Farage Accuses Starmer of ‘Two Tier Policing’, Adding to Sense of Injustice in Country

Appalling violence seen in recent days is a symptom of a broken democracy, Brexit leader Nigel Farage makes implicit, stating the underlying problems behind the rioting of the past week remain unresolved.

Political leaders from across the political divide spoke out against violence on the streets of Britain overnight, but the question of where the blame lies, the underlying causes, and how to address them remains a matter of debate. While the government has moved quickly to attempt to divorce the protests in riots in England from the event which sparked them, the mass stabbing of young children a week ago, others see outrage stoked by what is stated to be nakedly political policing by the government.

Under the banner of ‘Two Tier Keir’, critics state the Prime Minister has been quick to come down hard on the riots of the past week while reacting equanimously, even with professed compassion, to other riots involving ethnic minorities rather than ethnic majority activists.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP called back to when Sir Keir, as leader of the opposition, knelt for BLM rioters in 2020, and the then-Conservative government’s kid-glove approach to those protests and said: “Ever since the soft policing of the Black Lives Matter protests, the impression of two-tier policing has become widespread. The Prime Minister’s faltering attempts to address the current crisis have only added to that sense of injustice.”

In recent weeks, there have also been protests turning into riots among Britain’s Muslim community in Manchester and among the Gypsy Roma community in Leeds. As previously reported, senior lawmaker Lord Goldsmith was among those who pointed out the very changed approach to government rhetoric on the various eruptions of violence in the short month of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, saying they “couldn’t contrast more starkly with [previous] reactions to the Manchester riots, where violent thugs demanded instant justice ‘or else’ & where ministers bent over backwards to explain that they ‘understood’ the anger.”

“Why has the Home Office response to these two events been so different? Can they not see how this feeds the narrative of a two tier approach and drives people to the far right? It is extraordinarily shortsighted and  unwise,” he said.

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Mr Farage stated: “The majority of our population can see the fracturing of our communities as a result of mass, uncontrolled immigration, whether legal or illegal. Yet to attempt to debate this in the public arena leads to immediate howls of condemnation. A population explosion without integration was always going to end badly. I have said this for many years.”

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