Once upon a time, London felt a safe place to live. People could leave their front door unlocked and walk the streets without feeling threatened. But things have changed. Violence is an all-too-common occurrence.

On Saturday 30 th December, armed and violent Eritrean and Ethiopian immigrants attacked each other in Camberwell Road in Southwark, in southeast London. There is video footage of hysterical protesters wielding sticks battling with police and throwing objects at them. Riot vans and batons were needed to restore order. A section 35 dispersal order was imposed for up to 48 hours.

The protests concerned a third-world dispute which revolves around Ethiopia’s claim to regain access to the Red Sea after losing it in 1991 when Eritrea became independent. Half-a-million people are estimated to have died in the Tigray War which started in 2020. In November 2022, the two countries signed a peace deal to end the war but the dispute continues.

Those committing criminal acts to bring violence to our streets should be deported. None of this is relevant to the natives of the UK, the natives of London or to the London police force. It is NOT our war.

Successive governments’ immigration policies have failed and led to too many new people arriving with alien values and incompatible cultures. Third world disputes, customs and traditions have no place in the UK. These serious disturbances are proof that we have stark problems with immigrants in the UK, principally in London.

The UK Independence Party believes multiculturalism results in divisive, parallel communities where minority communities have values and customs that conflict with British ones. Successive governments have been too slow to act and the whole mess is now completely out of hand.

The UK Independence Party rejects the importation of third world values, because allowing them to take root means that the UK would end up like the third world. The UK Independence Party will send these people go back to their own countries so that they can protest there rather than pursue their third-world disputes in our once peaceful country.

We do not want this anti-social behaviour on our streets. But the Conservative Home Office is doing nothing to prevent it.

The UK Independence Party will end the madness. We will have zero tolerance and we will deport foreign criminals who attack our police and who bring unwanted ethnic violence to the streets of London.

Steve Grimes

UK Independence Party - Spokesman for Business, Foreign Affairs and Culture