DAVID STARKEY IS A GATEKEEPER

I have often wondered where the historian David Starkey’s political loyalties lie. He has always played the conservatard while nodding and winking to proper Rightists. Indeed, one of his more explicit outbursts got him in quite a bit of bother. In 2011, during an episode of Newsnight, Starkey pronounced:

 

"What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black. The whites have become black; a particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion."

 

Of course, Starkey crumbled under pressure during the inevitable media backlash, retracting everything he said and making grovelling apologies, which usually makes no difference, but as a homosexual and disabled man (tick two boxes), he retained his employment and social standing in a way that people like Ron Atkinson, Danny Baker and John Torode never managed.

 

 

Again in 2020, he got himself in hot water when he said that slavery was not genocide because of the survival of “so many damn blacks”. While his statement was factual, the use of “damn” potentially showed an aversion to the Negroid species of humanity.

 

That said, apart from these little dog whistles, Starkey has always favoured the Whig view of history. His love of the Reformation, the so-called Glorious Revolution (a propagandist term) and Thatcherism mark him as an ardent conservatard. 

 

It was during his interview of Restore Britain leader and MP Rupert Lowe recently that his true colours were revealed. In particular, this clip shows his barely concealed glee when talking about the rapacious system:

 

 

Of course, as Rupert Lowe rightly says, the system is merely people, people who are self-interested, who benefit from the creation of a set of rules and regulations that they impose on all. Starkey has benefitted from this system, hence his fervour when threatening Lowe that it “will eat him alive”, should he gain power. The threat is made to defend the system he loves. The conservatard conserves the system.

 

Yet Lowe is well aware of the problems he will face. Starkey again tries to belittle him as an ignorant child and portray himself as the professor, the man of knowledge, but Lowe is the one with political experience. Starkey has never served as an MP; his “knowledge” is purely empty academic theory. Starkey describes himself as Lowe’s friend; with condescending friends like Starkey, he doesn’t need enemies.

 

In other parts of the interview, Starkey also tries the well-worn trick of fear-mongering that Restore Britain will split the “rightist” vote and allow Labour another term. The fact is that all the other parties have been open about their commitment to immigration, including the snake Nigel Farridge and his Reform PLC. More on that in another article. The line drawn is therefore between Restore Britain and the rest.

 

I am not suggesting for definite that Restore Britain is genuine; perhaps it will betray the electorate as the Conservative Party has done time and again, but for now at least, unlike the other high-profile parties, they are putting repatriation on the table. The establishment backlash also suggests Lowe is genuine; it is very different from the treatment Farridge gets, in which he is portrayed as a pantomime villain, which is what he is: pure theatre. We will look at this more closely in another article; but Lowe seems to create genuine fear in the establishment, because he seems to be uncorrupted and want radical change.

 

Lowe may not be the man for all seasons, but he is the man for the moment. Ultimately, he is largely fashioned in the Thatcherite mould, and Thatcherism led to the great recession of the early 1990s and the proliferation of the underclass, lest we forget. However, he is slightly to the Right of Thatcher, and as we are far to the left of Thatcher in the present, it is a step in the Right direction. We must take that step and keep on steppin’.

 

As for Starkey, in conclusion, Starkey is a gatekeeper. The fact that he proudly displays his CBE in his Twitter/X profile tells you that, like Roger Scruton before him, he is working on his knighthood, and therefore has no wish to change the status quo. Whether he genuinely loves all the “diversity” and degeneracy of contemporary society (see his comments on cottaging), or whether it is from a lack of courage in that he knows he will lose his status should he rock the boat, really it makes no difference: Starkey is there to attract dissidents by dog whistling with a few un-PC remarks, and then influence them into becoming useless conservatards.