An Unreasonable Assumption?

The Northern Variant

August 11, 2024

The government's enthusiasm for censorship comes in the wake of what has been described as a "pogrom" against Muslims in Southport, where it was assumed, on the basis of rumour and speculation, that the murder suspect was a Muslim asylum seeker.

The problem for the government is that it wasn't an unreasonable assumption.

An asylum seeker stabbed six people in Glasgow in 2020. This year, a Moroccan asylum seeker, motivated by the conflict in Gaza, murdered a pensioner in Hartlepool. In 2021, an asylum seeker detonated a device, which he had made himself, while in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s hospital. James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, were stabbed to death by Khairi Saadallah, in Reading in June 2020.

This is now a structural type of crime as an adjunct of importing fighting-age third world men. These are economic migrants and jurisdiction shoppers who have cheated the immigration system.

The government continues to allow this systematic abuse of the system, and distributes them around the country under a veil of secrecy. As such, people have died who would otherwise be alive had the government listened to public sentiment.

Somehow, though, the public is expected to show endless tolerance, and when the state chooses to withhold information from them, the public is at fault for forming their own conclusions. The bottom line, is that the public does not see why they have to tolerate this abuse or have to get used to regular acts of savagery on our own streets.

Nor are they obliged to allow the liberal establishment to rub their noses in it. This was always going to have consequences and we haven't seen the last of them. In fact, Labour's effective amnesty, and their plan to bump migrants up the housing list is likely to seriously inflame the situation. They're not doing it out of altruism. They are doing it purely to spite their political enemies (ie. the white working class). They're weaponising immigrants.

As such, Labour has made a very deliberate decision to escalate tensions and provoke yet more discontent. Its subsequent decision to crack down on social media has nothing to do with public safety.

If they cared about public safety, they wouldn't have flung open the borders. This is exclusively about removing our ability to register our disapproval. In this instance, the state got lucky because Southport rioters jumped the gun, giving them just enough credibility to make demands of social media companies, but we won't have to wait until the end of the year before someone is butchered at the hands of an asylum seeker.

This isn't going away. The underlying anger expressed over the last week didn't come from nowhere. This has been building for months and years. They are not going to stop us noticing the patterns. They are not going to stop us talking about it.

While armed Islamist mobs are patrolling the streets of Britain, we are not going to look the other way. This conversation is happening whether Starmer wants it or not.

He can't lock us all up.

Image - AP Photo / Kirsty Wigglesworth

Kevan James

There can be little dispute over public concern regarding the numbers of illegal entrants that have successfully crossed the Channel and come into the UK

This is incontrovertible fact. It is also a fact that these people have been distributed widely across the country and in a way that has alienated a significant portion of the public. And of course, successive governments since 1997 have ignored those concerns.

There is, still, no excuse for rioting, for smashing up shops, stealing and attacking people. That is the preserve of the criminally minded. The vast majority of the British public are not so.

Nevertheless, the author of this article above is right when referring to public anger. And also right when pointing out that this isn't going to go away.

Solving the problem of large numbers of illegal entrants cannot be done be the UK alone however. To get to the UK, these entrants are crossing Europe. Simple logic will thus tell one that Europe as a continent must find those solutions - no not the EU, but all European countries.

And that incudes detaining, in genuinely secure places, anybody and everybody who illegally enters any European country. Not just the UK.

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