Here Come the Riots

David Strom 8:00 AM | June 10, 2026
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Anti-immigrant violence erupting in the United Kingdom was as predictable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West. 

I knew it was coming. Elon Musk predicted it. Konstantin Kisin, ditto. Anybody with half a brain could see it coming. 

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Seeing it coming is not the same as wanting it to come. Cassandra didn't want the evils she foresaw to come to pass, and, unfortunately, those of us predicting the inevitable were reviled as much as she was for telling people the truth. British politicians threatened to prosecute Musk for merely saying what any sane person knew. 

Well, it's here.

Now let's define our terms. In this case, "civil war" doesn't mean full-scale battles between armed forces on a battlefield, as happened in the 1860s in America. In Britain's case, it will look more like sporadic violence, increasing repression, and regular backlashes as the rage that has been building explodes. 

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The rage is exploding, and it is going to be ugly. It already is. 

Keir Starmer and the entire political elite have been trying to have their cake and eat it too; they are ideologically committed to policies that inevitably result in things like the Pakistani rape gangs and violence against white Britons by people who are culturally alien to the country, while they are simultaneously desperate to hide these outrages and suppress debate about multiculturalism and immigration, because they know that hatred and violence will spread as more people comprehend the scale of the problem. 

The thing is, you can't suppress the rage that's been building forever. There is a breaking point as the disconnect between what the elites say and reality grows ever more obvious, and the indifference, even hostility, to the concerns of native Britons forces people to take things into their own hands. 

British Army Colonel has warned that civil war between Christians and Muslims in the United Kingdom is now inevitable.

“The UK is heading towards civil war because the government is afraid to stop the Islamization of the country.”

This is not some far-right rant. This is a serving military officer stating the obvious after years of grooming gangs, knife attacks, no-go zones, and two-tier policing.

The establishment imported millions of people who do not share British values, then criminalised anyone who noticed.

Now even the Army is saying what the public has known for years: the government’s cowardice has made conflict unavoidable.

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Britons have made their concerns about mass immigration clear for nearly two decades, and in that time the problem only got worse. A big reason the Conservatives were wiped out in the last election was that people were exasperated with them; they kept saying they would address the problem, but only made things worse. 

The fact that a near-beheading took place in Belfast right on the heels of the Henry Nowak revelations—revelations the government tried desperately to hide out of fear of violence, I might add—ensured that this was the moment when the violence erupted. Honesty would have been a much better policy, and allowing Britons to voice their concerns in words might have avoided or mitigated the violence. 

Riots bring out the worst in people, and I expect to see it as they develop. Innocents who have done nothing wrong and who aren't part of the problem will suffer, and unreasoning people driven by increasing tribalism will attack members of other tribes indiscriminately. 

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Belfast is burning.

But not because of one man.

Or one political party.

Or one attack.

Yesterday was simply the straw that broke the British people’s backs.

How many women and girls have been raped? How many innocent people have been stabbed in the street? How many extremist attacks have been planned or carried out?

How many British citizens have suffered at the hands of violent criminals who crossed our borders illegally and were welcomed with open arms by the government?

And how many times were legitimate concerns raised about open border policies, mass uncontrolled migration, strained infrastructure, and the swathes of violent attacks being perpetrated by illegal migrants?

But concerns were ignored.

Politicians turned a blind eye.

And a majority of the British population was branded “racist” and “far-Right” for daring to state the obvious.

So, yes. Violence is never the answer.

But we need to stop pretending that we don’t understand how it got to this point, nor that the foundation of people’s rage and disquiet is entirely legitimate.

That, too, is predictable. The effort to suppress racism and hide divisions only exacerbates them. When reasoned discussion is disallowed, at some point people give up, and this is the result. 

It can simultaneously be true that any one immigrant might be a perfectly nice person and integrate well and that mass immigration can be disastrous and lead to hatred of everyone in the group to which he belongs, including him. It's not fair, but it is inevitable when efforts are taken to lie about the problems that come with mass immigration and to suppress people discussing them. 

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No doubt Starmer and company will attack the rioters, and in a sense they will be right to condemn the outbreak of violence. But that will only make things worse, because those righteous criticisms will follow a long history of grossly unfair ones and will seem indistinguishable to the people being chastised. 

🇬🇧 Belfast burns after an asylum seeker tried to kill a vulnerable Irishman

Northern Ireland's First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, condemned the violence as "disgusting cowardice" and "outright thuggery."

But in a country that is increasingly deaf to the concerns of its own citizens, anger and rioting are the inevitable consequence.

Ironically, O'Neill has faced significant criticism in the past for saying there was "no alternative" to IRA violence during the "Troubles."

Over a 25-year campaign that utilized bombings, assassinations, and ambushes, the IRA targeted both military and civilian locations in Northern Ireland, mainland Britain, and Europe, killing up to 1,800 people.

Source: Belfast Live / Writer: Ian

The cultural and political elite have pushed even moderate Britons closer to the rioters than to themselves by disallowing rational discussion about immigrants. When people are forced to be silent about rape gangs, violence, increasing crime, or even their own Christianity in order to coddle the feelings of people who clearly hate them, there will come a time when they say "Enough." 

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Everybody knows that government policies favor immigrants and minorities. Not only can they see it, but they can read it in government documents and experience it when the police knock on doors to intimidate them for speaking up. 

They inevitably think, "I tried to get through to them, and they wouldn't listen," and then they break. 

This is what the breaking looks like. Hunting migrants. 

It's appalling, but it also was predicted. We warned them. They didn't listen. 

So here we are, living in a world where a modern liberal democracy has become what amounts to a European Lebanon, with ethnic groups at each other's throats. 

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It didn't have to be this way. 

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