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Sir Keir Starmer is right to condemn the recent violence. We do too, unequivocally. “Crime is crime, no matter the cause or motivation.” We agree. Unlawful behaviour and criminality remain just that, whatever issue or ideology the perpetrators attach themselves to. However, it’s also critically important that our Prime Minister and his ministers don’t take the events of the past couple of weeks as the opportunity to shut down debate about immigration and squash the deep concerns of millions of British people, some of whom sought to make clear how they felt with peaceful protest only to find themselves caught up in violent disorder and tarred with the ‘far-right’ brush. As Camilla Tominey wrote in her Daily Telegraph column this week: “Ever the lawyer, the Prime Minister has treated the unrest we have witnessed across these broken isles as a case to be prosecuted rather than a problem to be solved.”
In a four-minute video on ‘X’, the “politically non-binary satirist”, straight-speaking and courageous Konstantin Kisin thought what has been going on went beyond Sir Keir Starmer. Do watch, Mr Kisin puts in a nutshell the problem we face as a country – uncontrolled, mass immigration and a failure to integrate too many of those who have come here.
As for how most people perceive the violent disorder and how the government has dealt with it, according to new data, while only 8% of Brits express any sympathy for the violence seen in the recent protests, a notable 58% show support for the peaceful participants. This figure includes nearly two-thirds of Conservative voters and 83% of Reform party supporters, indicating a broad base of sympathy for those protesting peacefully and widespread rejection of violence.
YouGov also reveals that 42% of Britons believe the peaceful protests are “completely” or “somewhat” justified, with support rising among Conservative (53%) and Reform (84%) voters.
MW concerns remain the out-of-control immigration – legal and illegal and the government’s seeming laissez faire approach to it. As things are, millions of migrants will continue to arrive in the coming decades, millions will be added to our population, which will continue to see unprecedented growth deriving almost entirely from migrants and children born to them.
The government appear unconcerned by the potential harmful effects that legal and illegal immigration will have on our economy, the cohesion of our society and on our ability to integrate those who come. Does it matter? I suppose not, if you are of the view that the steady demographic transformation to a population to one where the majority now will be the minority within the next forty years or so. Fact is, millions of people don’t want this to happen. And they don’t believe that to harbour such views is in any way extreme. Most people are happy with measured, necessary immigration that serves the interests of British citizens. Net migration of no more than 100,000 a year, and preferably significantly less, has to be the government’s ultimate goal.
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