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Groups of masked thugs targeted homes and businesses owned by migrants in Belfast after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder following a 'sickening' knife attack. Protesters set fire to multiple homes, a Middle Eastern supermarket and several vehicles, including a bus and a police car, and vandalised a barber shop after ignoring calls for calm. James O'Brien reacts to the 'hideous' attacks. Listen to the full show on the all-new LBC App: https://app.af.lbc.co.uk/btnc/thenewlbcapp #jamesobrien #news #politics #belfast #riots #nigelfarage #elonmusk #tommyrobinson #northernireland #LBC LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs in the UK. Join in the conversation and listen at https://www.lbc.co.uk/ Sign up to LBC’s weekly newsletter here: https://l-bc.co/signup
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You probably don't need me to tell you what unfolded on the streets of the United Kingdom last night
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You can glance at a television screen to see burnt-out cars and burnt-out homes
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It is, and it's a word that we've used before, but very, very carefully, because it's such a redolent word
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It's such a resonant word. It's such a horrible word. But the word is pogrom, when people, entirely innocent people, are identified by violent, even murderous mobs, precisely because of their ethnicity or their religion or their immutable characteristics
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A violent organized riot or mob attack directed against a specific ethnic, religious or national minority
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I guess there's an argument to be made for this not being specific enough to qualify as a pogrom
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It is simply being a foreigner or being a dark-skinned immigrant that painted a target on your back in Belfast last night
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just as was the case during the Farage riots last summer, when, of course, a woman subsequently feted on stage at the Reform UK conference
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literally called for a pogrom, called for people to be burnt in their beds
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This morning, there is a piece in one of your newspapers by me, which was filed at three o'clock yesterday and which appears under the headline. Farage's ugly new narrative will tear the UK apart, explaining how the shift from pretending to be concerned about immigration statistics to attempting to malign everybody of colour, everybody of colour, is now well underway and coming close to irreversible
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Let me show you how it works because history, of course, teaches us when you start identifying people as being a problem by dint of their ethnicity or their background rather than their behaviour
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The number of aliens entering this country can be seen by the number of prosecutions in recent months
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It is very difficult for the alien to escape the vigilance of the police and port authorities
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even if aliens manage to break through the defences it is not long before they are caught and deported
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and this of course refers to a judge speaking in 1938 about Jewish people in this country
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in a courtroom in this country it gets worse, I'll share the rest of it with you shortly
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I mean, actually it doesn't, I can share it with you now
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whether it's aliens in 1938 or illegals in 2019 when I last brought that quote to your attention
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or 2026 when I'll remind you of it now. This is not happening by accident
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People are calling for it. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is in... This is going to make you sit bolt upright if you're not already aware of it
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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is currently in Moscow with Elon Musk's father. Elon Musk's father of course
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probably best known for impregnating his own stepdaughter and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon on social media yesterday
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owned by Elon Musk calling for violence or at least calling for riots
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and Elon Musk has called for violence on the streets of our country and violence directed not at
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I don't know what word you prefer, scumbags not at the scumbags who have committed crimes
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because nobody defends them, nobody welcomes that Nobody excuses that sort of behaviour
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But you don't attack... I don't attack you because of something you've done by someone you've never met
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I don't attack your house because a criminal you've never heard of committed a crime
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100 yards away yesterday. It's insane what we are witnessing. Absolutely insane
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But it is, unfortunately, real. This is from one journalist on the ground near the Shank Hill Road last night
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On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast Shank Hill Road
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the masked men approached a house with a boarded-up window and a security camera stationed outside
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As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window
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some of the men rushed to the front door and broke it down. With the air thick with smoke from fireworks
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they attacked the downstairs window with bricks. As they stormed the property, some claimed to be liberating it
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graffiti nearby demanded local homes for local people a woman in the crowd said to her friend there wee girls inside nearby a car was set on fire As the chaos unfolded a man in a skull face mask told
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onlookers to put their phones away. Helicopters circled overhead and two police officers looked
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on from their car nearby. A smoke billowed towards the sky. I'll say it again, absolutely
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everybody condemns the man responsible for the hideous scenes that we witnessed or saw
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online and on our screens from Belfast. Literally nobody defends him. But if you extrapolate from
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him and from his behaviour conclusions about anybody else, then you might as well say that
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everybody in Belfast is running around wearing a skull face mask setting fire to ethnic minority
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homes. That extrapolation, that collective punishment is precisely the point of attempts
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to conflate criminality by one person with everybody. After the Southport killings, a crime committed by one person
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was somehow laid at the door of innocent people hundreds of miles away, staying in repurposed hotels
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After Henry Novak was killed, the experience of Sikhs in this country
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worsened immeasurably almost overnight. The attempts by people, and I don't need to keep telling you who they are
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but the attempts by people to conflate a criminal with an entire community are as old as humanity itself
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We saw it in Germany during the 1930s. It led to pogroms and then it led to the Holocaust
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because a pogrom, make no mistake, is simply one step on the road towards much, much worse things
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Once one is allowed, the rest will follow. And speaking of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and..
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And listen, there's no phone-in to be had about the crime itself
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A, because someone's been charged, which means there's nothing we can say about it
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And B, because whatever you might be reading on Elon Musk's social media, everybody condemns it and everybody hates it
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I can even understand how a carefully cultivated position feeds into the idea that it could somehow have been prevented
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if we didn't allow any refugees into the country, which in a way is technically true
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So I don't even have particular beef with people who've been lulled into that school of thought
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I mean, it's effectively equivalent to saying we could eradicate crime altogether if we abolished human beings
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Because guess what? Primary school teachers commit horrible crimes. School caretakers commit horrible crimes
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Family doctors commit horrible crimes. Owners of football clubs commit horrible crimes
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Capricorns commit horrible crimes. milkmen commit horrible crimes uh sagittarians commit i mean every single however you choose
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to define a community whether you're defining uh fans of kidderminster harrier's football club or
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refugees whatever um descriptors you choose to lump us into a group there will be people in that
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group who do terrible things there will be people in just about every imaginable group i was taught
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by monks for much of my school days. Some of those monks did terrible things, things so terrible that
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at my school they're no longer allowed anywhere near the boys. So all monks are paedophiles
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would be the logical conclusion of the kind of rhetoric that we're seeing from the usual suspects
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today. Homes, listen, I'm a radio phone-in host, right? Every single day I talk about the news
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And in recent years, a lot of the news has been heading in a direction that all decent people find hideous
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But there are some days where you just need to stop and repeat yourself again and again and again
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Homes were set alight in the United Kingdom yesterday in apparent response to a hideous crime committed by one hideous person
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Homes were set alight in the United Kingdom yesterday. Homes of people who had never met the perpetrator, the alleged perpetrator
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Homes of people who had never met the criminal. Homes of people who, until yesterday, like you and like me
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didn't know that the perpetrator even existed, didn't know that the criminal even existed
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The homes of people who couldn't have told you his name at this time yesterday
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and couldn't tell you his name today. Homes of people who had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Belfast yesterday After the Southport killings the homes the beds the streets the communities of people who had absolutely nothing to do
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with the killings of four little girls in Southport were attacked. They were set fire to
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The police attempting to protect civilians and citizens from a rampaging violent mob dancing to the tune of racist provocateurs, some of whom are now in Parliament
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They got attacked. They got things thrown at them. The police came under attack in Southampton last week after the footage, the hideous footage emerged
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the unbearable heartbreaking footage emerged of Henry Novak being handcuffed and disbelieved by
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police after he had been the victim of what would quickly become a murder. But the judge and the
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father of the victim and the pathologist and the prosecution lawyer all laid out for the benefit of
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anybody interested in knowing what happened, all laid out the facts and then people chose to ignore
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the facts. People chose to expressly ignore the facts in the hope of whipping up precisely the
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sort of violence that we saw in Southampton last week and that we saw in Belfast last night
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This shouldn't be difficult. The person responsible for a crime is the perpetrator
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Whatever you think about immigration in general or refugees in particular, the idea that they are
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all responsible or all to be held accountable or all to be punished for the actions of an
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individual are ridiculous. The monster who killed Henry Novak was not an immigrant. He was no more
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an immigrant than Nigel Farage's children are immigrants. They both have immigrant parent
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an immigrant parent. The person who killed the little girls in Southport was not an immigrant
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And even if he was, it wouldn't matter because it wouldn't say anything about immigration
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the fact that any more than a monk says anything about all monks
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or a Capricorn says anything about all Capricorns. Or that story last week that I told you nobody would mention
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and I wish I'd been wrong. I spend my life at the moment wishing I'd been wrong
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Imagine writing an article at 3 o'clock yesterday explaining how Farage was priming the fuse
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was lighting the blue touch paper for, effectively, pogroms in this country
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and then watching the footage from Belfast last night. but the story last week about the Saudi Arabian student in Cambridge
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who was stabbed to death entirely unprovoked has received practically zero column inches
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because the vicious killer was white and the victim was brown. But I don't draw conclusions about everybody white in Cambridge
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any more than I draw conclusions about everybody who takes cocaine as the perpetrator reportedly did
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Which brings us back to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon who is in Russia with Elon Musk's father
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praising Russia while calling for violence on the streets of the United Kingdom
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Praising Russia while calling for violence on the streets of the United Kingdom
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Protecting our women while hanging out with a man who impregnated his own stepdaughter twice
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And Elon Musk is on your social media calling for violence on the streets of Britain
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Not only calling for violence on the streets of Britain, calling for unprovoked violence
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explaining that if you don't fight first, then you will somehow be a victim
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As if everybody who is Sudanese or everybody who is Sikh or everybody who is Muslim or everybody who is black
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or everybody who is brown or everybody who is Chinese or everybody who is French or everybody who is German
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as if every single one of them is possessed of exactly the same mindset
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as the other one and they are all defined by the worst examples of their kind
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it's it's i mean it's do you know they even found that the bloke who musk is amplifying at the moment
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is um and this is another element of the stories that are unfolding at the minute that is
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um unbelievable there's a website account i'm not going to tell you what it's called but i'll tell
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you that at the moment elon musk is amplifying it some hours after they posted elon musk was
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always right you either fight back or you die They even found that that account is completely bogus It someone based in India who is a crypto scanner He uses his online activity to draw potential victims into
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his crypto scam. There are many counts of dodgy crypto out there, but this one happily doesn't sit
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in British Parliament, refusing to answer questions about a secret £5 million gift he
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received from a crypto billionaire shortly before announcing policies that would be to the enormous
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benefit of crypto billionaires um it's it it's hard to know what question to ask today it's hard
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to know what question to ask today but i think the question is why does elon musk want race wars
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on the streets of the united kingdom you either fight back or you die you don't how do you fight
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back against someone who's been arrested? How do you fight back against someone who's in jail
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Answer, well, you set fire to the homes of completely innocent people. Listen, I could be wrong. Maybe you've got another
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answer to that question. How do you fight back against someone who's in jail
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So, the two perpetrators, one alleged, one convicted, of the two crimes that have prompted
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potential and actual pogroms on the streets of our country, our country, my country, your
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country pogroms on the streets of our country in 2026 the two crimes that have prompted it
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have already secured one conviction one life sentence for murder and one arrest in the other
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case there is no perpetrator at large how do you fight back against that how do we fight back
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against ian huntley how do we fight back against fred west how do we fight back against harold
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shipman how do we fight back against because if you don't fight back you die how do you fight back
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against people who are in prison? You don't, do you? You can see this
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Where do you direct your pure cold rage if the person responsible for the thing that you're furious about
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is already serving a life sentence? Where do you direct your pure cold rage
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about a crime whose perpetrator has already been convicted and jailed? Is that a rhetorical question
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Do we all know the answer to that? You direct your pure cold rage at people
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who look like the criminal, James. I don't know how many days away we are from hearing them say that bit out loud
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but at the moment it's a whistle, right? It's a dog whistle. Unless you've got a different answer
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How do you fight back against people who are in prison? Where do you direct your pure cold rage about a crime committed
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by somebody who has been convicted and jailed? What exactly is the target here
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because when somebody is killed who isn't white or somebody commits a murder who is white
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none of these comments ever really appear. We're never told to... How do we fight back against Sarah Everard's killer
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Oh, we don't because Nigel Farage told us when Sarah Everard was murdered that, oh, we mustn't blame all men and we mustn't blame the police
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But when Henry Novak is murdered, we blame all immigrants? We blame all Sikhs
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Well, not all immigrants, not the mother of his children, but, you know, the brown ones
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the black ones Sarah Everard gets murdered and that man says don't blame the police
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don't blame all men Henry Novak gets murdered and remember ten years ago people with names like
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Novak were the problem people with names like Novak were undermining British
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values, people with names like Novak were storming our borders and taking over our country
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ten years later that ship has sailed and all of the brown
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faces that possibly were born here or that have arrived here as a direct consequence of the huge holes
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left in our economy by Brexit. All of those faces have become the enemy
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and I mean all of them. Whether they realise it or not, even the ones that appear on platforms with him
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Even the Sikhs that used to go on EDL marches are in the firing line now
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Their big mate Tommy, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the serial criminal and great friend of Elon Musk's father
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who is best known for impregnating his own stepdaughter, hashtag protect our women
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they're in the firing line now because it it isn't about logic it isn't about oh they're all right oh
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you're okay it's about finding something awful and pretending that people who had nothing to do with it
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are responsible and punishing them accordingly
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