Nigel Farage is responsible for these riots.
His behavior over the last 24 hours demonstrates precisely what he is: he is a persistent threat to national security. He didn’t give a damn about Henry Nowak’s family’s wishes.
Henry Nowak’s father could not have been clearer when he left the court. His son had been murdered. He had been handcuffed and treated with suspicion as he died, after his murderer had wrongly accused him of racist assault. He and the family had gone through what no-one should ever experience. But they conducted themselves with grace, dignity and precision.
Mark Nowak said that his family “do not want Henry’s murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension”. The family were, of course, outraged at how police had treated their child, but they did not condemn the police in general. They expressed their “heartfelt gratitude” to the murder investigation team, who “secured justice for our son” and the police liaison officers.
No-one has anything kind to say about the police officers who attended to Henry Nowak on the evening he was stabbed, but it is worth reading the judge’s remarks. It does not necessarily absolve them from blame, but it places events in a context that a two minute video cannot.
“The police were given a convincing but wholly false narrative of the incident,” he said. “It was dark and Henry was wearing a dark top. The entry damage caused by the knife through it, would not have been obvious… It is the experience of the criminal courts that sometimes, someone arrested and handcuffed will feign injury in the hope they may be released. These police officers were faced with having to make quick decisions in pressurised circumstances about the best way to act.”
These are the subtleties and complexities of a situation which looks much clearer now than it would have done at the time.
On Tuesday morning, Farage responded to this situation by stoking animosity and anger towards the police. He ignored every one of the requests by Mark Nowak. They were not convenient.
“We should respond to this with pure cold rage,” Farage said. Given the sensitivity of the issue, this felt akin to incitement to rioting. He then racialised it, branding it an example of “anti-white prejudice”. Finally, he deployed a slogan used by white nationalists in the US during the Black Lives Matter protests: “White lives matter just as much as Black lives.”
It’s worth dismantling this comparison with Black Lives Matter. The video of Harry Nowak being handcuffed seems to have a very superficial echo of the George Floyd video from the US, due to the repeated use of the words: “I can’t breathe.” It is therefore easy, as Nigel Farage is doing, to claim the new video as evidence of anti-white policing. Or, as Kemi Badenoch is doing, to act as a kind of racial centrist and say: “I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter, I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter.”
Let’s just get something clear. George Floyd was killed by a policeman, Henry Nowak was not. The Floyd case was an example of brutal racial policing in the cold light of day. The Nowak case was the result of temporary confusion, with contrasting claims, in the dark. One was purposeful and the other was accidental. Both are tragedies which involved the police. They have no further similarity beyond that fact.
It is obscene to suggest that white people have faced the type of hatred and prejudice from law enforcement as ethnic minorities have. They have never been treated by the police as African Americans have in the US. They have never been treated the way that young Black and Asian kids have been in the UK. It is an affront to historical memory and common sense to even pretend there has been equality of treatment.
Then, in the evening, Farage’s little army came out. Many were violent white nationalists, pumped up with hatred. And that is not a coincidence. It is because, with his speech Nigel Farage encouraged rage, hatred and white nationalism.
They threw projectiles at the police. They chanted “racist police, off our streets”. They held up placards with slogans like “Henry’s blood is on your hands”. They were addressed by the racist thug Tommy Robinson, who helped whip them up further. They marched to where the murder took place. And then, in a moment of real danger, they attempted to march to the home of his killer, Vickrum Digwa.
A line of police blocked the rioters from entering the street. If they had not been there, or had failed, it does not bear thinking about what could have followed.
This is not the first time this has happened. We’ve been here before. Ahead of the Southport riots in 2024, Farage said: “I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. Something is going horribly wrong in our once beautiful country.” Always the same game plan: spotting a moment where you can divide people according to their racial identity, encouraging resentment and vitriol. In that case, it resulted in people trying to burn asylum seekers alive. Last night, it resulted in lagered-up racist thugs battling police.
This is what he does. It’s who he is. God help us if Farage ever becomes prime minister. God help us from a future in which he will be able to use the podium outside Downing Street to encourage white nationalism, with the full might of the state behind him.
He has shown us who he is. Believe him.
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