‘Decent and tolerant Britons’ are being ‘pushed to the limit’ over ‘importing intolerance’, says Lord Walney

Britons are being “pushed to the limit” over “importing intolerance”, Lord Walney has observed.

The former Government Advisor on Political Violence was speaking to GB News as the Unite the Kingdom rally took to the streets in London.

At least 80,000 demonstrators are expected in in the capital, as the rally coincides with the pro-Palestinian Nakba Day protest.

Ahead of the Unite the Kingdom march, fronted by Tommy Robinson, Keir Starmer declared “we’re in a fight for the soul of this country” and that the gathering was a “stark reminder of exactly what we are up against”.

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Reflecting on the Prime Minister’s remarks, Lord Walney said that: “I think we are a decent, tolerant, law-abiding people who are being pushed to our limit by importing an intolerance.

“People are just not prepared to see their country being hollowed out from within by that.”

“So I'm not sure if that is exactly what Keir Starmer means, but what I mean, and that's exactly where the Labour government needs to be.

As such, the peer explained that the Government “needs to speak out much more clearly about the Islamist extremism and hatred which has been brewing in parts of our community”.

He said that the issue was “putting in particular the Jewish community at risk, but is undermining our values overall as a nation.

“We have to be absolutely clear that that is not part of Britain's future, and we're going to stand up against it,” he insisted.

To that end, Lord Walney said he supported the Government’s descsion to block 11 so-called “far right agitators” from coming to Britain to attend the Unite the Kingdom march.

“That is a power that the Home Secretary has got. And I think it's right that she uses that on, on, on all sides.

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“There is a limit to what we can do when we have British citizens spouting racist nonsense, anti-Semitic nonsense, Islamist rhetoric.

“But when it's foreigners who are coming in and importing those extreme views into Britain, I think it's fair enough.

“Whether it is a radical hate preacher and a muslim imam or it's someone of the far right.

“The Home Secretary can say this is not conducive to the public good and ‘You're not coming in for this’”.

His comments were echoed by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, who told GB News: “A Government has a right to keep people out of the country if they think they're going to cause problems here.

“Maybe if he were able to do the same with the small boats and the problematic migrants coming here, taking advantage of our country, I think he'd get more respect.

“But I'm not going to complain about a Prime Minister keeping people out of the country If they're causing trouble, that's what they're supposed to do,” she reiterated.

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