Keir Starmer desperately wanted violence to explode on the streets of central London on Saturday afternoon. Yaxley-Lennon's 'Unite the Kingdom' march was taking place and our embattled PM needed a distraction from his leadership woes. He also wanted a justification to push through his long threatened crackdown on protests.
With another big rally planned for Saturday from the far left Palestine fan club, the stage was set for a confrontation. Starmer released a snazzy video the day prior to the marches, using it to attack only Unite the Kingdom. Ironically, he used the same kind of multi-cultural messages that Yaxley-Lennon himself continually pumps out, while declaring that 'the full force of the law' would be brought to bear when 'hatred manifests as violence'.
If you are suffering from insomnia, Starmer's little address can be seen below (one minute watch)
Unfortunately for Starmer, this 'violence' did not erupt as he had hoped. In fact there were less arrests at Unite the Kingdom on Saturday than there were during the previous event, held last September. 22 people were arrested at the previous rally. However, on Saturday there were 20 arrests, although it took some time for the Metropolitan Police to arrive at this figure, with headline numbers of 43 circulating in media on Saturday evening and into Sunday. It turns out that a dozen of the 43 arrests were made at the Palestine march, with a further 11 arrests apparently nothing to do with either march.
Half of those arrested at Unite the Kingdom were for public order offences, nine of which the Met alleged were 'hate crimes'. Three arrests were for alleged assaults. The widescale use of Orwellian facial recognition cameras was also bound to boost arrest numbers at the march, and indeed two of those arrested were in relation to incidents that happened in Birmingham days earlier. It's all pretty tame compared to, say, the Notting Hill carnival, which usually results in hundreds of arrests and yet is held up by the establishment as a beacon of diversity and multi-culturalism.
Another fail for our failing Prime Minister. He can't unite his party, let alone the Kingdom.
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