{"id":292424,"date":"2024-08-05T07:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292424"},"modified":"2024-08-07T07:21:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:21:43","slug":"tory-police-commissioner-blames-illegal-immigration-for-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292424","title":{"rendered":"Tory police commissioner blames illegal immigration for riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albert Tait \u2013 The Telegraph Aug 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A Tory policing chief has suggested that \u201cmass uncontrolled immigration\u201d is one of the reasons behind rioting which has spread across the UK.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a statement Donna Jones, the police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, compared the riots over the last week to a \u201crebellion to illegal immigration\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Conservative politician said that while not justifying any violence she had spoken to people from \u201cboth sides of the spectrum\u201d and claimed there was value in \u201cunderstanding the views of those attending rallies who feel strongly but don\u2019t cause disorder\u201d.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0Saturday, there were violent confrontations<\/a> in Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent, Blackpool and Belfast and more than 90 arrests were made.<\/p>\n

Police officers were attacked and forced to draw their batons as they came under fire from bricks, bottles and flares.<\/p>\n

The riots have been sparked by the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport on Monday.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, as violence surged across the country, Ms Jones, who claims to be the UK\u2019s most senior police commissioner, released a statement which\u00a0appeared to justify some of the activities.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, rioting continued in Middlesbrough, Bolton and Rotherham where rioters attacked a hotel housing migrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to people from both sides of the spectrum and the only way to stem the tide of violent disorder is to acknowledge what is causing it,\u201d Ms Jones said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst the\u00a0devastating attacks in Southport<\/a> on Tuesday were a catalyst, the commonality amongst the protest groups appears to be focused on three key areas: the desire to protect Britain\u2019s sovereignty; the need to uphold British values, and, in order to do this, stop illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said arresting people was \u201ctreating the symptom and not the cause\u201d and that the Prime Minister had questions to answer about how the new Labour Government would tackle immigration and uphold British values<\/p>\n

Nazir Afzal<\/a>, the Former chief prosecutor,\u00a0called her comments \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d and said she was \u201cappearing to justify rioting and criminality that police officers are bravely having to deal with right now\u201d.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Nichols, the Labour MP for Warrington North, told The Telegraph: \u201cFirst and foremost, it demeans the office that she holds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can accept that there is anger in parts of the community about immigration but that doesn\u2019t mean we legitimise thuggery.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering the number of\u00a0police officers who have been injured<\/a>, I believe her position is untenable. She should resign, and if not, she should be sacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Jones is also the chairman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners in the UK.<\/p>\n

Following the criticism, she released another statement, praising the police and condemning \u201cthose acting outside the law\u201d, but refusing to back down from her position.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand by my statement issued [Saturday] where I called for calm, and for the country to work together to stop this mindless, criminal behaviour\u201d, she wrote on the official website of the commissioner on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fully support the police\u2019s response to stem the growth of these riots and those acting outside of the law should expect to feel the full force of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe violence we have seen has endangered our communities and infected lawful protest on a much broader issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a country this issue is something we should seek to understand without letting it divide us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am confident there will be a time and place for that discussion in due course,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna Jones, crime commissioner for Hampshire and Isle of Wight, said violence was more akin to \u2018rebellion\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":292426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292425,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292424\/revisions\/292425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}