The violent unrest following Monday’s stabbing in Belfast has led to a wave of attacks. But our politicians, both left and right, should have seen it coming.

When the UK’s governing class dehumanise black Africans and Asians fleeing torture and murder, why are they surprised when this spreads to the streets? The horrific assault on Monday night, carried out by a Sudanese refugee given leave to remain, has triggered a depressingly predictable cycle of events.

There have already been hundreds of brutal assaults and murders this year throughout Britain perpetrated by mainly white UK citizens. In parts of London, knife murders by young men have become a societal crisis.

Rapes and sexual assaults are routinely committed each year by British citizens, while our prison population reflects a gangland drugs epidemic, mainly organised by UK-based criminal gangs. Yet, when a non-UK black man commits a serious crime, it’s time to stop the boats, close the “porous” Irish border and roam the streets hunting down black people.

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The masked gangs who took to the streets of Belfast this week in “protest” about the knife attack in the Kinnaird Avenue area were enraged by the suspect’s ethnicity as much as by the assault itself, they claim.

Of course, you can factor in the faux liberals’ chaotic asylum system and the way that they also appear to dehumanise anyone who asks questions about this. And it’s........

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