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Downing Street hits out after Vance post about Henry Nowak
BBC ^ | Olivia Ireland, Bernd Debusmann, White House reporter, Iain Watson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 06/06/2026 12:39:19 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Two tier Kier is doing fine at dividing the people.

America is not helping or hurting his own efforts.


2 posted on 06/06/2026 12:59:14 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He spent a week hunting a mammoth, just because I said I was hungry. He's such a good friend. )
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To: RandFan

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?


3 posted on 06/06/2026 1:00:11 AM PDT by no2daylightsavings
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To: Jonty30

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.


4 posted on 06/06/2026 1:20:50 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Liberalism is a planetary religion.


5 posted on 06/06/2026 1:27:18 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He spent a week hunting a mammoth, just because I said I was hungry. He's such a good friend. )
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To: RandFan

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.”


6 posted on 06/06/2026 1:29:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: RandFan

JD Vance is right.


7 posted on 06/06/2026 1:35:18 AM PDT by Ken H (Freeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997)
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To: Jonty30

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 ....


8 posted on 06/06/2026 1:37:57 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Winston Churchill, rising out of his grave, seconds the comments of JD Vance.


9 posted on 06/06/2026 2:14:20 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: RandFan
Vance said Nowak had died "the same way a civilisation dies: abandoned and handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him".

That left a mark.

10 posted on 06/06/2026 2:46:38 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Organic Panic

Amen. Well said.


11 posted on 06/06/2026 2:54:19 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Organic Panic

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.


12 posted on 06/06/2026 2:56:58 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: RandFan
Starmer taking the knee for life long felon George Floyd. Plus sent 100 Labour activists to campaign for Kamala Harris. He's a good one to talk.

Keir Starmer kneeling for George Floyd
13 posted on 06/06/2026 2:58:17 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: RandFan

The BBC is the propaganda arm of the Labor Party.


14 posted on 06/06/2026 2:58:56 AM PDT by phil00071 (r itarianism.ā€ She will try to icle is incorrect. Almost all of the anti-semitism I’m the UK is co)
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To: Sirius Lee

That left a mark.

As it should.


15 posted on 06/06/2026 3:04:57 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SmokingJoe

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


16 posted on 06/06/2026 3:07:35 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: srmanuel

Reminds me of how Kanada blames the US for its problems šŸ˜‚


17 posted on 06/06/2026 3:15:05 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: RandFan

18 posted on 06/06/2026 3:22:43 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: no2daylightsavings

The UK sent over 100 Labour apparatchiks to screw with our last presidential election.

The UK’s Deep State can pound sand.


19 posted on 06/06/2026 3:36:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ)
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...the Nowak family had "said they do not want his death to be used to create further division".

Said a family afraid of their own government. It's like living under the rule of Henry VIII...only worse.

20 posted on 06/06/2026 3:37:16 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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