Day 12. We will teach our twisted speech to the young believers. (12/1/19)

(Soundtrack, initially at least: The Colours by The Men They Couldn't Hang from their Waiting For Bonaparte album, picked up on vinyl yesterday for three quid. But soon it's going to be The Clash.)

As I clicked play on the dodgy stream on which I intended to watch the Liverpool/Brighton game, a tweet came up on my phone that made me smile.

"James Goddard: Yellow Vest organiser arrested in London."

Excellent. One more gobshite off the streets.

(' Clampdown.' This is what we need playing now.)

I've talked about the idea of talking about Anna Soubry all week. Mis-spelt her name when I first mentioned her but still, definitely meant to talk about her. Her and Owen Jones. I managed to speak about both on Wednesday on Radio City Talk. Remember? The show where I accused the Tories of causing deaths and stated openly that Farage is:

a) a racist
b) a bigot
c) the cause of all the current bloody fiasco

Neglected to go with:

d) a man with clear links to both Russia and Trump who's looking at serious time in a little room with bars next to Steve Bannon when Mueller's done with his Trump investigation. Thought that might be libellous so I wouldn't dream of saying it.

Anna Soubry. I've no time for her. So she's a remainer, doesn't make her a saint. She's a Tory, she's complicit. Look at her voting record. Austerity. Universal credit. Bedroom tax. Student loan fees. Look for a Tory disaster, she's happily voting for it. As evil and vile as the rest of the bastards she works with.

But.

You've seen the footage. Soubry being called a Nazi by the far right. (And surely this constitutes a compliment from that bunch? They and their mates love a good swastika.) Being name called from a distance. Nasty but being dealt with.

And then being surrounded on the streets by heavily built men with a malicious attitude. Having her path into Parliament be blocked by an idiotically grinning goon. On the streets of the capital we are witnessing a 62 year old woman being surrounded by middle aged men with a dangerous agenda; we are watching a woman being clearly put in fear of her own personal safety. Two years after Jo Cox was murdered by a right wing extremist we are seeing them openly threatening people on the streets of London.

On the same day, these same men pursued a left wing journalist through the same streets, gleefully informing him that he was 'a snake', 'a traitor' and other assorted epithets that fly in the face of the free speech that they claim they're being denied.

And again, a man in a yellow vest filmed while screaming at the police: "You're all legitimate targets. We'll bring the war. On the streets. Every Saturday."

Every Saturday. The war is a one day a week thing.

And the connection in all of this? James Goddard. The ex-nightclub worker with an attitude problem and a love of the words 'p**i' and 'nonce', a man who was a minor cog in the outer circle of 'the artist formerly known as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon' (Tommy Robinson being a fictional construct designed to appear more appealing to the ordinary man on the streets that he uses to pay for his house and rolexes. All documented stuff, this). Goddard's risen to prominence recently as part of the 'yellow vest protestors'.

Shall we talk about the fact that these people are so stupid that they can't see any irony in the fact that they've adopted the look that they're using to protest against Europe from the French? Or that Goddard lived in Spain? Again, documented.

We could talk about the magnificent work that Mike Stuchbery is doing on Twitter, showing exactly how the entire leadership of the far right seems to exist purely to financially exploit their thick followers. Have a look, it's all about pulling in the donations. Until Facebook, PayPal and GoFundMe close their accounts.

They would be comedy figures if they weren't so clearly capable of extreme unthinking violence against anybody who disagrees with them. Or is a colour, creed, ideology or sexual orientation that they don't like. And they don't like anybody who isn't them.

This is what the Brexit campaign has brought us to. The bile, the spite, the institutionalising of racism as a political tool in a manner that Enoch Powell might even have found uncomfortable, the fact that certain far right zealots (say, for instance, self professed 'man of the people', privately educated merchant banking twat Nigel farage) were allowed to create posters of refugees fleeing war zones and portray them as the Turkish flood that would invade England once Turkey were allowed into the EU. It didn't matter how often it was pointed out that this was a lie, the statement and the image were allowed to be out there. Blatant lies became a valid tactic. Smear campaigns. Say anything you like, no matter how outrageous or clearly false it is, the claim will be allowed to stand.

And those claims were sufficient to sway those who thought that there may be valid reasons to leave the EU. Those claims, along with Russian money siphoned through the back pages of billionaire's accounting practices, were enough to buy votes from the areas who will be the first to suffer from the withdrawal of EU funding and business loss.

The presence on the streets of the people whose appalling worldview, based on racism and hatred, has been legitimised by the tactics of the 'Out' campaign's Brexit methods and has led to the idea that we can't have a second referendum (after two years of lies and criminality being exposed, after two years where the 16 year olds denied a vote in the last referendum would now be in a position to voice their opinions on how the rest of their lives should be lived) because we would see a country more divided than ever and witness the rise of the far right.

The country will never be less divided than it is now. The rift will never be healed.

The rise of the right? We've seen it. It's there. It's an individual thing. And, as individuals it's a very dangerous thing. As individuals they're unbalanced, extreme. As groups though? As an organised movement? They're nothing.

They are the people who come to Liverpool threatening to occupy the city centre. Eight of them cower behind fifty police in Moorfields station until they're escorted back to their trains. Ten of them have to hide in left luggage at Lime Street.

These scum do not number sufficient supporters to be an issue on a large scale. They need to be halted with all the due process of the law but they do not need to be catered to. They should never be allowed to dictate the course of a country because of their arrogance, stupidity and hatred. They are the very worst face of the worst parts of the little England mentality and we need to treat them with the respect that they have shown they merit.

That is, as a total irrelevance. An annoyance.

James Goddard has been arrested on public order offences? Good. One down. Now arrest everybody who stood behind him for their part in hate crimes.