IF YOU were Prime Minister and were alerted to a barbaric near-fatal stabbing of a vulnerable man by an immigrant in a town where the foreign population has risen at almost twice the rate of that of mainland Britain, what would your first instinct be? A man with learning difficulties, who’d fled to Belfast from Scotland to get over an indescribably horrendous attack earlier in his life, only to become the victim of another there in which, inter alia, he was stabbed in both eyes.
Mine would be to visit that man – in an induced coma or not – even if only to stand outside the hospital to express my sorrow and to offer my personal apologies to his family and community for the out-of-control immigration policy that caused it. After that it would be to resign.
That more than anything would have quelled the unrest that Starmer found plenty of time to condemn (as ‘racist’, of course) expressing more outrage over that than about the heinous crime that triggered it, as Daniel Jupp pointed out in TCW on Friday.
I have found it really difficult this week to think about anything else, only to see Starmer dodging the bullet again, pontificating this time over ‘acts of violence and arson were totally unjustified’. Totally?! This was Starmer gaslighting the beleaguered Belfast residents – like a stepfather who beats his wife’s child then locks the child in a room as a punishment for being so unloving and disrespectful as to cry out.
What exactly is Herr Starmer trying to lock away? The bruises he has inflicted on Northern Ireland by two successive summers of ignoring their ‘we feel fear’ protests about immigration. Dismissed. Racist. The UK’s population replacement policy for this British outpost, an unprecedented migrant surge inflicted on it, has resulted in a foreign population that’s risen at almost twice the rate of that of mainland Britain (between 2001 and 2021) with Belfast at its hub.
How migration surge changed Belfast.
God knows what the figures are now, five years on.
Belfast, the PM must know, is one of the Government’s prime locations for housing asylum seekers (10th in the local authority league table, to be precise).
Does he really think any community should be expected to tolerate this level of demographic change? What’s more, the arrivals coming largely from hostile, violent, war-torn and yes, alien cultures. The only reasonable answer is no. Something every newspaper editor who reports and condemn these protests as ‘racist’ should dwell on.
The only thing that made last week barely tolerable were the few columns that called out the government’s double standards. Starting with TCW and Laura Perrins’s magisterial take-down of Governments happily importing people from the ultra-dangerous country of Sudan they give the highest level of warning against travel to.
Then there was Brendan O’Neill’s brilliant truth bomb article about such alien cultures that one of my regular TCW correspondents alerted me to, asking me to share it far and wide. It put the stupidly supercilious Hilary Benn on notice for ‘rebuking’ MP Jim Allister’s altogether reasonable suggestion ‘that the bloodletting maniac in Belfast hailed from an “alien culture”.’
O’Neill writes: ‘How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for “inappropriate dress”? A culture where one woman suffered 40 lashes from a leather whip for the crime of wearing trousers and a T-shirt? A culture where a man who lies with a man risks being whipped a hundred times before being put in a dank cell for five years? A culture where apostasy is considered such an abominable sin that even a heavily pregnant woman could be sentenced to death for supposedly committing it?’
Yes, with the word ‘alien’, he continues, and ‘backward, regressive, inhuman and morally inferior to the freer, more forgiving culture we Brits are lucky to live in’.
Quite right!
He goes on to condemn the distorted thinking that interprets moral judgment as bigotry – a world view shaped by ‘the social experiment of moral non-judgmentalism [that] has been a catastrophe.’ He ends by asking: ‘For how much longer will working-class communities have to suffer the consequences of state failure and bourgeois virtue?’
The answer is not until the MSM wake up to and reject this moral inversion; and turns its back entirely on the woke, non-judgemental framing of the establishment. Not, in fact, until they start being more like us at TCW, like Brendan O’Neill and like the wonderful Jim Chimirie on X who pointed to another truth about Belfast that the newspaper editors ignored – that the border stayed open while the State closed the conversation:
‘Before the fires in Belfast had been extinguished, the government had identified the threat. Not the border. Not the system that granted Hadi Alodid legal residency in seven months without a verifiable European asylum history. Not the Albanian gangs advertising guaranteed passage to England on TikTok this morning. The threat, as defined by this government, was the conversation.’
His post, which you can read in full here, observes: ‘A government that cannot close a border it knows is being exploited, cannot answer its own terror watchdog, and cannot explain how a man with no verifiable asylum history acquired British residency in seven months, has chosen a fourth option. Control the account. Leave the causes intact.’
Just as Labour did last week with Liz Kendall’s announcement that ‘social media firms would face new legal curbs during times of crisis’.
A week of feeling helpless and frustrated, but for Christian Concern, an organisation that never gives in to such moral weakness.
Andrea Williams and her small team stay right there on the front line of defence and advocacy for those at the receiving end of oppressive reverse judgmentalism of the woke authorities. Remember the nurse who declined to use the preferred pronouns of a convicted paedophile identifying as a transgender woman? After two years they won her case, one of many they have pursued and eventually won. Their latest is former North Yorkshire Police Community Support Officer Luke Salmons, forced out after asking respectful questions about Islam during mandatory diversity training sessions that were presented as ‘safe spaces’ for open discussion.
This week, in direct association with this (and the Nowak case), they ask us to support a new petition, directed at Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, to say no to two-tier ideological police training. Please click here. It is the very least we can do.
