Home Office civil servants have accused the government of not going far enough in calling out Islamophobia following the deadly Southport attacks, GB News can reveal.
Leaked messages from Home Office staff show they attacked senior bosses and the government’s response to the Southport knife attack and subsequent anti-immigration protests.
One message, posted on a Home Office intranet forum for civil servants last week, accused “senior managers” and “the Government” of not acknowledging “the Islamophobic part” of the recent protests.
The message was written in response to a blog post written by Daniel Hobbs, the Home Office Director of the Migration and Borders Group, which addressed the Southport attacks.
The latest Home Office hate crime statistics show almost a quarter of recorded religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK were against Jewish people.PARobert Bates, Director of Research at the Centre for Migration Control (CMC), told GB News: “In the face of the Southport tragedy civil servants’ impulses were to bang on about ‘community conversations’ and the need to ‘celebrate diversity’.”
“These are the wittering policy levers that the Home Office now reaches for as default, and have brought about the extremist policy of mass migration that has transformed Britain almost beyond recognition.”
“Civil servants are now attempting to surpass the government’s own rhetoric on Islamophobia.”
“Despite Starmer embracing a controversial definition of the concept, going far further than common sense dictates, it doesn’t stop radically Left wing Home Office civil servants clamouring for more.”
Police at the scene in SouthportX/@ChauffeurWest“They are so bereft of common sense and drunk on the Kool Aid of multiculturalism, they would never be interested in the priorities of the British people, such as shutting Britain’s borders, ending the small boats invasion, or highlighting some of the huge societal problems that are being caused by certain visitors to this country.”
Hobbs’ blog, first revealed by GB News, told civil servants to celebrate diversity, be proud of their work housing refugees and become allies.
It was criticised by Reform Party MP Rupert Lowe as being “tone deaf”.
Several civil servants commented on Mr Hobbs memo, with one post reading: “Sorry - I am going to be honest. I do not feel encouraged by this statement and not well said at all.”
“Like all the statements that I have seen coming from senior management this last day or two it is weak, insincere and lacks empathy.”
“I think it is quite clear the groups that are being targeted.”
The civil servant continued: “The rioters have also said it themselves with their racist anti migrant and anti Islam chants but it is very sad when the HO senior managers, like the Government and media will not acknowledge the Islamophobic part.”
Hobbs responded to the comment by saying: “I'm sorry if you feel that my statement lacked empathy and was insincere.”
“What I was trying to emphasise was that the behaviour we are seeing is an attack on the values we all hold dear, irrespective of our beliefs - and the way that communities are coming together all around the country bears this out.”
The civil servant then doubled down on his attack, writing: “What I am trying to highlight is that the violence is not just regular thuggery that you would see from football hooligans.”
The official claimed that “establishments such as immigration centres and solicitors could now be targeted because they serve migrants”.
He continued: “So that is why I am sad to see that the current disorder and violence has not been acknowledged for what they are - attacks on mainly Muslims, Asylum Seekers and migrants in my opinion.”
Mr Bates of the CMC said: “The British public have been put at risk, and our society sacrificed, because the likes of Dan Hobbs and his colleagues have chosen to ignore our concerns.”
“Many of the messages in this forum amount to conspiracy theories.”
“Peddling fake news about phantom events that never actually took place, such as attacks on immigration lawyer offices, is dangerous and has made it easier for the Home Office to demonise the tens of millions in this country who want our borders controlled.”
Connor Tomlinson, a political commentator , said: “While all right-thinking persons condemn indiscriminate violence and criminal damage, the unrest following the Southport stabbings was caused by this exact sort of attitude by civil servants.”
“Islam is not exempt from criticism; nor is world-historical levels of immigration something the betrayed voting public should be expected to accept.”
“Keir Starmer has unilaterally declared the Far Right at fault, but it is clear that - whether assaulting GB News' camera crews outside Downing Street, or embedded within the institutions tasked with administering the state - vitriolic revolutionary leftism is just as culpable for bringing Britain to a boiling point.”
“For these spontaneous outbursts of disorder to cease, Keir Starmer must do the unthinkable for his colleagues: end mass migration, deport the criminals exploiting Britain's generous asylum system, and apply the law equally to socialist, pro-Palestine mobs.”
The Home Office were approached for comment.
