What’s Really Causing England’s Riots?

By now you’ve likely seen the severe race-rioting that has just broken out all across the United Kingdom. According to prestigious U.S. sources like the New York Times and NBC, these are led purely by Far-Right white racists stirred into action by neo-Nazis spreading disinformation online in the wake of a mass stabbing of little girls at a dance-class in the seaside town of Southport near Liverpool on 29 July, with early fake online rumors claiming the assailant was a Muslim immigrant who had entered the country illegally. This is not completely untrue, but is at best a partial story, at worst a piece of outright disinformation in itself.

Actually, rioting and public disorder had been going on across the U.K. throughout July; you just won’t have heard about it in America, because, in these prior disturbances, the rioters were not white and British. On 19 July, in Tower Hamlets, a suburb of East London with an approximately 40 percent Muslim population, hundreds of men took to the streets, with two groups having to be separated by riot-police with batons and shields, after they began fighting, hurling rocks, and smashing cars and property. Here’s a video proving it. 

The violence appeared linked to far larger and deadlier anti-government riots in Bangladesh; the two warring sides evidently having now been exported across onto the streets of London. Once Bangladesh’s female Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country (probably to Tower Hamlets) on 5 August, a massive mob of clearly very well-integrated British Bangladeshis gathered in public once again to beat an effigy of the deposed leader in the face with shoes. These events gained very little coverage in domestic media, and even most British people are wholly unaware they ever happened, never mind U.S. ones.

Perhaps U.K. media barely covered the Tower Hamlets riots because they were still far too busy covering events from the previous night in the immigrant-populated Harehills district of the Midlands city of Leeds, where we are told Roma gypsies and Muslims live together in perfect multicultural harmony. Arson and other violent disorder which was far too widespread to be successfully covered up had broken out in Harehills following the intervention of social services to take four children away after there was suspicion a baby had been harmed.

The family involved were Roma gypsies, leading to their fellow kind taking to the streets once they saw the supposedly “racist” white authorities intervening like this—again, here’s a video you probably won’t have seen on U.S. TV of police cars being overturned, vehicles being torched, and massively-outnumbered cops being forced to flee (sorry, “tactically retreat”) in terror.   

The authorities seemed curiously lenient with these people afterwards. Said Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway, who is in charge of the Tower Hamlets area: “I recognize that events that take place in Bangladesh can have a significant impact on communities here in Tower Hamlets, but we cannot allow that strength of feeling to tip into threats, violence and disorder. I am grateful to those in the community who stood alongside my officers last night and encouraged calm. In the coming days I would appeal to others to follow their lead and to avoid any further escalation.”

Notice how he didn’t even so much as use the word “riot,” opting instead for euphemisms like “disorder.” Using the perfectly accurate term “riot” would, of course, be inflammatory.

In Harehills, meanwhile, Leeds Council made the following post-riot statement, actually thanking those responsible for their long-term contribution to the area: “The Romanian and Roma community have played a fantastic role in the community and have contributed much to the diversity and richness of the Harehills. We want this work to continue, and develop further work that makes Harehills an even better place to work and live. The events of last night will not help our community or the family [who had their children taken]. We need to work together with the authorities to ensure that best outcomes for the community, and to ensure our voices are heard at the highest level so we can avoid such scenarios in the future.” 

The actual best way of “avoiding such scenarios in the future,” Leeds Council apparently decided, was to promptly hand back the children formerly deemed to be at-risk to their Roma family-members.

Across the rest of the country, many white people were watching all this (whenever it was actually being reported to them) and seething. It seemed quite clear that certain sectors of the national population were being allowed to get their way simply by engaging in acts of mass street violence. So when, on 29 July, the Southport stabbings took place, many fed up whites decided to follow suit. 

Inaccurate speculation online claimed the alleged perpetrator was a Muslim asylum-seeker, in line with several previous offences of a similar nature, sparking protests in Southport which later spiralled out into other cities across the nation, where mosques, asylum hostels, and other similar targets were surrounded, attacked, or vandalised. 

It later turned out the alleged killer was actually the black son of Christian Rwandan migrants who had come to the U.K. in 2002 and, being born here, was thus technically British. Many people failed to see the distinction. Sick and tired of wave after wave of both legal and illegal immigration nobody had ever actually voted for, people took to the streets to protest nationwide. 

Unfortunately, some of them were indeed very violent, leading Britain’s new left-wing Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to give a tone-deaf speech inaccurately calling everyone out on the streets “Far-Right thugs” who were being bussed in from outside to locations all across the country just to cause trouble. The government and media narrative was quickly agreed upon that the only reason people were protesting was because they had been stirred up by Neo-Nazi liars online. The fact that some idiots turned up drunk and swigging cans of beer, or bearing swastika tattoos on their naked backs, helped support this narrative—until you examined it more carefully.   

The Southport stabbings were simply the specific catalyst bringing to a head years upon years of general widespread dissatisfaction about the scale and pace of mass immigration which has seen the entire nation demographically transformed within the space of the past two decades, despite the public repeatedly voting for parties who promise (falsely) to stop it. 

I live on Merseyside, the basic area in which Southport lies, and can confirm that this is the overriding public sentiment locally: people don’t need to be “ordered” out onto the street by largely imaginary neo-Nazis to make them feel this way. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of Southport residents—58 percent—already thought immigration was too high. It’s the same all over the region. No wonder when, in 2023 alone, figures show net migration into the U.K. was 685,000 people; compare that to 30 years earlier, 1993, when net migration was minus 1,000 people.

Those reporters who ventured out to speak to protestors, unlike Keir Starmer safely locked away in Number 10 Downing Street, found a variety of demonstrably non-Nazi motives for discontent besides race-hate. The Times spoke to one elderly woman picketing a Liverpool mosque who admitted she thought there were “too many immigrants here.” Why did she think that? Was she a fascist? No, just old and ill. “You can’t get a doctor’s appointment and they’re prioritising foreigners over our own people. It needs to stop.” 

Another protestor in Liverpool was John Crooke, a 62-year-old white plasterer from the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where, in 1971, 94 percent of residents were white. By 2021, only 57 percent were, with 25 percent now being ethnic Pakistanis. John told The Times: “I grew up in an area of Bradford which these days is like a no-go area and nobody wants to admit it. Forty years ago my mother would clean the stone steps of the house and we’d go to church. Now you can’t walk those streets. The government wants to say we’re Far-Right. We’re not. I’ve had to move three times in Bradford because the community isn’t integrated and certain parts of it think they can do what they want. It’s time somebody starts to listen.”  “The government wants to say we’re Far-Right. We’re not. I’ve had to move three times in Bradford because the community isn’t integrated and certain parts of it think they can do what they want. It’s time somebody starts to listen.” Tweet This

Except people like Sir Keir Starmer, ideologically wedded as they are to the grand “moral” project of mass immigration, never will. Instead, they will just go on contemptuously labelling innocent people like John as dangerous neo-Nazis, rather than worried people with obviously legitimate grievances. It doesn’t really matter that the specific spark which lit the current fire raging all across England turned out to be based upon a wholly false online rumour about the precise immigration status of the alleged Southport stabber: something of this same basic nature was bound to start up at some time or other soon, triggered by some similar atrocity. 

And, if the Labour Government continues responding in the heavy-handed way it is at present, then things will only get worse. Look at this photo of a protestor holding an excellent placard reading “NOT WANTING KIDS MURDERED IS NORMAL, NOT ‘FAR RIGHT’.” Some outright rioters are indeed unpleasant extremist individuals, or else violent fools just out for a free fight. But many other peaceful protestors are, as the placard says, merely normal. By tarring all participants with the same brush, instead of actually listening and addressing their legitimate concerns, Starmer will only succeed in alienating ever more ordinary members of the population—especially when “Two-Tier Keir,” as he has now become mockingly known due to his obvious racial double-standards, doesn’t address the blatant fact many Muslims are now also on the rampage in revenge.

The response of most British churches to the riots is equally inadequate. Local faith-leaders—Catholic, Anglican, and Muslim—put out a post-Southport statement saying that “Division can destroy the very relationships and environment that we depend upon every day of our lives and there is no place for hate in our communities … At this difficult time, let us remember that there is far more that unites than divides us.” 

If that is really the case, then why are there any race-riots at all?

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