The UK on the Brink

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Last weekend, activist Tommy Robinson led another massive Unite the Kingdom rally in London which drew impassioned patriots carrying national flags from all corners of the UK. Tyrannical Prime Minister Keir Starmer predictably condemned the rally for sowing division, when in fact the rally is the direct consequence to the division sown by Starmer and his anti-white, pro-Islam, globalist ilk.

Indigenous Europeans are being increasingly subjected to a clear demographic assault that includes a two-tier system of justice prioritizing Muslims and other migrant minorities over Christian whites. Every week, if not daily, come reports of such Orwellian outrages as UK police arresting people for tweeting something “Islamophobic,” or the British countryside being forcibly diversified with migrants because it is deemed “too white.”

Now a trial is underway in England over an incident which may be the most outrageous example yet of the perverse, race-based priorities of the British authorities. It centers on a white British teenager, the victim of a stabbing, who passed out and then bled out in police custody after being arrested and handcuffed at the scene over the Sikh perpetrator’s accusation that the boy had “racially abused” him.

Southampton University student Henry Nowak, 18, was on his way home from a night out with friends on December 3, 2023 when he encountered Sikh stranger Vikrum Digwa, 23. It’s unclear why the two exchanged words, because no witnesses were present, but some of the interaction was caught on Nowak’s phone video, which was later found in Digwa’s pocket.

In the video, Nowak is heard saying: “Innit bad man, what bad man. You’re a bad man, say you’re a bad man, go on.” Digwa replies, “I am a bad man” before the footage cuts off.

In the UK, where knife crime is rampant, Sikhs are legally permitted to carry a ceremonial knife in public, as it is protected under religious exemption laws. But Digwa was in possession of not only a small knife around his neck that fulfilled his religious obligation, but a much larger – around eight inches – Shastar. “Shastars (weapons) are held in very high regard within Sikhi as they are seen as symbols of justice, equality and for the struggle against oppression, discrimination and exploitation,” according to a UK store catering to Sikhs.

Nowak subsequently suffered four stab wounds, including two in the back of his legs and one in his lung, after which he tried to climb a fence to escape, leaving a trail of blood, but Digwa was “aggressively pursuing” him according to the prosecution.

Neighbors reportedly heard the aftermath as Nowak complained he had been stabbed and was dying. Police were called to the scene – but they then arrested and handcuffed the bloodied Nowak after Digwa claimed the teen had racially abused him verbally. Instead of receiving medical aid, Nowak lost consciousness while handcuffed, and as the prosecutor told the court: “Put simply, Henry drowned in his own blood with his lung having been cut by the knife going eight centimeters into him.”

Digwa is now on trial accused of murder alongside his mother, 53, who is accused of assisting an offender. Prosecutors said the accused’s father, brother, and mother arrived at the scene shortly afterward, and the mother, at Digwa’s request, went home with the knife – this was captured on video footage – to stash it among what was later discovered to be an “arsenal of weapons” there. They both deny the charges.

Digwa claimed at the scene to have been acting in self-defense and that Nowak was drunk; the prosecution later countered that Nowak’s blood alcohol level was low enough that he would have been legal to drive a car.

Following his arrest, Digwa and his brother were transported in a police van in which their conversation was recorded. The prosecutor noted that “the two chose to talk to each other presuming they couldn’t be heard. He told his brother he stabbed Henry three times. He didn’t mention any racism or self defense.”

Let’s recap the jaw-dropping details here. Although the reason for the confrontation is unclear, not only is there no evidence that the defendant was “racially abused” by the murdered teen, but even if Nowak had insulted him with racist remarks, that is no justification for knifing him and then pursuing the fleeing teen who was bleeding badly enough to leave a trail. Then Digwa stole Nowak’s phone, lied to the police, and secretively enlisted his family members to conceal the murder weapon – sorry, the alleged murder weapon.

The sensible procedure for the police to follow would have been to simultaneously take Digwa into custody and administer aid to Nowak, transporting the latter to a hospital upon discovering the extent of his wounds, and sort things out later. Instead, Nowak was handcuffed on the spot simply on the Sikh’s say-so of “racial abuse,” whatever kind of a poor excuse for a crime that is, and left to bleed to death on the street.

Imagine the reverse: does any honest person believe that the British police under Keir Starmer would have arrested and handcuffed a badly bleeding Sikh at the scene simply on the word of a white British male that the Sikh had called him a racist name?

This incident is tragically emblematic of a UK on the brink of revolution. Tommy Robinson speaks for millions there who are fed up with the intentional Islamization of society, a culture-destroying mass immigration, and an authoritarian regime that has weaponized law enforcement against its white citizens. With every fresh abuse of authority, the Starmer regime simply doubles down and has the gall to smear the targets of his discrimination as “far-right” and “divisive.”

The globalists in power in the UK and across continental Europe are hell-bent on demographic replacement and the importation of cultures hostile to the West. Toward that end they are pressing forward with a transnational surveillance state and increasing restrictions on free speech. They are not going to abdicate democratically. The continent will only begin to reclaim its civilizational identity and when the European people have had enough and rise up.

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