No condemnation?!' | Keir Starmer SILENT on far-left violence as right-wing bashing continues!

Well, there were deeply distressing, and I think disgusting, scenes of jubilant Gaza demonstrators on the very same night a horrific terrorist attack was carried out in Manchester by a radical Islamist extremist. Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! Viva! We've come from down in Devon, South Devon Expo. We thought it was our right, we have to make a stand. Yeah, so we want to show our support. And how long has it taken you to get down here? Oh, we've come on the coach. Yeah, actually, we didn't get held up. It's all gone very smoothly, and we're so, so pleased we're a part of it, because this is going to be a very historic day. It's a stark contrast. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people attending a peaceful rally throughout London, followed by, of course, 25 arrests of a small group of people who almost ruined it for everyone else there, by the way. And that rally was met by vast condemnation by the left-wing media elite and political establishment. Keir Starmer, Shabana Mahmood, David Lammy, Yvette Cooper, and, of course, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, all branded the Unite the Kingdom rally as racist, far-right thuggery due to those 25 arrests. But let's contrast it, shall we? These were the scenes we saw, of course, 40 arrests on Thursday night by pro-Gaza demonstrators, 40, 40. And where was our Prime Minister? What was the response he gave? Well, let me show you the best he could do. That Britain is a place where you and your family are safe, secure, and belong. Thank you. No condemnation of the far left, no condemnation of 40 arrests in central London the night of a terrorist attack. Well, he wasn't sticking around for any questions, was he, after that scripted speech? Meanwhile, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said she was disappointed and that it was un-British. Yet no condemnation either of violent far-left thuggery. I just want to remind the government that this country suffered a devastating terrorist attack on Thursday evening, killing and deliberately targeting Jewish people. Where is the condemnation of Islamist fundamentalism from the Prime Minister? It's not just a missing condemnation from the PM on either of those two events, who, as I showed, was very quick to condemn the Unite the Kingdom rally. There's not been a single word from any Labour politician about the violence shown to police that same evening, nor them promising to crack down on extreme Islamism. The best they could offer was to roll out David Lammy of all people. So therefore, I have great pleasure in introducing our Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy. Before I do, please, please, please, please, please. We know how we all feel. We know how we all feel. Go to Palestine. Shame on you. Go to Palestine. Leave us alone. I'm not surprised at that reaction of you. A failure to condemn that violent Gaza march and radical Islamism has deeply exposed the two tier rot in the Labour Party. It's one rule if you're a far left thug and another for everyone else. I, for one, do not want these people running my country. Do you? Do you think it's acceptable for bias, biased opinions about the people of this country? Because I certainly don't. Let's get the thoughts of my panel. Former Labour Party adviser Paul Richards joins me. Journalist and broadcaster Linda Jubilee and former police detective Peter Blexley. Paul, I'll start with you for balance on this. I'm appalled. I'm appalled with this government. I'm appalled with the mayor of London. What we have seen over the last 48 hours, particularly on the arrest of those 40 people who were violent on the night of a terrorist attack. Absolutely disgraceful people. But we've had no condemnation. Why is that? I think there's been plenty of condemnation. None of that right? No, no. Let's be clear. None of that protest. We haven't. I think there's been plenty. And you've seen lots of arrests today. I mean, this is my first opportunity, by the way, just to express my own condolences to those families and to say that may their memory be a blessing. Second of all, to the Jewish community, to say we are with you. We stand with you in solidarity. The prime minister came straight back from Denmark. He convened the COBRA, the emergency committee. He put police resources outside every synagogue in the UK. My Jewish friends tell me they saw that presence almost within hours to defend the Jewish community. And he called on those decent people to say, look, you know, we will stand with you as a government. And he called on the demonstrators to stay at home. So what kind of people then come out and demonstrate in that situation? They can ignore the prime minister. That's fine. But to ignore the Jewish community itself, saying, please, on this day of all days, just stay at home. Don't do your demo. I think it's reprehensible those people came out. And we saw the consequences with the mass arrests today and some of the hate that was on show. Some of the slogans, some of the chanting, the mainstreaming of this anti-Semitic kind of sloganizing around from the river to the sea and globalize the intifada and all this stuff. And I think the government now has to absolutely crack down on that, on the ideology that lies behind it and to be much, much tougher in this response. I mean, he's Jewish for God's sake. It doesn't matter. It doesn't. Well, he's also an English person. He's still condemned the United Kingdom rally. Doesn't matter. Right. We can't. I don't want to confuse his response to the terror attack with his response to the 40 far left thugs that were arrested for attacking police because they're two different things. Whilst they are the same under the same umbrella, in my opinion, he still was unable to do that. None of the Labour front bench have condemned that rally. And I think that's deplorable. And there is something that you've missed out this evening, Alex. Tell me. That gathering in Whitehall on Thursday, and I saw some of the unsavoury characters gathering there because I was at GB News on Thursday afternoon. So as I was going to Westminster tube station, they were gathering with their placards and their hate. That gathering in Whitehall where there were the 40 arrests was a tiny, tiny gathering in comparison to the United Kingdom march. So not only were there more arrests, but as a proportion of the people that were there, it was a hugely bigger proportion. Therefore, it's a much more law-breaking, unlawful rabble that gathered there. And of course, the disrespect that they showed on Thursday evening is really quite astonishing. It reminds me of the people that came out and demonstrated for the pro-Palestinian cause on the day after the 7th October massacre, long before any IDF military intervention. They put in the right places. What goes through the mind of somebody in that situation? I think we know exactly where their allegiance is. Well, I mean, my concern is they're not demonstrating, they're celebrating. Yeah, well, they hate marches, in my opinion. Linda? I mean, I listened to Jonathan Porritt, for example, this morning on the radio, and I listened to some of the clips from people who were demonstrating this afternoon in support of the Palestine Action Group. And I just think, where is their respect? Why do they not respect what has gone on this week enough to give it a rest just for one weekend? Plus, from the police's point of view, they have to go in and police these events when they actually should be concentrating on protecting our Jewish communities. Now, on our air, a short while ago, actually, because of it, I met someone from the Jewish Military Veterans Association. And, you know, to my own shame, I didn't realize quite how threatened the Jewish community was. He told me they were really, really living in fear. But I didn't get – and that's a one-to-one conversation – I didn't get just how profound that fear was. Well, I did this week, and surely, to goodness, those people with their placards – I know it's a peaceful demonstration. I would defend to the hilt their right to protest. But, you know, where's their respect? I mean, that raises an interesting point, which is, why can't the government ban these kinds of protests? They can't. Well, the law is not clear on this. Well, they banned EDL protests before, by the way. There's plenty of public prologues. I think they could certainly have maybe a 30-day moratorium or something. Lord Wolney did a report into extremism, and one of his recommendations was that the government should be able to ban those kinds of demonstrations, which are clearly provocative and hate-fuelled. And, yes, we will all defend freedom of speech. We will all defend the right to demonstrate. But it's not unlimited. There are moments when it has to be curtailed, I would say. To answer your question, by the way, why they're there, we're going to talk about that at 10 o'clock, because I've got footage. I asked them, what do you think you're doing here on this week of all the weeks, and what do they think of the people that celebrated? At the last count, today's protest in Trafalgar Square, there were 355 arrests. Now, many of those people sit down on the ground deliberately and are non-cooperative. They don't get up and walk off with the police officers. You'll see that as well. We have that. It does. One on each limb and one on the head so that it doesn't whack itself on the pavement. We've got footage of it. I really felt for the police because, of course, they need to look after themselves as well. There's whole trolleys of police officers. There's caravans of them having to lift these blokes up off the floor and drag them, and they are uncooperative. They are resisting arrest, essentially. It's just consuming so much in terms of police resources. There are many, many better things, more pressing concerns. Linda, do you think the Prime Minister or the Home Secretary or the Mayor of London should have come out and condemned that march that took place the night of the terror attack? It's been crickets on that. Absolutely. That's a heinous crime that has happened in our country, and it deserved the very, very strongest condemnation. Paul, this goes back to the root of what I was trying to say. You can't go out and condemn a rally where 25 people got arrested, hundreds of thousands. Peter correctly pointed out hundreds of thousands more people were there on the night of the terrorist attack, and yet say nothing. It looks like bias, doesn't it? The public can't get behind bias, can they? There's been a debate around two-tier policing, but these demonstrators, there's no doubt at all there's no two-tier policing there. They've gone in, they've been arrested in their... I'm not just talking about two-tier rhetoric. I'm talking about two-tier care. They've been arrested in the hundreds, quite rightly, in my humble opinion. I just wonder again, what goes through the mind of somebody? What are they trying to achieve? You're dug in the issue though, Paul, because obviously we know this government will never condemn a march in such terms that it does. Something that's perceived to be on the right of the political spectrum is always given the most vicious condemnation. Something on the left, a demonstration, a protest, a march on the left, never gets the kind of condemnation from your party, from your Prime Minister, that the right does. Unfortunately, it is biased. It is now exposed as that because they had an opportunity to come out and condemn it, and I would have applauded the Prime Minister. I condemned the people that rioted, that fought back at the police on the Unite the Kingdom rally. They're too worried about the girls and people in some of their constituencies. And by natural extension, the Muslim bloc vote, which returns so many Labour MPs. It's blatantly obvious. We can all see it. There's no disguising it. There's no hiding it. Just one little line in here, just for balance, but the Jewish community and several other people in that area of Manchester have in fact praised the Muslim community for helping unify them on the ground at a grassroots level. I think it's important to highlight that. And they've also praised the government for acting swiftly and putting the police on the streets. And I do praise the government for doing that. Within hours, they were outside. I think they've responded very well to the arc post the event happening, but I'm still yet to hear the condemnation of these hate marches, which I would very welcome. I think you all would at home too.