Nigel Farage has accused authorities of a “cover-up” following the 2024 Southport stabbing. The Reform UK leader said public anger was fuelled by withheld information, calling it an example of “two-tier policing.” He argued that clearer details about the attacker could have prevented riots and criticised how emotional online reactions were handled. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00And as anger out there on the streets, in these red wall areas, over two-tier care, two-tier policing, two-tier justice, and two-tier recruitment, what happened after Southport was the most appalling cover-up.
00:18If we'd known the identity and something about the murderer, I don't believe those riots would have happened on anything like the scale that they did.
00:32But in a vacuum, in a vacuum, of course, some crazy conspiracy theories were allowed to flourish.
00:39But what was clear is that people that rioted, or people that said intemperate things online, in their upset and their anger, in some cases mothers, mothers of young children, who wrote intemperate things online, they shouldn't have written them, but perhaps, given the context of what had occurred, you can understand why emotions might have got a little bit out of control.
01:03They're all hoofed off to prison, whilst the men that committed those violent, vile attacks at Manchester Airport, nothing happened to them.
01:13It wasn't until we, the Reform MPs, threatened to take a private prosecution that actually the government and the CPS kicked into gear.
01:25And we see this every single day.
01:27We see recruitment policies in police forces, recruitment policies in the NHS, designed to put ethnic minorities to the top of the list against white people with war history in this country.