{"id":292514,"date":"2024-08-07T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292514"},"modified":"2024-08-08T06:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:08:35","slug":"uk-riots-just-ignore-the-real-problem-and-blame-it-all-on-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292514","title":{"rendered":"UK riots: Just ignore the real problem and blame it all on the \u2018far right\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Marsden \u2013 RT.com Aug 6, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Every summer now, Canada is rife with forest fires. Some exploit the disasters to push an agenda, arguing that it\u2019s a surefire sign of climate change, and ignoring that a lack of environmentally inconvenient controlled burns are the actual culprit. The same could be said for the riots that have swept Britain since three children were murdered in Southport at a day camp by a British 17-year old of Rwandan origin.<\/p>\n

The British government has long known that the migration issue was out of control, and newly-elected Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has found the culprit. It\u2019s the \u201cfar-right\u201d<\/em> Brits that are \u201ctargeting\u201d<\/em> Muslim and \u201cother minority communities.\u201d<\/em> Because who, en route to doing a little shopping in Mayfair, isn\u2019t tired of passing their \u201cNazi salutes in the street\u201d<\/em> as they stretch their arms in between putting beatdowns on cops, as Starmer suggests.<\/p>\n

The \u201cfar-right\u201d<\/em> is to these riots what \u201cclimate change\u201d<\/em> is to forest fires: a politically useful pretext to deflect from the long-festering negligence of the political class.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like the average Brit is buying Starmer\u2019s gaslighting. In fact, Starmer himself owes his recent electoral win to the growing popularity of the right wing, with Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK party significantly eating into the popular vote of the center-right Tories last month.\u00a0These are voters who feel that Rishi Sunak\u2019s Tories didn\u2019t go far enough in an election where \u201cimmigration and asylum\u201d<\/em> was the second most important issue for voters, (after cost of living), according to a YouGov poll<\/a>.\u00a0When nearly a fifth of your population has just finished telling pollsters that the immigration issue dictates their vote, it\u2019s probably a dumb idea to get up in front of them and suggest that the real problem is those who are just imagining that to be an actual issue, because they\u2019re a bunch of racists.<\/p>\n

It probably doesn\u2019t help that the Brit accused in this particular attack is of Rwandan origin, when Rwanda has been all over the UK headlines for former Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s plan to deport asylum seekers there \u2013 an initiative that Starmer has now cancelled. Much has been made in the Western press of all the erroneous allegations flying around in the initial wake of the attack suggesting that the alleged perpetrator was an asylum seeker himself. The fog of war always comes on thick around breaking news, particularly online. But what\u2019s the actual argument here? That the guy\u2019s not actually a migrant himself so people should calm down? Everything\u2019s just fine then, because this one single case, upon closer inspection, doesn\u2019t actually tick the boxes for what the establishment considers to be a legitimate expression of anger?<\/p>\n

Also complicating the issue is the fact that Southport itself has long been described<\/a> by locals as a festering cesspool of crime, drugs, and violence, where teenagers seem to be out of control. The High Parkers drug gang<\/a>\u00a0that has plagued the area doesn\u2019t seem to have a visible minority in sight among their mugshots,\u00a0but various things can be true at the same time without being mutually exclusive. Southport clearly has a long-documented crime problem. The crime isn\u2019t exclusively committed by minorities. The suspect is of minority origin in this case. The UK has a migration problem that transcends this single incident, but which it has clearly served to catalyze. And not everyone who\u2019s evoking the problem within the convenient context this incident provides is just a racist yob.<\/p>\n

While every protest or riot is an opportunity for special interests to exploit, that doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t also legitimate underlying issues in desperate need of resolution. How hard would it have been for Starmer to acknowledge all of these realities instead of just whitewashing everything by trying to make people believe that there\u2019s no actual problem anywhere here beyond the \u201cfar-right\u201d<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The actual science would like to have a word. According to data from University of Oxford\u2019s Migration Observatory published<\/a> in June 2024, \u201cnet migration was unusually high in 2023, at 685,000, driven by an increase in non-EU citizens coming to the UK\u201d<\/em> which was \u201cfar above pre-pandemic estimates of 200,000 and 300,000.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The researchers underscored that the government data \u201ctells us little about\u00a0who\u00a0is arriving and leaving or what their impacts are.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0It looks like that\u2019s left to the locals to experience and perceive, and for politicians like Starmer to conveniently manipulate.<\/p>\n

Oxford also reports that the number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats<\/a>\u00a0was about 12,600 in the early part of this year, 16% higher than during the same period in 2023, with the vast majority being from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, and Albania. Just how horribly bad is the British government at controlling the situation? Worse than the African country they tried to outsource it to. \u201cCitizens of Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen all had a 0% success rate in claims processed by Rwanda from 2020 to 2022. By contrast, in the UK in the same period, the success rates were 74% for Afghans, 98% for Syrians, and 40% for Yemenis,\u201d<\/em> according to Oxford.<\/p>\n

Officials were caught out by the British press last year plotting to send Channel migrants to Ascension Island if they weren\u2019t going to be allowed to dump them on Rwanda. We\u2019re talking about one of the most isolated places in the world \u2013 a British overseas territory that\u2019s part of the same set of Islands where the Brits exiled French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte so he couldn\u2019t plot a comeback after losing the Battle of Waterloo. Who needs cruise lines when you can just ditch your papers and have the\u00a0UK government send you all around the globe courtesy of the British taxpayer?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s totally not a sign of bad policy when the UK runs out of affordable places to house migrants who make it across the Channel from France. They set up a barge called Bibby Stockholm off the coast of Dorset to house hundreds of migrants, from which they could travel back and forth to the shore and enjoy excursions and all kinds of activities, including sports. Not swimming, though. NGOs like Care4Calais have blocked migrant transfers to the barge, claiming that it\u2019s inhumane because some migrants don\u2019t want anything to do with water or boats because they\u2019ve seen people drown on the boat ride over. One Tory MP said they could just \u201ceff off back to France.\u201d<\/em> Maybe they did! A \u201cRefugee Olympic Team\u201d<\/em> was recently spotted floating up the Seine during the Paris Olympic Ceremony.\u00a0Or maybe France is just sending them back again.<\/p>\n

Joking aside, the establishment politicians pretend to be open and welcoming to migrants as a means of differentiating themselves from the far-right populists they\u2019ve taken to blaming for everything, but at the same time, they know the general public is getting fed up. So what\u2019s the solution? Just call the entire public far-right populists, apparently.<\/p>\n

Finding other countries to serve as a giant rug under which to sweep the result of your bad policies seems like a pretty strong clue that things are totally out of control. The latest riots are yet another symptom of that, and like a Canadian forest fire, maybe everything has to burn for the establishment to actually wake up. But likely not before they try throwing the water everywhere else but on the actual flame, and use it all as a pretext to roll out the kind of security state that\u2019s typically attributed to that pesky ‘far-right’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Rachel Marsden<\/em><\/strong> is a media professional with over two decades of expertise in international politics. Her extensive career includes multilingual hosting, presenting, producing, and debating across TV, radio, and digital platforms. She has been an internationally syndicated columnist since 2011, contributing to over 100 major newspaper outlets globally. Rachel has also taught in the Masters of Journalism and international affairs program at Sciences Po in Paris, France.<\/em><\/p>\n

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