After Southport: the rage against the throng
Perhaps the worst case of public discussion being ruthlessly sidelined by an elite that outright distrusts us was in relation to grooming gangs. For years, local councils and police forces around England failed to be open about these largely Pakistani-Muslim gangs that were targeting white-working class girls for sexual exploitation and abuse. In some cases they even failed to investigate them properly. All because they feared our response. They presumed, with spectacular prejudice, that ordinary people would rise up in an orgy of 'Islamophobic' violence if they discovered the truth about grooming gangs. So they hid it. Their dread of pleb feeling, of working-class concern, had become so great, so overpowering, that they ended up more content to let girls be raped than to let the public know the rapes were happening.
When you force people into a straitjacket of political correctness, they will soon try to struggle out of it. When you treat people's anger over terrorism, crime and general social decay as an equally destabilising force, possibly as a more destabilising force, they will start to take offence. Grave offence. People are sick of being shut up. Of being called racist for questioning immigration policy, fascist for voting for Brexit, Islamophobic for opposing radical Islam, fearful for discussing knife crime.