I don't think the locality has much to do with it. The Labour Party promised change, and they were voted into power. What they did not explain was what the changes were.
The very night he won the election his first announcement was that the Rwanda scheme to send illegal immigrants would be scrapped immediately,
Sir Keir also said that he would process illegal immigrants from boats crossing the channel faster. What is now obvious is his idea of fast processing is to admit them all into Britain.
A lot of people who voted for a labour government did not realise that. In fact, I don't think any of us thought that we would have to pay for illegal immigrants, and in the first week in power, there were another 3,000 of them
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying or thinking anything racial. The fact is that Britain cannot cope with more immigrants, and should not cope with illegal immigrants.
A few days ago the Chancellor announced that she was taking away the winter fuel payments from pensioners. That bit hard, because there are so many pensioners whose income is just about the basic for pension credit, and to have that £400 or £600 taken away from them without notice is hitting hard. It was given in the first place because of the numbers of pensioners dying of cold.
At the same time she announced that the junior doctors would have their 22% wage increase. The two together makes it clear that the pensioners are paying for that. If they freeze to death, it would settle the care costs.
Next, almost in the same breath, she said she would have to raise taxes. All through the campaign Sir Keir promised that there would be no raising of taxes. He promised change as well. Since then, also, the hospital building programmes will be cut.
There are still school buildings with dodgy concrete to be rebuilt. Then Sir Keir announces that private schools will be charged VAT. What that means is that thousands of children will be taken from independent schools and send to state schools. Parents who opt for private education still have to pay for state education, just as private patients still pay National Insurance. It is never one or the other. How many state schools will be able to cope with an influx of students previously in private schools? We don't have enough schools, We don't have enough teachers.
All this and more has alarmed people. They feel helpless and don't know what to do and lash out. Such behaviour is unlawful. It is very wrong, and I wonder how it could be organised so quickly. There are people who think or want to have power, and they are INCITING others to do the same, just as happens on social media sometimes.
Word gets around after the terrible murders in Southport that a local person is the killer, and before long, it has risen and developed into the sort of event of old western films, where a lynch mob is formed to carry out a hanging on someone they think is a criminal, and the sheriff isn't acting fast enough. In this case, the rioters from outside the area thought the police were not acting fast enough, were not naming the person responsible. By that time everyone local knew, but because of his age, his name could not be given. That is why people thought they could take the law into their own hands.
It also means that there is no protection for minors. They will have to be named or a riot begins.
When the name of the boy was released, even though he was born in Cardiff, his parents are Rwandan, and that fact created resentment, because Sir Keir had scrapped the only planned deterrent. It is wrong, wrong, wrong, but once a rage has developed and the weather is hot, it takes a long time to stop it, and it is going from town to town.
Sir Keir moved too fast. He did not wait for Parliament to vote against the Rwanda plan. He doesn't realise that people associate one thing with another and it escalates. Then a youth of Rwandan parents commits the worse crime of all, and suddenly all Africans are wrong. Is it the fault of the education system? Is it that the chancellor just announced that the pensioners were losing the fuel payment to pay the junior doctors their 22%? Is it that he scrapped the Rwanda plan as deterrent and has not replaced it with anything else, or even debated it in parliament? Is it because the state schools are already short of teachers, and now have to find room for children leaving private education, also without a vote in parliament.
Sir Keir is giving people what he thinks they want. It is the communist way after all: everyone should have the same education chances, the same health chances, the same risk of hypothermia in the elderly that they had before the extra fuel payment?