Radicalized extremists are the new enemy within. For years, along with others, I've warned of the dangers of uncontrolled immigration – of welcoming into our country with open arms people who are entering illegally about whom we know nothing, and those who come here legally but have nothing in common with our values, and have no desire to integrate.
Unfortunately, those on the left have always regarded such views as unenlightened and primitive – feeling a smug sense of superiority about their liberal compassion. They live blissfully unaware of the damage being caused to the country at their comfortable, sheltered, do-gooding dinner parties of human rights lawyers, university vice chancellors and charity CEOs. In contrast, I have always gone home up north every week where people could see tensions building.
My husband Phil, when representing a Bradford constituency in Parliament, saw the Muslim population growing and inhabiting a parallel world, one that too often didn't integrate, didn't speak English (and where Bradford Council allowed this to flourish by translating everything into foreign languages for them) and where Sharia councils were routinely used to settle disputes within the Muslim community rather than the English courts or legal system.
It's also no wonder so many people who come here – even those who were born here – hate us when so much time is spent in our schools teaching pupils to be ashamed of our history rather than proud of it.
Public concern of radicalized extremists living amongst us has grown hugely, and with good reason particularly after the barbaric murder of Lee Rigby, the 7/7 terrorist attack, the Manchester Arena bomb, the Tower bridge attack, and the murder of PC Keith Palmer, but it seems the final straw for many was the murder of three young girls at a dance class in Southport by the warped, radicalised, Britain hating Axel Radukabana.
We also have the growing unease about tens of thousands of illegal migrants being housed in hotels and rented properties in local communities and the brutal attacks that are happening on a daily basis. These have included the senseless stabbing of a father-of-three in a Lloyds bank in Derby by a Somalian national – and the vicious murder of hotel worker Rhiannon White, stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver, by Deng Chol Majek, a Sudanese asylum seeker.
Latest figures from the Ministry of Justice show almost one in eight of the prison population is now foreign nationals – with the number of Afghans behind bars shooting up by more than 30% in the last year and Syrians up by 43.2%.
If Starmer had anything about him he would be canceling his trip to COP30 in Brazil to pointlessly pontificate about climate change and instead be bringing emergency legislation to stop illegal migration – by coming out of the ECHR and scrapping the Human Rights Act – to allow the rapid deportation of illegal immigrants and foreign national criminals.
The patience of the British people has finally snapped, and woe betide any politician who doesn't fight the new enemy within.