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I'll tell you who is outrageous. Cross live to Millbank Tower in London to Reform HQ. Nigel Farage has been speaking. Good morning. It's a moment to take a long, hard look at ourselves as a country and what we've become. The murder of 18-year-old student Henry Novak was bad enough of itself, but compounded in the most extraordinary way by the behavior of the police officers. Many of us have asked for the footage to be released, and finally last night it was. Let me show you just 30 seconds of what happened on that fateful evening in Southampton.
I've been stabbed. All right, let's get you out of there, shall we? I was in bed asleep. He's been stabbed. I can't breathe. He was having a laugh. Help. He's got blood on He come running around the corner. What happened to you, all right? You've been stabbed. Whereabouts? I don't think you have, mate. Just think of it. An 18-year-old lad, a student, been out with some friends for the evening, on the way home, and victim of a sustained attack.
Stabbed several times, chased down the street. Stabbed seriously five times. And what happens? Well, the assailant's brother rings the police to say, "We've just been racially attacked and abused by a white guy." The sirens blare. They arrive. Young Henry must have thought that at last help was at hand, but far, far from it. The police act from the beginning to the end, and the end when he dies, lying on a pavement, having been stabbed, in handcuffs, the last thing he heard on this earth was him being read his rights by the police. He was actually treated in a way that meant an accusation of a racial slur was treated more seriously than an act of murder.
What does he say? I can't breathe. Familiar words? Remember career criminal George Floyd who died in appalling circumstances mid in Midwest America a few years ago. Remember the reaction to that and the way the police behaved. Within a few days, Keir Starmer was taking the knee. Black Lives Matter is exploded all over the country. Churchill's statue was defaced, the cenotaph was vandalized. And yet, what has the public reaction been from our leaders and politicians and indeed, to be frank, much of the media to this? Silence. Absolute silence. Proof, if ever there was any, that we're living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.
Now, what has happened over the last few decades is, without anybody being asked, without anybody ever voting for it, we've been subjected to mass immigration on a scale that is truly unbelievable. At least 10 million new people have come to Britain in the last 20 years. And let's be clear, many of them are great people who work hard, have integrated, and made their lives here. But far too many that have come have refused to integrate, are leading parallel lives, and leaving many of our cities almost culturally unrecognizable from what they've always been. But to stop any criticism of this, we brought in hate speech laws. We brought in a DEI agenda. We brought in what is called positive discrimination in favor of ethnic minorities over those
of white people whose families have lived in Britain in many cases for centuries. That is the mess that we've got into. And that is why in some ways what happened and despite the appalling behavior of those police officers, but in some ways what happened on that night in Southampton perhaps shouldn't be a surprise in two-tier Britain. Allison Pearson, journalist on the Daily Telegraph, received yesterday an email from an experienced, long-serving Hampshire police officer. In it he makes perfectly clear that the police are told that they must respond to situations in different ways according to the ethnicity of those involved in the crime or potential crime. He also describes how a DEI agenda has gone so far through
the police that people now get promoted not on the basis of merit, not on the basis of ability, but on the basis of what their racial or religious origin is. That has led to a decline in policing standards, but think of this. Much as we may condemn the two police officers involved here, think of this. The biggest fear a police officer now has going about his or her duty on the street is the fear of being reported for having acted in a way that was racially biased. That fear now greater than dealing with a dying man lying on the ground. Henry's family have responded to this in just the most extraordinarily dignified way. But I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure cold rage.
This is wrong. All the values and standards of living in a free country, where everybody is judged equally before the law, have been trashed and thrown away. And there are one or two things that need to happen very quickly. The first is that the police complaints operation, the IOPC, needs to get to the bottom of this and produce a report very, very quickly. Secondly, even through the sentencing, the sentence given was actually lower than the recommended minimum for a sustained, aggressive, murderous assault. And I'll be writing today to the Attorney General asking him to review the sentence.
But the most important thing that needs to change, that has to change, if our society is not to be ripped apart, where communities start to distrust each other and deeply distrust the police and all the other institutions of this country, is we need a change in culture. Enough of anti-white prejudice. A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination, but a country that treats everybody equally and fairly before the law. This is serious. This is urgent. I fear for where our society will be in a few short years if we don't grip this and do it very, very quickly.
I want to send my sincerest condolences, the country's sincerest condolences to Henry's family. I hope this is the last time a British police force operates in this way. But the fish rots from the head down. It is up to government and police chiefs to change this culture and to start that process today. Thank you. Um the one thing that I try and do on Talk Breakfast is be honest with you through good and bad. Um this is not a political comment. This is a human comment. [snorts] When you listen to Farage there, how prime ministerial does he sound? Completely ad-libs and says the things that each and every person, literally, that's texted, emailed, and called this show has spoken about.
The horror of an 18-year-old being left to die whilst ideologically trained police worry that a man's using the racism card whilst a kid's being handcuffed. The world to many of us has gone nuts and whatever your political views, you had to listen to that and think, yeah, finger on the pulse, totally, totally at point, not scared to say things that might upset people. You know why they upset people? Cuz they're true and a lot of people do not like the truth. We're going to try and get Nigel live in the next hour and a half. I know he's busy. We're going to try and do that. Uh loads of response to that and so much more on the show. 0344 409 1000 Talk Breakfast.
