Andrew Bolt: UK riots hold a serious lesson for Australia

The lazy branding of UK protesters as white “racists” is just another sign of the arrogance and failure of the West’s political and media class — and if our politicians don’t learn, these riots will be our future too.

These frightening ethnic riots in Britain’s poorer cities are our future, too, if our politicians don’t learn the lesson.

Don’t believe that all you’re seeing is simply “far right extremists” and white “racists” running amok after false reports that the killer of three young girls at a dance school last week was a Muslim refugee.

Reporters scoff: oh, those fools. The accused teenager is actually the son of Rwandans!

He’s not Muslim! Not like the man who – er - stabbed three children at Dublin school last November.

In fact, this lazy branding of the protesters is just another sign of the arrogance and failure of the West’s political and media class.

It’s so dangerous, when the lesson to be learned also helps to explain why Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday raised Australia’s terrorism alert level to “probable”.

The lesson is this. Our ruling classes thought they could ram mass immigration and “multiculturalism” down the throat of the working classes and those poor and frightened schmucks would be “reasonable” and just take it as their neighbourhoods were made unfamiliar.

These frightening ethnic riots in Britain’s poorer cities are our future, too, if our politicians don’t learn the lesson. Picture: Getty Images

They also thought they could import extremism from the Middle East and Africa and shut up the locals by just screaming “racist” if they dared complain about not feeling safe.

They thought they could play identity politics with favored races and faiths without poor whites eventually fighting for their “identity”, too.

They meanwhile trashed the culture and the institutions of their own country – “racist”, “genocidal”, “white” – and thought they’d still command the loyalty and awe of the mobs when the merde hit the fan.

Which it now has.

Look at Britain, and learn as mobs of largely white men have burnt hotels for illegal immigrants, attacked a mosque, smashed windows of houses in poor multiethnic areas and turned on police, as soldiers of a hostile government.

Our top spy chief Mike Burgess said this week he’d been watching Britain. I suspect that’s one reason the ASIO boss decided this week to tell Albanese to raise our terror alert.

So there Albanese and Burgess were on Tuesday, telling us the problem was no longer just Islamist terrorists – although neither dared to mention “Islam” or Islamic” even once.

No, the danger was now extremists of all kinds, including “nationalist” and “racist” ones – code for “whites”.

Push people too far and they will push back, and it will be ugly. Picture: AFP

Burgess also complained that “anti-authority beliefs are growing, trust in institutions is eroding”, which is no surprise to me after decades of our elites trashing our institutions and our culture with contempt. Burgess even admitted our brutal Covid lockdowns had done damage.

And here’s the problem: push people too far and they will push back, and it will be ugly.

Be clear. I agree: the British rioters terrorising Muslims are thugs and racists.

Hey, what fun to abuse poor whites like this. But the rioters know: our ruling class never abused, say, the Black Lives Matters rioters like that, even as they torched American cities, killed people and injured hundreds of police.

No, black rioters are the oppressed, just voicing a righteous anger. So bend the knee. But white rioters – lock ‘em up!

And that two-tier policing is one more grievance fuelling these rioters, who haven’t suddenly come from nowhere to demand an end to mass immigration.

Not that many journalists want to know. In Britain, a BBC interviewer cut off Kevin Hurley, a former police commissioner, when he tried to explain the riots had a context.

He didn’t just mean the many Islamist terror attacks in Britain, or the rape gangs of mainly Pakistani or Muslim men which operated for years in heavily immigrant cities as authorities – terrified of seeming racist – looked the other way.

Two-tier policing is one more grievance fuelling these rioters, who haven’t suddenly come from nowhere to demand an end to mass immigration. Picture: Getty Images

Just look at recent days, Hurley tried to say: Roma immigrants in Leeds rioting, a lieutenant colonel in uniform stabbed by a man of African appearance, and Muslim men bashing three police at Manchester airport, breaking a female constable’s nose. The presenter, alarmed, cut him off: “That’s a different case there, so we’ll leave it there.”

No, let’s not talk about THAT, or now condemn mobs of men of Muslim appearance, carrying Palestinian flags, who’ve since occupied intersections in Birmingham, attacking some white motorists, bashing suspected nationalists and forcing white journalists to flee.

I know, it’s dangerous to list what’s fuelling these riots. It’s like legitimising inexcusable violence and racism. But even more dangerous is to ignore it.

These protesters can be crushed by police, but their resentments will only grow. Their next explosion will almost certainly be even worse.

We’ve been warned.