Martin Daubney: My 86-year-old dad said 'son, I don't recognise Britain anymore' - we're losing our country

"Marauding mobs of machete yobs on the streets of Southend. Feral gangs in front of a funfair with massive machetes, running with no fear whatsoever from the law.

"It's time to do something about it before we lose our streets forever. The rage is boiling over from taxpayers, from citizens watching our streets simply vanish from any semblance of a Britain we once recognized.

"Norman Brennan said, 'It's simply time to give mandatory five year terms that anybody with a blade, we haven't got enough jails.'

Martin Daubney condemned Britain's knife crime epidemic

"Build some more. Sir Keir Starmer was going to convert RAF Wethersfield and Scampton into asylum seeker centres that got scrapped. He's going to make them mega jails. Great idea. Let's fill them full of all those people carrying knives.

"You don't do the crime. It's time to do the time. Have we just been madly coddling these people for far too long?

"You know, it's my dad's birthday yesterday, 86 years of age. I spoke to him. He said, 'Son, I don't recognize Britain anymore.'

"We're losing our country and we're losing it to people who have no fear of law and order. Stop and search. Racist. That's been stopped. Tough sentences. That's been stopped. The jails are full. Today, we said no more.

"How many more children need to die? How many more people's lives have to be ruined? How many boys must be buried before we finally grasp the nettle? Get tough and stamp out the cancer of knife crime in Britain."