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[[File:Sunderland riot.PNG|right|200px|thumb|"Starmer's Britain"; less than 2 weeks into Starmer's premiership, the country erupted into riots with cities being burned.]]

[[File:Sunderland riot.PNG|right|200px|thumb|"Starmer's Britain"; less than 2 weeks into Starmer's premiership, the country erupted into riots with cities being burned.]]

The '''2024 Starmer riots''' refers to the "[[far-right]]" civil unrest and [[Islamic]] mob violence that broke out mainly in England in July and August 2024, less than 5 weeks into the premiership of [[Keir Starmer]]. The demonstrations that the media describe as "far-right" were in response to the murder of 3 British girls at a dance class in Southport, Lancashire, on 29 July 2024 by an ethnic Rwandan born in [[Cardiff]]. The initial demonstration took place in Southport itself. In response to the Southport demonstration, the Labour government exposed the two-tier nature of its response to protests and civil unrest; observers in the media noted that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper responded more aggressively to the Southport demonstrators, who were mainly white British, than she had to a riot in Leeds, Yorkshire 2 weeks prior, caused by migrants.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/31/a-tale-of-two-riots-uk-accused-of-double-standards-depending-on-who-is-behind-civil-unrest/  A Tale of Two Riots: UK Government Accused of Double Standards Depending on Who is Behind Civil Unrest]</ref>

The '''2024 Starmer riots''' refers to the "[[far-right]]" civil unrest and [[Islamic]] mob violence that broke out mainly in England in July and August 2024, less than 5 weeks into the premiership of [[Keir Starmer]]. The demonstrations that the media describe as "far-right" were in response to the murder of 3 British girls at a dance class in Southport, Lancashire, on 29 July 2024 by an ethnic Rwandan born in [[Cardiff]]. The initial demonstration took place in Southport itself. In response to the Southport demonstration, the Labour government exposed the two-tier nature of its response to protests and civil unrest; observers in the media noted that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper responded more aggressively to the Southport demonstrators, who were mainly white British, than she had to a riot in Leeds, Yorkshire 2 weeks prior, caused by migrants.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/31/a-tale-of-two-riots-uk-accused-of-double-standards-depending-on-who-is-behind-civil-unrest/  A Tale of Two Riots: UK Government Accused of Double Standards Depending on Who is Behind Civil Unrest]</ref> Further evidence of the Starmer government's two-tier approach to protest is evidenced by his then-shadow government's solidarity with the [[2020 leftwing riots]] in the USA, in which [[Black Lives Matter]] murdered at least 6 African Americans.

In addition to the allegations of two-tier policing, riots were used as a pretext for authoritarian [[mass surveillance]] and [[police state]] policies such as facial recognition and preventing would-be demonstrators from boarding public transport, as confirmed by Starmer on 31 July.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/02/home-office-minister-rioters-were-watching-you-hartlepool/  ‘We’re watching you’, Home Office minister warns would-be rioters]</ref><ref name="bigbrotherbreitbart" />

In addition to the allegations of two-tier policing, riots were used as a pretext for authoritarian [[mass surveillance]] and [[police state]] policies such as facial recognition and preventing would-be demonstrators from boarding public transport, as confirmed by Starmer on 31 July.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/02/home-office-minister-rioters-were-watching-you-hartlepool/  ‘We’re watching you’, Home Office minister warns would-be rioters]</ref><ref name="bigbrotherbreitbart" />