DEMONSTRATIONS that claim to be in support of Palestinians amount to “performative narcissism”, according to Rear Admiral Chris Parry.
The former Royal Navy officer told GB News: “The fact of life is if you’re taking down posters of people who are being held hostage by a terrorist organisation, then you’re supporting the actions of that terrorist organisation by denying those hostages publicity.
“Similarly, at Liverpool Street Station, I was there last night, it was impossible to move across. I saw disabled people unable to get to the trains because of this performative narcissism by these people.
“As you saw with the mice, we’ve got everything going there, cruelty against animals, disrupting the public, disrupting our infrastructure.
“We’ve got a country that needs to get back on its feet, we need to be productive, and we’ve got all these idle hands with nothing better to do than mess up other people’s lives.”
In a discussion with Patrick Christys, he continued: “I think the problem is that the police do have a difficult job and I think they probably said, ‘look, we need to de-escalate some of these big mob events, because we could have more violence, we could have more offences being committed if we confronted it’.
“They’ve taken the line of least resistance. They’ve always said that on social media they’re looking for offences after the event, rather than while it’s taking place.
“I’m afraid the message is going out that if you want to commit offences in this country, you go mob handed.”
He added: “We’ve seen in the United States, if you go in a mob and shoplift, nobody stops you. And it seems to me that if you go in large numbers of people in a crowd, nobody’s going to stop you committing offences which are against the law.”
