Crime and No Punishment: Starmer’s Red Dawn

Keir Starmer must be remarkably stupid or remarkably brazen if he thinks that the British public cannot work out what he is up to. Perhaps he is both brazen and stupid.

Operation Early Dawn, announced this week, will involve keeping prisoners waiting for court appearances in police cells for longer to make room for the nearly 1000 ‘far-Right’ protesters arrested in the wake of the protests and riots on August 3rd this year. This comes on top of over 5000 prisoners being released almost as soon as the Labour Government assumed power to ease overcrowding in prison.

Referred to by one writer as ‘crime and no punishment’, reference was made at that time by the Justice Secretary with the quintessentially English name of Shaban Mahmood to the ‘inevitable’ overcrowding by September. Conspiracy theories ought to be avoided, but I cannot be alone in thinking that the Government was preparing for August 3rd.

Here at the New Conservative we have been at pains to indicate that we do not condone violent protest. It is counterproductive, people get hurt and people get arrested. But how many of those arrested over the events on August 3rd were involved in vandalism, violence or even incitement to hatred or violence? All of them according to the Government.

Yet we hear reports of people simply caught watching the riots being considered to be committing a crime, and people shouting at the police likewise. That, and some awful people who seemed genuinely upset that their town centres were being taken over by young, male, Muslim asylum seekers, and were not afraid to express themselves.

Meantime, on a weekly basis, thousands of headscarved hooligans descend on almost every city centre calling for genocide against Israel, displaying logos of an explicitly antisemitic kind and intimidating any passers-by who provoke them by being ‘openly Jewish’ (an expression invented, incidentally, by the rigidly ‘single-tier’ Metropolitan Police). Few, if any, arrests have been made. It is clearly one law for us and no law for them.

In some inner cities groups of immigrants of various hues and religions who claim to have fled violence and destruction knock ten bells out of each other with impunity, Muslims throw stones at passers-by from an Islamic centre in Hull and members of the Romanian Caravan Club riot and burn cars in Leeds. The only arrest to date is a lady who asked the police, who up to that point had been enjoying her mugs of tea, why they were not arresting anyone. She experienced single-tier policing at its finest.

Others have been arrested and hefty prison sentences already handed down to many who, as opposed to rioting and vandalism, used hurty words on Twitter, re-tweeted film of the riots (which the BBC seemed only too happy to broadcast in the first place) and generally explained that they could understand people’s frustration at mass immigration, both legal and illegal. We can thank our lucky Starmers that these vile people are off the streets. Lord only knows how upset they would be or what they would do if they bumped into an immigrant rapist who had been given a suspended sentence or, in fact, any rapist who was not even being sent to jail to make room for proper criminals guilty of the ultimate crime of being labelled ‘far-Right’.

But back to Operation Early Dawn. The fact that prisons are being cleared and that fewer potential criminals are being sent there on remand means that legal eagle Sir Kier Starmer and his associates have already adjudged that those arrested in the wake of August 3rd are guilty. Our Government has become judge, jury and executioner of anyone who has the audacity to express their opposition to the main plank of their policy to bring the U.K. to its financial, social and cultural knees – that of unrestricted immigration.

Predictions are dangerous, but this present situation in which we find ourselves cannot continue. Elon Musk’s claims of civil war may be exaggerated; it is to be hoped that they are, and that he is doing nothing to encourage that. But Starmer, for whom very few voted in the first place, has alienated most voters now. We may not be lucky enough to see an early General Election. Labour will not make the same mistake as Theresa May and put their lack of popularity to the test. The Conservatives (remember them?) seem to have left the building.

Our only hope is Reform, who must do what they can to coalesce the other minority parties with similar views – principally on immigration – around them and sweep the board at the next opportunity. To do otherwise will be a dereliction of duty.

Dr. Roger Watson is Academic Dean of Nursing at Southwest Medical University, China. He has a PhD in biochemistry. He writes in a personal capacity. This article was first published in the New Conservative.