The real cause of the unrest is mass immigration imposed on Britain against the wishes of the native population.
The rioting in Britain is what happens when a country’s political class tries to depoliticize mass immigration — smearing anyone who objects to it as “far-right” — and then imposes a policy of mass immigration by force. At some point, the people revolt.
Britain’s liberal elites have latched onto online misinformation and racism from the far-right as an explanation for the riots. But the real explanation is that Britain’s leaders have sold their countrymen out for decades, importing an unassimilated foreign population against the wishes of native Britons. That is a recipe for social unrest, civic strife, and ethnic conflict, which is exactly what Britain’s ruling class has brought about.
Set aside the triggering incident — in this case, a horrifying knife attack that left three little girls dead in Southport, a town in northwest England. It doesn’t matter that the accused attacker, 17-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, is neither a Muslim nor an immigrant, but merely the son of Rwandan immigrants. What matters is that this attack was the latest in a long string of attacks by non-native Britons against the native population, and that it occurred in the context of ongoing mass immigration. The riots have been labeled “anti-Muslim” and “far-right” by the government and the corporate press, but they are really anti-immigration, and not at all restricted to the far-right. Demonstrators have been quite clear about this, chanting “stop the boats” and “we want our country back.” Those are reasonable sentiments for ordinary citizens to express about their homeland, whatever Britain’s ruling elite might say.
For British Prime Minister Starmer, the only possible explanation for the unrest is racism and Islamophobia. He believes those who oppose mass immigration and the large unassimilated Muslim enclaves it creates must be treated as enemies of the state, and he has acted accordingly. Starmer has responded to the unrest by vowing to throw the book at rioters, who will face “the full force of the law.” He’s created what he calls a “standing army” of police and prosecutors, and promises swift consequences not only for those taking part directly but also those “whipping up this action online.” (Recall that the U.K. jails thousands of social media users every year for expressing opinions online that the government deems offensive or dangerous. One man has already been prosecuted for posting about the riots online, charged with “stirring up racial hatred,” according to the BBC.)