British Prime Minister’s STARK REACTION To Anti-Immigration And BLM Protests

After anti-immigration protests from Liverpool and Belfast, a young man of Rwandan descent tragically knifed to death three 6-, 8-,and 9-year-old girls in Southport. 

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the left-wing Labour Party condemned the protesters, calling the actions “far-right thuggery we have seen this weekend.”

The 25-year-old, from Banks Lane in Barnoldswick has Rwandan parents and was brought up in Cardiff Wales. Eight children and a teacher who tried to save them were also stabbed, all of whom survived, with five suffering serious injuries.

“Be in no doubt: Those who have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law,” Starmer said. “I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, whether directly or those whipping up this action online and then running away themselves. This is not protest. It is organized, violent thuggery.”

By 2020, however, Starmer had responded differently to Black Lives Matter protests in the United States. 

He said, “Like you, I was shocked and angered at the killing of George Floyd. And the response of President Trump and the U.S. authorities to the peaceful protests, to people rightly demanding justice, has been an affront to humanity. The last week has shone a spotlight on the racism, discrimination and the injustice experienced by those from black and minority ethnic communities in the U.S., in the UK, and around the world. Martin Luther King said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

He also said: “This is not a moment for not standing with the Black Lives Matter movement and the injustice that is being exposed.”

Starmer tweeted in disgust on Monday: “This is not protest, it is pure violence. We will have a standing army of public duty officers. We will ramp up criminal justice. We will apply criminal law online as well as offline. We will not tolerate attacks on mosques or on Muslim communities.”

Labour MP Afzal Khan wrote a letter to Starmer that asked the government to clearly define Islamophobia, with his definition being “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”