.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.
With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.
A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.
Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.
The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.
Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.
How many more before the thoughts become action?
The most harrowing thing about this is the fact a knobhead like Lammy is Deputy PM. He’s as thick as mince!
Our political system is broken beyond repair.
🚨BREAKING: Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said racial equality "doesn't mean treating everyone the same"
The quiet part is now being said out loud
Feels like this country is an absolute pressure cooker at the minute.
Bad news from everywhere, bills up quality of life down and incidents that stir up anger on a daily basis. This government could fast lose control if things keep going at this trajectory.
Did the stadium tour yesterday. Shirt on for me and the old boy. See Arsenal shirts all over the shop, when booked I never realised it would be them in the final. Would have been easier if we’d done today instead 😂
Shithousing isn’t a good thing,forget hating Arsenal, the way they play the game is an abomination.
Arteta is lucky the league is poor and they were helped along. Terrible stuff to watch
I’m not defending Lange or Vin but do you not think these people are put in as fodder! It’s a deflector shield for the owners to blame them for their failures. What constraints are they actually working under.
Doesn’t want to be too much celebration from the players. They’ve been an embarrassment for most of this season. Hopefully lots leave and we don’t have to watch this shit again.
@JerseySpur5 Talksport have a list of players not going. Collymore has put it on here too, if it’s right it’s a shocker.
Not usually off with this stuff tbf
Taking away everything else we are just terribly bad at football. We honestly deserve relegation from a playing point of view. I don’t remember enjoying a Spurs game in the league