Protests Spread Across England After Southport Stabbings
Protests have swept across England over the nation’s immigration problem since Tuesday evening after three girls were stabbed to death in Southport.
The protests became violent as speculations about the identity of the 17-year-old attacker circulated on social media. Police were quick to denounce them as “incorrect” and urged “people not to speculate on details.” The court later identified the murderer as Axel Rudakubana, the son of Rwandan parents.
Locations: In Southport, protesters demonstrated outside a mosque. They torched police vans and hurled bricks and fireworks at police, injuring 50 officers.
Just outside Downing Street, hundreds threw cans and glass bottles at a line of police officers. Some hurled flares at the Churchill statue in Parliament Square.
Other protests have been held in Hartlepool, Manchester and Aldershot.
Protesters at these various sites shouted, “We want our country back!” “Rule Britannia!” “We want our kids back!” and “Stop the boats!”
Government response: Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office released a statement saying police would be given “the government’s full backing following multiple high-profile incidents of extreme violence and public disorder on our streets.”
The statement added: “While the right to peaceful protest must be protected at all costs, [Starmer] will be clear that criminals who exploit that right in order to sow hatred and carry out violent acts will face the full force of the law.”
‘A cake not turned’: Underlying the calls to change immigration laws lies “the deeper issue of corrosive breakdown of trust, social order and cohesion,” wrote journalist Melanie Phillips. Her statement is supported in Hosea 7, which prophesies of Britain’s immigration problems.
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in Hosea—Reaping the Whirlwind, “Britain may look good on the surface. But God says in verse 8 that it is like a ‘cake not turned’—already burned out underneath. … Serious crises are going to make our nations crumble suddenly, like a burned out cake! It will dumbfound the world.”
The protests this week are bringing this prophecy to life.
