GB News host Martin Daubney furiously shut down former Labour Special Adviser John McTernan after he branded all rioters as “racist”.
In a heated debate on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s handling of the recent UK riots, Martin told McTernan that his claim was “utterly contemptible”.
In the days following the street violence, which was sparked by a knife attack in Southport, Starmer condemned the riots as “far-right thuggery”.
Backing the Labour leader, McTernan said Britons are being “rightly sent to prison” for being “racist rioters” across the country.
Martin Daubney condemned McTernan’s claimed as ‘utterly contemptible’
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Hitting back at McTernan, Martin scolded his remark and made clear that only “a few individuals” were jailed for “racist” actions towards a community in Rotherham.
Martin fumed: “Sir Keir Starmer was characterising the whole riots as racist riots, that’s been part of the backlash. There’s a feeling that anybody who’s complained about the causes behind these riots potentially has been branded as racist.
“When the riots happened in 2011 in Tottenham, Keir Starmer was in charge of banging people up. But there was also a conversation about the frustrations and the reasons behind it. Do you think that’s going to happen under this Prime Minister with the white working classes or not?”
McTernan responded: “Your suggestion which is beneath that the racist rioters were in some way expressing anything on behalf of the white working class of Britain, I totally disagree with that.
Rioting broke out across the UK following a knife attack in Southport in July
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“I think it’s extraordinary that you think that racist rioters who tried to burn people were saying something.”
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Martin was in disbelief at McTernan’s argument, grilling the former adviser: “You keep calling them racist riots – so everybody who took part was a racist?”
McTernan stood firm on his claim, hitting back: “We have a huge issue in Britain, because there’s a minority of people who refuse, who refuse to accept that we are a multi-faith, multi-ethnic society, and those white racist rioters deserve to be met with the full force of law.”
Martin was outraged as the interview descended into a blistering debate: “Do you think that people who come into the United Kingdom and refuse to integrate in terms of speaking the language, or living in silos aside from wider society are also a problem, or is it just the white people looking in? Does this go every way or is it just white people that are a problem?”
McTernan replied: “I’m telling you the integration problem is white people who refuse to accept that we are a multiethnic, multi-faith society. These white people who decide to show us what they think of our country, of our norms by attacking police and riots.
“They’ll show us what they think by trying to burn people alive because they’re brown. These are the people who don’t integrate, and they need to first be dealt with, and then they need to be taught a way to integrate into the norms of 21st century UK.”
John McTernan claimed all rioters are ‘racist’ and that white people ‘do not accept that we are a multi-faith society’
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McTernan then claimed that the “white working class” had not expressed “any legitimate concerns” in regard to the riots.
He told GB News: “The notion that there are any legitimate concerns being expressed by racist rioters is utterly untrue, and their actions should be condemned, and the notion that they represent or speak for anybody is the most condescending thing that I’ve ever heard expressed about the white working class.”
Martin was infuriated by McTernan, hitting back: “I think as a member of the white working class who grew up a proud member of the white working class, to hear you saying that anybody who took part in those riots is racist, I think is ultimately contemptible.
“How can you say that? Everybody who took part in that shared the sentiments of a tiny minority who deserved to be jailed? You would never say that about the Tottenham riots, would you? You would never say that. Absolutely astonishing that you think that anybody who goes on a riot is racist.”
