HARRY PITMAN had been enjoying a New Year’s Eve fireworks display on Primrose Hill in London when he was stabbed.
Paramedics tried to save his life but it was too late. Dead at the age of 16.
Paramedics tried to save Harry Pitman but it was too lateMET POLICE
GettyHarry Pitman’s granddad, beside himself with grief, suggested that anyone found with a knife in public should maybe serve an automatic two-year sentence[/caption]
Back at Harry’s home his mum had prepared his dinner. He never got to eat it. His sister Tayla revealed his mother “can’t bring herself to remove it” from the oven.
Harry was reportedly a good kid and not involved in any gang-related stuff.
It is a horrible, heartbreaking story. And yet also terribly familiar.
Last year 21 teenagers met violent deaths in London. That’s up by 50 per cent on the previous year.
Everybody has said how tragic Harry’s story is. Including the odious Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
But nobody seems to want to address WHY it is that so many kids have become feral creatures, wedded to a life of violence.
The Met Police said they thought the killing wasn’t racially motivated. But whatever. We’re all agreed how awful it is.
What the politicians wringing their hands also NEVER say, however, is how this epidemic of violence can be halted.
For years they have talked tough and done next to nothing. We’ve had David Cameron on being locked up for possessing a knife, crackdowns on social media, bans on selling zombie knives online — but nothing happens.
There were 13,503 knife crimes in London between July 2022 and June 2023, up 21 per cent on the previous year. And more than 1,000 gun crimes.
Most of these crimes are committed by young men. And a large majority of homicide victims (62 per cent) and offenders (65 per cent) are Black Londoners. That’s from Sadiq Khan’s own figures, by the way.
And that is one reason why the politicians stay well away from the issue.
Harry Pitman’s granddad, beside himself with grief, suggested that anyone found with a knife in public should maybe serve an automatic two-year sentence.
But you’d be locking up an awful lot of youngsters from ethnic minorities. Which politician would go along with that?
The truth is that leftie hypocrisy and a wish by the police not to be seen as racist has hugely contributed to our capital city becoming so violent.
The Left — and the race charities — will scream blue murder if a disproportionate number of non-white youths are searched or arrested.
They conveniently forget a dispro-portionate number of violent crimes are committed by non-white youths.
The Left always objects to such policies as stop and search. They say it is racist.
And it seems there is no crime worse than being racist, not even murder.
Suggest for a moment that perhaps an absence of fathers in the homes from which these kids come might have something to do with it and the Left will howl that you are “demonising” single mums AND being racist.
Suggest schools, which indulge kids by championing music that glorifies a violent gang culture, may have something to do with it and the liberals will shout you down.
For the left it is simply a matter of fact that non-white youths are being discriminated against, econom-ically and socially.
I have said before that political correct-ness isn’t simply irritating, but that it can kill people.
Harry Pitman happ-ened to be white, but the overwhelming maj-ority of youth homi-cides are young black kids. The only thing stopping us from addressing this issue is political cant and a fear of being called racist.
How long will we allow politeness to prevent us from taking action?
SHOW SPINE, SUNAK
DOCTORS are very quickly becoming an even more disliked bunch of grifters than estate agents and used car salesmen.
Not only do they make it nigh on impossible to see them, the young doctors are also determined to bring down our Government.
GettyDoctors are becoming even more disliked than estate agents and used car salesmen[/caption]
There is not the slightest doubt that the quacks’ latest strike is politically motivated.
They have the effrontery to demand a 35-per-cent pay rise.
Yes, we have a low-wage economy and that is a real problem. But the doctors are hardly a part of that.
The worry is that the Government will cave in because the General Election is approaching.
Show some spine, Rishi.
I WENT out with a bunch of mates for a meal on New Year’s Eve.
The waitress was very pretty and personable. On one momentous occasion she actually called me “darling”.
This cheered me up a lot. I said to my friends: “Darling, huh? I wonder what she means by that!”
One of them leaned across the table and replied: “It means you’re old.”
SHOVE ’ORF
THE appalling Munroe Bergdorf has been chosen to represent British women, by the United Nations agency UN Women UK.
If Bergdorf really does represent British women it’s time to get the hell out of the country.
SplashThe appalling Munroe Bergdorf has been chosen to represent British women[/caption]
Bergdorf has made a series of odious racist comments. Apparently all white folk are racist.
Bergdorf also made nasty comments about a lesbian. But, more importantly, Bergdorf isn’t even a woman.
Yup, Munroe is transgender and 17 campaigning women’s groups have complained about the appointment.
I know that it’s all one might expect from the UN . . . but when is this idiocy going to stop?
God forbid we’re hit by real storm
WHO the hell is Henk? As in Storm Henk, that gentle zephyr which lightly caressed the Home Counties a day or so ago?
Why would you call a storm that? They are getting more and more skittish and stupid with the names they bestow upon weather patterns.
Storms should sound like storms, we want names like Odin, above, and Rommel
Some of which totally fail to live up to the name “storm”.
Anyway, in future, storms should sound like storms. We want names like Odin and Rommel.
Meanwhile, I heard a weathergirl refer to some people as “weather responders”.
A new chunk of stupid terminology for a stupid new year. What IS a weather responder? Someone who responds to weather?
Much like I do when I see it’s raining outside and decide not to take the dog for a walk but to watch Bangers And Cash on Yesterday.
That’s responding to weather, isn’t it?
FAIR TO TARGET AROURI
THEY say that every man’s death diminishes us. Maybe that’s true.
But between you and me, I didn’t feel THAT diminished when Saleh al-Arouri was blown to smithereens by an Israeli rocket.
EPAI didn’t feel THAT diminished when Saleh al-Arouri was blown to smithereens by an Israeli rocket[/caption]
Arouri was the deputy leader of the Hamas terrorists.
The Israelis located him in Beirut and now the only thing left of the grizzled old thug is his beard.
Incredibly, the BBC and one or two others are worrying that this might spread the war into Lebanon.
That will come as news to the Israelis. They’ve been facing rocket attacks from Hezbollah on a daily basis for years.
Israel did exactly the right thing.
INCIDENTALLY, my New Year’s resolution was to try to avoid driving into a tree.
I did that in 2023 and wasn’t hugely impressed with the outcome. Nor was the tree over-pleased.
I also made a vow to be less understanding and consensual when cretins are telling me something.
No more Mr Nice Guy.
AULD LANG WHINE
I’M an optimistic kind of guy.
Always prepared to believe that the future will be bright and beautiful.
So this New Year’s Eve, just like every New Year’s Eve, I sang Auld Lang Syne and told everyone what a brilliant year 2024 was going to be.
And then I woke up on January 1 with a stinking hangover. I crawled downstairs to find the dog had crapped in the kitchen and that I’d left the freezer lid open and all my food was thawed.
And a smoke alarm that Sir Chris Bonington would have trouble reaching was chirruping away because it needed new batteries.
I know a lot of people have to put up with much worse things. But 9am on the first day of the year . . . sorta takes the shine off, doesn’t it?
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