The British Public Have Had Enough, and the State is Afraid

Tuesday 29 July will mark one year since the Southport murders, when second-generation Rwandan immigrant Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls and stabbed ten others at a Taylor Swift dance class in Merseyside, England. Labour-voting areas were engulfed in spontaneous protests for the following week. Keir Starmer staked his premiership on calling all participants “far right thugs”, but most were local residents distraught at the deaths of children like their own, and despairing that the state was unwilling to prevent such atrocities from happening again. “How many more children, Prime Minister?” shouted the grieving families of Southport at Starmer as he laid a wreath, before leaving in silence. “Our kids are dead and you’re leaving already?”

The state remains terrified of the flammable social situation they preside over. Last week, Starmer briefed his Cabinet about the “vital” need to repair Britain’s “social fabric” to prevent another summer of civil unrest. Liz Lloyd, Downing Street’s executive director of policy and delivery, recommended a “more forceful” policy on law and order to reverse Starmer’s cratering poll numbers. Hence why the authorities have come down hard on parents peacefully protesting illegal immigration in Epping, Essex. Eight days after breaking into Britain via small boat, 41-year-old Ethiopian illegal immigrant Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu (38) allegedly sexually harassed a 14-year-old girl. After he was charged with three sex offences, Epping residents realised the Bell Hotel was housing single-male asylum seekers.

The local community gathered to protest on 13 July, and hasn’t stopped. Mothers marched in the rain to chants of “Save our kids.” As historian David Starkey has observed, you should sit up and take notice of when women and children get involved in spontaneous protest movements. Some went to lengths prefacing their reasonable concerns in BBC interviews with “I sound so right-wing but I’m not…” Others, like Reform UK’s Aimee Keteca, held homemade signs reading “I’m not far right – I’m worried about my KIDS”. Or mum of 3, Orla Minihane, who said “the sexual abuse of young girls is not a Right or Left issue – it’s a moral issue”, and that “If I’ve got to wear a far right title [for opposing child abuse] then so be it.” The father of the girl assaulted by Kebatu supports the protests, telling the Telegraph, “It’s not fair that the Government are putting our children and grandchildren at risk, even their own.”

These demonstrations have been largely non-violent. Police have made 18 arrests in connection with the protests. One man was run over by a police van. Another had his teeth knocked out by a riot shield. Essex Police released footage of officers raiding one compliant protestor’s home. Given footage of Kebatu’s arrest was not released, it is clear Essex Police are engaged in media and public perception manipulation to discourage further protests. Perhaps they are afraid, as Tiff Lynch, head of the Police Federation wrote in the Telegraph, that “how ill-prepared we remain to deal with” civil disorder, with “Local commanders are once again being forced to choose between keeping the peace at home or plugging national gaps.”

This lack of resources didn’t discourage Essex Police from escorting the Socialist Workers’ Party protestors with Stand Up To Racism placards to stand opposite the Epping locals, though. (With some wearing sunglasses, face-coverings, and looking suspiciously like agent provocateurs.) Initially, they denied leading the rent-a-mob like a school trip to a location where violence then broke out. But when confronted with video evidence of their officers at the head of the communist conga-line, Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Hooper defended the decision, saying:

“We have a reasonable duty to protect people who want to exercise their rights. In terms of bringing people to the hotel, the police have a duty to facilitate free assembly.”

A rather different attitude to freedom of speech than Essex Police took with Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson, after they threatened to arrest her for a deleted tweet about pro-Palestine protests. Essex Police have made 1,570 arrests under the Online Safety Act since it received Royal Assent in October 2023 — more than one per day. (And that’s not counting arrests under the Malicious Communications Act 1998, Communications Act 2003, or Public Order Acts.)

So committed to free speech were Essex Police on this occasion, though, that they planned to place “Anti-hotel protestors” and “Counter protesters” in cages beside each other, on 24 July. Almost as if provocation was the point, to give them a pretext to crack down on the parents peacefully protesting…

Ben-Julian Harrington, the Chief Constable of Essex Police, has refused to resign. The force then prevaricated, claiming they didn’t “bus” the socialists to the protests — only gave them a lift home in a police van when they were done. Nick Timothy MP has written to the Chief Constable, asking if any correspondence with the Home Office influenced their decision to escort Stand Up To Racism to the hotel, and if Essex Police has any longstanding relationship with Stand Up To Racism or HOPE Not Hate. Rupert Lowe MP wrote to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, demanding to know why Essex Police escorted the provocateurs to the peaceful protest, and whether the government will commit to deporting the illegal immigrants committing crimes against children. I wouldn’t hold my breath for the state doing something that would actually de-escalate tensions.

The fact that the police are present and trying to contain the protests against illegal immigration demonstrates how broken illegitimate the state has become. The state makes a duty out of protecting criminals, housed in four-star hotels at taxpayers’ expense, from the public holding negative opinions of them, and demanding the law be enforced by returning them to their nations of origin. It validates every accusation of two-tier policing. The police should be escorting illegal migrants out of hotels and onto the first available chartered flight to wherever they came from — not intimidating concerned parents who want to keep foreign sexual predators away from their children.

Epping Forest district council have now voted to close the Hotel as an asylum accommodation site,  despite Conservative councillor Holly Whitbread smearing the protesters as “neo-Nazis… [who] My grandad fought in a war against”. The Home Secretary still has the power to veto their decision. Local MP Neil Hudson has called in Parliament for the closure to go ahead. But the most the state will do is play a shell game with the migrants, dispersing them in houses of multiple occupancy across our neighbourhoods. Serco are offering landlords five-year guaranteed full rent deals, paid for by taxpayers, to house asylum seekers, and saving the government £131 per migrant per night. Hence Starmer’s demented claim that “lots of housing is available” for asylum seekers, despite the unaffordability of housing for British families.

For the time being, they remain in hotels. On 22 July, protestors gathered in Canary Wharf within hours of news that the Bell’s male occupants would be relocated to the four-star Britannia International hotel. The Home Office denied this, but the hotel has erected steel barriers around the perimeter, and been restocking mattresses and toothbrushes, ahead of the prospective new arrivals. Green Party councillor for Bow West, Nathalie Bienfait organised a counterprotest, and bleated about Britain for having “a lot of stake in the conflicts and the climate crisis that causes people to be refugees, and have to come to another country” — before being interrupted by a man who shouted “What about our f****** children”. She was flanked by Stand Up To Racism, who appeared yet again with the same signs, to chant “No borders, no nation, stop deportation” and “Saving children’s your disguise, you are Nazis organised.” On 23 July, the Socialist Worker Party’s newspaper urged readers to “Drive the Nazis out of Essex”.

Stand Up To Racism also appeared in Diss, Norfolk, where over 150 residents demonstrated outside the Park Hotel after hearing the Home Office planned to evict families of asylum seekers and house single males instead. In Ashford, locals confronted Stand Up To Racism activists, with police unable to keep the crowds apart. In August 2024, when “hundreds of far right riots” failed to materialise, Stand Up To Racism were conspicuously out in force. The next day, four national newspapers of ostensibly different political persuasions printed a photograph of the Stand Up To Racism rent-a-mob, presenting them as a “United Britain”, “standing together” to “confront the “far right”.

How do the Socialist Workers’ Party manage to materialise everywhere, so quickly? The website boasts about its ability to bus activists via coach to the scene of organic demonstrations against illegal migration. It is supported by Labour MPs like Daine Abbott and Bell Ribeiro-Addy, who plan to speak at an event alongside trustee of Finsbury Park Mosque and former Deputy Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain Mohammed Kozbar. Kozbar was sacked from the Met Police’s London Muslim Communities Forum after praising Hamas’ founder as “master of the martyrs of the resistance” on social media. It seems some versions of murderous antisemitism bother Stand Up To Racism a lot less.

Most likely, Stand Up To Racism are the beneficiaries of subsidies, direct or indirect, from the Home Office as part of its “Controlled Spontaneity” efforts to manipulate public opinion. In the aftermath of terror attacks, the RICU department dictates newspaper and broadcast coverage to contain public outrage and mitigate blame being allocated to immigrants and Islam. The Home Office responded dismissively to an FOI request, inquiring as to their involvement in the 8 August front pages, saying RICU had no “coordination or influence over the headlines provided” — while not denying correspondence with Stand Up To Racism, or the newspapers.

As Charlotte Gill has reported, the Home Office funds groups like the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to establish “network of leaders and organisations within towns who will respond to local needs and pressure points and share learning to enable rapid response to provocative elements.” Between 2020 and 2023, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation received £1.36 million in government grants. The state is funneling money to registered charities, who then fund rapid-response open-borders activist chapters in towns and cities across Britain. This helps manufacture the perception of widespread popular support for a permissive asylum system, and that opposition to illegal migration is racist and fascist.

Because Stand Up To Racism is not a registered charity, they are not required to be transparent with the public about their funding sources. But their footsoldiers are certainly beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded salaries. Their vice president, Daniel Kebede is general secretary of the National Education Union, the largest education union in Britain. Stand Up To Racism mail materials to National Education Union members, notifying them of their counter-protests; and encourage teachers to use their resources in classrooms, “hold lunchtime/after-school meeting[s]”, and “order badges and posters for lunch rooms and displays”. Mick Whelan, a vice chairman, is also general secretary of Aslef, the union which brought Britain’s railway network to a halt for two years till Labour took power. Members of the Trade Union Congress attended Stand Up To Racism’s annual trade union conference in March, and their website brags that “Most major trade unions in Britain are affiliated to Stand Up to Racism.”

Given their disproportionate presence at protests across the country, use in media coverage to counteract civil disorder, and shouldn’t we know how their operation is so large and influential? Why are the police so keen to cooperate with them, and taxi them to and from the frontlines of protests? Why was their secretary, Weyman Bennett consulted as an expert in Channel 4’s documentary, One Day in Southport, about the riots? MPs should be asking these questions.

The public are growing disillusioned with these networks of open-borders activists and their astroturfed efforts to run cover for unconscionable state policies. This follows decades of gaslighting and inaction by the authorities. In January, police told parents in Deanshanger, Northamptonshire that illegal immigrants were loitering around primary-school gates due to “different cultural expectations” — while also denying there is any “evidence to support that any offences had taken place”. (Despite recorded phone-calls with hotel staff, acknowledging multiple complaints.)

In November 2024, Altrincham residents were alarmed by the sudden appearance of male asylum seekers in the Cresta Court Hotel, nearby two secondary schools and a shopping district. Presenting their concerns about women’s safety at a town hall, they were told by community police officer Colin Dytor that a curfew couldn’t be imposed on the men because “We can’t just lock people up who haven’t committed a crime. We live in a very tolerant and open society, and we have to continue that.” Nevermind that they broke the law by smuggling themselves into Britain in the first place. The men would also be given private healthcare by contractor Serco, paid for by the taxpayers who languish on NHS waiting lists. Outside, Stand Up To Racism gathered yet again.

Their fears are well founded, given the number of sex crimes committed by these unvetted men from nations which do not share Britain’s respect for the dignity of women and children. Last week, Eritrean asylum seeker Aron Hadsh, who broke into Britain via small boat three years ago, was sentenced to just 14 months for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman with learning difficulties. (That’s 20 months less than Lucy Connolly and the late Peter Lynch received for peaceful protest and a deleted tweet.) Because he has already spent a year in custody, he will spend no more time in prison. Lee Anderson MP has also revealed that a man charged with three counts of rape of a woman in a Nottinghamshire park is Sheraz Malik, an asylum seeker housed in a hotel in Ashfield.

These cases follow over 312 other asylum seekers being charged with 708 criminal offences in the last three years. Those figures only cover 70 of the 220 hotels used as asylum accommodation, and none of other kinds of dispersed accommodation — meaning the figure is likely far higher. Some are earning money as unlicensed Deliveroo/Uber Eats/Just Eat delivery cyclists; others make a living as serial shoplifters in Oxford Street. One whistleblower in the West End told the Sun that 70 percent of thieves are asylum seekers.

We don’t know how many are here, where they are living, how many crimes they commit, or what exactly this costs us taxpayers. (The last estimate was £14.4bn minimum in 2024.) The state withholds data concerning the horrors visited upon the British public from us. They were equally opaque when enforcing a superinjunction to import thousands of Afghans, costing over £7bn, and hide it from the public. These Afghans include Taliban fighters and corrupt government officials, and commit sex crimes at rates 22 times that of British nationals. They have also chain-migrated as many as 22 others, thanks to High Court judge Mrs Justice Yip ruling that “The term ‘family member’ does not have any fixed meaning in law or in common usage…There may be cultural considerations … there is no requirement for a blood or legal connection.” It appears battery-farming foreign sex offenders at taxpayers’ expense remains British government policy, because they aren’t willing to do anything to stop it.

Disillusioned with the democratic process, and seeing the state as a vindictive force inflicting these crimes upon their children, it’s obvious why the state fears some will turn to violence. How do they react? The (ostensibly) Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion has convened to assess the damage; but has only appointed the culprits of Britain’s impoverishment, ethno-cultural incoherence, and dispassion with democracy as surveyors. The security services ignore any threats except the phantom “Far Right” — the definition of which has expanded to include pensioners, former police officers, and fans of Douglas Murray.

Former government advisor Dominic Cummings explains that politicians and civil servants cast ideological fictions as “crucial psychological spells” to maintain the illusion that they are still in control. This calcifies into “super-position personalities”, where lying to themselves and the public becomes so endemic to the operation of the state that “an impartial observer can rarely conclude either ‘they’re lying’ or ‘they’re deluded’: it’s a bit of both.” This is why, while “privately quaking about the growth of Muslim networks”, the government and civil service are waging “propaganda operations with the old media to spread the meme that our ‘real danger’ is the ‘far right’ (code for ‘white people’).” In a new Substack post, Cummings warns the forthcoming national inquiry into the Pakistani grooming gangs is one such operation:

“the purpose of the Inquiry (from Whitehall’s perspective) is to control the story and suppress as much as possible voters connecting the collapse of border control and the systematic rape/abuse/killing of English children.”

Cummings is clear that the state is unwilling to, perhaps incapable of, changing course despite imminent, preventable disaster. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner seems determined to prove him right. She thinks it is “incumbent on the government to acknowledge the real concerns people have and to deliver improvements to people’s lives in their communities”. How do they plan to do that? Consult the Muslim Council of Britain on drafting an Islamophobia definition, amid accusations that the government is covering up the grooming gang scandal. Establish a new police unit, the National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, via the Home Office to monitor “anti-migrant sentiment” online. Such posts have already been censored within less than 24-hours after the enforcement of the Online Safety Act, which creates a new offence of sending a post or message “to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, [with] no reasonable excuse for sending the message.” Their go-to response is always more censorship, more containment operations, and more tax money squandered on client activist groups.

Rayner still insists that “Britain [is] a successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith country”, like a Soviet apparatchik saying there is no graphite on the roof. The line appears to be fed to her by civil servants: her predecessor, Michael Gove, said the same thing when announcing his new definition of “Extremism” at the despatch box last year. This is one of the fictions Cummings is warning about, and the state doesn’t seem keen on parting with it.

Britain is close to breaking. Some politicians have noticed. Shadow Justice Secretary, Robert Jenrick posted on X “When I see mothers and fathers peacefully protesting in Epping, I see decent, fair-minded people being pushed to breaking point.” Nigel Farage told a press gaggle, “Do I understand how people in Epping feel? You bet your life I do.” Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, then Reform UK, has committed to deporting every illegal immigrant in the country. The Conservatives have promised the same, but under Kemi Badenoch, the party’s credibility remains (perhaps terminally) shot. A political solution must arise soon, before things turn violent.