Britain Racked By Riots

Last Monday, in Southport, England, children attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class were attacked by a knife-wielding 17-year-old. He stabbed to death three girls, ages 6, 7 and 9, and wounded ten more children and adults, several critically. In the wake of the attack, rumors spread that the murderer was a Muslim immigrant. Rioting broke out in Southport.

Because the attacker was nearly 18 at the time of his crimes, and rumors, some false, were circulating, the court identified him as Axel Rudakubana. Rudakubana reportedly was born in Cardiff, but his family immigrated to Britain from Rwanda. I haven’t seen detailed reporting on the family, but Rwanda is a predominantly Christian country.

Britain has now been convulsed by five consecutive days of rioting. The Telegraph headlines, “Far-Right rioters target migrant hotels as unrest continues.” In Europe, anyone who isn’t on board with mass third-world immigration is “far right.”

Riots continued across Britain on Sunday as aggressors set fire to hotels used to house asylum seekers.

Hotels were set on fire in Rotherham and Tamworth while in Bolton, rival groups of anti-immigrant and Muslim youths were kept apart by police.

Elsewhere, a mob in Middlesbrough targeted the homes of migrants, shouting “smash the p—”.

The violence follows widespread disorder across the country on Saturday which saw riots occur in Belfast, Nottingham, Liverpool, Stoke and Hull.

Rotherham is the city where for years, Muslim rape gangs preyed on young British girls. The authorities apparently were too fearful of being called “racist” to interfere. A seething resentment of third world immigration persists.

A planned protest in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham quickly turned violent when scores of masked and hooded youths, many carrying England or Union flags, began throwing missiles at police.

Around 700 people descended on the town’s Holiday Inn Express hotel which has previously been used to house asylum seekers.

Rioters actually broke into the hotel and set it on fire:

Rioting has occurred in a number of other towns:

[In Tamworth] a police officer was injured after rioters targeted a second hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers on Sunday.
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Violence once again flared in the North East, which had already been the scene of widespread disorder in Hartlepool and Sunderland.

This time, a planned demonstration in Middlesbrough turned violent with racist attacks launched against members of the migrant community and Asian-owned businesses. … Chanting “we want our country back”, some of the thugs attempted to break through police lines.

Protesters and rioters have frequently been reported chanting “We want our country back.”

In Bolton, police struggled to prevent a mob of far-Right agitators and gangs of young, mainly Muslim men from clashing.

A large anti-immigration protest close to the town hall began peacefully but soon descended into violence and disorder.

Counter demonstrators, some shouting “Allahu Akbar”, meaning God is greatest, clashed with those taking part in the protest, while police tried to keep them apart.

The riots have uniformly been condemned by authorities across the political spectrum, and properly so. But at least one law enforcement official tried to explain the rioters’ point of view, and has been denounced for doing so:

Britain’s most senior police commissioner has been criticised for “appearing to justify” the riots.

Donna Jones, who is police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and a Conservative Party politician, said the only way to stop the violent scenes was to “acknowledge what is causing it” and by “understanding the views” of the rioters.

“Whilst the devastating attacks in Southport on Tuesday were a catalyst, the commonality amongst the protest groups appears to be focused on three key areas: the desire to protect Britain’s sovereignty; the need to uphold British values, and, in order to do this, stop illegal immigration,” she said.

She said arresting people was “treating the symptom and not the cause” and that the Prime Minister had questions to answer about how the new Labour government would tackle immigration and uphold British values.

In recent years, Britain has been inundated with immigrants, both legal and illegal. As of June 2022, there were an estimated 10,388,000 people in England and Wales who were not born in the UK, representing nearly 15% of the UK population. A Labour official has confirmed that the government’s immigration policy was deliberately designed to bring about a demographic transformation:

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.
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He wrote: “Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.”

As though being “multicultural” were a positive good. But when did Britons ever vote to have their country transformed through mass immigration, including a tolerance for illegal immigration in the guise of asylum seeking? They didn’t. And if given the opportunity, they wouldn’t have. Hence the rage that has boiled over following the stabbing attack in Southport.

Elon Musk is pessimistic:

Responding to a clip posted on social media showing recent rioting in Britain, Mr Musk wrote: “Civil war is inevitable.”

The comment received over one million views.

I don’t think civil war is likely, let alone inevitable. But the U.K. is one a number of countries where elites have arrogantly undertaken vast social experiments without the consent of a large majority of the population. Those who don’t like the results are labeled “far right” and ostracized. That doesn’t justify rioting, but it explains why riots happen, and will continue to happen, unless fundamental issues like immigration are resolved by democratic process rather than by elite fiat.