.@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?
@Keir_Starmer 'I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.' but you do nothing about it when it happens🤷🏻♀️
@el_obisesan@matt96h That's not going to protect children when the problems are in real life, pedophiles and rape gangs everywhere kidnapping and raping them. That should be their first priority not controlling what they do online. That's where parents come in and do their job...
@Keir_Starmer How about you do something about all the actual pedophiles and the rape gangs in real life that's raping the children here first before you try and control them. Really makes you wonder why you wont do anything about them....
@63loyal@Cece63_ By the time he said that George was literally turning into the pit lane. 🤦🏼♀️ He was confused on what to do because there was clearly no communication prior.