WE are sliding, dangerously, towards a civil war.
I hadn’t thought it would come to this. I got that wrong.
AFPFor two nights there has been mass rioting in Ballymena in Northern Ireland[/caption]
PAWe should brace for a summer of torched cars, smashed windows and thuggery[/caption]
AFPThe NI riots are a kind of mirror image of those we are seeing every night in Los Angeles[/caption]
For two nights there has been mass rioting in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of (largely) young men in balaclavas attacking the police, local businesses and any foreigner they can get their hands on.
More than 30 police officers have been injured. And the riots have spread — to Lisburn, Coleraine, Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey and the capital Belfast.
Of course, they have something in common with those riots we saw in mainland Britain last year. Hundreds took to the streets to complain about the sheer numbers of asylum seekers deposited in their towns.
They caused mayhem. And the Government responded by bending the law to get them shoved in prison as soon as possible. Even those who weren’t actually taking part in the demos, just posting about them from their homes.
That unjust and heavy-handed approach from the Government — and which led to the nickname Two-Tier Keir — showed they knew that trouble was just below the surface.
You can only stretch the patience of the people so far. And then it snaps back and really hurts.
In a sense, the riots are a kind of mirror image of those we are seeing every night in Los Angeles.
Except that in the case of California, it is immigrants and their supporters doing the rioting because they do not want to be kicked out of the country.
The cause, then, is the same. Immigration. Far too much of it. So much that it changes the culture of our towns and cities. And we end up feeling, as Starmer put it, living on an island of strangers.
Nobody in the UK voted for any of this. Nobody went down the ballot box and thought: Yep, I think we need a whole bunch of new immigrants. As many as we can get. Especially those immigrants who can’t speak English, don’t understand our way of life and have no intention of integrating.
Nobody voted for that. And yet over the past 25 years that’s what we have got. Since 2000, the population of the UK has increased by ten million — much of it the consequence of immigration.
It has been an epic disaster. And it means that after decades of getting along OK with the limited numbers coming in, now all bets are off. Because it has been a case of far, far too many. Far too quickly.
The Ballymena riots were in response to allegations of the attempted rape of a young local girl, for which two Romanian teens have been charged — although several other nationalities have been caught up in the backlash.
Pretty similar to what happened here last summer. But that’s not the root cause of the issue.
Remedy is simple
The real cause is successive governments which have allowed — and in both parties’ cases — encouraged more and more migrants to flood into the country.
The remedy is very simple. Call for a moratorium on immigration right now. No more in. You could adapt the phrase “Net Zero” for this policy. The first time ordinary members of the public will chant it with pleasure.
Because the way things are going, this is going to be the summer of torched cars, smashed windows and thuggery.
And the Government cannot say that it has not been warned.
WHERE IS THE PRIDE?
PAWe have not witnessed a worse England performance than in that defeat to Senegal[/caption]
LOOKING forward to the World Cup next year?
No, me neither. I don’t think I have ever witnessed a worse England performance than in that defeat to Senegal.
They swanned about, passing it back, passing it further back, boring the arse off the crowd.
They tried playing it out from the back. And Senegal were on to them every time. They didn’t even attempt to press the Africans when they were in possession.
Just lolled around. Not a moment of wit or brilliance – and we are supposed to be No4 in the world? You must be joking.
Senegal deserved their victory and in truth it could have been five.
I know it’s the end of a long season. I know it was just a friendly.
But do they not have any pride in pulling on that shirt?
GRETA STILL A MISERY
Shutterstock EditorialGreta Thunberg has morphed into the role of Most Annoying Woman on Planet Earth[/caption]
WHAT was that Swedish Doom Goblin (SDG) trying to prove?
Greta Thunberg set off for Gaza in a boat with a load of pro-Hamas supporters.
She was caught by the Israelis and kicked out, told never to return.
What did this achieve, other than giving the SDG more publicity?
And the chance to do a bit of virtue signalling in front of the usual keffiyeh-bedecked idiots?
Sheesh, she was irritating enough when she was 14 and screaming “How dare you!” at anyone filling their car up with petrol.
But she’s morphed into the role of Most Annoying Woman on Planet Earth.
Can’t the Swedes ban her from leaving the country, or something?
GOT yer Brazilian Bum Bum Cream yet?
Even this £50 Brazilian Bum Bum Cream is pistachio ‘flavoured’Sol De Janeiro
Hurry, hurry. The yellow gunk is only about 50 quid a jar. And guess what “flavour” it is? Yup, pistachio.
Everything these days is pistachio. I’ve seen pistachio paint (used to be called “green”).
And pistachio perfume. Then there is pistachio-flavoured “Dubai Chocolate” at 14 quid a bar.
And now you can rub the great taste of pistachio on your arse, too.
Me? I think it’s all . . . nuts.
JUDGES FAILING
A GUTTER thug called James Higginson killed his girlfriend’s two kittens.
Neighbours could hear the cries of distress as he bludgeoned them to death. Shouting, “How do you like this, stupid bitch?”
He tried to kill a third but the creature was rescued by the RSPCA.
And so what happened in court? A suspended sentence.
The halfwit of a judge, Patrick Mason, decided he shouldn’t go to jail. Because he had been suffering from mental health issues. As ever.
When are our courts going to take cruelty to animals seriously?
And understand that people who are capable of hurting animals will soon move on to hurting humans?
EXISTENCE OF GOD MAKES HOLE LOT MORE SENSE
GettyPhysicists believe we may be living in the middle of an extremely large black hole, the existence of God makes sense[/caption]
SOME physicists believe we may be living in the middle of an extremely large black hole.
I suppose that might explain how my hair looks first thing in the morning.
And why I can’t raise the energy to get out of bed. It’s not utter laziness. I’m just pinned to my bed by an infinite chunk of gravity.
Thing is, the more I read the increasingly bizarre explanations for the existence of the universe from quantum scientists, the more I’m tempted to believe in the existence of a chap with a long white beard deciding everything.
Multiverses? Or we are all in a giant simulation, a kind of mash-up of Grand Theft Auto and World Of Warcraft? Or we’re actually living in a black hole?
What seems more probable to you – those ideas, or God?
SO, another £30billion to be poured down the gaping, ravenous maw of the NHS.
Do you think things will get better? And meanwhile, the Government does a U-turn on winter fuel payments.
And Rachel Reeves cannot even bring herself to apologise for having scrapped it in the first place.
She says the economy is better now. So she can afford the payments. What drivel.
The economy is WORSE than it was when Reeves cut those payments. She got it wrong, simples.
And doesn’t have the character to admit it.
ED, IT’S A START
THE Government has at last approved funding for Sizewell C nuclear plant.
It should have been built the best part of 40 years ago. But nuclear reactors are expensive.
And the anti-nuclear lobby very loud.
We need Sizewell C because relying on wind power is dangerous.
You can’t guarantee when the wind is going to blow. Nor, indeed, if it will blow too hard for the turbines.
A few more decisions like this and Ed Net Zero Miliband will almost be on the verge of joining the real world.
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