Posted on 06/06/2026 12:39:19 AM PDT by RandFan
Downing Street has hit out at "people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division", after JD Vance's comments on the murder of Henry Nowak.
The US vice-president blamed the death of the 18-year-old British student, who was fatally stabbed last year in Southampton by Vickrum Digwa, on the "mass invasion of migrants" and said the "only response" was "righteous anger".
After the post on X, the Downing Street spokesman said the Nowak family had "said they do not want his death to be used to create further division".
"Our politics should bring people together even in the most terrible of circumstances. That is who we are as a country," the statement added.
Violent protests took place in Southampton on Tuesday following the release of bodycam footage which showed police handcuffing Nowak as he lay dying after Digwa falsely claimed to be the victim of a racist attack.
Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years after he used a 21cm (8in) blade he said he carried as part of his Sikh faith to kill Nowak, who was walking home alone after a night out with friends on 3 December.
In his post, Vance said Nowak had died "the same way a civilisation dies: abandoned and handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him".
The killing had been as "tragic as it is enraging" and Nowak, he said, would still be alive today "if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants".
The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that Digwa was born British.
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Two tier Kier is doing fine at dividing the people.
America is not helping or hurting his own efforts.
so it’s interfering when the US comments on a murder in one of our supposed allied nations, but it’s ok when the UK government calls trump a fascist piece of crap?
Let’s not forget how Starmer and the Labour Party reacted to the George Floyd situation; they all took a knee and participated in BLM protests in the UK.
Liberalism is a planetary religion.
Born British.
F that. He was still born of a trash culture that has invaded the UK, who hates all things UK and white. Just because some UK hating breeding cow from a third world s hole shat out a turd on UK soil doesn’t make one “British Born.”
JD Vance is right.
And Vance not allowed to have an opinion on Western culture or the fate of a Polish/Brit national.
This is “interfering”
Wrong. Vance can speak on it if he wants to.
Some people get accused of the reverse here ....
Winston Churchill, rising out of his grave, seconds the comments of JD Vance.
That left a mark.
Amen. Well said.
You can be arrested for a hate crime in Great Britain by stating a fact on race or nationality - however, the muslim immigrants have been able to groom, rape, traffic white British children and NOTHING was done about it for decades. They actually turned a blind eye to it.
England needs to take a seat and enjoy their culturally diverse shithole they created and welcomed.
The BBC is the propaganda arm of the Labor Party.
That left a mark.
As it should.
Yup seen it before
He also didn’t mention the case until he had to.
Meanwhile as you know I’d been posting about it and following for weeks.
Mr Vance is free to say what he wants
Reminds me of how Kanada blames the US for its problems š
The UK sent over 100 Labour apparatchiks to screw with our last presidential election.
The UK’s Deep State can pound sand.
Said a family afraid of their own government. It's like living under the rule of Henry VIII...only worse.
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