A third of all knife crime in this country happens in London. Fifty knife attacks a day, just in the capital - think about that. Fifty families every day get the call that their son, their daughter or brother has been stabbed. Some survive. Some don’t, but all of them are scarred for life.
This isn’t just a “crime problem.”
This is a full-blown epidemic. Our streets are a warzone, and the people running this country are either too cowardly, too soft, or too out of touch to do a single meaningful thing about it.
How the hell did we get here?
Years of pathetic and weak leadership. Spineless politicians are more worried about getting applause on Twitter than protecting the people who pay their wages and whom they are meant to represent. They gutted the police, they tied officers’ hands with red tape, and they demonised the one thing that actually works… stop and search, with even our London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, making a promise to almost end its use when he first got elected.
He is a man who has overseen a shocking rise in crime throughout the capital and refuses to get tough on knife crime. It's not only astonishing that he was not nominated for a knighthood, but that he got awarded one!
A man that also has overseen a rape epidemic in London, with one reported every hour and a mobile phone theft explosion of one every six minutes, he’s truly lost control of our streets.. yet he keeps smirking, that arrogant smirk. I really do detest the man.
So, they told us it was “racist” to stop lads acting suspiciously. They told us criminals needed “understanding” instead of punishment.
And now?
Now, we’ve got kids carrying zombie knives, machetes and swords because they know there are no real consequences.
Sadiq Khan lost control of our streets the moment he vowed to scrap the one thing that works - Adam Brooks
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You get caught carrying a blade today? You might get a slap on the wrist, a suspended sentence, if you’re unlucky…no prison, no fear, no deterrent. So guess what? They keep carrying them. They keep stabbing. They keep killing.
The justice system is a joke. It’s not just soft, it’s broken. Judges hand out laughable sentences, while families bury their children. And still, the political class just shrugs its shoulders and commissions another useless report, another strategy meeting, another ‘taskforce’, or it wheels out an A-lister to tell us that rounding the edges of knives would work. What utter rubbish.
The truth is brutal, but it needs to be said..
If you carry a knife, you should go to prison, no excuses, no exceptions, for a minimum of five years. Not three months, not probation. Prison.
Make carrying a blade as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
Make it known that if you step out of your house armed, you’re throwing away your future.
Let’s bring back proper policing, real stop and search, everywhere, not based on quotas or racial targets, but on common sense.
The people screaming about “over policing” don’t live in the areas suffering from this chaos. Working-class communities do. They are crying out for more police, tougher sentences, safer streets, even old school gangsters, I know now say the same.
This isn’t about race. It’s about right and wrong. It’s about whether we have the guts to stand up and say enough.
Every day we delay, another teenager bleeds out on a pavement. Another family is ripped apart. Another community is terrorised.
I’m sick of the hand-wringing. I’m sick of the excuses. I’m sick of leaders who value their reputations more than the lives of the people they’re supposed to serve.
It’s time to fight for our streets.
It’s time to fight for our kids.
It’s time to take Britain back from the cowards with knives and the bloody cowards in suits in our Parliament and our authorities.
That’s why myself and Norman Brennan have launched a Government petition demanding mandatory five-year prison sentences for anyone caught carrying a knife. No more excuses. No more second chances. If you believe enough is enough, sign the petition and make your voice heard.
Sign here.
