Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t expecting anything like an intelligent, nuanced and thoughtful response to the recent protests following the Southport murders. Statesmanship is not the St Pancras Pabloite’s forte. And Mr Starmer was in Magic Grandpa’s shadow cabinet, after all. But I was expecting at the very least a nod, albeit an insincere one, to the concerns of communities reeling from yet another killing spree perpetrated by a relative newcomer. (Let’s be frank, Axel Rudakubana’s presence in Southport was a direct consequence of the open-borders policy faithfully pursued and stubbornly implemented by successive governments, starting in 1997, against the wishes of the British people. Without such a reckless policy, his victims would probably still be alive.)
Alas, no such nod was forthcoming. Starmer instead attacked the people – angry victims of a quixotic, reckless policy that’s killing their children and destroying the social fabric of the nation – labelling them Far-Right bigots and thugs. It was nothing short of breathtaking. Yes, some imbecilic knuckle-draggers did hijack the protests, throwing bricks at police and attacking a mosque – indefensible acts of hooliganism. But to suggest that they represent every single protester in London, Manchester, Hartlepool and, yes, Southport, is a disgraceful smear and can only be interpreted as an attempt to silence legitimate concerns.
Such smears are meant to intimidate people into terrified acquiescence, a tactic that has, in the past, led to perverse and iniquitous consequences. Remember the security guard being too afraid to challenge the Manchester Arena bomber lest he be labelled a racist? What about Rotherham Police turning a blind eye to the systematic rape of over 1,400 girls, some as young as 11, at the hands of Pakistani grooming gangs for decades – again, in case they fell foul of the politically correct dogma unleashed by our left-wing masters? Our political class and their media cheerleaders have a lot to answer for.
However, it seems that people have not been so easily intimidated this time. They’ve had enough, and last week took to the streets of Sunderland to express their fury. I in no way condone the scenes of violence we have witnessed, and will no doubt continue to witness. But I fear that Starmer’s address has driven ordinary, law-abiding people into the embrace of hooligans, some far-right, out of sheer desperation. Starmer refused to listen. The ‘Far-Right’ may well fill that void.
But why? Why did he not only insult the public, but threaten them, too?
There must be a degree of embarrassment. He is a lifelong supporter of open-borders, wedded to the destruction of the nation state and the inauguration of a Panglossian global community. Now that such unthinking idealism – like the idealism of Marxism before it – has been exposed to reality, it must come as an awful shock. But like left-wing purists before him, he’s finding it impossible to let go, preferring to cling to a broken ideal by silencing those who challenge his fantasy and blaming the unenlightened masses for its failure.
Well, it’s not working. People have had enough. He needs to speak to the nation again, apologise for his disgraceful smears, differentiate between the thugs and those genuine protesters desperately worried about their communities, and promise to address issues like mass immigration, Islamism and two-tier policing. Starmer is partially responsible for these chaotic scenes. He must apologise. If he doesn’t get a grip, we’re going to see more riots and more law-abiding people driven into the arms of the real rather than imaginary Far-Right.
Joe Baron is a teacher and a writer, published in The Spectator, The Sun, the TES, Breitbart, Conservative Home, The Conservative Woman and The Daily Telegraph. His blog can be found here.
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Der Sturmer apologise? Don’t hold your breath.
The rioters are angry because they believe that their country and their culture continues to be undermined and hollowed out. Every attempt to make their views known has been greeted with derision, often in the most snobbish terms. Many of them see no possibility of a change in direction, particularly under a left-wing government, so what have they got left other than violence?
So far as Starmer is concerned, they are simply wrong on all counts and must be suppressed. He is not going to apologise because he knows is right and, in any case, apologising would mean accepting that the political elite he belongs to has been getting it wrong for decades. To Starmer, the country is not ours, it belongs to the “global majority”, and they are entitled to seize it and change it in any way they see fit.
The good news is that support for “20% Starmer” was a mile wide but an inch deep before the election. In the North it must be substantially less now. Not sure he’s going to survive this.
Barry ”so what have they got left other than violence?”
That is the logical last step when all entreaties to address the glaring problem of mass immigration legal/illegal destroying our country have not been answered and they consistently refuse to do anything about it. They have nobody to blame but themselves though they will try to foist this off as ‘far-right hooliganism’ Tommy Robinson EDL thuggery and racism, when it is nothing of the sort.
Sunak would have had exactly the same response as Starmer. It is only a couple of months since his farrrrr right speech outside No 10. At least Starmer gave his speech indoors instead of making a fool of himself getting wet through like Sunak. All establishment parties follow the same agenda set by the same people. Why oh why can’t people realise that only by rejecting all establishment parties is there any hope of righting the ship.
I can’t remember what had happened, I think some protest or other, possibly the pro Palestine mob – but I remember Sunak giving a speech where he said ‘dark forces are at work’ – and this wasn’t his resignation speech. NOT his fault that it rained, btw. At least he had the guts to give his speech in the street. I also remember in the last head to head debate, he directly challenged Starmer, several times, about what he was going to do about the illegal immigrants that were already here – Starmer had no answer. And the idea of ‘negotiating’ with the boat gang masters or calling them terrorists, like they care – as Sunak said in the same debate, the idea is absolutely ridiculous. But nobody listened, they had made their minds up, and Sunak was, apparently, ‘too aggressive’. Even though his arguments made sense. Well who is aggressive now? At least the previous PM TRIED to do something, but every single idea, if only a deterrent, was shot down by the Opposition, human rights lawyers, do gooders and those with a vested interest in the immigrant vote. I didn’t hear them promise an amnesty for 90,000 illegal immigrants, or promise to protect the Muslim community, spending £117 million in the process. Or open our borders regardless of consequences. If you think the Tories were terrible – and they were at times – you are about to find out what ‘terrible’ really means. Or terrifying.
Well said kangarabbit, couldn’t have put it better myself.
The article writer and commenters have got it just about correct. What we now see in the UK is what happens when a society abandons its identity, experiments with so-called social and racial justice theories and rejects the core values of family, faith, and nation that bind it harmoniously together. It is the logical outworking and bitter fruit of what started in the 1960s.
There are now three distinct types of people in the UK, those who out of frustration have finally realised that their concerns on any subject won’t be addressed via the ballot box (some have always been in this camp), those who wholesale swallow the line given by elected representatives/authorities and also personally adhere to ‘the latest thing’ because it’s ‘nice’ to be seen to be ‘nice’ and finally a small minority who relish any opportunity for thuggery, violence, intimidation and frequently theft.
KS and predecessors believe that they can continue to count on the fickle ‘nice’ brigade – they are wrong and we’re in for a re-run of the ‘first they came for…’ scenario. Some realignment of the public with unwelcome partners is now almost inevitable.
A headline “PM resigns and flees bloody protests” raised my spirits.
Then I realised it was Bangladesh.
Damn! :o(
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