Scarborough: UK Riots Are a Great Opportunity for PM Starmer to ‘Clean Up the Streets’ of Racists

SCARBOROUGH: “Keir Starmer’s premiership started off with quite a challenge. We’re not getting — there’s not a lot of reporting in the United States about this, but a lot of white nationalists, a lot of neo-Nazis have been going around doing absolutely horrific things to Muslims, to people of color generally. I saw a headline of a Filipino nurse that was being rushed in to help with some injuries caused by these white nationalist rioters, and se was pelted with rocks. What’s going on over there? And can you explain how this was all started by a big lie?”
KAY: “Yeah, so this was triggered by an absolutely just awful event a couple weeks ago when three young girls, who had been to a Taylor Swift dance class were stabbed to death by an individual who, for a while out on social media, it was claimed that the killer was a Muslim. That triggered attacks against mosques in Stockport, the town where these girls were killed, and rioting out on the streets. It then turned out the killer was not a Muslim, he was a 17-year-old, but the police made the unusual step of releasing his name. His parents had been Rwandan refugees. He was born in the United Kingdom. He is British, he’s black, but he was born in the United Kingdom. He is now in custody. But it hasn’t stopped these far-right nationalists from coming on the streets and attacking people who they think they shouldn’t be there, whether it’s because they’re brown or Muslims. What the prime minister’s challenge is, what they’d like to do, the government, my understanding is, is have a whole load of arrests very fast, but the U.K. justice system is slow. It takes time to get these people through courts. But they really want to send a message out. Keir Starmer has been out very much in public saying this is not acceptable, denouncing the protesters. But it’s an indication of some of this is social media, people jumping — you have young kids who seem to have — I mean, weirdly, young kids jumping into this who seem to have no political agenda at all, but just it’s summertime, they’re off school, they see the violence, and they seem to pile in. It has to stop. It has to be stopped, more importantly.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. Anarchy in the U.K. We remember those images from the 1970s. I will say, this is a great opportunity for the new prime minister to show strength and act aggressively, clean up the streets, get these racists off the streets, arrest them. Make sure that they face justice.”