Britain's Sectarian Surrender

Jim Chimirie

November 6, 2025

There's a point in every declining nation when the mask slips and the truth shows itself in plain view.

Bonfire Night did that. Not with flames, but with fear. What happened in Birmingham and Liverpool wasn't "youth disorder" or "seasonal mischief." It was a glimpse of a country bending to a sectarian force it no longer dares to confront.

Fireworks were thrown at police as if they were invaders. Officers ducked behind shields on a night that once belonged to families and civic pride. A police van took a volley of pyrotechnics as it reversed, not in control but in retreat.

And in Liverpool, a block of flats was set alight before the emergency services arrived to yet more attacks. This wasn't chaos. It was contempt – the belief that the state is weak enough to push back without consequence. Look at where it happened. Not the Cotswolds. Not Cornwall. But in Birmingham. Liverpool. Places where a large and assertive Muslim population, mixed with a political class terrified of plain truths, has created a new moral landscape.

These incidents weren't random; they were predictable. They were the product of a culture that sees British authority as something to taunt, not respect – and a leadership that has taught the police to tiptoe, appease and avoid naming the cause. And then came the news that schools in Birmingham were closing early. Not because of snow. Not because of a bomb threat, but because a football match has become the latest stage for the Leftist-Islamist alliance to flex its muscle.

Pro-Palestine activists, Islamists, and every kind of street opportunist are gearing up to turn a sporting fixture into a sectarian battleground. In any country with its nerve intact, the police would brace and the schools would stay open. In Birmingham, they bolt the doors. That isn't public order – it's capitulation. What lies underneath is simple.

A city that once took pride in its industrial grit is now contorting itself around imported tension – sectarian heat brought from abroad, nurtured here by activists, and magnified by the Left-Islamist alliance that has colonised civic life.

One side supplies the numbers. The other supplies the rhetoric. Together, they create a pressure that institutions no longer dare challenge. The result is plain: Jews can't safely attend a football match; children are sent home early; and whole neighbourhoods become no-go zones for honest policing.

It's no accident that the state is fiercest with the soft targets – pensioners holding signs, Jews wearing the Star of David, drivers caught at twenty-eight in a twenty – and weakest with the blocs that might push back.

We saw police kneel before BLM. We saw them escort pro-Hamas marchers through London as they chanted hatred on our streets. But when it comes to the one group guaranteed to turn disorder into intimidation, they liaise, they observe, they advise schools to shut their doors. Britain didn't become violent.

Certain places did. And those places share the same fault-line: an imported tribal politics that has taken root because our leaders lack the spine to name it. Fireworks thrown at police are just the surface. The real danger is deeper – a country that now shapes its public life around the tantrums of one community while expecting the rest of us to pretend this is normal.

Birmingham didn't flare up by chance. It flared because the state blinked. It blinked again when it closed the schools. It will blink again the next time a mob decides what may or may not take place in its streets.

A free country can't live like this. Not for long.

© Jim Chimirie 2025

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