DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: We've imported yet another person who loathes UK

Labour’s decision to ‘repatriate’ anti-British extremist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to the UK, a place he openly despises, is the latest farce in the slow-motion collapse of British governance.

This is a man who publicly called British people ‘dogs and monkeys’ and our police ‘not human’. ‘They don’t have rights,’ he added. ‘We should just kill them all.’

A man who said he ‘seriously, seriously, seriously’ hates white people (in particular those of English, German, or Dutch descent).

And a man who proudly described himself as a ‘violent person’ who can’t get enough of the ‘heroic’ killing of ‘all Zionists, including civilians’.

‘I’m delighted,’ Keir Starmer purred on X, ‘that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief.’

Well, I’m glad someone is.

Let’s be clear, it’s not just Starmer who’s to blame for this.

The Labour Party, paralysed by its usual woke obsessions and bureaucratic incompetence, may be responsible for the latest stop on this double-decker clown bus tour, but it was the Tories who got the show on the road when they handed El-Fattah citizenship in 2021 – when he was still in jail in Egypt for protesting against the government there.

The fact is, this latest scandal is the product of two parties that have, in recent times, become one Uniparty of Chaos, resolutely incapable of governing in the interests of this country and its people.

From start to finish, this tale is infuriating but sadly unsurprising. Here is a man who has been granted citizenship, but who isn’t in any meaningful sense British, and to whom we therefore have no real responsibility.

Why? What value does he add? Nothing. All we’ve done is import yet one more person who tweets hatred, spouts poison and loathes the country that gave him a way out of his Middle East purgatory.

There is no upside here, only downside.

This was a decision made without foresight, common sense, or care for what Britain is. And yet, the Prime Minister thinks we should all celebrate his return.

But the real issue here isn’t a belligerent Egyptian troll. El-Fattah is not the cause but the effect of a much deeper malaise that has infected our politics for a long time.

People are so angry because the scandal of El-Fattah is the story of today’s Britain.

It’s the story of a battle between what might loosely be called ‘the Establishment’ and those who understand that deep and pervasive change is now our only chance to fix things.

On one side, firmly behind El-Fattah, is the usual gallery of ululating human-rights lawyers, bloviating NGO shysters and preening moral entrepreneurs.

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His campaign, we’re told, was ‘closely supported’ by the oleaginous Philippe Sands KC, a man who has spent much of the past year energetically handing over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and cultivating his colossal self-regard.

Alongside him is Agnes Callamard, ‘secretary-general’ of the long-discredited Amnesty International, who has gushed over El-Fattah’s return to the UK.

To complete the line-up is Starmer’s own all-powerful national ‘security’ adviser, Jonathan Powell, who, it has emerged, raised El-Fattah’s case directly with Badr Abdelatty, Egypt’s foreign minister, during a conversation at the end of April.

Opposing them is pretty much everyone who’s forced to live in the mess they’ve created: A country where activists masquerade as civil servants and narcissistic barristers push absurd agendas that enrage and divide.

We have a Government that is routinely bullied by people who would rather destroy Britain than contribute to it. That is reduced to a laughing stock because even the most basic vetting and common-sense decision-making has been abandoned in favour of dangerous gestures of moral display.

And we’re supposed to celebrate a political system that allows this kind of madness to not only exist but flourish?

Of course not. So let’s use this case to effect the change we need. To say, very simply, no more. It’s time to stop letting these people in.

If someone publicly rails against Britain, celebrates violence against civilians and calls for the murder of our police, why on earth would we want them here?

This isn’t about human rights or fairness. It is about defending our values and our way of life. Our political class has lost its way. It is so afraid of offending the ‘right’ people that it now regularly welcomes in the very worst.

Enough is enough. It’s time to take a stand beyond mere rhetoric.

It’s time to say clearly: We are here as a refuge for the small number of people fleeing for their lives, but not for every malcontent with an X addiction who loathes what we stand for.

We simply cannot afford to import yet more chaos into our country. We already have more than our fill.