The liberal elite have swiftly sought to shut down any discourse on ‘two-tier’ policing in the wake of the recent riots. Elon Musk has been doing a good job riling up the left with his #TwoTierKeir campaign, which The Guardian dismissed as a “myth.” The paper has gone to great lengths to say that any argument of police behaving inconsistently towards different individuals is a “far-right” fabrication. Though a quick look through the archives show they’ve not always held that view…

The Guardian has a noble history of pointing out two-tier policing. Just last year, they blasted the “institutional misogyny, racism, and homophobia [that] persists within the Met, Britain’s biggest police force.” In another article, they claimed that UK police officers were inherently biased, stating, “Police are far more likely to use a Taser electrical weapon against black people due to structural and institutional racism.” Two-tier reporting?

The armageddon of mass far right protests supposedly due to take place across Britain last night came to… absolutely nothing whatsoever. As Sky News’s long-serving crime reporter Martin Brunt put it:

“There’s no evidence yet that our teams on the ground have seen any far right activity – the counter protests have got no protests to counter.” 

As the night wore on, special coverage arranged by the main broadcasters – which sent cameras across the country, dispatching correspondents and TV helicopters far and wide – became increasingly embarrassing. An example from ITV’s Paul Brand summed up the position:

In all honesty there seems to be very little purpose to the gathering here. You hear the odd word about immigration but most people seem to have come out for a look and to see if anything kicks off. A fair bit of drinking and low level aggro but no major unrest.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) August 7, 2024

As news hounds desperately tried to spot the slightest hint of far-right activity, there was less attention on the developments of the past few days, including:

• Keir Starmer inventing what he called a ‘standing army’ of public order cops.
• The Director of Public Prosecutions threatening terrorism charges on rioters.
• The police activating a national public order mobilisation, deploying 6000 officers (no doubt on a significant overtime bill).
• Remarkable calls to shut down X and all social media platforms completely in an outburst of anti-free speech authoritarianism.
• An under pressure Met Commissioner Mark Rowley losing it with a reporter and taking it out on a microphone.

As it turned out, the threat turned out not to be in evidence. Were rioters just taking the night off, or is this much-hyped episode of disorder now over?

Raging lefty James O’Brien has apologised to Nigel Farage after labelling the recent riots “the Farage Riots” yesterday. The virtue-signalling presenter now says it was “a slip of the tongue” following his usual tirade against Farage…

Farage fact-checked the coinage of the phrase, pointing out he has “never encouraged non-democratic means.” Now James, who isn’t even a real radio disc-jockey, has issued a characteristically whiny response: “Did I call them the Farage Riots? I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I should have called them the Farige Riots. I apologise.” An insincere apology as expected from the morally righteous O’Brien…

As usual it’s down to Jeremy Clarkson to provide a dose of political smelling salts for the chattering classes as he nails an analysis of the immigration riots. He writes in The Sun:

“When I lived in London’s Notting Hill, working in the media, I was a remainer and so were all my friends. It literally didn’t occur to us, as we sat down there in our agreeable houses eating agreeable food that someone might vote to leave. And I think the same thing is happening again.

“Today, I’m surrounded by farmers and plasterers and brickies and butchers and all I hear, all day long, is that there’s too much immigration. But if they say this out loud, or if they go on a march, they are told by the London elite that they are far-right extremists or racist thugs. For the most part, they’re not. They are just people who know that they have to shut up when the Last Post is played and that a cheese rolling down a hill is funny.

“There was a time you’d have called them the salt of the earth. But Sir Starmer doesn’t seem to have grasped this. He is surrounded by people who see nothing wrong with immigration and he’s got it into his head – as I did with Brexit – that anyone who disagrees with him must be some kind of Trump-nut. The fact is though that four million people voted for Reform. More than that voted for Brexit. And he’s p***ing them off by labelling them as modern-day Hitlers. I therefore suggest that both he and his friends at the BBC calm down the rhetoric or we could be heading for some real trouble.”

That also sounds like a Brexit handbrake turn: is Jeremy regretting backing remain? It’d be a great u-turn from the Top Gear legend…

Elon Musk is doing a great job winding up Britain’s hard left by maintaining freedom of speech on X, formerly Twitter. It hasn’t escaped the notice of some of the platform’s pub bores…

Here’s tin-foil hat merchant and Byline Media supremo Peter Jukes comparing the platform to Nazi occupied Paris. Twitter is as bad as Nazi occupied Paris, of course it is Peter…

I think of Musk’s horrific version of Twitter a bit like Paris under Nazi occupation. Are you going to give up the city and community you were part of? Some of course suck up and collaborate. Others understandably flee. But some stay, and wait and work for liberation

— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) August 6, 2024

Times Radio‘s Calum Macdonald lamented that the un-policed “town square is burning“. He may be community noted for this one…

Trust the metropolitan elitist Lewis Goodall to have a stab at the platform. Not like he’s got it wrong before…

“If Musk created X now, the way it is, would we in the media use it? No! we wouldn’t touch it a barge pole.”

Are unmediated platforms like X beyond redemption – and should we stop using it?@lewis_goodall | @jonsopel pic.twitter.com/LJZQa97TPl

— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) August 6, 2024

Meanwhile leftie lawyer Jessica Simor, supposedly a human rights advocate, is urging Keir Starmer to literally ban Twitter in the UK with a ‘one line bill’ in Parliament:

Pass a short Bill closing Twitter down in the U.K. @Keir_Starmer? There is more than enough reason to do so. One of the richest men in the world is using his platform to cause serious harm – putting lives & communities at risk. @YvetteCooperMP @lisanandy

— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) August 6, 2024

She has repeatedly advocated for the site to be closed down, which would bring the UK into line with authoritarian states which block the site like China, Iran and North Korea. Would the one line bill be 140 characters or less?

Jonathan Hayes, the man who tried to disarm the Southport stabber and was knifed in the leg as a result, said Starmer must listen to peoples’ concerns on immigration rather than blame the right as the root cause for the ongoing riots. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Hayes warned:

“I actually don’t think that the trouble on the Right has got anything at all to do with the Southport stabbings. There appears to be a strong undercurrent of discontent for some time about the levels of immigration. And this is just a catalyst or a trigger, but I don’t think it’s the root cause. I do get dismayed when I hear Keir Starmer talking about [how] the police are going to come down with the full force of the law on these people. But they are not actually talking about the root cause, and they need to start listening and understanding that. They need to address the cause rather than the symptoms…”

Starmer should probably take note of these comments…

UPDATE: A new YouGov poll reveals that immigration is the most important national issue amongst the public. The first time since 2016…