I'd Love To Know How It's Being Defined, Neil...

A surge in online extremism, at a time of COVID-related isolation, has created a "perfect storm" for radicalisation, according to the UK's top counter terrorism police officer.

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu has said growing numbers of young people in particular have been sucked in by the increase in hateful ideology online and set on a path towards violent extremism.

Yeah, it's not like that's not obvious to anyone with a brain or who reads the news, Neil... 

For MI5 and Counter Terror Command at Scotland Yard, the vast majority of their work is still centred on the threat from Islamist extremism.

But Mr Basu has warned the threat from far right extremism is growing rapidly, adding that 10 out of the 12 under 18s who were arrested for terrorism last year were linked to extreme right wing ideology.

Eh..? 

Remind me, someone, how many deadly 'far right' terror attacks have been launched on British soil? 

What is 'far right' ideology, anyway?

He said: "There has definitely been a growth in nationalistic material online, white supremacist literature, things that are extremely disturbing."

Well, good lord, we can't have nationalism, can we? 

Stoking The Flames....

 

Yes, Reader, that Neil Basu, who never saw a race bandwagon he wasn't happy to leap upon, here opining about others calling out the racist murder of Henry Nowak by a Sikh man obsessed with weapons, whose counter-claim of racism led Hampshire Police to treat the victim as suspect.

An event which brought home to even the most die-hard doubters that there is indeed two-tier policing in the UK, and which, if the weather had stayed hot, would have had unfortunate consequences for Southampton Police Station.

And let’s not forget that we wouldn’t even know as much as we do about this case if not for the pressure brought to bear on it by social media!

So spare me the ‘don’t look back in anger’ left wing commentators urging us to sing kumbayah and not descend into violence lest our cause is tarnished, when we know what they are really worried about is the edifice of multiculturalism falling down around their ears.

For Those Who Think Priti Patel Is Useless...

The UK's head of counter-terrorism policing has urged the Home Office to consider relaxing positive discrimination laws to ensure police can hire more BAME recruits.

What?! Who on earth would have the cheek to ask this?

Oh. Of course.  

Neil Basu raised the issue at the last National Policing Board meeting chaired by the home secretary Priti Patel...

Can anyone imagine how Teresa May would have answered? Yes, me too. But not Priti. 

...who reportedly stood firmly against the idea.

Yes, she might be all talk when it comes to illegal immigration, but she's not standing for this, thankfully.  

Recent figures reported that police forces all across the UK had failed to hire a representative number of black, Asian and minority ethnic police recruits despite a high number of BAME applicants.

If police forces aren't hiring them, despite them applying, it's because they don't meet the required standards. 

We have enough of those already, we don't need any more even if they do come in different colours...