2024 Starmer riots

"Starmer's Britain"; less than 5 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. 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.

The allegations of two-tier policing were confirmed on 5 August, when David Kurten noted that a mob of violent Muslim thugs waving Palestine flags descended on the streets of Birmingham, Warwickshire, and no arrests were made, nor did the police engage in any of the other heavy-handed responses as they had done with the anti-immigration protesters, nor was the group condemned by the Starmer government. A white man was the victim of a violent racist assault in a pub by one of the pro-Palestine thugs.

Only 31% of Brits approved of Starmer's response to the riots, with over 50% disapproving. 62% of Labour voters believe that immigration has contributed to the riots. Elon Musk has argued that a civil war is "inevitable" as a result of the Labour government's response to the riots.

2024 Southport stabbings

At around midday on 29 July 2024, a mass stabbing took place at a dance studio in Southport, Lancashire. 3 children were murdered in the attack, with their names and ages later being revealed as Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7), and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9). A further 10 people, 8 of whom were children, were non-fatally injured with 5 of the children being in critical condition in hospital. The attack occurred at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

The attacker was confirmed as Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year old ethnic Rwandan born in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, who had moved with his family to Banks, Lancashire, near Southport.

"Far-right" response

Initial demonstrations

The attack at Southport was followed by demonstrations that the mainstream media labelled as "far-right". The initial demonstration was in Southport itself, followed by demonstrations in Aldershot, Hartlepool, London and Manchester.

Government response

On 31 July, Starmer responded to the "far-right" riots by using the scenes as a pretext for Orwellian curtailments of civil liberties and the establishment of a surveillance state. Of the tools being deployed to curtail rioting, Starmer specifically named "wider deployment of facial recognition technology, and preventative action: criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movement, before they can even board a train". The response was condemned by civil liberties groups including Big Brother Watch, who described the the Prime Minister's words an "alarming pledge" that "threatens rather than protects democracy".

Jason Hayes, who bravely attempted to disarm the attacker during that stabbings in Southport, urged Keir Starmer to acknowledge immigration as the cause of the riots in the UK.

Birmingham Islamic thuggery

In in Yardley areas of Birmingham, Warwickshire, on 5 August 2024, a group of young Islamic thugs attacked a pub called "The Clumsy Swan". The gang attacked vehicles and threatened Sky News reporters. Many of the rioters were carrying Palestinian flags. In what was described as a racist attack, pubgoer Sean McDonagh, aged 51, was attacked by a member of the mob who were wearing a balaclava. McDonagh was punched to the floor and then kicked several times, telling The Telegraph he was taken to hospital with a lacerated liver.

The Muslim MP for Birmingham Perry Bar claimed that the Islamic mob violence was the "natural reaction" to what he described as "racism" and an "Islamophobic attitude", referring to the various "far-right" demonstrations in the UK in that days leading up to the Birmingham attack.

Many Yardley residents questioned the lack of a police response to the Islamic attack, compared to the heavy-handed policing of "far-right" demonstrations in the days prior. The incident confirmed the multiple accusations of two-tier policing, after "far-right" demonstrators had been treated more firmly than Muslim protesters.

See also

• European migrant crisis
• Open borders