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Southport Atrocity Fallout: Did Silence From Starmer and Police Fuel the Riots?

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Jon Gaunt

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Southport Atrocity Fallout: Did Silence From Starmer and Police Fuel the Riots?

 #SouthportRiots #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics #PoliceAccountability #FreedomOfSpeech

In the aftermath of the Southport atrocity and the violent unrest that followed, a growing number of voices—including legal experts and counter-terrorism advisors—are questioning whether the government's lack of transparency helped ignite the very violence it aimed to prevent.

Jon Gaunt examines: • The official report from the Chief Inspector of Constabulary. • Criticism of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s crisis response. • The role of misinformation and the consequences of an information vacuum. • Public perceptions of policing bias—and why they matter. • Allegations of unfair imprisonment and tragic consequences.

Jon Gaunt also proposes constructive steps forward, including a review of prosecutions, a public inquiry into the communications failure, and reforms to police disclosure protocols. This is a sensitive and complex topic, handled with care and respect. The goal is not to inflame but to inform—and to ask whether government caution actually made things worse.

🕊️ Let’s have the conversation others are avoiding.

📌 Chapters: 0:00 – Introduction 1:12 – The Atrocity and What Was Known 3:05 – Starmer's Early Comments and Public Reaction 4:50 – Misinformation and the Riots 6:30 – Were Sentences Just? 7:45 – Perception of Bias in Policing 9:00 – What Needs to Change 10:20 – Final Thoughts

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0:00.0

Hi, good afternoon. Welcome to the John Gaunt podcast. The title today, Southport

0:08.2

Atrocity Fallout, did silence from Kirstama and the police fuel the riots or add to the riots.

0:17.4

It's a very controversial subject and in the aftermath of that Southport atrocity and the violent unrest that followed a growing number of voices, not just me, but lots of people, including legal experts and counterterrorism advisors, are questioning whether the government's lack of transparency

0:37.5

helped to ignite the very violence they aimed to prevent.

0:44.3

Now, I'm sure you've got a view on this.

0:46.0

Try and keep it polite, if you can,

0:48.3

because it is such a sensitive subject.

0:50.9

This video will examine the official report

0:53.8

that came out yesterday or the day before

0:55.8

from the chief inspector of constabulary. Some people are trying to blame the police.

1:01.0

He's not having it. Criticism of Prime Minister Kirstama's crisis response. Now I know a lot of you

1:08.1

share my criticism that he didn't help matters.

1:12.5

The role of misinformation and the consequences of the information vacuum that Stama and

1:19.8

Yvette Cooper created.

1:21.8

Public perception of policing bias and why that matters.

1:26.2

A lot of white working class people seem to think that people of

1:29.9

colour got treated differently.

1:33.1

I would imagine people of colour think that white people do as well.

1:36.8

But it's a perception it's got to be spoken about.

1:39.8

Allegations of unfair imprisonment and the tragic consequences,

1:48.2

including the man who committed suicide in prison.

1:58.1

I'll also propose some constructive steps forward so these things hopefully never happen again, including a review of prosecutions.

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