Starmer speaks out on rioters but stays silent on Carnival thugs - shame on him - Kelvin MacKenzie

And this guy is supposed to be Mayor of a great global city.

Stamer had had 48 hours to mull over his reaction. He didn’t take 48 minutes to lash out at the riots in Hartlepool, Portsmouth and beyond. Was that because they were white and that’s an easy gain in Labour circles?

When the thugs are from a different community and attacking police officers (there were 53 arrests for assault on emergency workers) there are different political calculations for No10. The first one is will they be they be accused by Lefty activists within their own party of being racists.

The second is that the majority of the population of London are their voters. Will they be damaging their future electoral prospects by attacking them?

The third is that since nobody had died, the violence, the drugs, the sexual assaults was a price worth paying to keep the Carnival going which started in 1966 and is the biggest street party in Europe.

But some police officers are paying for this history in their blood. How can that be right?

Because the rioters were white, that was a free hit for Starmer. Now the accused are mainly black he has to think long and hard before telling the judiciary that they should use the full force of the law. Why? These were damned serious offences. We are all supposed to be equal under the law.

Or isn’t that true anymore?

Thought it might be helpful to show the arrest breakdown so you will understand how serous the criminality was. Possession of an offensive weapon (67); possession of class A drugs (18); possession of class B drugs (53); possession of a firearm (1); sexual offences (12); Robbery (5); possession with intent to supply drugs (19); violence with injury (11); possession of nitrous oxide (8).

A catalogue of serious crimes. And yet we have a Prime Minister, a Home Secretary and a Mayor who don’t think it’s serious enough to warrant a statement. And that’s a decision which makes ordinary people worry whose side they are actually on.

The police too are exasperated. Scotland Yard’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan says he is ‘’tired of saying the same words every year’’ about the Carnival of violence. I am astonished the Metropolitan Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley didn’t feel he should get involved.

However, he may take his lead from his political masters and decide to stay schtum on the basis the public will forget and before you know a year will have gone by and there can be another Carnival.

It’s clear in political circles (the Tories are as guilty as Labour) that black crime is not to be viewed as seriously as white crime. To my mind that is a serious mistake and the winner will be Reform.

Expect them to do extraordinary well in the elections for seats in councils, county council and the Senedd. The way Labour reacted to the Notting Hill Carnival crime will have helped them.