Perhaps nothing remains to be said about the Southport attack. Three beautiful girls are dead. In the hospital, more lie injured and the strain placed upon witnesses is untold. And yet, riots have been breaking out on the streets of Britain; the online public square is aflame. The litany of “thoughts and prayers” trickling down from those in authority is beginning to feel tired: the growing public feeling is that the phrase has become miserably insufficient in the face of our problems.
The outrage following the murder of these three girls — and the attempted murder of eight more — has been seen most amongst the working classes. This has proven to be a complete, racist mystery to much of the British political and media establishment. Indeed, the outrage expressed not only by those throwing bricks but those who comment ‘#EnoughIsEnough’ on social media has been branded by Prime Minister Keir Starmer as ‘far-right thuggery’. Despite this being one of the most horrific attacks seen in Britain in the last decade, he sees no similarity between it and the countless other barbaric murders and assaults that make daily headlines.
But those who have been on the sharp end of the United Kingdom’s liberal policy-making over the last twenty years do see a pattern…
Their perception is that, in the last two decades, the most egregious and shocking crimes committed against the United Kingdom have been committed by illegal or unintegrated immigrants, often originating from Islamic countries.
Whilst the motivations of the Southport attack remain undetermined — and may forever remain undisclosed — the police, politicians, and policy-makers fail to understand that, for great swathes of the general public, the attack in Southport is emblematic of a much broader issue — the last assault in an endless, lethal campaign against the British people and their way of life.
The working classes do not hallucinate grooming gangs, terror attacks, or machete fights in the streets. Their testimony is this: “Our community is at breaking point.” Ordinary citizens are frightened for their lives and the safety of their children and unless this is acknowledged discontent will erupt into more and more intense disorder.