By Harrison Pitt, The European Conservative, April 19, 2024
Harrison Pitt is a senior editor at The European Conservative. He co-hosts “Deprogrammed,” a current affairs show produced by the New Culture Forum.
I often wonder whether those who campaigned for Brexit should have predicted that it would be hijacked by globalist drones.
As everyone ought to know by now, NatCon Brussels went ahead this week in an unusually raucous fashion. What many of us have grown accustomed to enjoying as a fount of ideas and a source of rejuvenation became a grotesque spectacle of tyranny in action.
The first venue, Concert Noble, cancelled under political pressure, citing security concerns. The second venue, the Sofitel, did likewise within 24 hours of kick-off. But the machinations of the regime reached a whole new level of brazenness when, despite the plucky courage of a Tunisian business owner who offered his club in Saint-Josse as a third venue, the local Turkish mayor ordered his police force to shut it down—all while no less a figure than Nigel Farage was on stage delivering an electric speech. …