The unrest gripping Britain is indicative of a country that is set for “sustained inter-ethnic conflict”, award-winning historian Dr David Starkey has claimed.
He joined Steve Edginton on GB News to discuss the chaotic scenes across Britain triggered by the murders of three young girls in Southport who were attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Starkey said some of the acts we have seen have been “monstrous”, but it does not mean there are not “real reasons” for it.
He told Steve: “I do think we are going to see sustained inter-ethnic conflict.
David Starkey is concerned about the prospect of continued inter-ethnic conflict
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“I don’t think it will be full-scale civil war, but I think we are going to see increasing clashes between ethnic groups, Hindu and Pakistani, and I’m afraid between whites and everybody else.
“What we really do need to understand is that we’ve had a public policy which has tried to keep enforced silence. I am an example of it with my cancellation.”
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Protestors stand off with police in Southport GettyStarkey went on to claim there is a concerted attempt in Britain to impose “enforced silence”, which he says was triggered by Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968.
The speech, which has courted much criticism since it was delivered by the Tory MP, criticised high levels of immigration from the Commonwealth and many, including GB News star Jacob Rees-Mogg, have deemed it incendiary.
The historian told GB News that while Powell’s language was “overblown”, many of the points are relevant.
“The points he made were absolutely true and are being proved true even as we speak now”, he said.
David Starkey spoke to Steve Edginton on GB News
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“Unfortunately, the decision was taken that you simply shut people up. If you do not debate a question, if you do not discuss it, if you do everything you can to make it undiscussed, then I’m afraid it’s like a sore in the body. It’s an untreated wound.
“It becomes deeper and deeper and more septic, until finally it bursts horribly to the surface.
“I’m using a deliberately foul metaphor because what’s going on now is foul.
“Threatening to burn people alive, which is what it amounts to, is monstrous. That sort of rioting is monstrous.
“But the fact it’s monstrous doesn’t mean that there are not real reasons for it.”