MPs who deny the existence of two-tier policing are naive at best, anti-British at worst

There is a reason some nicknames stick. That nasal knight who occupies the role of Prime Minister is “Two-Tier Keir” because if two sides indulge in poor behaviour, you just know he will support the side whose narrow political belief leads him to prefer one rather than treating both just the same. A brilliant Morten Morland cartoon from 2023 shows Starmer dressed in police uniform with the palm of his hand raised as if against an advancing mob. The caption has him saying: “STOP IT. SOME OF YOU!”

This perception of bias is hugely damaging because it fixes the PM in the popular imagination as a duplicitous hypocrite who arrived in No 10 promising a “government unburdened by doctrine, guided only by a determination to serve your interests”. Whose interests might they be? You may well find yourself asking that question after nine months of our far-Left Government playing ethnic-minority favourites.

We can’t help noticing that No 10 posts enthusiastically about every religious festival and tradition except what we might quietly call our own. The PM issued an effusive video about Eid Mubarak at the exact moment most families in the UK were marking Mother’s Day (no tribute for the love and care of millions of women who are the lynchpin of our society. Thanks, PM). While it was right and proper this week to highlight Vaisakhi, with Sikhs playing such a valuable, well-integrated role in British life, so far there has been a deafening silence about Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week. The slight to millions of Christians is starting to feel deliberate. Don’t be too surprised this coming Easter weekend if Starmer pays tribute to the Haitian Voodoo community, extolling the multicultural joys of ritual sacrifice and drinking goats’ blood, while blanking our Lord, the risen Christ.

People are not stupid; they can see what’s going on. Ray Connolly, a Conservative councillor and husband of Lucy Connolly, jailed for a hasty, horrible tweet after the Southport massacre of little girls, told me he went into a café in Northampton and got talking to a group of men who voted Labour at the general election. Ray was startled by the vehemence of their dislike for Starmer. When he asked why they hated Keir so much, back came the answer: “He’s not for the British.” It’s a simple, not particularly sophisticated sentiment, but it has the ring of truth, doesn’t it?

To its eternal, two-tier shame, Labour had already rejected a national inquiry into the mainly-Pakistani-origin grooming gangs, the greatest scandal in our history no less. Last week, the Brummily-gurning Jess Phillips announced the Government was even back-tracking on its plan for inadequate local inquiries into those heinous crimes: an unconscionable betrayal of tens of thousands of white working-class girls by the MP for Birmingham Yardley who obscenely clings onto the title and perks of Minister for Women and Equalities.

Starmer’s “government of service” has morphed into a government of self-service – do whatever it takes to prop up your Muslim vote. Two-tier Keir is not for the British; if it’s expedient, Labour will pander to the child rapists and sod the rest.

Everywhere we look, we see the warped, anti-British discrimination used to prop up multiculturalism. It is pretty dumbfounding that a report this week by the Home Affairs Select Committee into the policing of last summer’s riots, triggered by the Southport massacre, has just declared that it found “no evidence of two-tier policing”. In fact, it said such claims were “baseless”, “unsubstantiated”, and ”disgraceful”.

Funnily enough, those are the very words I would use about the committee’s laughable suggestion that our police, who increasingly see their job as defending so-called “protected characteristics” against white, straight Britons, are not guilty of two-tier policing. Just compare and contrast with the handling of the rioting in the Harehills area of Leeds last July (triggered by four children from a Roma family being taken into care) when vehicles were set on fire and the police essentially ran away, leaving the mob to get on with it. But that was forgivable because immigrants are allowed to have a reason to feel upset, whereas Lucy Connolly, the white, middle-class wife of a Tory councillor who lost a child of her own, is not permitted any context or mercy for her rage and distress.

The Home Affairs committee says that “those participating in disorder” in the wake of Southport “were not policed more strongly because of their supposed political views but because they were throwing missiles, assaulting police officers and committing arson”. If you focus solely on the actual rioters, then they have a point. Quite rightly, the policing of physical violence and criminal damage was extremely robust, and lots of people were arrested to restore order.

What the report conveniently doesn’t mention is how peaceful protest (holding up a placard like sweet grandfather, Peter Lynch, who later killed himself in jail) and social media commentary were treated as equivalent to the actual violence. Two-tier Keir was swift to promise harsh punishment for those feeding a “far-Right narrative” with “misinformation”. In practice, what “far-Right” often meant was people who simply didn’t believe the authorities when they insisted the unnamed killer had no links with terrorism and was actually a sweet choirboy born in Cardiff who had, quite inexplicably, happened on a Taylor Swift dance class and decided to butcher the infants taking part.

As we later found out, every chief constable in the country, the Prime Minister and his deputy Angela “it’s not terrorist-related” Rayner were the ones guilty of misinformation. Details about Axel Rudakubana possessing an al-Qaeda training manual, having enough ricin under his bed to kill 10,000 people and being known to the Prevent anti-terror group, were deliberately withheld from the public – supposedly to comply with contempt of court law – with inflammatory consequences.

Whatever that cross-party committee of MPs may say, two-tier policing definitely occurred after Southport because inconsistent standards were applied to the manner in which people reacted. There was complete disregard for the proportionality principle, which is the application of good old-fashioned common sense and discretion. Fairness didn’t come into it; this was a message being sent by a censorious Starmer, and police chiefs willingly followed the PM’s lead using ludicrously subjective “hate” legislation to criminalise ordinary people who were deeply upset by the mass murder of innocent children and vented their horror on the internet. The aim was not justice; it was to smother criticism and distract attention from another embarrassing failure of multiculturalism.

The fast-tracking of defendants through police cells to the courts – almost all, like Lucy Connolly, were leant on to plead guilty – was another example of standard practice being adjusted, particularly when you compare it to the reluctant, notably lethargic prosecution of two Muslim men who were involved in a serious brawl with police at Manchester Airport. As one senior officer told me: “They attempted to cover that up, no question. It should have been an immediate remand in custody and charge, but instead they launched an investigation into who had leaked the CCTV footage rather than prosecute the offenders!”

It was only after Nigel Farage threatened a private prosecution of the two men if the CPS didn’t pull their finger out that any action was taken. Unbelievably, the case is still not concluded while Lucy Connolly who, unlike some, did not kick a policewoman in the head, enters her ninth month in captivity and is even being denied time at home with her daughter and sick husband.

(I was impressed when Kemi Badenoch spoke out on this with the ringing moral clarity so lacking in Two-tier Keir. “The bigger issue,“ tweeted the Tory leader, “is the perception of bias in the application of the law. Lucy’s sentence, disproportionately severe compared to those for actual violence in the riots and other contexts, suggests she’s being treated as ‘low-hanging fruit’. This perception is dangerous, fuelling radicalisation and threatening community cohesion.” Hear, hear!)

One thing which I can exclusively reveal today is that according to a reliable police source, every police force in the country was on standby for a particular date on which ministers planned to finally release the truth about Rudakubana. Keir Starmer would pick his moment to reveal the appalling terrorism details, which he would have known about within hours of the teenage murderer being arrested. In the event, the news about Rudakubana’s identity was postponed, such was the official nervousness, and, when it eventually broke, it got rather lost in the fuss around Rachel Reeves’s first Budget. But we should never forget that speculating about such details landed people in jail who were not so very far from the truth.

One other two-tier policing episode, curiously overlooked by the Home Affairs committee, was the officer in Stoke-on-Trent who, on August 3 last year, was caught on video telling Muslim demonstrators, “If there are any weapons or anything like that, then what I would do is discard them at the mosque. Don’t give anybody any reason to have any interaction with police, so if there are any weapons, get rid of them, and we won’t have to arrest anyone.”

Can you imagine any circumstances under which the police would advise white rioters to stash their weapons in a church? Me neither. A white Briton need only use the wrong words, let alone a machete, and find themselves behind bars. What we are witnessing is what that senior police officer calls “different containment strategies for different groups”. More and more people are now openly dissenting from the “diversity is our strength” narrative – seeing their smallest, most vulnerable citizens slaughtered at a holiday club will do that to a nation – and the state has no clear idea how to respond. Terrified of civil unrest which they don’t have the numbers to handle, police continue to appease Islamist elements, looking the other way and pretending the problems created by a parallel society don’t exist while cracking down on the far larger, and therefore more threatening, majority group. What a doomed and delusional strategy.

Two-tier policing exists. For the Home Affairs Select Committee to conclude otherwise, is baseless, unsubstantiated and disgraceful. A shocking 65 people a day are issued with a non-crime hate incident as the Government and police struggle to suppress opinions which are unhelpful to the official creed of diversity and inclusion. But that is not the religion of this country and, pray God, it never will be.

Two-tier Keir may prefer to acknowledge any religious festival that isn’t a Christian one because he is “not for the British”, but I am and I do. There is a green hill far away. Without a city wall. Where the dear Lord was crucified. Who died to save us all.

Whatever they try to do to us, the resurrection was and forever will be a love incident. Happy Easter.