Oh Dear, Two-Tier Keir

On two-tier policing

After just a month of being in ‘charge’, Keir Starmer has quite literally let the country get out of hand and he has not made the best first impression: according to a recent survey, Starmer’s approval ratings with the general public have plummeted significantly with 35% approving and 32% disapproving, which is a 16-point increase from the poll after the election.

This has come amid the poor response and handling of the riots which have taken place across the country, including Hull, Hartlepool, Rotherham, London and Sunderland, which are in response to the heinous killings of three innocent, young children in Southport by a 17-year-old boy, called Axel Rudakubana. Groups took to the streets over the weekend and what began as peaceful protests, turned into an arbitrary uproar of violence, with people attacking police, Muslims, mosques and hotels accommodating asylum seekers with missiles and even attempting to set the hotels on fire. 

The protesters, who are not ‘far-right extremists’, have had enough of the open borders and the violent acts and traits the asylum seekers bring into our country. For example, recently in Leeds, multicultural mobs raided the streets of Harehills, setting things on fire (like buses and cars) and brutally attacking residents, including police. These same types of mobs across the country continue to inflict violence on the streets of Britain on a daily basis. 

Let me make something clear: whilst I agree with closed and controlled borders, I do not condone any violence towards anyone or anything, especially in my own town if that is asylum seekers, police, hotels or shops. I believe in the right to protest, but it must be peacefully. What I do not concur with is Starmer’s two-tier policing and the lack of double standards towards the way he has handled the violent riots from multicultural mobs compared to the hordes of British protesters this weekend. 

Posts on X have shown examples of how the police (the very few who are there) handle the riots by the multicultural mobs and it is a mystery as to why they even turn up–they do not seem to do anything, other than stand and watch them attack, chant violent slurs and wave around weapons, such as knives and bricks. One post shows Starmer and Rayner taking the knee whilst BLM protesters looted and rioted the streets and another demonstrates the police arresting British civilians, whilst allowing the mobs to wield around machetes. No actual ‘policing’ is done, and they all seem to get away with blatant crimes.

However, the police were not the same with the way they tackled the protesters (predominantly white) over the weekend. Starmer has also made the issue worse by continuing to blame the problem on ‘far-right thuggery’ and has rounded up his troops and made sure they feel the full force of the law, including arrests, beatings and restraint. One man in Hull was beaten up by a police officer and Starmer has ensured they receive a harsher treatment. Why weren’t the other protesters not handled in this way? I agree that this should be dealt with by force but surely this should apply to everyone, despite ethnicity and mantra. 

Starmer has not held back in condemning these riots and seems to be ramping up security. Here is what he said in the first speech: 

“We will establish a national capability across police forces to tackle violent disorder. These thugs are mobile; they move from community to community, and we must have a policing response that can do the same: shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology, and preventative action criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements before they can even board a train”

He later said:

“The law must be upheld everywhere – that is the single most important duty of government…In relation to the Muslim community, let me be very clear: I will take every step that’s necessary to keep you safe”

He was so concerned with riots, he had to make another pointless speech; where one would expect him to announce plans on how he is going to stop them, he continues to blabber on about who is behind them instead. Here is what he said in his second speech: 

‘I utterly condemn the far-right thuggery we have seen this weekend. Be in no doubt: those who have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law. I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder. Whether directly or those whipping up this action online, and then running away themselves. This is not protest. It is organised, violent thuggery. And it has no place on our street or online.’

If we compare this speech with his speech following a riot during the BLM protests, we can clearly see what side he has taken and his stubbornness and naivety to tackle the real issues the majority of the country want fixing—eradicating two-tier policing, closing the borders and tackling crime in a pragmatic and fair way–is the reason why he is becoming unpopular.

I think he is finished.