Two-Tier Keir Divides the United Kingdom
If you’ve ever said anything the British PM doesn’t like, he might not let you into his country.
It has become a real cliché to observe that the “United” Kingdom really isn’t very united at all anymore. So it proved on the weekend of 16 May, when a mass rally called “Unite the Kingdom” (UTK) occurred in central London. Alarmed by this prospect, the embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer immediately rushed onto television and declared the demo would be “divisive.”
Divisive why? Because, in attempting to unite British people in love for their own country and historic way of life, Keir said, without any sense of irony, the march was inherently “unpatriotic.” Keir accused the rally, staged by leading anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, of “peddling hatred and division, plain and simple,” whilst warning the occasion’s very existence proved “we’re in a fight for the soul of the country” against the forces of white supremacism. Starmer cautioned participants with police action if they misbehaved, asserting that “we all have a responsibility to speak out against those spouting vile divisive views wherever we see it.” Indeed so. Which was why, quite promptly, large numbers of ordinary people began accusing Starmer of spouting “vile divisive views” himself.
Rally Round the Flag
The UTK rally took place on the very same day as one of the tediously regular pro-Palestine/anti-Israel marches through the same general area of central London. These latter marches are something Keir has never bothered to speak out against, nor threatened with the long arm of the law, despite their far more provocative nature.
Some commentators took the opportunity to attend both demonstrations, finding that, in the words of one writer at the UTK gathering, “Far from ‘hate speech,’ I heard plenty of love speech – love for nation, for unity, for freedom,” whereas at the Free Palestine rally, he heard only chants of “globalize the intifada” and saw Al-Qassam Brigade red triangle symbols, used by Hamas to indicate targets for death in propaganda videos, on participants’ outfits. (Were they marking themselves as targets?)
Naturally, other journalistic attendees disagreed, with the left-wing New Statesman magazine observing the UTK march was full of “cokeheads and Christians.” I wonder which the writer thought was worse?
Writing in the tabloid freesheet The Metro, a self-described “visibly Muslim woman” complained about all the visibly white, British, and Christian people on display, saying that “it felt like the mask was truly off.” Attendees, particularly the feminist ones, may have replied they felt that was better than the burka being truly on. The irritated reporter was particularly offended by the way one Anglo-racist speaker had slices of bacon glued to his shoulders, as though warding off Muslims like garlic does to vampires. Yet this particular “white supremacist” was a South Korean.
Don’t Risk It for the Biscuit
Admittedly, there was some open hatred on display from UTK attendees—but it was open hatred against Starmer, not against all nonwhites. Many chanted “Keir Starmer is a wanker,” a now-common insult from sports crowds across the country, whilst Robinson called for the PM to be peacefully voted out of office at the next general election, something which used to be known as “democracy,” not “inciting violence.”
One on-stage speaker did go a bit further, though, calling Starmer “abhorrent” and “a disgusting excuse of a man,” which does sound a little intemperate. However, all things considered, such language was understandable, as this woman was Siobhan Whyte, whose daughter, Rhiannon, was murdered by an illegal Sudanese immigrant named Deng Majek at the asylum hostel where she worked catering to his every whim at taxpayer expense last year. The precise reason for Majek stabbing Rhiannon 23 times with a screwdriver before dancing about and laughing gleefully is unknown, the best guess being that she may have served him some broken biscuits – it’s well-known that the Sudanese really love their Scottish shortbread.
At Deng’s subsequent trial, it became clear the hotel was one giant tragedy waiting to happen, with other imported “guests” habitually following female staff members home and “refusing to take no for answer”—and I don’t think they were asking for biscuits. Several times, inmates were found stashing axes and machetes in their rooms, but hotel bosses refused to remove them, as they were legally the asylum seekers’ property. And, for daring to protest about borderless insanities like this, and suggesting the prime minister may just have been a tiny bit negligent in his duties towards the safety of the nation, Mrs. Whyte and her fellow rally-goers were deemed “divisive” and “vile” by Keir.
What was genuinely divisive and vile was a stunt pulled by left-wing “anti-racist” protestors who, just as Mrs Whyte was about to speak, suddenly projected a huge slogan reading “Immigration makes Britain brilliant!” onto a nearby big screen. Taunting a bereaved mother that the death of her child was somehow “brilliant” is the very definition of a divisive act, one which, to judge by the chorus of boos it elicited, could have easily started a riot. Which, a cynic may say, is precisely what the agitators wanted, as then they could more easily mislabel the marchers as “violent thugs,” as Starmer had.
Travel Troubles
At least Mrs. Whyte, being a resident British citizen, was able to speak. In the run-up to UTK, the PM had ostentatiously banned “eleven far-right agitators” from entering the country to address the crowd, as they would only “seek to incite hatred and violence.” That’s the job of far-left plants to do, not legitimately invited foreign guest speakers!
Who were these “far-right agitators” who had their electronic visas withdrawn before the rally took place? Most were simple American or European online right-wing commentators, like suspiciously Scandi-looking Dutchwoman Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
Eva was actually already banned from Britain back in January, just after calling Keir an “evil, despicable man” for wanting to censor dissident opinions on social media “under the pretense of [protecting] ‘women’s safety’ whilst he’s the one allowing the ongoing rape and killing of British girls by migrant rape gangs.” Therefore, Eva seems to actually have been disqualified from the UK for criticizing the PM and his policies, well before the UTK rally was even scheduled, not for calling for imminent acts of violence against Muslims at all.
None of those banned appear to have been inciting any violence whatsoever. Nevertheless, they all received identical emails explaining, “Your presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good.” Far from cartoon skinheads, several were democratically elected politicians, and not for the Nazi Party, either. One, Polish MEP Dominik Tarczynski, responded by calling Starmer a communist and threatening to sue him. Belgian politician Filip Dewinter was more sarcastic, saying if he really wanted easy entrance to Britain, he should have just torn up his passport and sailed in on an illegal dinghy wielding a sharpened screwdriver.
Visa Vices
Comparing illegal immigrants to legally barred visitors to the country may not be the best way to illustrate the hypocrisy of “Two-Tier Keir,” however. Instead, just consider all the genuine inciters of violence his government is happy to allow to fly into Britain, no questions asked. Last December, Keir specifically enabled the admission of an Egyptian dissident named Alaa Abd El-Fattah. He even bragged he was “delighted” to see him land, calling his arrival a “top priority.”
Thinking him an extremist, the Egyptians had placed a travel ban on El-Fattah themselves, which Starmer & Co. specifically fought to overturn, naively trusting he was a wronged innocent. Then journalists bothered to check his social media accounts, easily finding he had advocated killing “colonialists and specially Zionists … including civilians,” admitted to being “a violent person,” boasted he “hated white people,” whom he considered “pigs and monkeys,” and called for the burning of Downing Street.
When it is anti-immigration whites seeking an entrance visa, the Home Office goes out of its way to scour their past online presence to find even the slightest excuse to bar them. But when it is anti-white or anti-Israel non-whites seeking one, the Home Office sits tight and waits for whistle-blowers to approach them begging for visa cancellations.
Right now, UK Jewish groups are seeking, thus far unsuccessfully, to have the entrance visa of far-left Turkish-American political commentator Hasan Piker withdrawn, as he has in the past approved of Hamas, which is a criminal offense under UK law, calling it “a thousand times better than Israel,” and said “it doesn’t matter” if they raped people to death, as “Palestinian resistance is not perfect.” Piker has also called for the mass murder of landlords, saying, “Let the streets soak in their f—ing red capitalist blood, dude.” This genuinely far-left rape apologist presents this rhetoric as all a hyperbolic joke, but if the allegedly “far-right” rape condemner Eva Vlaardingerbroek had said those exact same “humorous” words against Pakistani grooming gangs, I doubt she’d be given the benefit of the doubt by UK Border Force.
The classic case of such double standards at play came the last time the UK Labour Party was in power, back in 2009, when leading Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders was temporarily barred from entry as a probable “Nazi.” The supposed evidence for this charge included the fact that he had compared the contents of the Koran to fascism—but if Wilders really were a Nazi, shouldn’t that logically have been considered a compliment?
Ironically, in the same week as the UTK rally, Wilders reentered British headlines after pledging to sue a British citizen whom he accused of making illegal incitements of violence against him by publicly threatening to throw him under a train. This British citizen was former UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting, one of the leading candidates to take over as leader of the Labour Party, and thus as PM, should the failing Starmer be forced to stand down sometime soon. Can’t the next group of divisive, violence-stoking undesirables banned from the country be the tyrannical political elites themselves?
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