Social media today has largely been dominated by the sentencing of the Southport killer. Some are saying his sentence of fifty two years is too lenient. Others are calling for the death penalty. What is certain is that this creature will never again see the light of day.
There remains some debate online as to whether this was a terrorist attack. The presence of al-Qaeda material in his home does not necessarily point to an Islamist motive. I happen to agree the court’s view, as I understand it, that this does not constitute a terror attack by the current definition. Rather, it is a senseless slaying.
I do find, however, that the choice of victim is always indicative of something. There was much bickering after the Madegberg attack around Christmas as to what motivated the killer, but ultimately, he chose to attack white people at a Christmas event. Revealed preference, you might say. That the Southport killer chose white infant girls ought to explain his psychology. An evil man who hates what he cannot have. White females.
That the courts have ruled out an terrorist motive frees the government to pin the blame on virtually anything else, in what has become a grim ritual following events of this kind. The media would have it that Amazon online retail is responsible, while those who always favour more censorship (in any circumstances) look to blame social media. Anything but address the core issues.
The Guardian reports that between October 2019 and May 2022, police were called to the family home five times due to concerns about Rudakubana’s behaviour. Each time they referred him to local safeguarding officials. He completed a youth justice referral order in 2021 and stopped engaging with mental health services in February 2023.
Despite the involvement of all these agencies, and a knowledge that Rudakubana was violent and “obsessed” with genocides, he continued spiralling. Shut away in his bedroom, he spent hours researching extreme violence online. As early as 2021, he downloaded an al-Qaida textbook, which is banned under UK terrorism laws. A year later he began ordering the items to make the deadly toxin ricin. He bought weapons from Amazon using software to hide his identity.
Here we arrive at point one. (And let’s stick to what is indisputable). The vast estate of agencies which exist to prevent this kind of thing had ample opportunity to do so, yet comprehensively failed. There is the expectation that no-one will be held meaningfully accountable.
It also stands that local authorities and the government attempted to manage the narrative by withholding information on false pretences, aggravating, if not causing last year’s riots.
This is part of a pattern of dysfunction which has significant overlaps with the grooming scandal. There was maximum effort on the part of the establishment to bury any details that might just cause people to conclude that multiculturalism is not the rainbow paradise we’ve been led to believe it would be.
The bottom line, though, is that Rudakubana should never have been here. There was no reasonable grounds for granting his parents asylum. Were it not for our dysfunctional asylum system, this attack would never have taken place.
What matters here especially is that this is not an isolated incident. Maladapted men of foreign origin going on a knife murder sprees is becoming part of the everyday fabric of news. Just today, The Times reports that five were injured in such an attack in Croydon. This, on the same day as a black man dragging a thirteen year old schoolgirl into a car and raping her.
We are asked by courts and the authorities not to speculate but speculate is all we can do since no useful information is ever conveyed in media reports, and there is still an establishment determination to memory-hole incidents which do not fit the narrative.
If it’s something they can peg on the “far right” then we never hear the last of it. If a perpetrator is black, arab or south asian, they’ll bury it without follow-up. This veil of secrecy, more than any other factor, explains last year’s riots. The public have had enough of being kept in the dark and taken for fools.
The government can crack down on social media and demand the removal of extremist material. It can bureaucratise the purchase of kitchen utensils, but it’s not going to stop feral foreigners from raping and killing innocents.
There was a time when I would look to more nuanced explanations and solutions, but we can no longer afford to ignore the cold truth that Britain simply did not have violence of this nature until mass immigration happened. I simply concede the obvious; that the mass immigration of the last decade (at least) must be reversed.
We learn from X today that one in twelve people living in London is an illegal immigrant. Data reveals almost 600,000 of the capital's residents have no right to be in the UK. Without additional legislation, and basic enforcement of existing law, Britain could make a substantial dent in the housing crisis and the crime problem. There is no reason why we should tolerate being a flop house to the third world.
We are told by the great and the good that these things just happen, and that there’s a “limit to what we can do” but that is seemingly taken by the establishment as a rationale to do nothing at all.
There is plenty we can do though, not least removing the threats. For sure, it will not eliminate all risk of such attacks, but if we remove predatory third world men, we dramatically cut down the odds. There is no economic or social rationale for them being here in the first place.
What they mean when they say “limit to what we can do” is that there is a limit to what we can do within the liberal progressive moral and legal framework. If, though, British children are being slaughtered at the hands of feral beasts, it is time to ditch that moral and legal framework. It simply does not serve us.
As with grooming, this issue is not going to go away. The central issue is that the establishment would rather do nothing at all, or fiddle around the edges, than admit that “multiculturalism” is an abject failure.
As much as anything, such an admission would require them to do something radical, which is too much to ask of people who fundamentally do not care. Keir Starmer spent all of nineteen seconds laying flowers in Southport before swanning off to a celebrity drinks party. Ultimately grooming, and senseless slayings such as this, only really affect white working class people. A demographic our ruling class couldn’t give less of a shit about.
Very thoughtful and balanced piece Pete.
Rupert Lowe agrees with your solution that we need to deport these un-civilised savages now and stop the incessant flow by actually defending our borders.
Lots of IF coming now...
IF the good hard working normal people in this country can get behind Reform UK
and IF we have a leader of Reform with balls enough to do what Rupert Lowe has postulated
and IF we can clean out the Stygian stables of the captured civil service that has hamstrung successive governments (Dominic Cummings would have done if Boris had let him).
Then we've got half a chance!
IF not then God save us all.
If the assailant is white, victim black, colours are identified and its racist. If its the other way its just “someone was killed” and the story dies. This has been the “bias” “steering of opinion”? Or just plain lie by omission that has eroded any of my belief in the main press/old media.
Patronising that we the public “cant handle the truth”.
Like you say the Truth is they CANNOT admit that their multicultural utopia does not and will not work. However hard it is to do these illegals must be sent back, or there is no law, cant enforce all the tax laws motoring laws but ignore the social law.