If you are of the view that millions of your fellow Britons are angry only because they have been “whipped up” by a few right-wing bogeymen, you truly do not understand your own country.
Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.
But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.
That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.
There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.
The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”
Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.
That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.
Cathy Newman is a VERY SICK human being.
A man is nearly beheaded by a migrant who shouldn't be here on the streets of Belfast.
She rushes straight to her newsroom computer to blame "far right" Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson & Nigel Farage for "whipping this up for their own ends".
.@zarahussain999, the far right card. Every time. Without fail. A man is nearly beheaded on a residential street in Belfast and within hours the story becomes about the far right.
A Sudanese national, granted leave to remain, pinned a man to the ground and stabbed him repeatedly in the face, eyes and neck. A member of the public stopped it with a hurling stick. That is where this started. Not with protesters. Not with the far right. With a man who should not have been in that community, in that country, given leave to remain by a system that admitted it had no trace of him on any security database.
The burning of homes is wrong. That has been said. Now say this: the near murder of a man on a residential street is also wrong. The policy that put an unvetted Sudanese national in that neighbourhood without the community's knowledge or consent is also wrong. Three consecutive years of immigration-related disorder in Belfast is also wrong.
You feel unsafe. So does the man in hospital with stab wounds to his face and neck. So do the communities that have been told for years that their concerns are racism. So do the families who were not consulted before unvetted young men were dispersed into their streets.
The far right label is a silencing mechanism. It has been used to shut down this conversation for thirty years. Look where that has got us.
It’s almost a superpower of the liberals this ability to object to people reacting to an horrific attack by an illegal migrant as if the reaction were the problem not the barbarism,
This is simply not true @Keir_Starmer.
You absolutely DO tolerate abhorrent scenes of violence like this attack. Just like you tolerate all the rapes and sexual assaults of women and girls by illegal migrants.
You - and most of the political class - decided long ago that these crimes are a price worth paying in return for achieving your multicultural, diverse, open bordered nirvana.
So don't pretend to be shocked and don't wring your hands in sadness. This is the predictable (and predicted) result of the policies YOU support.
A Charity Whose Trustees Read Like a Labour Honours List Is Trying to Win a By-Election.
Hope Not Hate is a registered charitable trust. Charities operating in the political arena are bound by a simple and unambiguous rule. They must stress their independence. They must not encourage support for any particular party or candidate. They must not give funding to political parties or politicians. These are not guidelines. They are legal obligations enforced by the Charity Commission.
Nigel Farage has written to the Charity Commission citing what he describes as a clear breach of those obligations in the Makerfield by-election constituency ahead of the June 18th poll.
The facts documented in his letter are precise. Hope Not Hate sent leaflets to addresses in Makerfield encouraging voters to join the local fightback against Reform and scan a QR code to participate. The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company. That private company received £787,858 in grants from Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust in 2024, representing almost the entirety of the charitable trust's expenditure for the year. The action apparently changed nothing.
The trustees of Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust and the directors and former directors of Hope Not Hate Limited include Frances O'Grady, former TUC General Secretary and Labour Peer. Gurinder Josan CBE, current Chair of HUCT and Labour MP. Jon Cruddas, former Labour MP. Alison Phillips, Chief Executive of LabourTogether, a Labour supporting think tank. Ruth Lauren Anderson, Labour Peer. Anna Turley, former Labour MP and Chair of the Labour Party.
A charitable trust whose trustees are overwhelmingly current or former Labour politicians is funding a private company to distribute leaflets in a by-election constituency explicitly targeting Reform and backing the Labour candidate. The Charity Commission's own guidance states that a charity must steer clear of explicitly comparing its views with those of political parties or candidates taking part in an election. The leaflet's footer, to join the local fightback against Reform, does precisely that.
This is not the first time the Charity Commission has been required to intervene. It opened a compliance case in July 2025 and concluded it in January 2026, declaring itself satisfied that the charity had taken sufficient steps to distinguish itself from Hope Not Hate Limited. The case was closed. Within months the same funding arrangement appears to have resumed with charitable funds flowing into electoral leaflets in a specific by-election constituency. The Commission closed the case. The behaviour apparently continued.
The Makerfield by-election is the vehicle through which Andy Burnham intends to return to Westminster and challenge for the Labour leadership. Reform took every council seat in the area at the May local elections with 46.2 percent of the vote. The stakes could not be higher. And a charity whose trustees read like a Labour Party honours list is spending charitable funds to help deliver the result.
The Charity Commission has 22 days to act before the votes are cast on June 18th. It has already investigated this arrangement once and the funding continued unchanged. Charitable money is being spent to influence a by-election that could determine who leads the country. The regulator that failed to stop it in January faces a simple question. Will it act before the result or after it no longer matters?
"The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company."
Please remember that you must not express your feelings about the Belfast atrocity until the political establishment has told you exactly how you are supposed to feel. That's how it works now.