The night that Belfast said "Enough!"

When I saw the footage of a Sudanese man apparently trying to behead an individual on the streets of Belfast, I can’t say I was shocked. After all, this is no longer out of the ordinary, and I’ve seen worse. I’m used to it now, so I don’t have the same visceral anger I once had. In a sense, Sadiq Khan is right when he says atrocities are all just part and parcel of living in a big city. They certainly are when those in power have resolved to do absolutely nothing about it.

As such, it’s a good thing that there are still people around who do get angry. Too many comparable incidents have occurred without a public response, and that patience has not been rewarded.

That is not to say I condone any of what I've seen in Belfast. I mean, I'd go to prison if I did, but all the same, it's not my preferred way of doing things. But then my preferred way of doing things (voting and public debate) hasn't made the slightest impact on the decision-making of the state. As such, there was a certain inevitability about this.

Moreover, it's not really my place to judge. I am an extremely fortunate individual who happens to live in a 99% white rural area, miles from any "diversity" and thanks to my self-employed status, I don't have to self-censor or live a double life at work. I don't have to bottle up my opinions. I actually make a modest income by expressing them.

Most low income working class people, meanwhile, have to live in close proximity to diversity and the squalor that goes with it. Their votes are even more worthless as mine (in that their votes are nullified by a leftist student population), and they can't speak their minds freely because there'll be some HR ghoul in the mix who will fire them. Ordinary people bear the burden of potentially losing everything for having the wrong opinions.

Meanwhile, they can work hard to carve out a little corner of peace for themselves, just for the local authority to turn next door into a migrant HMO with illegal Deliveroo drivers coming and going at all hours. It's their communities being turned into alien, hostile and violent slums. To then say there is “no justification” for riots is to tell them they simply have to suck it up - even when they run the risk of an African savage beheading them. What are they supposed to do? Write to their MP? Everyone has a breaking point.

While politicians call for calm, they can only expect to be heeded if they actually do something, but remaining calm when the politicians continue to sit on their hands as people are butchered in the street is absolutely bovine. Ultimately these riots are a consequence of the wilful deafness of politicians, and the blame for what we've seen tonight lies squarely in their shop.

As it happens, the disturbances were not confined to Belfast. I’ve seen footage of protests in Liverpool and Glasgow, and others were slated to happen elsewhere. It is likely we will see more of the same before Summer is out because these things keep happening. We’ve seen HMOs attacked, Deliveroo drivers harassed and told to “get back on your dinghy” and vandalism directed at Turkish barbers.

One might observe that Turkish barbers wouldn't have been attacked had they been closed down for being the money laundering operations they are. In fact, most of this could have been avoided by the state performing its most basic obligations.

As ever though, the reaction from the left has been about what you’d expect. Open borders zealot Zoe Gardner remarks “This is what these thugs do when their “concerns” are legitimised & parroted all over the top of politics & throughout the media”. The usual suspects will seek to blame Farage, Elon Musk, and spooky social media algorithms. It doesn’t occur to them that people might actually have a problem with Sundanese immigration cheats butchering people in the street.

Interestingly, independent Moslem MP, Adnan Hussein, rebukes her in saying “No, this is decades upon decades of suppression, decades of the country's leadership refusing to deal with this pent-up anger and frustration in a manner that would avoid the scenes we're witnessing today. Minority communities will now pay the price for these failures”. He earlier remarked “When a person recently granted leave to remain attempts to behead someone in the street, public concern is entirely legitimate. Silencing that concern doesn't make it disappear. It simply stores up anger that will ultimately be directed at innocent refugees/minority communities”.

While he is correct, he’s ignoring the obvious that these "innocent refugees/minority communities" (who will pay the price) are here without our consent. They were never wanted, they were imposed upon us, and they are definitely not welcome here. That’s another part of the problem. There is now a very real sense that Britons have been subordinated in their own homeland and forced to live among alien cultures without ever having had a say in it. Whoever thought that was a good idea?

This instance, mind you, makes for some complex politics later down the line. As I understand it, the Sudanese migrant in Belfast travelled from Sudan to Paris, to Dublin, Dublin to Belfast and then claimed asylum. He was granted leave to remain in 2023 by none other than Robert Jenrick. Nobody in Reform, the Tory Party or Restore has a convincing answer as to how to prevent Northern Ireland being used as a back door in the vent of our departure from the ECHR. Asylum rights, as I understand it, are grandfathered under the Windsor Framework and GFA.

Over on X, Peter Sarris remarks “If we are ever to get control of immigration in the UK we will also have to have a radical revision of our relations with the Irish Republic. Given the readiness of the latter to give away Irish residency/citizenship like confetti, we can’t just continue to allow free entry to UK”.

In the meantime, we can reasonably assume that authorities will become ever more clandestine in moving migrants around the country, probably giving Northern Ireland a wide berth. One wonders what will happen when the rest of the UK works out what it takes to stop the government seeding violent savages in their communities.

What we can say with absolute certainty is that last night is not the end of it, and this issue will continue to fester. Stopping the boats might temporarily take some of the heat out of the situation, but that still leaves Britain having to manage the economic and social consequences of unprecedented unwanted mass migration, and an influx of incompatible and alien cultures. “Community cohesion” is not going to heal, and this latest outrage is far form the last one.

The marginal tinkering proposed by Kemi Badenoch isn’t going to get a handle on it, Labour certainly has no answers, and without more aggressive repatriation policies, we could soon see the day when every major city is in flames. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see that coming.