England

  • Revealed: Bannen loved “Fascist Estate” with heart

    It’s not easy confronting somebody who is a foot soldier for the worst period in modern European history. It’s also not easy having to talk to somebody who idolises one of the few truly evil people in human history, and tried to copy him.

    This is what I was able to do as a child without actually knowing what the man was up to in private or having been a part of what he was doing in public in some parts of inland England at the time.

    A quote
    A quote by Ian Edmund Bannen regarding his enthusiasm for his new movement – and what it could mean.

    Neither I, nor any of my family, were connected to the activities of Ian Edmund Bannen at all. It was only a chance invitation to my grandfather that led me to being also present at a time he visited a location along the South coast of England.

    He was obviously a despotic and deeply disturbed man. Near to death he had little to offer to people at all. However, he was able to mumble things and also state some things harshly to people who stood around him. He was a horrible figure with a demonic mentality. This was clear in that brief encounter.

    Later, I learned a lot more about what he said to people and I understood more about why men like that are hated here. It’s obvious that fascism doesn’t have a place in England at all, and, for the rest of us, it threatens our way of life.

    It’s not allowed because it’s based only on criminal activity and it also teaches us the wrong things. This is what drew his protégé to him in the first place. The unfolding drama only increased in this next pair of hands. It’s a lesson about stopping things as soon as they start.

  • Why is Tommy Robinson so mad?

    The state of affairs in neighbourhoods across the UK is the subject of much study by historians of all kinds.

    Yet the current events of politics has brought out some of it for us to see.

    This is who we are.

    We are spectators in a developing, evolving story on the English landscape.

    It’s happening everywhere.

    Some of our worst adversaries are seeing the same things, but these are not interconnected.

    Who goes there?

    The story of Tommy Robinson is not something that’s easy to understand, and this is what locals in Luton attest to themselves.

    There’s a lot of detail to it.

    However, it’s possible to know more if the person himself is subject to contemporary scrutiny.

    It’s clear that he’s agitated by the state of things. He doesn’t like how some people fall out of prosperity.

    He doesn’t like ‘new’ things, and this is said by former friends and some former school girlfriends.

    “He’s a person who likes his life sorted,” one said to me, thinking about how it was to date him before he became famous.

    He’s also not someone to hide his identity or to be disingenuous about his real intentions.

    The troublemaker

    The thing is, Tommy Robinson is like a lot of people in the UK. Many people follow his trend of activism in Scotland, for example.

    However, his is a sort that has taken its unction from many more English things than personal.

    His movements have been centred on assets here in the UK, but more particular things he’s known from youth, like the Army.

    He’s not necessarily a racist at heart, but he is, like many others, haphazard in the way he puts the world together.

    It’s the same in his personal life, where his business dealings are the subject of much scrutiny.

    The roots

    The root of Robinson’s anger go far back into his family past, and only some of it is in his life.

    It’s not possible to note all of it here but it comes out occasionally.

    It’s a fact that English activism has a particular way about it, and it usually fits together coherently.

    To understand Tommy Robinson is to seek to explore more of it. It’s not right, but it’s not leaving.

  • Long Report: The beliefs of Fascist Estate

    Ken Gott, the assumed name of Fascist Estate’s leader, is believed to have written many letters. These were to secret friends – confidants he had made as a child and in his teenage years. It’s thought he grew up in a frantically radical environment. He and his peers saw the same kind of political activity. This meant their sentiments were similar and the letters didn’t draw attention. However, in light of his later efforts they’re important insights into his intellectual life.

    The persona of a leader is mainly seen now than discerned in the person themselves. The individual is still more important in extreme circles. They power the effort. The movement thrives off the activity of the soul. The letters of Ken Gott are part of learning about this. Those that have been seen show a stern outlook, unrelenting attitude, and unforgiving human nature. He isn’t kind or sympathetic to any suffering. He noted being unfeeling about healthcare or hospitals.

    The beliefs of Gott are more complex to understand. He had private pagan superstitions that ripped through is head from time to time, he once said to a close activist. This may be a sign of mental illness. The motifs may be personal but the intense feeling of them is probably a psychological dysfunction. The environs of Gott were described to be dark and foreboding. His meetings often had a momentous feeling that jarred for those investigating him.

    A poem Ken Gott wrote to a secret friend to illustrate his outlook.

    In one letter, he quoted a poem he wrote for himself. He said he used it for restraint. He also said he kept lists of sayings and maxims that made him feel less urgent. This gave him the peculiar quality of humility amongst others. He was admired for having a lighter bearing than others in their networks. He used this to his own advantage. He met many more people than most. He gained in authority in neo-fascism. He was able to buy in more security apparatus to keep himself safe.

    The beliefs of Fascist Estate aligned more closely to its interests than statements of dogma. For Gott, Hitler had said most things already. He felt ownership would be more significant than stating facts. He despised truth and hated church religion, as he put it. He was repulsed by “big Catholicism” and stayed away from intimate devoted settings. He didn’t like adherence. He felt it lacked substance. He admired home ownership but it soured as he craved for more. He wanted his group to amass holdings that would force people into surrender.