The Golders Green stabber had a record
This should surprise no one:
Yesterday afternoon there was an anti-semitic knife attack in a neighborhood called Golders Green in north London. A man with a knife walked through the streets and stabbed two Jewish men at random before police showed up and tased him.
The assailant has now been identified as a man born in Somalia named Essa Suleiman.
Sulieman had a criminal record: he had stabbed two policemen and a police dog back in 2008, and was sentenced to nine years. The violence occurred when the police were responding to a call about a knife attack in progress.
Guy seems to love knives.
The question is why he was not deported back then, and the answer is that he may already have been a citizen – although that’s not clear. But Nigel Farage says that, had his party (Reform) been in charge at the time, the man would have been stripped of his citizenship and deported. It seems to me that such action might have been legal:
Depriving someone of their British citizenship for the public good is generally used in the context of national security or counter-terrorism. The aim is to prevent a person who poses a threat to the United Kingdom from returning to the country, which they would otherwise have a right to do as a British citizen. There are also rare cases involving serious or organised criminals.
Will it happen even now? I tend to doubt it.
It won’t happen as long as Labour is in charge, Starmer or other. And whether Farage would actually do it is a question.
I see the PM Lady Starmer got booed and jeered when he paid his obligatory visit and mouthed the stock standard platitudes.
Good. In time maybe they throw rotten vegetables.
Sir Wobbly Starmer, pM; he who can’t stand up.
Wimps is as wimps does. No hope there.
The UK is lost. We need a 10 year military rule.
Motive unknown.
The problem there is the same one we faced here a decade ago: a Uniparty determined to defend the status quo at all costs. We faced a choice of open borders Republicans (McCain, Romney) or open-borders Democrats (Obama, Obama.) Free trade Dems (Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama) or free-trade GOP (Bush I, Dole, Bush II, Obama). The policies of Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama were all variations on a theme, for the most part, except for the war, and even there Bush II wasn’t willing to do what was necessary to oppose the Uniparty). In 2016 the Uniparty tried yet again to offer us a choice of: a Bush or a Clinton, both of whom agreed on the policies the public most hate.
Trump swept the Inevitable Jeb into the dustbin of history and shattered the Uniparty grip (though they are still strong, they are vastly weaker than 10 years ago).
Britain has the same problem. The modern Tories and modern Labour agree on almost every issue. They just argue over who should implement their shared goals, and on a few details. Every attempt by the voters to change policy just resulted in a different face with the same agenda.
In the run-up to the last national election, they held a sort-of-American-style debate in which representatives of all the various parties took part. The Tory tried to present the Tories as the bulwark against out-of-control-immigration, and the entire room, the whole audience including their own wing, just literally broke out laughing. Everybody knew better.
It’ll be interesting to see if Farage (or someone) can break that Uniparty grip.