On Monday an horrific attack took place in Southport at a children’s dance class in which three young girls were deprived of life.
The victims had been attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class for children aged up to 11. Taylor Swift herself responded as follows to the news.
A seventeen year-old youth was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, although his motives remain unclear.
The BBC went to the trouble of reporting the suspect’s ethnicity.
The BBC can report that the teenage suspect, whose parents are from Rwanda, was born in Cardiff and moved to the Southport area in 2013.
It is at this point that questions arise as to why did the BBC point out that although the suspect is a British citizen, he is of African heritage, a fact that was sure to inflame the extreme right.
A vigil was planned near the scene of the attack on Tuesday evening. At about 19.45 hrs, it was followed by violent disorder in which those involved set alight cars, threw bricks at a local mosque, damaged a local convenience store and set wheelie bins on fire. The rioters are believed to have been members of the English Defence League (EDL).
After the riot, questions were asked including the one below by tax campaigner and top-flight accountant Richard Murphy.
Meanwhile in Scotland, The National reports that SNP leader Hamza Yousef has written to the Home Secretary demanding that the EDL be proscribed as a terrorist organisation, as well as posting the following on X/Twitter this morning.
Violence targeting police officers, the public, and mosques, all to drive forward the far-right’s hateful ideology.
Rhetoric is not enough.
We need to take action against the far-right. I have asked the Home Secretary to use her powers to proscribe the English Defence League.