Europe’s Zoomer Rebellion
This Week In Media | 11th - 23rd June, 2024
Blessed Sunday, everyone. I was absent last week, visiting Bath & Oxford and reaching a rather important romantic milestone. Thank you for all your well wishes.
In the last fortnight, my prediction that young men will become a revolutionary political force continues to prove itself true.
I elaborated on the reasons why Gen Z men are abandoning the establishment uni-party, seeking reactionary forces like Reform UK as an answer to their demographic, economic, and cultural estrangement, in this new interview with GB News’ Nick Dixon.
"You can't own a home... your culture feels alien and unrecognisable, and people say, 'It wasn't like this in the past' - so, it is optional - then you're going to be pretty annoyed."
The result of indebting everyone born since 1997, when things did not, in fact, ‘only get better’, and taxing them to pay for both unsustainable Boomer entitlements (the NHS and pensions) and to subsidise social housing for millions of hostile foreign nationals, is that the moral claims of the Blairite consensus have no hold on their consciences.
This results, as many polls have shown, in young women being drawn to expressions of suicidal, pathological compassion with radically liberal Leftist politics, and young men toward muscular, patriotic, populist parties who promise to deport criminal dependents.
In Europe…
My latest popular essay for The European Conservative observes how Europe’s Zoomers are turning on the neoliberal, open-borders establishment that has deprived them of their history and inheritance.
In France, young women are swinging by thirteen points for Le Pen's National Rally -- enamoured with Jordan Bardella, and fearing for their safety from men immigrating from the Middle East and North Africa.
Everywhere except Paris rejected Macron’s poundshop Napoleon act. Not that the French need an excuse to strike, but Macron—from his fuel tax to his pension reforms—keeps giving them options. French natives haven’t been the only ones lighting fires since 2017. A Rwandan asylum seeker set Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes ablaze in 2020. Notre Dame Cathedral was incinerated in 2019—and hastily labelled an accident. This has become something of a trend in France, with one place of Christian worship destroyed every two weeks, two-thirds of them by arson.
More of France burned when non-white migrants rioted last year, after a 17-year-old repeat-offender, French-Algerian Nahel M., was shot by police while attempting to flee from a traffic stop. Other racially aggravated crimes imported to France include the murder of a 16-year-old by nine migrants, who declared “We came to kill White people.”
In Germany, Gen Z has repurposed the 1999 pop song “L’Amour Toujours” to chant ‘Ausländer raus’, endorsing mass deportations for the millions of welfare dependents who have milled about in Germany’s metropoles since Mama Merkel said “Wir schaffen das.”
Despite Alternative für Deutschland challenging the decision to lower the voting age to sixteen, they increased their vote share by eleven percent among 16-24s, securing 16.5% of the overall vote.
TikToks by Maximilian Krah, advising young Germans “Don’t watch porn, don’t vote green, go outside into the fresh air. Be confident. And above all don’t believe you need to be nice and soft,” seem to have struck a chord.
I also discussed the results of the EU elections, the forecast for France’s upcoming Parliamentary election, and how Gen Z’s hopes have an avatar in Call-of-Duty-streamer-turned-Prime Minister, Jordan Bardella, on last week’s Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
In the UK…
As summarised in my European Conservative essay:
The reason Reform are now eclipsing the Tories in the polls is because Farage traded Richard Tice’s strategy of microwaving Thatcherism, capitulating to hit pieces by lying communists, and exclusively communicating through boomer broadcast media for memes and joie de vivre. It’s certainly working, as Reform is now the second most popular party with 18-24s.
Since that essay was published, Reform UK have consistently outperformed the Conservatives in national polls — with one by Matt Goodwin predicting Reform to have 24% of the vote, and the Conservatives only 15%.
As such, a new Telegraph poll predicts Rishi Sunak to lose his seat. This would be a historical first: as no incumbent prime minister has ever lost their seat at a general election before.
I covered these new polls, and the embarrassing scandals continuing to blight the Conservatives’ campaign, on Friday’s Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
One of these scandals includes Rishi Sunak’s abdication of duty to attend the international D-Day commemoration ceremony.
It says a lot about where Rishi Sunak’s heart lies — elsewhere, anywhere which has better job prospects — that it didn’t even cross his mind that this would look profoundly unpatriotic to the exact Bulldog nationalist Boomers that his national service and triple-lock-plus policies tried to court.
I covered the war on two fronts currently fought over the future of the Tory Party on Tomlinson Talks on Wednesday the 12th of June.
Another example of the egregious betrayals by the Conservative government is that, under their watch, the Home Office has established organisations like Spectrum, which spend thousands in taxpayer funds on Pride events — such as scavenger hunts, and book clubs for ‘This Arab Is Queer’.
They also give hundreds of thousands of pounds to lying communist organisation Hope Not Hate — despite their campaigning for Labour Party candidates, and smearing sitting Conservative ministers as indistinguishable from the National Front, violating the mandated political impartiality expected of their charitable trust status.
I detailed all of this on The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters this week, with Carl and guest professor Eric Kaufmann.
Fearing the slush fund will stop if Reform UK are elected in 2029 (or even if a sizeable number of MPs can frustrate Labour’s majority from 2024…), the smear merchant machine kicked into overdrive this week, with hysterical accusations that Farage is indistinguishable from Europhile fascist Oswald Mosely, and that a Reform UK candidate “praised Hitler”… despite being Jewish.
I did the due diligence of speaking to Reform candidates involved in this non-controversy. I established that Jack Aaron, candidate for Welwyn Hatfield, teaches a Sunday class at his local synagogue.
So not quite the skinheaded enthusiast of a certain Austrian painter as first alleged…
We covered the absurdity of these attacks on The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters — and thankfully they haven’t fooled anyone who cares about the problems in our country.
Reform UK Youth
On Deprogrammed this week, Harrison and I spoke to our friend Charlie Downes, content lead at the Centre for Migration Control, about his involvement in the campaign to establish an official Reform UK Youth organisation.
If there’s one fair criticism of Reform UK, it’s that the candidates don’t all reflect the exuberance of the young, digitally-savvy Britons who support Nigel Farage.
As such, the next five years will be crucial to identify burgeoning political talent, and instil messaging discipline in the new and eager inductees into the Reform Party.
By 2029, Reform Youth could deliver a list of credible staffers, campaigners, and even candidates to Nigel Farage, so that he can deliver his promises with a competent and loyal Parliamentary majority.
You can sign the open letter to establish a Reform Youth organisation affiliated with the Party here.
Other Content From the Past Fortnight
On Wednesday’s Tomlinson Talks, I discussed professor Eric Kaufmann’s new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution — alternatively titled The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism for US readers.
We debated how race, gender, and sexuality became sacralised identities; whether the Second World War or the Civil Rights Movement were the inciting incidents of the Woke cultural revolution; and whether or not more liberalism can be the antidote to its excesses.
Eric is a gentleman, and we enjoyed our spirited disagreement as to how to build our shared civilisation vision very much.
You can watch the full discussion by subscribing to LotusEaters.com.
Lastly, on Comics Corner this month, Harry & I discussed the sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths: John Ostrander & John Byrne’s 1986 six-issue series, Legends.
Unlike modern Progressive comics, Legends extols the virtues of the American Revolution, the nation’s exceptionalism in the context of the late Cold War, and the inextricable Christian ethos which inspired the pilgrims, founding fathers, and its pagan demigods — comic book superheroes — throughout history.
It’s a great tale with excellent art, and a palette cleanser for when you’ve had your fill with politics. Watch now by subscribing to LotusEaters.com.