The More Deceived

When your local branch of Stand Up To Racism
Contacted you through the WhatsApp smartphone tree,
You cancelled your holiday in the Ukraine
(Where you’d planned to feed the starving refugees)
And went to the demonstration in Walthamstow
In your orange bib, keffiyeh and Palestine flag.
How you cheered, whistled, clapped your hands and waved
The Socialist Worker placard you’d been handed
When the Labour Party councillor from Dartford
Called on the crowd outside the Afghan Market
To ‘cut all the throats’ of the ‘Nazi fascists!’ —

As eight children, a grandfather and yoga teacher
Lay fighting for their lives (the other three had died
Of their knife wounds, their throats already cut)
In the hospitals closest to Southport.

And when the Essex Police Service escorted you
To the counter-demonstration in Epping Town
With a crew of masked-up Antifa dressed in black
Who stood side-by-side with the riot squad,
You shouted with the rest, ‘Refugees welcome!’
At the far-Right racists, Nazis and fascists
Who had assembled outside the Bell Hotel
Housing those fleeing Britain’s imperialist wars
Because an item of fake news had reported
In the Daily Fail or Elon Musk’s X account
That a refugee had raped one of their children

When, statistically, as you tried to explain
To the Reform racists and Islamophobes,
It’s more likely to have been a White man —
You screamed: ‘A working-class, wife-beating Englishman!’

And then, one summer’s night, it happened to you
As you took a short-cut through your local park
Slightly drunk from the first meeting of Your Party,
Where you’d joined the cis-women in a solemn vow
To welcome every refugee into your home.
And as you lay there under his sweating body
His dark hand pressed down hard across your open mouth
(Though you did your best not to scream too loud)
And the others stood around and laughed out loud
As they filmed you on the latest Apple smartphone
Before taking their turn inside you — they told you

(Though you’ve tried, you promise, your best to forget it,
And never, of course, thought of telling the police —
Cause All Cops Are Bastards  — or the Your Party comrades
Who’d have rightly expelled you for being a racist):

‘This is what White girls are for’.

— London, August 2025

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The title is a reference to a line in a 1951 poem by Philip Larkin about the rape of a woman, ‘Deceptions’, and which also supplied the title of the volume in which the poem was published, The Less Deceived (1955). Both my title and Larkin’s inversion is a line spoken by Ophelia in response to Hamlet telling her that he never loved her: ‘I was the more deceived’ (William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1600-01), Act 3, scene 1, l. 124.

Stand Up to Racism, a pro-immigrant, anti-British organisation financed by UK unions, is a sister organisation of the Socialist Workers Party, whose paper, Socialist Worker, writes the slogans and produces the thousands of placards used by its activists at the protests it organises. Its President is the second-generation Jamaican immigrant and Labour MP, Diane Abbott; and its Co-Chairmen include Talha Ahmad, the former Treasurer of the Muslim Council of Britain between 2016 and 2018.

The events in my poem refer to the counter demonstrations held by Stand Up To Racism in Walthamstow, East London, on 8 August 2024, at which the Labour Party Councillor, Ricky Jones, told the crowd to ‘cut all the throats’ of the British people who had demonstrated after the terrorist attack in Southport the previous week, where 3 children had been stabbed to death by a second-generation Rawandan immigrant and Al-Qaeda terrorist; and to the counter demonstrations held by the same organisation in Epping, North London, in July 2025, after local people had gathered to protest against the sexual assault on a woman and a 14-year-old child by Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, an Ethiopian man who had arrived illegally in the UK a week before, and was being housed, with hundreds of other illegal immigrants, in the Bell Hotel. The Bell Hotel is owned by Somani Hotels Ltd., under the directorship of Hassanali Karmali Alibhai Somani, who in April 2025 began using it to house illegal immigrants on Government contracts paid by the British taxpayer.

It was later established that Essex police had escorted both the Stand Up To Racism counter-protesters and masked Antifa (supposed Anti-fascists largely composed of under-cover police officers) to attack the protest, which was made up of local people, mothers, fathers and children concerned at their safety. As I publish this poem in October 2025, Mr. Kebatu has been released by police, who claim it was by ‘accident’.

In his Sentencing Note in the trial of the Southport terrorist, Axel Rudakubana, the High Court judge, Mr Justice Goose, summarised the murder of the three children as follows: ‘Elsie Stancombe was aged only 7 when Rudakubana inflicted at least 85 sharp force injuries to her head, face, neck, torso and upper limbs; severe force was used to cause her death. Bebe King was aged only 6 when he inflicted at least 122 sharp force injuries to her head, face, neck, torso and upper limbs. It was the opinion of Dr. Cieka, the Pathologist, that Rudakubana had tried to decapitate her. He concluded that severe force was used to kill her. Alice Da Silva Aguiar was aged 9 when he stabbed her, including a chop wound to her head and four stab wounds to her back, causing substantial internal injury. Although she managed to escape out of the building, she collapsed, and despite all medical help, she died in hospital at 1.20am the following day.’ For advocating the same, Ricky Jones was arrested but acquited of inciting violence in August 2025.

In July 2025, the Guardian newspaper reported that two in five of the 899 people arrested the previous summer for protesting against the terrorist attack in Southport had previously been reported for domestic abuse.

Cis, a Latin prefix meaning ‘on this side of’ — as in ‘Cisalpine’ to refer to the Italian side of the Alps — is used by the Left to designate women as distinct from the male transvestites they call ‘transwomen’, and is part of the lexicon of Newspeak with which they seek to transform reality in accord with the ideology of Woke. ‘All Cops Are Bastards’ is a slogan of the middle-class Left, shortened to ‘ACAB’ when printed on placards, sprayed on walls or worn on T-shirts. In July 2024, it was reported that, in addition to receiving free housing, food, medical care and dentistry, illegal immigrants arriving in Britain by small boat had also been given free smartphones by the charity Care4Calais.

Your Party was founded in 2025 with Jeremy Corbyn as its Leader. However, its current directors are Zarah Sultana, the Pakistani Muslim MP for Coventry South, who in September this year described the 1 million-plus Britons who attended the Unite the Kingdom march as ‘fascists’, ‘racists’ and ‘Islamophobes’, and declared that the UK belongs to everyone who comes here, legally or illegally; Ayoub Khan, the Pakistani Muslim born in Pakistan and MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, who in February 2025 tabled a motion in Parliament to make a visa scheme for Palestinians with family ties in the UK that will allow them to move here and claim housing and benefits paid with the taxes of British citizens; Adnan Hussain, the Pakistani Muslim MP for Blackburn, who in June 2025 described the call to ban the cruel and to British eyes barbaric practice of Halal animal slaughter in the UK as a ‘dog whistle for xenophobia’ and compared it to policies in ‘Nazi Germany’; Iqbal Mohamed, the Indian Muslim and MP for Dewsbury and Batley, who in December 2024 argued against a proposed Bill to ban marriages between first cousins among Pakistanis and other Muslims that promote this practice in the UK; and Shockat Adam, a Muslim of Gujarati descent who was born in Malawi and is MP for Leicester South, who last year argued for the appointment of a government adviser on anti-Muslim hate (including characterising Muslims as ‘sex-groomers’) and for a definition of Islamophobia to be adopted in the UK, effectively criminalising criticism of Islam.

Raja Miah, MBE, the former government advisor, political campaigner and whistleblower, has made a ‘conservative’ estimate that 100,000 underage English girls have been groomed by largely Pakistani Muslim rape gangs; but other estimates are that 250,000 underage girls have been victims of this programme of mass rape, which goes back to the 1980s, 500,000 or even a million. Smartphones have repeatedly been used by the perpetrators to record the rapes and advertise the commercial availability of the victims to other rapists.

This year it was reported by Hydrant, the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce, that Pakistanis, who in 2021 made up 2.7 percent of the population of the UK, were responsible for 12.9 percent of all group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes (i.e. grooming and rape of minors) in 2024. In the trial of Sageer Hussain, Kessur Ajaib and Mohammed Makhmood, all Pakistani Muslims living in Britain, that was held in Sheffield Crown Court in July 2025, on charges of repeatedly raping an English girl aged 13-15 in Rotherham between 1999 and 2002, the victim told the court that Hussain had told her ‘this is what white girls are for’. In their literature for activists, Stand Up To Racism call the legal evidence of this programme of mass rape, including the testimony of the victims, ‘far-Right lies’ that ‘promote racism, Islamophobia, and division’.