Pollster and political commentator Matt Goodwin has spoken out on the “attacks” on people like him from the “elite class” amid an increase in social tensions and protests in the UK.
Violent protests have been taking place in towns and cities after three girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport last week.
Goodwin called for a “radical” change in the way the country is governed as the government continue to take a “one-sided” approach to unrest rippling across the country.
Posting on X, Goodwin said: “What you are seeing -in the attacks on people like me- is a concerted effort by the elite class that created this mess to “manage” the debate and shut down dissent.
Political commentator Matt Goodwin called for a “radical” change in the way this country is governed in a post on X
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“Don’t fall for it. We need to radically change the way this country is governed.”
In a speech on Monday, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned the ongoing riots classifying them as “far-right thuggery.”
He promised that those involved in the unrest would “face the full force of the law.”
But Goodwin argued the elite class is branding protests as “far-right” because they don’t want to have an “important discussion” about “underlying problems” facing the UK.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “We’ve had 30 years of political revolution that has left a lot of people feeling very alienated, very marginalised in British society and it isn’t only to do with issues around migration.
“But if we start to have that debate about how this elite consensus has gone wrong in this country, well then the elite class is going to feel threatened.
“So instead, what we’re having is a very managed discussion, a tightly controlled discussion about social media, misinformation, disinformation, and individual agitators like Tommy Robinson.”
Goodwin continued: “What we’re not doing is we’re not getting into the more important discussion in this country about how we can fix the underlying problems.
“They don’t want to have that conversation because it will undermine their position. Already we’re talking about expanding definitions of Islamophobia. We’re talking about calling millions of people far right. We’re talking about shutting down alternative viewpoints.
“This looks to me like an elite class that is actually struggling and has a sense that it’s losing control.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned the ongoing riots classifying them as “far-right thuggery”
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More than 500 extra prison places are being created to cope with the ongoing violence in the UK following over 370 arrests, the government confirmed.
Last night, police came under attack in Belfast where riot officers had stones and petrol bombs thrown at them and there were six arrests made in Plymouth.
Meanwhile, in Birmingham, a counter-protest group gathered following false reports that protestors planned to march.
During the evening The Clumsy Swan in Yardley was attacked by a group of Muslim youths who left the demonstration wearing masks and and carrying weapons.