Bev Turner hits out at 'lazy' MSM over Southport protests as she delves into REAL reason behind UK's social unrest

Speaking to members, Turner said: "Obviously there has been a lot of civil unrest in the UK in the last couple of days which started with the stabbings.

"Of course, those awful, awful deaths of those three young girls in Southport. And I watch this with interest because I'm fascinated about this sort of unrest and how this happens and why.

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"And I've been frustrated watching other media outlets talk about the far right, too easy, lazy journalism, as though people who are making very strong feelings known are somehow a politically motivated organisation.

"Attacking police officers and burning vans is always wrong and it has to be condemned in the hardest terms possible.

"It's outrageous, particularly in Southport, when those families just needed calm and peace and quiet to grieve and cope with the enormous bereavement of having lost those girls. So the the riots were awful.

"But let's not just go 'far right' and move on."

Turner went on to speak about Katharine Birbalsingh, often referred to as Britain’s Strictest Headteacher, and her interview with GB News on Wednesday evening.

Turner said: "I was watching Katharine Birbalsingh on GB News last night on Patrick's show with Mark Dolan. We used that clip this morning because she is amazing.

"That headteacher of Michaela Community School in Wembley is incredibly diverse. It's a very diverse school. She has the best results of any state school in the country in terms of improvement. When children arrive in year seven to when they leave A-levels.

"She knows a huge amount about how to consolidate social difference, how to make young people exist together in a school environment.

"Teenagers. I mean, how complicated must that be? And she makes it work because she said there are things that we compromise over, and there are things that we all share as well in values.

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"There are some things we let go depending on religion, ethnicity, culture.

"But she was very critical of governments. Subsequent governments, I would say, starting with Tony Blair, who just presumed that multiculturalism and huge amounts of immigration over a short period of time will just take care of itself.

"It will just all be one happy, lovely melting pot of difference. And that, she says in the school, is patently not what happens. She also said, about the fact that what she unites the children over is a sense of Britishness.

"They play the national anthem every morning at that school. They are not afraid of the Union Jack flag, and so she has this sense that they are proud to be British. How many people walking down the road in this country can you say that? How many people will actually say, I am proud to be British?

"And she says, I love my country, and as a teacher, I want to bring all the children together under the banner of British values."

Turner continued: "But I think subsequent governments have shied away from that conversation and inevitably, the social unrest, because people need to know their clear identity and they need to know expectations of communities, how they live their life and which rules apply to which people."

Turner concluded saying that she didn't want the solution to these problems to be "more restrictions, stricter rules, digital ID, more surveillance states" on the back of this disruption.