Matt I agree with every word, and am so grateful to yourself , Nigel, Zia and others at the top of Reform for having the courage to speak out so powerfully .
Nothing but complete regime change will end this woke hegemony I hope to God people get behind Reform .
I hope the people of Makerfield send a powerful message that we have had enough and return a Reform MP
The entirety of what happened to Henry is distressing beyond belief . The grief and distress of his family knowing their boy died under such circumstances is beyond comprehension .
Personally I was proud to see the people of Southampton stand up for Henry last night, and disgusted that the “anti racism “ lot also turned out, missing the point entirely .
The plan that needs to be at full tilt now is a constituency newspaper, precisely the sort of thing that swept Blair to power THREE TIMES. It was called Labour Rose in 1999, four pages, brilliant, cunning, professional layout, through every letterbox, demolished the Tories. But hey Matt, you and the 'preaching to converted' Reform seniors know better than (revolting) but massively successful Blair eh? If you can't get a copy of Labour Rose, ask me and I'll send you one. Put it next to your silly little leaflets and ask yourself, HONESTLY, which is going to get people inspired, excited AND VOTING FOR REFORM?
Speaking as a northerner , but not a Manc , I assure you Brian Burnham isn’t king of anybody , certainly not out of Manchester and I think his support is a very mixed bag even there. King of the North gets up my nose every time I hear it 🙄
Yes. Another self styled mirage by Labour. The Morrisey specs and Everton shirt are fake. They play with words. Starmer was promoted as a centrist, he’s anything but. They even talk about a ‘soft Left’ faction that includes people like Miliband. Makes it sound like a cuddly teddy bear. They are hard Left. Labour lie and deceive. About time the public and especially the media judged actions not words.
This is Zia Yousef’s very solid attack on Burnham BUT how many Makerfield voters will see this? Good material through every letterbox in Makerfield is the only way. ‘Likes’ on the internet must be divided by 650, the number of UK constituencies, this is where by-election campaigns KEEP getting it so wrong.
Agree. The ‘anti racism’ mob are violent thugs. Yet fly under the radar of the authorities. About time that was flagged too. But it won’t be because the Left think their ‘cause’ is pure and righteous. That’s the issue. Delusional.
Yes. Exactly. Another mirage of words. They are the opposite of what the title claims. Even the Greens are like this. You think they are harmless, (Green = nature) but have become bed fellows of the worst of Islamism. The British public and the media have fallen for the word tricks. The cons. The lies. Time to fight back is over due.
Ha. Wishful thinking. They came to say we were nasty racists for complaining about the brutal murder of a privileged white boy by an ethnic minority angel who was only practicing his culturally approved knife skills don’t you know
Painful. People were protesting against anti-white racism at the police station. How is that even remotely racist? No one (I hope) was calling for violence against Sikhs. Why can't they at least agree and join in the outrage of what happened at the same time.
I haven’t heard anyone attacking the Sikhs who are generally a lovable and patriotic lot. They have come out and roundly condemned what happened to Henry, although I think they should have volunteered to give up the right to carry those knives, as Starmer hadn’t the balls to ban them. There should be no exceptions to a ban on knife carrying and penalties for doing so need to be much more severe
No I haven't heard anything like that either other than marching to the house where it happened which I don't think is helpful. Those responsible have been arrested already and so its the police should now be the full focus, not whatever remaining family are still in the house - which is just a distraction. I agree everyone should be subject to the same laws.
Just really well said Matt. But we’re not changing course unless a true right of centre government come in. Even now the government are not learning or listening. The Home Secretary seems to have more to say about protestors than the murderer. Just like Southport. What are people to do when governments stop listening? And ‘full force of law’, what does that even mean since the ‘law’ is not even handed and has lost its meaning. Personally I want chaos to ensue. Because it seems the only way. Britain is broken.
It appears many are following the same script as after Southport. Don’t address the underlying issue. Blame Nigel Farage. Don’t fix the borders. Blame Farage. Don’t end two-tier policing. Blame Farage.
Then you as a party need to expose the lie. Really go for them, especially the lying arrogant PM. Don’t hold back. People don’t want words and platitudes, they want leaders and action
I agree and if I hear that we aren’t allowed to be angry one more time, I’ll scream. Enough with deflection, whataboutery, gaslighting, lying, the shutting down of debate with cries of far right etc and the endless sneering from the people in power. Enough with all of them.
TT, you echo the voices of both Southport and Southampton yesterday. Earthquakes do happen. We hope for a political one on 18th June, such that the detested ivory towers of arrogance and complacency take a devastating and destructive hit. Us troglodytes (as we now know we are) can then emerge to rebuild.
The first role in such situations is to check for illness or injury. Handcuffs are to impose control. Hampshire Police have a reputation within the police force of being at the forefront of DEI and Critcal Race theory. I am sure most police officers are appalled by what has happened and what is clearly imposed from on high. If I remember rightly Reform has an advisor who is an ex police officer with an excellent understanding of the reality, and I would hope that Farage is taking that professional expertise on board.
Yes, listening to Shabana Mahmoud last night hiding behind legal proceedings argument, it seems that she doesnt get it, or if she does, she is ignoring the true situation. She just resorted to the usual Labour trick of turning to procedure as well as castigating those who criticised DEI and the anti-white racism that abounds in our institutions including the police. In fact she seems to try to shut down criticism of police and policy. Shocking, just as bad as the rest of the Labour bunch of deaf eared incompetents.
I do not want chaos. I want referendums. I have now written 2 summaries...one on biological sex vs gender and one on assisted dying. Probably wasting my time but I saw it successfully in Oz and Switzerland has shown it in toto.Are we moving towards a totalitarian regime? The dominant ideology is driven by politicians, an army of civil servants, plus management across our public institutions. This makes it a single ruling party.Then a police force/judiciary which puts people in jail for tweets and intimidates Alison Pearson,while threatening police officers who do the right thing, like the Manchester airport fracas. Then there is the monopoly of information with the BBC, the largest broadcaster in Europe. The final issue is a planned economy,where we are actively removing any incentive to work,and confirmed by the statement,"how can we tax more". Politicians and public servants are exempt from the consequences of their decisions. That needs changing too!
100 per cent agree with where we are going. We are virtually totalitarian now. Juries are going. ID cards will be brought in. And in any other time this awful lying PM will have been removed. But he can’t loosen his grip on power. He acts like a Dictator. Labour act like they have a divine right to rule. They don’t act as their manifesto said. It was a con. You say you want referendums, but then also say we are more totalitarian. The two don’t go together. Referendums ain’t going to happen any time soon, we are heading in to the abyss. Perhaps I used the wrong word ‘chaos’. I want revolution. I want the British people to stand up and say NO. But many are brainwashed and others don’t have the will. They can’t even see what a dangerous government this is, in terms of freedom. If they could, everyone would be out on the streets, now.
Restoration of the death penalty is probably a good example of a step too far. Extreme toughness in sentencing short of that yes, but making best possible correction of any miscarriage of justice simply impossible is wrong. There are just too many cases of incompetence, complacency and even downright maliciousness. And other practical objections exist that also have nothing to do with softness towards crime. That said, if demand for this came from the majority, they would need to be persuaded rather than ignored.
If Justice is not blind it fails or becomes lynch law. The left have perverted our laws and stirred up community problems in the guise of DEI. Ghettos and Religious MPs are not our way. We need a reset, starting with banning postal votes for all but the chronically disabled. We need our Common Law to operate as it was intended.
Yes Michael, Postal voting is the simple reason that we have so many ethnic MP’s & Councillors, not surprising, when so many of the voters cannot even speak English !
They are part of the Uniparty. The system must change not just the people within in. We need people who represent and serve their constituents, not their party or themselves. The party system prevents them doing so.
If Lowe had any integrity he wouldn't have stabbed Farage in the back. A man with integrity would have resigned, and if Lowe's massive out-of-control ego wasn't controlling his actions he could have accepted not getting his own way instead acting like a petulant brat in calling everybody names and starting a war on the right. Lowe isn't remotely close to putting Britain first.
How do you know. Nobody knows until they try. Restore is never going to win a large number of votes. Meanwhile by its behaviour it is going to subject us to years more of a disastrous Labour govt. It is very selfish.
Votes are no longer enough if we really want to change what's happening to our country. PR will be in before the next election and Reform will be finished.
Why couldn’t successive governments have had a policy of “everyone is equal irrespective of colour, race or creed.” No. They had to meddle with what would have been the perfect outcome by either not trusting white people to “give up” favourite status when 99% would have been happy to. Instead they meddled with social engineering and Blair loved “rubbing the white middle class’s noses in it.” Is it any surprise they’ve created a “shit show inside a monster wrapped in a disaster” to misquote Churchill.
Britain’s public services are plainly struggling. Whether it is policing, the NHS, local government or the civil service, many voters see institutions that appear increasingly concerned with process, targets and fashionable management theories while basic performance deteriorates. It is hardly surprising that frustration is growing.
Critics argue that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programmes have become part of the problem, creating bureaucracies more focused on identity and representation than competence and delivery. Supporters counter that such policies are intended to ensure fairness and widen opportunity, not undermine standards.
The truth is that neither side has a monopoly on wisdom. Public services require both professionalism and impartiality. Any system that promotes people for reasons other than ability will eventually fail. Equally, blaming every institutional failure on DEI risks overlooking poor leadership, weak accountability and decades of political drift.
Reform UK has tapped into this public anger by promising radical change. Whether it possesses the experience and talent to translate protest into effective government remains the question voters must answer. It appears much of the country is looking in that direction.
But DEI promotes poor leadership because it is not based on merit and professionalism or rather the best person for the job. Accountability is tied up with DEI because racial appointments or political appointments cannot be seen to be responsible for the problems we are facing or the political ideology would be shown to be faulty. So ultimately most of the current problems stem from DEI.
You're comparing THEIR performance with YOUR standards. They're not. They're comparing THEIR performance with THEIR standards, and in that sense they are very successful. There was a report recently showing various police "services" got perfect marks for their DEI activities, and poor marks for the things we want them to do, e.g. catch criminals. That's not an accident. That's a clear indicator of where their priorities lie. Until more people understand THEY are not even trying to do what WE want them to do, then people are not understanding the real nature of the problem and will never solve it. 👍
Matt - your rage and concern shines through your article. It is felt by every decent, sensible, none brainwashed citizen of our country. We do recognise that DEI needs to be rooted out in all institutions- that is obviously a given. But how is the average ‘man on the street’ supposed to do that? This is not like refusing to buy Chinese goods……it is not in the power for the general public to have that kind of effect on the establishment apart from through the ballot box - and that prospect is not immediate. We can refuse to deal with companies who project the DEI image - but the state systems? You talk against public protests because of the fear of things getting out of hand - but nothing will happen without governments actually being challenged and what other course is open to us?
This tragic death is certainly a turning point - we have had enough and will not bow to insults like ‘racist’ any more. We will be more inclined to verbally assert ourselves rather than just keep quiet. But that does not change the mindset of the BBC, the civil service, the arrogant educationalists brainwashing our children as we pay for the privilege through our taxes. Is a national strike a way forward? Or do we actually need to resort to civil disobedience before ‘the establishment’ realise that this is OUR country - not theirs; that WE pay their wages and they can only do what WE gave them a mandate to do. The Parliamentary system has been destroyed by this socialist scum of a government and the whole ruling system needs to be revisited - Starmer has proven just how dangerous an ideological and tyrannical leader can be under current rules and we need a complete rethink of how our country is governed - and the entire question of why we have a monarchy that does nothing when the country suffers. I would appreciate your thoughts on the way forward from this ‘mark in the sand’ Matt and thank you for your article to bring this discussion into the open.
It's not the only way. And it won't deliver real change, just new faces on the hamster wheel. Votes are no longer enough. Look at the mess we're in and the policies being pursued that nobody voted for because they weren't in anyone's manifesto. Politicians of all colours say one thing and do another. Time and again. We must change the system and ditch the 'traditions and protocols' that always seem to teflon-coat MP's.
Things started changing quietly a very long time ago probably through what was then called 'Personnel Departments' and subsequently 'Human Resources'. I retired over 20 years ago, and stopped my involvement with the Scouts over 30 years ago. Health and Safety legislation was the first big change, much of it necessary, but it gave much more power to the Personnel Department. Then we had equality training to ensure that everyone wasn't disadvantaged in any way. In the Scouts we had to accept girls even though boys and girls are very different and surely in Camp situations it wasn't actually very wise to mix the sexes. I don't think these changes were actually called for by the majority of leaders but imposed from above. I was chair of our local Leader Appointments Committee and we tried to weed out those volunteers we thought weren't right but undoubtedly there were some abusers around as there were in many organisations, but pandering to minorities is not a good look for most of us.
I agree that things started to change when the old 'Personnel Depts', a more transactional way of running things became 'Human Resources', a more strategic way. HR is more analytical, putting people into groups based on gender, race etc, with emphasis on performance and targets. I feel that the HR way has sometimes over analyzed things to the point that we are made to feel that we are 'missing out' and need to be included in things which don't really apply to us. I wish we could return to a simpler way of running things, as most Personnel Depts did. Even the name is nicer, more glamorous!
The country has never been like this since I was born (yeah long time ago), but I am optimistic now, for the first time in years. So many people have at last woken up.
I am trying not to let it be all consuming but it’s a daily challenge! My wife and I joined Reform and have gotten over our fear of canvassing and so appreciate lots of positive feedback on the doorstep. I would be feeling more confident if it wasn’t for the rise of Restore - though perhaps its main role will be to keep Reform “honest” on immigration?
Yes, well here's hoping Reform can stop the islamic take-over, though it may be a bit hard with so many muslims in its midsts. But bottom line, they want the same sort of things. Well done with the canvassing!
Restore will have zero effect on Reform's policies. Restore might influence Reform's manifesto, but as Labour are proving conclusively, what goes in the manifesto does not have to have any bearing on what you actually do in office. Restore are just making the situation even more difficult for the anti-establishment chances. 👍
Not enough people, I'm afraid. The deliberate dumbing-down of the population over the last few decades has been very successful, as has the Marxist indoctrination and brainwashing in education, the media and other public sectors and institutions.
I hope so; the trouble is that sheep can be turned one way or the other in quick succession - we need a lot of sheep dogs! Plus sheep can't just lie down and close their uninterested ears to everything around them...
Yup, keeping them on benefits, on their fast-food strewn sofas in front of junk telly rather than in the workplace mixing with people from different social classes hasn't helped at all.
Well said Matt. Thank God for your good sense and humanity. We face a wall of robotic misguided and deeply prejudiced left wing useful idiots adopting the playbook of totalitarian regimes. I pray that the citizens of Makerfield tick the Reform box.
This incident might well focus minds, especially as Nigel has made a bold statement and displayed strong leadership without equivocation, which is what many of us want to see. I think the good people of Makerfield will respond appropriately.
The demographics are only going to get worse and worse for White people. Ultimately White people will need to step over the old Left v Right paradigm and organise for their own collective interests.
White people need political representation and advocacy.
Everything else is a sideshow or containment operation.
My parents were from East Ham and even in the 70s they knew it was going to collapse. It was dreadful for them to live through. Particularly as they had believed that WW2 was all about keep England English.
I lived in Limehouse for 10 years while working in Canary Wharf. The A13 was like a land border. South of the A13 was white with some wealthy and decent Indians primarily. North was 95% Muslim. There was zero integration and people seemed to fairly happy with the segregation they had created themselves. Multiculturalism is alive and well but exists in parallel without integration. It’s no way to run a country.
Which is why it's quite correct to use words like "colonialism" and "invasion". Did British colonials go to other countries and try to integrate? Of course not. And since that's exactly what's been happening in Britain there's no reason to not use the same words. 👍
Here is a newspaper article I cut out and kept, from the early 1990s, as I thought it might well prove significant. The article is by Peter Jenkins, It was the first time I encountered the term 'political correctness'. Jenkins finished by stating the importance of being aware of its 'contagions'. Clearly it was highly contagious, and has led to very serious harm.
Peter Jenkins
(The Independent, 1990-ish)
The Follies of the Politically Correct
A cultural revolution is rampaging through American universities. It has received little attention so far in the British press. It is the “politically correct” (PC) movement, and it is a phenomenon both fascinating and disturbing. It bears some resemblance to the “loony left” in its Ken Livingstone phase, but is more serious than that because of its implications for academic freedom and the cultural traditions of the United States.
There are two prongs to what is going on. One has to do with behaviour or speech. A growing number of campuses have adopted PC codes, some of which are fairly innocuous, some plain silly, and a few offensive to First Amendment rights, which guarantee the freedom of speech. The codes are designed to curb behaviour which might give offence to racial and ethnic minorities, to women, or to homosexuals and lesbians. One code, at the University of Connecticut, prohibits “inappropriately directed laughter”; at Michigan, it is forbidden to assert that homosexuality might be a psychological disorder subject to treatment. I am not suggesting that it is; the point is that one is not allowed to advance the hypothesis, and the Michigan code has been challenged in the courts as a breach of the First Amendment.
On PC campuses there is an approved vocabulary for reference to blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, and so on, and it is spilling over into all walks of life, including the law and journalism. The New York Times style book now requires the term “adult male” in place of “man”.
The second prong of the PC movement is more sinister. Humanities departments are repudiating the “canons” of Western civilisation in favour of multiculturalism. Thucydides and Plato, Shakespeare and Milton, Goethe and Voltaire are categorised as DWEMs – Dead White European Males – and struck from reading lists. At the far extremes of the movement Nubian hieroglyphics replace Roman numerals in what is dubbed “ethnomathematics”, and “feminist science” is preferred to science. Desperate attempts are made to trace the origins of Western civilisation not to the Greeks but to black African sources. The thrust of the PC movement is towards the repudiation of the whole Western cultural tradition. The biggest DWEM of them all is Christopher Columbus, who is blamed for the import of Western culture in the first place.
In accordance with deconstructionist theories, the texts of the Western canon are seen as coded embodiments of the power structures of the societies in which they were produced and, therefore, rife with racism, sexism, etc. One culture, according to multiculturalists, is no better than another: there is no such thing as impartial knowledge or “reality” in the philosophical sense; everything is relative, subjective, a matter of opinion. But instead of treating this view of the world, which is perfectly arguable, as another opinion, it is being promoted into a dogma, leading to the purging of reading lists, the suppression of free speech, and the persecution of “politically incorrect” teachers.
The fashionable intellectual theories of Foucault and Derrida are one inspiration for the PC movement. It is no coincidence that the radicalisation of the social science departments in the Sixties has migrated to English, French and comparative literature departments. The veteran left-wing intellectual, Irving Howe, attributes it to “a time when all the once-regnant world systems…. From theologies to ideologies, are taken to be in severe collapse”. But PC also has sources in the affirmative action programmes adopted by many universities. At Berkeley, California, for example, blacks and Hispanics are admitted with test scores of 4,800 out of 8,000, while white students (and Asians) require scores of 7,000 for admission. According to Dinesh D’Sousa, author of the vogue book Illiberal Education: “Each year state schools such as Berkeley and the University of Virginia turn away hundreds of white and Asian Americans with straight A’s… while accepting students from under-represented groups with poor to mediocre academic and other credentials”.
This breeds racial resentments, which the PC codes are designed to curb and amend. But it also leads to renewed efforts by the multiculturalists to flatten the playing field by cutting out Chaucer or Milton in favour of more racially appropriate, and easier, texts. Among the worst victims of this, says the Marxist historian of slavery, Eugene Genovese, are qualified blacks whose educational attainments are devalued and who find themselves ghettoised into Afro-American studies. Complains Genovese: “We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society”.
The PC movement appears less a student-led revolt than an attempt at cultural transformation imposed by college teachers and administrators of the Class of ’68. Old leftists and new conservatives are rallying together in defence of the liberal tradition. Few dispute the desirability of a multicultural curriculum; it is the intolerant zeal of the extreme multiculturalists that invites comparison with the McCarthyism of the early Fifties. Maybe it will blow itself out like other American fads. The innate silliness of much of it encourages that hope. But for the moment the PC movement is subverting the cultural foundations of the US and we should be on our guard against its contagions.
The last sentence, with “and we should be on our guard against its contagions,” sums it up perfectly; however, we failed to so guard against it, and now look where we are! 😨
Ken, We had already gone down that road. I had a chapter in a book published by Roger Scruton's Sherwood Press called 'Anti-Racism: An Attack on Education and Value', edited by Frank Palmer. This book was published in 1986. The contributors were addressing what was already an entrenched position. Needless to say, the Elite gave it a very poor reception. It ought to be reprinted asap.
The eighties also saw the start of so-called "alternative comedy". I suspect that was a clear sign of the result of the far left infiltration of the education system. They were not comedians. They were political activists who loathed everything about Britain and being British.
Thank you for posting this Ian. So, the students of ‘68 became the academic leaders of the 1990s and have been recruiting in their own image ever since. It’s going to be a long journey to rebalance this but I hope Henry can make a dent.
Henry was killed twice by that family, once when the son stabbed him and then again when not one family member called an ambulance for him, he might have been fatally stabbed but we will never really know as he was left on the floor to die, whilst they looked on and concocted a fake story, they even stole his phone so he could not call for help or his mum, then he was handcuffed, called a racist, then read his rights. They deserve to be kicked out of our country they have not lived up to their obligations of respecting our country and its people. I am heartbroken for this boy and his family. When are our Government going to look after the people in this country who were born here and follow the rules. Who decided to put ethnic minorities ahead of white people, how racist is that!!!!!!!
The current government, and establishment, are never going to care about the British people because the establishment are globalists. They're prioritising the world's problems. And one of those problems is the existence of nation states which is why they are actively trying to deconstruct Britain, and they hate anyone who is British and wants Britain to be an independent, self governing nation. 👍
Predictably the knives are out already - for Nigel Farage!!!
This horrendous crime shows yet again how vitally important it is that the Right is not divided in the forthcoming Makerfield election and unite to elect Reform.
The "right" only exists in Restore Britain, all the other parties (ie Reform, Conservatives) are middle of the road. I want a party that is prepared,to be ruthless, otherwise this country as we know it will be finished.
I'd like a party that has the intelligence to get elected. Dispicably Lowe is just trying to make that harder. And if Lowe was truly ruthless he would swallow his pride, admit Farage is the only hope of winning an election, support him, and only then fight with him if necessary to get the right policies. Fighting Farage before winning power is just stupid, or evidence of an out-of-control ego.
Excellent analysis and action plan. I completely agree. Anyone who doesn’t feel inner rage when reading about what happened to Henry is inhuman or so blinded by an ideology that has spread like a virus. Nothing wrong with a diverse workforce but if policies, training and promotion are driven by DEI rather than ability, potential, merit, fairness, common sense and justice, then at best, we have mediocrity, at worst (and in Henry’s case) lives are lost. Root and branch change required.
This was extremely harrowing to watch and as somebody that has worked on front line emergencies, i have been trying to understand the actions of the police officers who attended to henry.
A stabbing, in most peoples minds may conjure up images of a blood bath, but in reality a single puncture wound can be very well concealed , as the bleeding can be predominently internal.
This may have caused the officer to respond in the way he did.
However, it is an absolute dereliction of duty and care to not even ask Henry where he was stabbed. It beggars belief that that simple question, may have led to different outcome.
Unfortunately, as you say Matt, this is a symptom of the policies, that have been implemented and established within our establishments. A slow erosion of treating all equally and prioritising the minorities in our community.
Can you imagine the reaction had that been a black man, stabbed by a white man and treated in the same way by the police? I can assure you there would have been way more than a few protestors outside a police station, there would have been full scale riots with mainstram global media all over it.
I think (as a retired nurse), Henry's lung would have been filling up with blood ,hence the inability to breathe. I also think that blood would be coming from his mouth and nostrils. So the police as you rightly said, abdicated their duty of care, and ignored him. I believe these cruel people should have a long prison sentence meted out to them.
Matt I agree with every word, and am so grateful to yourself , Nigel, Zia and others at the top of Reform for having the courage to speak out so powerfully .
Nothing but complete regime change will end this woke hegemony I hope to God people get behind Reform .
I hope the people of Makerfield send a powerful message that we have had enough and return a Reform MP
The entirety of what happened to Henry is distressing beyond belief . The grief and distress of his family knowing their boy died under such circumstances is beyond comprehension .
Personally I was proud to see the people of Southampton stand up for Henry last night, and disgusted that the “anti racism “ lot also turned out, missing the point entirely .
This cannot go on .
Indeed. But it is quite clear what needs to happen policy-wise. There is a plan in place.
The plan that needs to be at full tilt now is a constituency newspaper, precisely the sort of thing that swept Blair to power THREE TIMES. It was called Labour Rose in 1999, four pages, brilliant, cunning, professional layout, through every letterbox, demolished the Tories. But hey Matt, you and the 'preaching to converted' Reform seniors know better than (revolting) but massively successful Blair eh? If you can't get a copy of Labour Rose, ask me and I'll send you one. Put it next to your silly little leaflets and ask yourself, HONESTLY, which is going to get people inspired, excited AND VOTING FOR REFORM?
Welll said Lesley. I totally agree.
I was going to add my comment but you've said it all for me.
I hope and pray that Reform win in Makerfield. That would be a turning point for the good.
"King of the North"?
Aarrgghhhhh.
Disaster.
Speaking as a northerner , but not a Manc , I assure you Brian Burnham isn’t king of anybody , certainly not out of Manchester and I think his support is a very mixed bag even there. King of the North gets up my nose every time I hear it 🙄
Yes. Another self styled mirage by Labour. The Morrisey specs and Everton shirt are fake. They play with words. Starmer was promoted as a centrist, he’s anything but. They even talk about a ‘soft Left’ faction that includes people like Miliband. Makes it sound like a cuddly teddy bear. They are hard Left. Labour lie and deceive. About time the public and especially the media judged actions not words.
This Northerner wholly agrees with your comments.
And me.
Good man Ken !
Let’s see.
This is Zia Yousef’s very solid attack on Burnham BUT how many Makerfield voters will see this? Good material through every letterbox in Makerfield is the only way. ‘Likes’ on the internet must be divided by 650, the number of UK constituencies, this is where by-election campaigns KEEP getting it so wrong.
https://youtube.com/shorts/N8FE4ADzIA0?si=TA7aqbXwmVKRhdka
Agree. The ‘anti racism’ mob are violent thugs. Yet fly under the radar of the authorities. About time that was flagged too. But it won’t be because the Left think their ‘cause’ is pure and righteous. That’s the issue. Delusional.
Like the appalling ‘Hate not Hope’
Yes. Exactly. Another mirage of words. They are the opposite of what the title claims. Even the Greens are like this. You think they are harmless, (Green = nature) but have become bed fellows of the worst of Islamism. The British public and the media have fallen for the word tricks. The cons. The lies. Time to fight back is over due.
Not to mention the riot squad. Can you imagine the scene if Henry had been black? Do you think that the riot squad would have been present?
I suspect that many, many things would have been different Colin.
The kid gloves squad would have been sent instead !
I didn't realise the anti-racism nutters had turned up. Did they come to demand the defunding of the police for their racist brutality?! Hypocrites.
Ha. Wishful thinking. They came to say we were nasty racists for complaining about the brutal murder of a privileged white boy by an ethnic minority angel who was only practicing his culturally approved knife skills don’t you know
Painful. People were protesting against anti-white racism at the police station. How is that even remotely racist? No one (I hope) was calling for violence against Sikhs. Why can't they at least agree and join in the outrage of what happened at the same time.
I haven’t heard anyone attacking the Sikhs who are generally a lovable and patriotic lot. They have come out and roundly condemned what happened to Henry, although I think they should have volunteered to give up the right to carry those knives, as Starmer hadn’t the balls to ban them. There should be no exceptions to a ban on knife carrying and penalties for doing so need to be much more severe
No I haven't heard anything like that either other than marching to the house where it happened which I don't think is helpful. Those responsible have been arrested already and so its the police should now be the full focus, not whatever remaining family are still in the house - which is just a distraction. I agree everyone should be subject to the same laws.
Just really well said Matt. But we’re not changing course unless a true right of centre government come in. Even now the government are not learning or listening. The Home Secretary seems to have more to say about protestors than the murderer. Just like Southport. What are people to do when governments stop listening? And ‘full force of law’, what does that even mean since the ‘law’ is not even handed and has lost its meaning. Personally I want chaos to ensue. Because it seems the only way. Britain is broken.
It appears many are following the same script as after Southport. Don’t address the underlying issue. Blame Nigel Farage. Don’t fix the borders. Blame Farage. Don’t end two-tier policing. Blame Farage.
Then you as a party need to expose the lie. Really go for them, especially the lying arrogant PM. Don’t hold back. People don’t want words and platitudes, they want leaders and action
I agree and if I hear that we aren’t allowed to be angry one more time, I’ll scream. Enough with deflection, whataboutery, gaslighting, lying, the shutting down of debate with cries of far right etc and the endless sneering from the people in power. Enough with all of them.
TT, you echo the voices of both Southport and Southampton yesterday. Earthquakes do happen. We hope for a political one on 18th June, such that the detested ivory towers of arrogance and complacency take a devastating and destructive hit. Us troglodytes (as we now know we are) can then emerge to rebuild.
I’ve got everything crossed!
The first role in such situations is to check for illness or injury. Handcuffs are to impose control. Hampshire Police have a reputation within the police force of being at the forefront of DEI and Critcal Race theory. I am sure most police officers are appalled by what has happened and what is clearly imposed from on high. If I remember rightly Reform has an advisor who is an ex police officer with an excellent understanding of the reality, and I would hope that Farage is taking that professional expertise on board.
Yes, listening to Shabana Mahmoud last night hiding behind legal proceedings argument, it seems that she doesnt get it, or if she does, she is ignoring the true situation. She just resorted to the usual Labour trick of turning to procedure as well as castigating those who criticised DEI and the anti-white racism that abounds in our institutions including the police. In fact she seems to try to shut down criticism of police and policy. Shocking, just as bad as the rest of the Labour bunch of deaf eared incompetents.
She would, wouldn't she?
To quote an old adage, 'There are no bad soldiers, only bad generals'.
I do not want chaos. I want referendums. I have now written 2 summaries...one on biological sex vs gender and one on assisted dying. Probably wasting my time but I saw it successfully in Oz and Switzerland has shown it in toto.Are we moving towards a totalitarian regime? The dominant ideology is driven by politicians, an army of civil servants, plus management across our public institutions. This makes it a single ruling party.Then a police force/judiciary which puts people in jail for tweets and intimidates Alison Pearson,while threatening police officers who do the right thing, like the Manchester airport fracas. Then there is the monopoly of information with the BBC, the largest broadcaster in Europe. The final issue is a planned economy,where we are actively removing any incentive to work,and confirmed by the statement,"how can we tax more". Politicians and public servants are exempt from the consequences of their decisions. That needs changing too!
100 per cent agree with where we are going. We are virtually totalitarian now. Juries are going. ID cards will be brought in. And in any other time this awful lying PM will have been removed. But he can’t loosen his grip on power. He acts like a Dictator. Labour act like they have a divine right to rule. They don’t act as their manifesto said. It was a con. You say you want referendums, but then also say we are more totalitarian. The two don’t go together. Referendums ain’t going to happen any time soon, we are heading in to the abyss. Perhaps I used the wrong word ‘chaos’. I want revolution. I want the British people to stand up and say NO. But many are brainwashed and others don’t have the will. They can’t even see what a dangerous government this is, in terms of freedom. If they could, everyone would be out on the streets, now.
Restore are proposing a referendum on the death penalty. That would be interesting.
Restoration of the death penalty is probably a good example of a step too far. Extreme toughness in sentencing short of that yes, but making best possible correction of any miscarriage of justice simply impossible is wrong. There are just too many cases of incompetence, complacency and even downright maliciousness. And other practical objections exist that also have nothing to do with softness towards crime. That said, if demand for this came from the majority, they would need to be persuaded rather than ignored.
This is why David Betts suggests that civil war is quite close.
But a civil war situation would be very dangerous and unpredictable so everything should be done to avoid if possible.
Very well said, Matt.
"Anti-racism" is simply racism against white people.
KICK IT OUT.
If Justice is not blind it fails or becomes lynch law. The left have perverted our laws and stirred up community problems in the guise of DEI. Ghettos and Religious MPs are not our way. We need a reset, starting with banning postal votes for all but the chronically disabled. We need our Common Law to operate as it was intended.
https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/colour-blind
Yes Michael, Postal voting is the simple reason that we have so many ethnic MP’s & Councillors, not surprising, when so many of the voters cannot even speak English !
I think it helps Labour, Greens and LibDems. Is someone cannot be bothered to go to a polling station they obviously don't care about their vote.
I agree,and Reform will not deliver, Restore Britain is our only hope.
We need a reset. Lowe's ego is not that.
Farage has an enormous ego,but he has no integrity.
Reform is a party with an organisation that can end the Uniparty rule. Lowe supports Labour.
They are part of the Uniparty. The system must change not just the people within in. We need people who represent and serve their constituents, not their party or themselves. The party system prevents them doing so.
Sorry, but Reform are not part of the Uniparty, far from it. Of course Lowe attacks 'parties' while busily trying to creating one himself.
If Lowe had any integrity he wouldn't have stabbed Farage in the back. A man with integrity would have resigned, and if Lowe's massive out-of-control ego wasn't controlling his actions he could have accepted not getting his own way instead acting like a petulant brat in calling everybody names and starting a war on the right. Lowe isn't remotely close to putting Britain first.
How do you know. Nobody knows until they try. Restore is never going to win a large number of votes. Meanwhile by its behaviour it is going to subject us to years more of a disastrous Labour govt. It is very selfish.
Perfectly put
Votes are no longer enough if we really want to change what's happening to our country. PR will be in before the next election and Reform will be finished.
So what do you suggest people can do?
Most definitely not.
Why couldn’t successive governments have had a policy of “everyone is equal irrespective of colour, race or creed.” No. They had to meddle with what would have been the perfect outcome by either not trusting white people to “give up” favourite status when 99% would have been happy to. Instead they meddled with social engineering and Blair loved “rubbing the white middle class’s noses in it.” Is it any surprise they’ve created a “shit show inside a monster wrapped in a disaster” to misquote Churchill.
Britain’s public services are plainly struggling. Whether it is policing, the NHS, local government or the civil service, many voters see institutions that appear increasingly concerned with process, targets and fashionable management theories while basic performance deteriorates. It is hardly surprising that frustration is growing.
Critics argue that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programmes have become part of the problem, creating bureaucracies more focused on identity and representation than competence and delivery. Supporters counter that such policies are intended to ensure fairness and widen opportunity, not undermine standards.
The truth is that neither side has a monopoly on wisdom. Public services require both professionalism and impartiality. Any system that promotes people for reasons other than ability will eventually fail. Equally, blaming every institutional failure on DEI risks overlooking poor leadership, weak accountability and decades of political drift.
Reform UK has tapped into this public anger by promising radical change. Whether it possesses the experience and talent to translate protest into effective government remains the question voters must answer. It appears much of the country is looking in that direction.
But DEI promotes poor leadership because it is not based on merit and professionalism or rather the best person for the job. Accountability is tied up with DEI because racial appointments or political appointments cannot be seen to be responsible for the problems we are facing or the political ideology would be shown to be faulty. So ultimately most of the current problems stem from DEI.
Simple question...do you feel people should be appointed to positions based on DEI or on merit?
On merit of course certainly not because of DEI.
Merit only
Only on merit always.
You're comparing THEIR performance with YOUR standards. They're not. They're comparing THEIR performance with THEIR standards, and in that sense they are very successful. There was a report recently showing various police "services" got perfect marks for their DEI activities, and poor marks for the things we want them to do, e.g. catch criminals. That's not an accident. That's a clear indicator of where their priorities lie. Until more people understand THEY are not even trying to do what WE want them to do, then people are not understanding the real nature of the problem and will never solve it. 👍
Matt - your rage and concern shines through your article. It is felt by every decent, sensible, none brainwashed citizen of our country. We do recognise that DEI needs to be rooted out in all institutions- that is obviously a given. But how is the average ‘man on the street’ supposed to do that? This is not like refusing to buy Chinese goods……it is not in the power for the general public to have that kind of effect on the establishment apart from through the ballot box - and that prospect is not immediate. We can refuse to deal with companies who project the DEI image - but the state systems? You talk against public protests because of the fear of things getting out of hand - but nothing will happen without governments actually being challenged and what other course is open to us?
This tragic death is certainly a turning point - we have had enough and will not bow to insults like ‘racist’ any more. We will be more inclined to verbally assert ourselves rather than just keep quiet. But that does not change the mindset of the BBC, the civil service, the arrogant educationalists brainwashing our children as we pay for the privilege through our taxes. Is a national strike a way forward? Or do we actually need to resort to civil disobedience before ‘the establishment’ realise that this is OUR country - not theirs; that WE pay their wages and they can only do what WE gave them a mandate to do. The Parliamentary system has been destroyed by this socialist scum of a government and the whole ruling system needs to be revisited - Starmer has proven just how dangerous an ideological and tyrannical leader can be under current rules and we need a complete rethink of how our country is governed - and the entire question of why we have a monarchy that does nothing when the country suffers. I would appreciate your thoughts on the way forward from this ‘mark in the sand’ Matt and thank you for your article to bring this discussion into the open.
I know it’s a struggle, but the ballot box is the only way to rid our country of this filth.
It's not the only way. And it won't deliver real change, just new faces on the hamster wheel. Votes are no longer enough. Look at the mess we're in and the policies being pursued that nobody voted for because they weren't in anyone's manifesto. Politicians of all colours say one thing and do another. Time and again. We must change the system and ditch the 'traditions and protocols' that always seem to teflon-coat MP's.
Things started changing quietly a very long time ago probably through what was then called 'Personnel Departments' and subsequently 'Human Resources'. I retired over 20 years ago, and stopped my involvement with the Scouts over 30 years ago. Health and Safety legislation was the first big change, much of it necessary, but it gave much more power to the Personnel Department. Then we had equality training to ensure that everyone wasn't disadvantaged in any way. In the Scouts we had to accept girls even though boys and girls are very different and surely in Camp situations it wasn't actually very wise to mix the sexes. I don't think these changes were actually called for by the majority of leaders but imposed from above. I was chair of our local Leader Appointments Committee and we tried to weed out those volunteers we thought weren't right but undoubtedly there were some abusers around as there were in many organisations, but pandering to minorities is not a good look for most of us.
I agree that things started to change when the old 'Personnel Depts', a more transactional way of running things became 'Human Resources', a more strategic way. HR is more analytical, putting people into groups based on gender, race etc, with emphasis on performance and targets. I feel that the HR way has sometimes over analyzed things to the point that we are made to feel that we are 'missing out' and need to be included in things which don't really apply to us. I wish we could return to a simpler way of running things, as most Personnel Depts did. Even the name is nicer, more glamorous!
Well said
Henry Nowak died in a river of blood. Enoch Powell was misquoted and excoriated,but he was right.
I think it is too late for inquiries and hopes for peaceful change.
Yes he literally would have done, with a punctured lung. These wooden tops need jailing.
I can’t remember feeling as pessimistic about the future of our country and I have been around a bit.
The country has never been like this since I was born (yeah long time ago), but I am optimistic now, for the first time in years. So many people have at last woken up.
I am trying not to let it be all consuming but it’s a daily challenge! My wife and I joined Reform and have gotten over our fear of canvassing and so appreciate lots of positive feedback on the doorstep. I would be feeling more confident if it wasn’t for the rise of Restore - though perhaps its main role will be to keep Reform “honest” on immigration?
Yes, well here's hoping Reform can stop the islamic take-over, though it may be a bit hard with so many muslims in its midsts. But bottom line, they want the same sort of things. Well done with the canvassing!
Well done for campaigning - good luck with it! 💯👌
Restore will have zero effect on Reform's policies. Restore might influence Reform's manifesto, but as Labour are proving conclusively, what goes in the manifesto does not have to have any bearing on what you actually do in office. Restore are just making the situation even more difficult for the anti-establishment chances. 👍
Not enough people, I'm afraid. The deliberate dumbing-down of the population over the last few decades has been very successful, as has the Marxist indoctrination and brainwashing in education, the media and other public sectors and institutions.
I get you. But people are like lemmings, it only takes a few to turn and the rest follow like sheep. Sorry for mixed metaphors.
I hope so; the trouble is that sheep can be turned one way or the other in quick succession - we need a lot of sheep dogs! Plus sheep can't just lie down and close their uninterested ears to everything around them...
Yup, keeping them on benefits, on their fast-food strewn sofas in front of junk telly rather than in the workplace mixing with people from different social classes hasn't helped at all.
Me too, Steve, me too.
Well said Matt. Thank God for your good sense and humanity. We face a wall of robotic misguided and deeply prejudiced left wing useful idiots adopting the playbook of totalitarian regimes. I pray that the citizens of Makerfield tick the Reform box.
If they let Labour in then the citizens of Makerfield are very misguided. That was the most polite term I could think of.
This incident might well focus minds, especially as Nigel has made a bold statement and displayed strong leadership without equivocation, which is what many of us want to see. I think the good people of Makerfield will respond appropriately.
The demographics are only going to get worse and worse for White people. Ultimately White people will need to step over the old Left v Right paradigm and organise for their own collective interests.
White people need political representation and advocacy.
Everything else is a sideshow or containment operation.
We’re already living as parallel communities with different immigrant cultures. Where the cultures meet it usually turns into a disaster.
My parents were from East Ham and even in the 70s they knew it was going to collapse. It was dreadful for them to live through. Particularly as they had believed that WW2 was all about keep England English.
I lived in Limehouse for 10 years while working in Canary Wharf. The A13 was like a land border. South of the A13 was white with some wealthy and decent Indians primarily. North was 95% Muslim. There was zero integration and people seemed to fairly happy with the segregation they had created themselves. Multiculturalism is alive and well but exists in parallel without integration. It’s no way to run a country.
Which is why it's quite correct to use words like "colonialism" and "invasion". Did British colonials go to other countries and try to integrate? Of course not. And since that's exactly what's been happening in Britain there's no reason to not use the same words. 👍
*keeping
Here is a newspaper article I cut out and kept, from the early 1990s, as I thought it might well prove significant. The article is by Peter Jenkins, It was the first time I encountered the term 'political correctness'. Jenkins finished by stating the importance of being aware of its 'contagions'. Clearly it was highly contagious, and has led to very serious harm.
Peter Jenkins
(The Independent, 1990-ish)
The Follies of the Politically Correct
A cultural revolution is rampaging through American universities. It has received little attention so far in the British press. It is the “politically correct” (PC) movement, and it is a phenomenon both fascinating and disturbing. It bears some resemblance to the “loony left” in its Ken Livingstone phase, but is more serious than that because of its implications for academic freedom and the cultural traditions of the United States.
There are two prongs to what is going on. One has to do with behaviour or speech. A growing number of campuses have adopted PC codes, some of which are fairly innocuous, some plain silly, and a few offensive to First Amendment rights, which guarantee the freedom of speech. The codes are designed to curb behaviour which might give offence to racial and ethnic minorities, to women, or to homosexuals and lesbians. One code, at the University of Connecticut, prohibits “inappropriately directed laughter”; at Michigan, it is forbidden to assert that homosexuality might be a psychological disorder subject to treatment. I am not suggesting that it is; the point is that one is not allowed to advance the hypothesis, and the Michigan code has been challenged in the courts as a breach of the First Amendment.
On PC campuses there is an approved vocabulary for reference to blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, and so on, and it is spilling over into all walks of life, including the law and journalism. The New York Times style book now requires the term “adult male” in place of “man”.
The second prong of the PC movement is more sinister. Humanities departments are repudiating the “canons” of Western civilisation in favour of multiculturalism. Thucydides and Plato, Shakespeare and Milton, Goethe and Voltaire are categorised as DWEMs – Dead White European Males – and struck from reading lists. At the far extremes of the movement Nubian hieroglyphics replace Roman numerals in what is dubbed “ethnomathematics”, and “feminist science” is preferred to science. Desperate attempts are made to trace the origins of Western civilisation not to the Greeks but to black African sources. The thrust of the PC movement is towards the repudiation of the whole Western cultural tradition. The biggest DWEM of them all is Christopher Columbus, who is blamed for the import of Western culture in the first place.
In accordance with deconstructionist theories, the texts of the Western canon are seen as coded embodiments of the power structures of the societies in which they were produced and, therefore, rife with racism, sexism, etc. One culture, according to multiculturalists, is no better than another: there is no such thing as impartial knowledge or “reality” in the philosophical sense; everything is relative, subjective, a matter of opinion. But instead of treating this view of the world, which is perfectly arguable, as another opinion, it is being promoted into a dogma, leading to the purging of reading lists, the suppression of free speech, and the persecution of “politically incorrect” teachers.
The fashionable intellectual theories of Foucault and Derrida are one inspiration for the PC movement. It is no coincidence that the radicalisation of the social science departments in the Sixties has migrated to English, French and comparative literature departments. The veteran left-wing intellectual, Irving Howe, attributes it to “a time when all the once-regnant world systems…. From theologies to ideologies, are taken to be in severe collapse”. But PC also has sources in the affirmative action programmes adopted by many universities. At Berkeley, California, for example, blacks and Hispanics are admitted with test scores of 4,800 out of 8,000, while white students (and Asians) require scores of 7,000 for admission. According to Dinesh D’Sousa, author of the vogue book Illiberal Education: “Each year state schools such as Berkeley and the University of Virginia turn away hundreds of white and Asian Americans with straight A’s… while accepting students from under-represented groups with poor to mediocre academic and other credentials”.
This breeds racial resentments, which the PC codes are designed to curb and amend. But it also leads to renewed efforts by the multiculturalists to flatten the playing field by cutting out Chaucer or Milton in favour of more racially appropriate, and easier, texts. Among the worst victims of this, says the Marxist historian of slavery, Eugene Genovese, are qualified blacks whose educational attainments are devalued and who find themselves ghettoised into Afro-American studies. Complains Genovese: “We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society”.
The PC movement appears less a student-led revolt than an attempt at cultural transformation imposed by college teachers and administrators of the Class of ’68. Old leftists and new conservatives are rallying together in defence of the liberal tradition. Few dispute the desirability of a multicultural curriculum; it is the intolerant zeal of the extreme multiculturalists that invites comparison with the McCarthyism of the early Fifties. Maybe it will blow itself out like other American fads. The innate silliness of much of it encourages that hope. But for the moment the PC movement is subverting the cultural foundations of the US and we should be on our guard against its contagions.
The last sentence, with “and we should be on our guard against its contagions,” sums it up perfectly; however, we failed to so guard against it, and now look where we are! 😨
Ken, We had already gone down that road. I had a chapter in a book published by Roger Scruton's Sherwood Press called 'Anti-Racism: An Attack on Education and Value', edited by Frank Palmer. This book was published in 1986. The contributors were addressing what was already an entrenched position. Needless to say, the Elite gave it a very poor reception. It ought to be reprinted asap.
Pity it wasn't published in 1984! 😯😉
The eighties also saw the start of so-called "alternative comedy". I suspect that was a clear sign of the result of the far left infiltration of the education system. They were not comedians. They were political activists who loathed everything about Britain and being British.
Thank you for posting this Ian. So, the students of ‘68 became the academic leaders of the 1990s and have been recruiting in their own image ever since. It’s going to be a long journey to rebalance this but I hope Henry can make a dent.
Henry was killed twice by that family, once when the son stabbed him and then again when not one family member called an ambulance for him, he might have been fatally stabbed but we will never really know as he was left on the floor to die, whilst they looked on and concocted a fake story, they even stole his phone so he could not call for help or his mum, then he was handcuffed, called a racist, then read his rights. They deserve to be kicked out of our country they have not lived up to their obligations of respecting our country and its people. I am heartbroken for this boy and his family. When are our Government going to look after the people in this country who were born here and follow the rules. Who decided to put ethnic minorities ahead of white people, how racist is that!!!!!!!
The current government, and establishment, are never going to care about the British people because the establishment are globalists. They're prioritising the world's problems. And one of those problems is the existence of nation states which is why they are actively trying to deconstruct Britain, and they hate anyone who is British and wants Britain to be an independent, self governing nation. 👍
Predictably the knives are out already - for Nigel Farage!!!
This horrendous crime shows yet again how vitally important it is that the Right is not divided in the forthcoming Makerfield election and unite to elect Reform.
The "right" only exists in Restore Britain, all the other parties (ie Reform, Conservatives) are middle of the road. I want a party that is prepared,to be ruthless, otherwise this country as we know it will be finished.
I'd like a party that has the intelligence to get elected. Dispicably Lowe is just trying to make that harder. And if Lowe was truly ruthless he would swallow his pride, admit Farage is the only hope of winning an election, support him, and only then fight with him if necessary to get the right policies. Fighting Farage before winning power is just stupid, or evidence of an out-of-control ego.
Excellent analysis and action plan. I completely agree. Anyone who doesn’t feel inner rage when reading about what happened to Henry is inhuman or so blinded by an ideology that has spread like a virus. Nothing wrong with a diverse workforce but if policies, training and promotion are driven by DEI rather than ability, potential, merit, fairness, common sense and justice, then at best, we have mediocrity, at worst (and in Henry’s case) lives are lost. Root and branch change required.
This was extremely harrowing to watch and as somebody that has worked on front line emergencies, i have been trying to understand the actions of the police officers who attended to henry.
A stabbing, in most peoples minds may conjure up images of a blood bath, but in reality a single puncture wound can be very well concealed , as the bleeding can be predominently internal.
This may have caused the officer to respond in the way he did.
However, it is an absolute dereliction of duty and care to not even ask Henry where he was stabbed. It beggars belief that that simple question, may have led to different outcome.
Unfortunately, as you say Matt, this is a symptom of the policies, that have been implemented and established within our establishments. A slow erosion of treating all equally and prioritising the minorities in our community.
Can you imagine the reaction had that been a black man, stabbed by a white man and treated in the same way by the police? I can assure you there would have been way more than a few protestors outside a police station, there would have been full scale riots with mainstram global media all over it.
We’d be on fire now if colours were reversed.
I think (as a retired nurse), Henry's lung would have been filling up with blood ,hence the inability to breathe. I also think that blood would be coming from his mouth and nostrils. So the police as you rightly said, abdicated their duty of care, and ignored him. I believe these cruel people should have a long prison sentence meted out to them.