacking in a clear identity and, so, more open to being brainwashed.
Leftists are anti-traditionalist. They feel that they are of low status and therefore must fight against an oppressive culture. And because they are neurotic, and they resent anything that is symbolic of the traditional hierarchy or culture. These must be torn down so that they can attain power. Pubs are a symbol of the old, pre-multicultural England; a rallying point, a reminder of what was. They need to go.
Finally, leftists, being unstable, are unhappy and resentful. Pubs involve people having fun and being happy. If you are bitter and unhappy, there is little worse than seeing other people enjoying themselves. “How dare they enjoy themselves! What about my suffering?” they Narcissistically think, with Narcissism being a way of coping with intense negative feelings. So this is yet another reason why pubs must shut down.
And it’s nothing to do with health. We are evolved, in effect, to be farm labourers in a context of food scarcity and we are now sedentary. Consequently, we will get fat. Tobacco, unhealthy as it is, is an appetite suppressant. Get rid of it and, as we have seen over the last 40 years, working-class people, who tend to have relatively poor impulse control as I have explored in Woke Eugenics, will simply get fat.
Labour are the New Cromwellian Puritans: bitter, resentful, power-hungry, mentally unstable, humourless, virtue-signallers. They may have shut down theatres but even Cromwell’s Puritan Interregnum, between 1649 and 1660, didn’t close the pubs. . . . Ultimately, of course, the English were pushed too far by the Puritans. There was a counter-revolution and the Two-Tier Keirs of their day were publically hanged, cut down (in some cases while still alive), castrated (with their testicles burned before their Puritan eyes), disembowelled, beheaded, and drawn and quartered . . .
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Maybe Dutton’s right, maybe he isn’t. But one thing’s certain:
Waaay too much mind-reading.
Funnily, a cynic could argue Dutton’s the “mental unstable” one (paranoid) whilst accusing so-called “Two-Tier Keir” of being just that.
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Anyhow…
Can/Should smoking be banned “al fresco”‽
Even libertarians (!) can’t agree on pollution: air, noise etc.
Similarly, another thing libertarians cannot provide reasonable arguments for, as far as I’m concerned, is:
Marriageable Age/Age of Consent.
I’d be happy to see them just castrated. The rest is nice, but kind of redundant.
Dutton pulls out another five-minute article “from his rear end.” It must be nice to get generous quantities of donations just for quickly writing a five-minute article while sitting on the toilet, an article void of any mathematical analysis to accurately quantify existing phenomena.
-“Waaay too much mind-reading”
Dutton mind reads a lot to outline a future where everything will sort itself out-basically showing himself off as a third-rate intellect.
Well the obsession about smoking is a curious topic.
I disagree with the other commenters here and I’ve had differences with some of Dutton’s claims, or their presentation, in the past.
Here, I expect Dutton is correct on this. Left authoritarian instincts believe that this is just one more step to utopia in a long line of steps.
That’s how they see it. Anyone who will tolerate more smoking bans will tolerate more hate speech laws, will tolerate more immigration for the economy, will tolerate more state surveillance, will tolerate more of the jackboot coming down of them.
Nicotine is a trace nutrient and there appears to be some evidence of it possessing health benefits in the appropriate amounts including preventing respiratory viral and bacterial infections. Online you can find people using nicotine patches for all sorts of maladies. Maybe there is even more to this.
I started my digging on the cigarette smoking a long time ago. What started me on it was a discovery that the “black lung” is pure propaganda and the surgeons know about it. Smoker and non smoker lungs look identical to the naked eye.A smoker lung has a slightly thicker mucus membrane though, when measured.
This thicker membrane is responsible for less cold and lung infections but also statistically much lesser deaths from Asbestos.
Epidemiological studies over and over again show that the smoker population has a lower heart rate and lower blood pressure. This is of course memoryholled and the propaganda claims the opposite of this.
The vast majority of my sources debunking the anti-nicotine propaganda are gone, even from the archives.
I have exactly 1 left
You draw your own conclusions.
This one is vastly inferior to my previous sources but it hits a few good, basic points.
https://www.sott.net/article/338885-A-comprehensive-review-of-the-many-health-benefits-of-smoking-Tobacco#
Addendum: I thought I had 2 of my sources left. I just checked and I would have to sign up to medium to access my bookmark and can’t read it for free. I now doubt it exists on Medium at all.
Searching for anything tobacco related is a useless endeavor as everything has been scrubbed.
I’m very sorry that I only have 1 source left.
The governments invested a lot of money in the 50’s to find a culprit of a cancer epidemic. Very interestingly, a cancer epidemic didn’t exist at that time.
It started right after the nuclear tests started, and they had already prepared the answer: smoking is responsible for cancer.
In all that history there was not 1, non biased and full of errors EXPERIMENT done that proved that cigarettes cause anything of the sort.
You can try and search for more but my research spans about 15 years and nearly everything is completely gone, except for that one article.
I hope you are better at searching and discovering the entire propaganda apparatus on this topic.
Oh another funny thing: a huge “research”, one of the first, on lung cancer patients that was, and is, considered a staple in the anti-smoking propaganda led to two “fathers of satistcs” splitting up and ending their friendship. I want to say it was Bell and Pearson but I’m absolutely not sure if that’s correct and can’t find ANY source on this anywhere.
Dutton is just noticing the old and tired tricks and methods used by every single authoritarian regime.(This sentence did not trigger the AI)
The Soviets regularly banned things from use. They also regularly released convicts into the unarmed population.(this particular sentence is flagged by the AI as inappropriate content. I wonder why?)
British people have never been truly free, and they’ve hardly ever revolted.(this sentence did not trigger the AI)
The implementation of the smoking ban will certainly impact pubs and the general population; it is an intended consequence.*this sentence did not trigger the AI)
For instance, the planned ban on jeans in the Soviet Union was intended to curb the spread of the revolutionary idea that Soviet citizens could actually enjoy freedom.(this sentence did not trigger the AI)
All of these tactics never work in the long term.
Today we are ruled by midwits surrounded by morons, and they don’t understand the very short-lived tactics they are using.(these 2 sentences trigger the AI and it spits the “inappropriate content”, I wonder why? Not really)
The blowback, like the COVID fiasco, will be enormous.(this sentence did NOT trigger the AI)
It is quite amusing that I was unable to proofread this comment for any grammatical or other errors. (English is my third language, so I occasionally rely on it to ensure that I am understood correctly), because it contained offensive words acvording to the AI that I use.(Obviously this sentence triggered the AI)
This is just another example of the same old tired tactics that authoritarian regimes have used throughout history. And it’s going to work about as well as the banning of the Gutenberg press did.(AI helped with this sentence, no problem)
I have never been a smoker and was happy when smoking was banned in restaurants and pubs. The outdoor ban is going too far and simply makes no sense.
One can justify the banning of smoking indoors because it impacts the right of the non-smokers to breath clean air. Banning smokers from smoking outdoors is simply preposterous as I can sit next to someone smoking outdoors and it doesn’t bother me or affect my health. Those who choose to smoke have a right to do it somewhere and I’m not going to take that right away from them.
This ban is an example of dictators just exercising their powers because they can, what’s next, a ban on blue jeans or silly hats?
The “powers-that-be” don’t want us to be healthy, but to be unhappy, otherwise they wouldn’t encourage heavily fat people to remain in that condition…
“Der Führer raucht nicht, der Führer trinkt nicht!” – The Führer doesn’t smoke, the Führer doesn’t drink. – was a slogan during the Nazi era, the Third Reich was avantgarde in the fight against nicotine…
Everything on Earth WILL sort itself out-after a few million years to recover from the ravages of the long extinct upright, uptight, upstart apes.
Social engineering starts with little things like smoking (harmless) and then moves on to bigger things like terrorism (mostly invented), mass shootings (mostly staged), climate change (nonexistent) and plan-demics.
The little people (“deplorables”) mustn’t be allowed to do what they want. Allowing them to do what they want leads to anti-social behavior – such as people objecting to being exploited, plundered and replaced.
I understand what you’re saying, but…
Sorry for being a sceptic: I’m not easily convinced.
For me, Dutton needs MUCH better evidence than “Cui bono?”.
For instance,
The Soviet Union weaponised “mental illnesses/disorders”, does not follow mental illnesses/disorders don’t exist.
I dunno what’s the origin of this «pro-smoking “research”», but…
…Sounds like something a libertarian (or, anti-Gov’t/anti-State types) could say.
I mean…
Being “anti-State” is good.
There’s actual evidence (peer-reviewed papers) that there’s a “bright side” of people who’re ‘conspiracy theorists’ i.e. ‘paranoids’ regarding the State existing.
But what we want is an OPTIMAL level of paranoids within the population.
Too much: Anomie.
Too little: Corruption. (as politicians think, correctly, they can “get away with anything”.)
Breathing in smoke from burning plants regularly can’t be healthy. Intuitively, that’s just not a healthy thing to do. Not to mention that the smell is gross.
Of course, none of this is part of considerations of the UK ZOG regime when they think about banning outdoor smoking. They just want to make people’s lives miserable. I agree with this guy:
It is true, in a way that…
If you’re in favour of banning outdoor smoking, you’re more likely to be in favour of Sin Tax, you’re more to be in favour of altogether banning sweets, chocolates, snacks and Fast-Food, you’re more likely to be in favour of Hate Speech Laws etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
However, it must be noted:
Pretty much everyone. Totalitarians, alike – even, Dictators – ‘draw the line’ somewhere.
First they ban smoking then they let their Goldstücklein open Shisha bars everywhere and vape shops sell dubious pagers.
I left that depressing damp little grey rock just before C19 reared its head and one of the things I remember about the pubs was how terrible they were to have a decent conversation in.
The constant loud music or tv screens have been an impediment to that for decades. One can wonder if that was by design..
But I miss a few of the good ones.
John Maynard Keynes said it best-“…in the long run we are all dead”.
I like ZeroHedge’s line the best:
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
In the hospital near me, they were running a campaign against outdoor smoking before Labour won the election. They had photos of members of staff turned into posters on the hospital walls, saying how much they could not stand outdoor smoking.
There was a counter-revolution and the Two-Tier Keirs of their day were publically hanged, cut down (in some cases while still alive), castrated (with their testicles burned before their Puritan eyes), disembowelled, beheaded, and drawn and quartered . . .
They were actually executed for regicide – specifically the execution of Charles I. A high proportion had signed the death sentence of Charles I – one, by the name of Ingoldsby, later claimed Cromwell had grabbed his hand and physically forced him to sign the sentence. They were not executed for being killjoys as such, though the Merry Monarch’s reign which followed was notably licentious. Then again, since the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London happened during his reign, the English needed all the entertainment they could get. Towards the end of the reign, the “Popish Plot” fears took hold, partly inspired by (justified) suspicions that Charles II was a Catholic sympathiser (he converted to Catholicism shortly before his death – his openly Catholic brother succeeded him and was soon overthrown). A number of Catholic clergy were executed in the same way as the regicides had been earlier. John Aubrey, a chronicler of the time, wrote that when one of them named Harcourt was executed, a bystander put his hand into the fire in which Harcourt’s insides were burning and retrieved one of his kidneys. A brewer named Roydon, “a kind of Presbyterian”, ie. Puritanical and anti-Catholic, obtained the kidney and kept it as a memento.
Dutton supplies the “Bad sentence of the week”. It is far too long, and there’s something odd about “exchange notes converse”.
Keir Starmer looks like someone who has never had any fun in his life and by extension, doesn’t want anyone else to, he might be a direct descendent of religious fanatic of Oliver Cromwell, who after his orgy of killing everyone he didn’t agree with, died in the agony produced by having kidney stones.
How ghastly characters like Keir Starmer can slither their way up the political spectrum and become Prime Minister of a country like the once great Britain shows how far our western system has slipped.