Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer held a press conference about the Southport atrocity yesterday.
Personally I think it was appalling. He 100 per cent confirmed that whilst he was saying stuff such as “far-right thuggery,” he knew that Axel Rudakubana was in possession of a jihadi terror training manual, that he had a biological weapon in his bedroom, and that he had a history of extreme violence.
Yesterday, Starmer said: “Yes, I knew the details as they were emerging. That is the usual practice in a case such as this but you know and I know that it would not have been right to disclose those details.”
So when he was, in my view, encouraging people to be locked up for indicating that there may have been an Islamist link, he did know that the perpetrator was in possession of an Islamist manual.
Patrick shared his views on Starmer’s statement yesterday
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His reason is that he didn’t want to prejudice the trial. Well, I’m sorry, but I think that’s rubbish, because if it would have prejudiced the case to tell us this stuff in July, why was it okay for the police to tell us it in October?
If it would have prejudiced the case when it first happened to tell us about the jihadi terror manual and the ricin then why did it not prejudice the case when the police told us in October? He can’t get around that, it doesn’t make sense.
The reason it doesn’t make sense is, in my view, because he’s talking nonsense.
Christopher Hope, GB News Political Editor asked him if he regrets blaming the “far-right” for the protests.
Starmer responded: “Responsibility for the violence lies with them that perpetrated it. I was in Southport the day after these terrible murders. I was acknowledging and thanking the frontline police officers and ambulance who had been at the scene.”
So that’s a no then, isn’t it? Knowing everything we know now, he’d do nothing differently.
‘How can we trust he will tell the truth,’ fumed Patrick
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I think that’s the concern, isn’t it? We’re going to have to have an inquiry into this now.
He’s called for an inquiry into this. We’ll see how long that takes.
But the fact is this, I think that public trust in Starmer has gone.
How can we ever trust that when confronted with the choice between telling us the truth or trying to hide things, to not inflame racial tensions, that he would actually choose the truth?