The Tories’ Immigration Policies Spawned This Chaos
Britain is burning. Riots and spasms of ethnic violence have engulfed towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland, spurred on by anti-immigration protests, and — subsequently — the mobilization of Muslim militias to counter the primarily white British perpetrators....
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Britain is burning. Riots and spasms of ethnic violence have engulfed towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland, spurred on by anti-immigration protests, and — subsequently — the mobilization of Muslim militias to counter the primarily white British perpetrators.
The Tories won sweeping, record-breaking victories on the promise that they would restrict immigration.
As the protests turned violent in more than a dozen towns and cities — “injuring dozens of police officers, looting businesses, targeting mosques and setting fires outside a hotel that housed asylum seekers,” the New York Times reported — videos online (largely ignored by the legacy media) began to emerge of armed African and Arab gangs, often masked and clothed in all-black, prowling the streets, beating protestors (often viciously), attacking pubs, fighting police, chanting “Allahu Akbar,” and even appearing to target lone white Britons at random.
Nearly 400 arrests have been made as of this writing. Given the ideological tone of the new Labor government — newly-minted Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made clear that his singular concern is squashing what he described as “far-right thuggery” — one suspects that they were almost all right-wingers. Indeed, the newly-formed “Muslim patrols” have taken it upon themselves to act as a kind of parastatal police force of their own, and have actively rebuffed the British police’s feeble efforts to claw back control.
The precipitating event for the protests was the brutal stabbing attack that claimed the lives of three young British girls — aged 6, 7, and 9 — at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport. The media’s coverage of the attack and the ensuing fallout emphasized that — contrary to some rumors swirling online — the attacker, Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, wasn’t a Muslim immigrant.
But he wasn’t a native Brit, either; Rudakubana was born in Cardiff to Rwandan immigrant parents. Somehow, despite enjoying all the benefits of formal citizenship, he didn’t seem to have gotten the memo on “British values.”
If anything, his failure to assimilate as a second-generation migrant is a far more damning indictment to the pro-immigration narrative than if he had been a first-generation arrival. Perhaps there is something deeper and more fundamental to Britishness than a slip of paper and a geographic birthplace.
Starmer and his cronies in the Labor Party are already salivating at the prospect of a powerful new excuse to bring the full force of the British state down on the heads of their right-wing opposition. The prime minister promised to mobilize a “standing army” of police officers, and has already launched arrests of Brits who made the mistake of expressing anti-immigrant views on social media. (“Mr. Starmer and his government found themselves fighting a two-pronged battle, online and in the streets,” as the New York Times put it euphemistically).
But ultimately, the political blame for this lies squarely at the feet of the British Conservatives — the incumbent governing party in the United Kingdom for the past 14 years, whose majority met a humiliating end last month. As I wrote back in May, shortly before the Conservative Party’s ignominious defeat:
The British Conservative Party’s betrayal of its own voters on [immigration] is even more pronounced than the GOP’s decades-long track record of broken promises and about-faces on our southern border. The Tories rode the coattails of Brexit — a referendum that was, fundamentally, an expression of British anger about mass migration — to historic majorities, then promptly presided over the greatest increase in immigration in their small island nation’s history.
The polls and a slate of recent local elections suggest the party is heading for a drubbing in the upcoming election — the mood within party leadership has been likened to that of a “death march” by Politico. It’s difficult to think of another time in recent history when electoral annihilation was more richly deserved.
The Tories won sweeping, record-breaking victories on the promise that they would restrict immigration. All they had to do to stay in power was follow through.
But they didn’t — and now, their nation is descending into anarcho-tyranny, with violent chaos spurred on by clashes between natives and foreigners over the radical changes wrought by Tory immigration policies, and new restrictions on British liberty orchestrated by the left-wing elites who ascended to power as a result of Tory immigration policies.
Britain is a different nation than it was when the Tories took power in 2010. In the 1990s, Tony Blair proclaimed the arrival of a “new Britain,” but it was the Conservatives who actually delivered on Blair’s vision. If this week is any indication, it appears that the new Britain is finally here.
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