Belgast last night - horrific attack - why is this not being reported on BBC/Sky etc?

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Absolutely shocking details of the injuries inflicted - the BBC minimise it.
https://x.com/paultreyvaud/status/2064244770742956256?s=46

And there would be lot less of them too without immigration - currently over a fifth of the population was born outside the UK.

You're right! This guy very likely didn't apply for a visa and book a plane ticket.
How can we pretend it's wise to allow anyone into the country without properly vetting. Leave your front door open then.

“It is not banning under 16s that is the issue, it the implication for everyone else. It means surveillance and blocking of things for potential political reasons.”

@Dandelionsalad - you either want our children to be safe or not. And online is the complete Wild West, even worse than the supposed crime ridden streets of London. Which again Elon and his pals have exaggerated. To the point that less people are investing in London now and we are all paying for it.

So if you want to be safe from the immigrants, you will also have to accept cameras and checks too.

The keep everyone out, full free speech and hate the police brigade - it is inconsistent.

And I am all for sending economic migrants from Albania back to a safe country. But Sudan is a war zone and we are still signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights and will likely remain in it.

There needs to be a way that people can claim for asylum from overseas.

He had a visa according to the DUP
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15884987/Man-suffers-injuries-stabbed-Belfast-suspect-arrested.html

What a ridiculous statement - are you embarrassed about it yet?

I’d quite happily send a criminal like this maniac into a war zone. I literally do not give a shit about his trauma or mental health.

My DS went the other way to an island where taxes were high, he used private healthcare. Being on an island if your illness was serious you were sent to the USA. The island had drug issues, stabbings, shootings.

We're in a bit of a bubble in the UK with our knife, gun laws which we abide by and outsiders struggle to understand.

A few months ago, the "good" law-abiding immigrants/religious minorities included Sikhs. I can remember SYL responding to a rape of a Sikh woman with something along the lines of "that's wrong, we don't have a problem with Sikhs". Then a Sikh man commits a (horrific) crime and not only are Sikhs as a group now in with the "incompatible culture" lot, there are also people complaining that it's lefty minded types who had been ignoring the rights warnings about cultural differences that led to the crime.

All it takes is one violent man from Hong Kong and a scandal Farage wants to distract from and we will be hearing how Hong Kongers criminal tendancies are ignored by the left, how half a million of them are here now and they don't share our values, Fu Manchu Etc etc.

It's an ever changing map.

It seems it’s being reported more widely now and the attacker is Sudanese.

Ah, there it is - the classic English xenophobia & ignorance towards the Irish! I suggest you read up on the real cause of the famine and get back to me. Mass deaths and starvation manufactured by the British.

Trust me, I’m from NI and appreciate my Irish passport much more than my British one. EU citizenship and no queues at immigration is lovely!

Yes I’ve seen 5 year visa reported - the 5 year visa is a multi entry visitor visa and not a route to settlement. It’s for those who want to visit several times - not stay. So actually quite different for those howling we don’t want immigrants living here.

I’m not of course sure that the reporting of this visa is accurate- not many places care about the facts of immigration and visas.

And it might not have been, then we would never have known the details because of media cover up

Passports work the other way. I could get an EU passport because my mother was Irish.

Are you happy to return home or stay here and lose benefits?

Because that's what Reform and Restore are advocating.

It still includes Sikhs, as far as I’m concerned. What happened to Henry was tragic but truly a one off, I can’t think of a time a Sikh has ever committed such an attack before. The outrage was over the police behaviour. And the fact everybody is prohibited from carrying a blade unless for ‘religious purposes’ And yes this needs addressing.

There’s a reason Chinese, Japanese, Sikh and Hindu immigrants are generally never mentioned.

Because your ‘violent man from Hong Kong’ doesn’t exist.

As a migrant from Africa herself, I would be happy to assume she knows more about it than you do.

Actually yes. You do.

By definition, if anyone emigrates from one country they are immigrants to another.

I am a brit in a country other than Britain. And guess what I am. I am an immigrant. That is why I have to deal with immigration where I am.

The government has very publically discussed banning VPNs. Why would companies want to invest here if they can’t keep their business information confidential? That is before you even consider the punitive tax regime Labour has installed with threats of windfall taxes on any profits.

I am happy to accept checks and cameras at the borders. Are you saying we don’t have adequate border checks and controls to keep us safe from immigrants within the uk?

It works the other way too. Almost 90% of Irelands asylum seekers come from the UK crossing the border at NI. 10s of 1000s of people who posters on this thread would describe as 'illegals' spill into Ireland from the UK. Never hear a peep about that from the 'Stop the boats' people. Not happy to take them from France but more than happy to pass them on to Ireland.

Sorry you thought I was being serious. I was mocking the insanity of judging any one individual by the paramilitary action of their countrymen.

I also have British and Irish passports.

What exactly is the media cover up? They reported on it widely - tbh we don’t need a video when we can read the details. There were witnesses, police attendance and will be medical reports - quite sufficient to take the perpetrator to trial.

Some of the outrage was over police behaviour

There was definitely also outrage/racism directed at the Sikh community. Come on...

Outrage is justified when a bad thing that could have been prevented happens. The rage baiting and shit stirring and demands for video footage, speculation over motivations and the migration status of the attacker without any evidence. The rage when the authorities or other people don't just blindly agree with the suppositions put forward. The bringing in of personal grievances about past events into the conversation. The rioting. None of that helps or is justified.

Do you really believe this?
Or are you being facetious to avoid the actual topic?