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It’s not Farage who’s ‘stoking division’, Sir Keir. It’s Lefties like you
In the wake of Henry Nowak’s murder, the cynical playbook deployed by the PM and his ilk exposes them as blame-shifting hypocrites

Michael Deacon


Published 03 June 2026 2:00pm BST

Henry Nowak Protest

Politicians on the Left have denounced ‘the far-Right’ for ‘politicising the tragedy’ of Henry Nowak’s death Credit: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images Europe
If you want to know what sort of man Sir Keir Starmer is, consider these two clues. First, note how slow he was to make any public comment about the murder of Henry Nowak. And second, note how quick he was to condemn his political opponents for speaking up about it.

“Nigel Farage is completely wrong to use this to try and create division,” fumed the Prime Minister on Tuesday. Countless other politicians of the Left joined in, darkly warning the public about the dangers of “stoking division” among “our communities”, and denouncing “the far-Right” for “politicising a tragedy”.

Do these words sound a touch familiar? They should. Because, in recent years, this is exactly the same script that politicians of the Left have taken to reciting immediately after every atrocity inflicted on the British people. They use it every time Islamists have carried out a terror attack, or serious crimes have been committed by supposed asylum seekers.

They also used it when Elon Musk helped revive demands for a national inquiry into the Pakistani rape gangs. And they used it after Axel Rudakubana slaughtered three little girls in Southport. After every horror of this kind, they automatically start lecturing us about “division” – and ordering us to reject anyone who seeks to “stoke”, “sow” or “create” it.

Frankly, however, I’m sick of hearing these people read from their nakedly cynical playbook. For one thing, it’s so hypocritical.

Put it like this. How did politicians of the Left respond to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests of 2020? Did they condemn those leading them for “stoking division” by “politicising a tragedy”? Quite the opposite. They all rushed to proclaim that they shared the protesters’ anger, and declared that the “tragedy” in question should prompt a radical transformation of our society.


Sir Sadiq Khan said the death of George Floyd “has rightly ignited fury and anguish not just in the USA, but around the world”. Sir Keir himself said it “must be a catalyst for change”.

Meanwhile, Shabana Mahmood – who, as Home Secretary, is currently telling protesters that “there can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder” – wrote an open letter in June 2020, in which she said: “Many constituents have been in touch with me regarding protests across the United States after the murder of George Floyd. I share their anger at this unspeakable outrage.”

Curiously, her letter didn’t mention any violence and disorder stirred up by BLM protesters. But she did condemn “the appalling scenes of police violence across the US” and “the divisive and appalling rhetoric from President Donald Trump”.

Even more nauseating than the Left’s hypocrisy, however, is their shameless blame-shifting. Because the truth is, it’s not Nigel Farage who has made our society so dangerously divided. It’s the Left itself.


For decades, our country has been relentlessly destabilised by rocketing immigration and multiculturalism. A development fuelled by the Left-wing conviction that just about everyone on the planet has an inalienable right to come and live in Britain, and that once they arrive, they don’t need to make any effort to follow our customs or even, it sometimes seems, our laws.

It’s because of this toxic Left-wing fixation – and the many gormless Tories who swallowed it – that Britain is now home to so many people who hate us and our culture. It’s why Islamists have been able to wield such influence over policing, rape gangs have been able to operate with near-impunity, and illegal immigrants are free to roam our streets.

This, therefore, is where the blame really lies for today’s seething divisions. And the Left’s response? To smear, or try to silence, anyone who dares point it out.

This, however, is not the only reason we should ignore politicians who hector us about “division”. There’s another. Which is that, in one sense at least, we actually need more division, not less.

Most British people, I tend to suspect, don’t much like being forced to live side-by-side with wannabe jihadis, or machete-wielding psychopaths, or alleged “refugees” who assault underage girls within days of hopping off the dinghy. And because of this, I do want a government that divides us. By which I mean a government that divides the peaceful from the violent, the innocent from the predatory, the good from the evil.

And the way to bring about this particular form of division is not just to put offenders in prison. Wherever possible, it’s to kick them immediately out of our country. Or, better yet, prevent them from entering it in the first place by taking rather firmer control of our borders.

Here, then, is the message we need Sir Keir and co to heed. Remove the people who wish us harm. Because if you don’t, we’ll remove you.

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I'm surprised the House of Commons hasn't yet had a minute's silence for Mr. Nowak. That's very telling. If he was black, his death would have been acknowledged. Starmer would already have taken the knee. I appreciate this is a very awkward matter for Starmer, but his past support for a foreign career criminal was his choice. Starmer doesn't have the political skills to deal with this issue. Like Blair, he's going to be really hated in his post PM life.

Originally Posted by 39TG

Like Blair, he's going to be really hated in his post PM life.

In your opinion, which past PMs rank up as the best? Enquiring minds want to know.

Originally Posted by taxexile

just like the vandals on the blm marches and the masked up ragheads on the palestine marches didn't.

the not so silent majority are getting stronger every day, and their time is coming.

Silent majority??
You mean the lower class, right wing, white, ill-educated, stupid and ignorant rabble that are always with us, the 4 million rump bedrock morons! ex-Tory, ex- Ukip, now Deform that think white is might, God is white and the Empire was pre-ordained. Fuck Israel, Farage, Trump and Putin, Long Live Hamas, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

^ Bellend!

^

Doubtless moggy's insights will clear all this up.



We went through all of this 'white lives matter too' crap aeons ago.

^ did we do white privikedge too?, i can't recall

81% identify in England & Wales as white of which 72% identify as white British, 4% as Black British, 9.6% as Asian or Asian British. The rest are whatever and Sweats.

So fuck off with your white racist bullshit.

The problem with the lower classes is that they are predominantly thick, ill- educated and boorish dross so fucking stupid and credulous they believe any old shit peddled by right wing charlatans and their media shills, a demographic evidently well represented on this forum.

The problem with the lower classes is that they are predominantly thick, ill- educated and boorish dross so fucking stupid and credulous they believe any old shit peddled by right wing charlatans and their media shills, a demographic evidently well represented on this forum.

put a fucking sock in it you miserable, repetitive and decrepit old poof.

every one of your posts is the same. its been like that for years. the amount of obnoxious and hateful white privilege oozing from your ridiculous posts is topped only by the amount of stinking smegma oozing from your scabby and redundant heathen prepuce.

it's time you called it a day.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

81% identify in England & Wales as white of which 72% identify as white British, 4% as Black British, 9.6% as Asian or Asian British. The rest are whatever and Sweats.

So fuck off with your white racist bullshit.

The problem with the lower classes is that they are predominantly thick, ill- educated and boorish dross so fucking stupid and credulous they believe any old shit peddled by right wing charlatans and their media shills, a demographic evidently well represented on this forum.

have you decolonised your library in the flat?

Big surprise to see Nige in the house for the first time in months yesterday.

He pretty much just embarrassed himself by trying to capitalise on the situation.

Now kermit face will most likely be off for a few months.

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Originally Posted by cyrille

Big surprise to see Nige in the house for the first time in months yesterday.

He pretty much just embarrassed himself by trying to capitalise on the situation.

Now kermit face will most likely be off for a few months.

He plays politics to win. He shouldn't be underestimated. I am waiting for a minute's silence in the House of Commons. He'll be back for that. So will two tier Keir.

Fxck, the BBC helped fire Mr. F's base.

Originally Posted by taxexile

put a fucking sock in it you miserable, repetitive and decrepit old poof.

every one of your posts is the same. its been like that for years. the amount of obnoxious and hateful white privilege oozing from your ridiculous posts is topped only by the amount of stinking smegma oozing from your scabby and redundant heathen prepuce.

it's time you called it a day.

The problem among this dreadful dysfunctional class of neo nazis so vividly illuminated by your posts Tax is that your rhetoric and doctrine of prejudice is invariably devoid of any meaningful factual base, it is simply endless repetition of bilge focussed on its mono theme of racism.

Farage has no party manifesto rooted in anything other than immigration, populist jingoism and the reduction of spending. It is a redux of the MAGA charter which has demonstrably failed to realise any benefit for the US except to provide significant profits from corruption and cronyism aiding the Trumpanzee regime. He's playing the same tune and using you, Tax, and your right wing failed Tories to stoke the great unwashed into following his banner currently carried by the lout Yaxley Lennon and other lower class oiks.

God, it's such a bore watching you and your crew. It took fourteen long years of Tory neglect, austerity and incompetence to trash Britain but here we are, it wasn't them, Farage and his dross are blaming two years of Labour. And the real problem is that under Labour all the problems are caused by muslim immigrants and civil servants. Well, DOGE fucked up America alright with thousands of jobs gone and services abandoned leaving the country worse than it was over forty years ago and it's great architect has been fucked off to pursue more drug fuelled fantasies.

Quite amusing you had in your youth the intellectual heft to train as a dental surgeon. But then, Mengele was a doctor, too.

Originally Posted by 39TG

He plays politics to win.

He has a track record of losing and accepting 5mil and not declaring it means his political corpse will be buried.

Emulating Trump won't work in the UK.

It has its faults, but it is a far more robust democracy.

Few of us could have realised how much more robust it is than that fetid $hit show currently playing out over the pond.

why do these racists hate the police ?

They are being manipulated and they are quite stupid.

BBC Newsnight have just issued an apology to Nigel Farage for wilfully misquoting him.


This is the THIRD apology in THREE years.


Once is a mistake.
Twice is incompetence.
THREE times is 100% deliberate.
A hatric.


I think you'll find it's the BBC doing the manipulating Ciz.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

This is the THIRD apology in THREE years.


Once is a mistake.
Twice is incompetence.
THREE times is 100% deliberate.
A hatric.

How many times have you posted "expresso" and "hatric"?

Many more than three times! Does that mean it is deliberate?

Originally Posted by Neverna

Does that mean it is deliberate?

Naturally

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Naturally

I thought you might reply: "Off course".

Originally Posted by cyrille

They are being manipulated and they are quite stupid.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

I think you'll find it's the BBC doing the manipulating Ciz.

It's telling, which of my comments you dispute.

Britain's democracy is under threat by the neo fascists funded by private equity shills and scumbags such as Musk and the MAGA / Putin caucus churning out propaganda through bots and the like aligned with other state actors undermining NATO. The aim is of course to buy Deform into power so that they can generate profits for themselves and to weaken Europe. It's quite bizarre really, a minority capitalist hegemony linking up with oligarchical autocrats ignoring rule based order and human rights.

I can well understand the British stupid being duped, they're ill educated, lumpen ignoramuses, but that the fourth estate is seemingly willing to go along with the attempts to subvert public order is really quite appalling. The Telegraph now owned by a German Zionist and supporter of the American Zionist AIPAC and GB news are examples but in truth the Mail, Express, Sun etc are all complicit.

The Tory establishment was rocked by the destruction of their party by Truss and the Covid corruption and are now aligning with Deform and the American fascist movement.

The riots in Southampton were fomented by foreign elements manipulating social media. The protests were spurious and of course irrational but exploited by Farage to further promote the illusion his party led by his demagoguery is the only political force that can "save" Britsin which according to him and his rabble supported by his shill gutter press is " broken".

And because spurious rhetoric and demagoguery is so effective in this day of social media manipulation, the Nigerian Badenoch has now eschewed any attempt to hamper her Commons interventions with truth and facts and relies upon mere slogans designed to pander to the Deform demographic.

Essentially, Britain's democracy through the Farage Deform party is being bought by foreign based carpetbaggers and American fascism funded by Musk supported by the Putin bot factories.

Pretty obvious really, but then, I'm not a fucking English idiot with my head up my arse, Tax.

The Trump administration's State Department is now offering advice to the struggling UK government. This is an excellent and to some an amusing development.