Time to read the riot act but not in black and white.

As predictable as the tide the extreme right of British politics are quick to jump on the race bandwagon as an excuse for the ongoing riots in London and other cities. “Look they are all black see, send them all home” they scream from the hate filled web sites.

Such short memories they have if one casts back to the student loans protest of 2010 where the offenders were predominantly white and I didn’t hear any BNP supporter calling for all white students to be sent packing.

Adam Walker of the BNP states. “Although the news channels are hard at work portraying the perpetrators of these crimes as the victims, wheeling out black ‘community representatives’ who blame the ‘racist’ white police for black violence, the truth is that this is just the latest battle in the immigrant-on-indigenous war forced upon this country by those who aid and abet mass immigration.”

Wrong Mr Walker, you are not watching the same news channels as I am and I watch them all, except BNP news. There is no calling the perpetrators victims and no-one is blaming racist white police but it suits your agenda to pretend they are.

Let’s get things into perspective. The riots in Tottenham were started because the police shot a black man. Why and how will come out later at an inquiry as it always does but this started it all off. It is because the area is predominantly occupied by black people that it was black people rioting. Had it been a white man shot in a white occupied area I am sure the chances of a white riot would have been the same. Later riots throughout the cities were carried out by young people black and white with no respect for authority or other people’s property. They are merely copy cat riots urged on by social networking.

Equally black people were also the victims of the riots and black community leaders rather than calling their people victims were calling for stronger policing.

It is a battle of good and bad. White, black and Asian communities have their fair share of both but I am glad to say that all have a majority of good on their side. It is the vociferous minority that attract attention while the silent good goes by un-noticed.

The Freedom Democrats condemn the rioters but not because the majority appear black but because they are criminal. We also offer our sympathy to the victims black and white who have been hurt or lost property in these troubles. We also condemn the rhetoric of the far right who offer nothing to British politics other than to stir up racial tensions where they did not exist.

We have one criticism of the policing, it is too soft. Understandably though as a left wing liberal media is quick to condemn them for so much as raising a baton in the past and with the threat of the sack and/or court action and compensation if just one criminal receives a bump on the head. We fully support the use of water cannon, CS gas and if need be baton rounds and night time curfews.

Finally we call on the courts to use their maximum powers of sentencing to send these criminals to prison for a very long time.