I see the British Press is having another epileptic fit, causing the lovely commentariat to let loose with every perfectly reasonable racist diatribe they’ve been bottling up specially for a moment like this.
No one much cares for the facts. The individual in question has been declared an actual convicted terrorist on the run, rather than an individual on remand, suspected of terror offences, yet to be found guilty of a crime in a court of law.
Facts are inconvenient. All day he has been described as a highly trained British soldier, but it turns out he was a network engineer. He’s accused of planting canisters with wires, which for all we know could just mean reels of Cat 5 ethernet cable.
Anyway, he has absconded following the playbook of Paddington Bear, almost to the letter. We can expect him to be intercepted on a circus train by Britain’s finest detectives, vindicating Mr Reginald Curry’s longstanding contempt for illegals, bears and humans alike.
Comment trolls have wasted no time in declaring that this is what happens when you invite the third world to live in the land of the civilised. They suggest he jumps on a rubber dinghy back to where he came from. Though, from what I gather, that’s Kingston upon Thames.
Fortunately, the man is not thought to be dangerous and poses no threat to anyone, unless you watch GB News, in which case he is extremely dangerous indeed, posing imminent danger to our entire way of life.
If we’re lucky, this story will run for days, to be milked of every drop of bile, problemitising entire communities with absolutely no link to the man at all, other than a generic off-white complexion.
As Paddington found, you’re never truly British, even if you share marmalade sandwiches with the queen. It’s about time we had another national conversation about the disloyalty of the foreigners who walk amongst us.
Last modified: 7 September 2023
