Why Was The Golders Green Attacker Given UK CITIZENSHIP!? | Alan Mendoza

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Right now though, we're going to talk to Alan Mendoza, who's from the Henry Jackson Society, of course, um and a man who knows a thing or two about um this the state of play in this country. Alan, a very good morning to you.

[00:00:12]>> Good morning, Mike.

[00:00:13]>> Good to see you. Um obviously very somber uh start to the show this morning because of what happened in Gold's Green yesterday. I mean, strangely enough, um, and I was saying this earlier, I was literally recording a podcast, uh, with a guy who, um, uh, we've had on the show several times, uh, by, uh, by the name of Ariel. Um, his name is, uh, what's his last name? Ariel Whitman, uh, who's I guess what you describe as a as a as a sort of right-wing Israeli podcaster.

[00:00:41]And we were, funnily enough, talking about Golders Green. And I said to him, you know, the trouble is there are people now living in Gold's Green, a place that I know very well cuz I grew up very close to that in many decades ago. Um Jewish neighborhood, but people live in fear there. And sure enough, about an hour after we finished the podcast, he messaged me and said, "I can't believe you said what you said because now somebody's been stabbed there and this maniac has gone on the rampage." And my first question when I saw the story yesterday when it said that this man was from Somalia but he was a British national was who the hell made him a British national and why is he a British national and can we please resend that and kick him the hell out of the country?

[00:01:21]Well you ask a good point Mike. I mean his part of the problem isn't it? We now have a situation where um in certainly in the case of antise-semitism, a lot of it has been imported over the past 40 years by people who've been brought into this country uh who don't share the value of this country who have been failed they failed to integrate largely because there's been no integration policy. They were told come in and do what you want basically your value your your values are as good as our values.

[00:01:47]uh multiculturalism, whatever you believe is great as far as we're concerned. And it's been a total failure to understand what's happened long term to this country. And the demographic change is now reaping its uh whirlwind on the streets of Britain. It is fundamentally unacceptable, as you have obviously pointed out, for any uh citizen going about their law-abiding business to feel that they are terrified to walk on our streets. The only people who should be fearful of walking on our streets are criminals, terrorists, and the like. And that is the inversion that we need to achieve and we're not anywhere near that right now.

[00:02:21]>> No. And I mean if you look at it and I think we can play this again. Shall we play the Kama clip? Um um because when you see the way the prime minister reacts to this kind of thing, you know why um it's happening. Have a look.

[00:02:33]Well, I've just held a COBRA meeting bringing together all the relevant partners um including the home secretary, uh the London mayor, the Metropolitan Commissioner, uh to coordinate our response, um and to look at enhanced security. I've also spoken to CST. There is enhanced funding already in place. Uh we need to increase that to give the level of protection that is needed. But of course um it's our responsibility um to coordinate the immediate response here to uh this appalling attack to ensure security is in place to take other measures. Um I'm holding a meeting tomorrow with the criminal justice agencies to make sure that we can have effective and swift justice uh in these um cases. But we do have to recognize the levels of anxiety and concern uh there are that I know about um in terms of the Jewish community feeling very much um exposed and vulnerable feeling they've got to hide their identity sometimes in the health service sometimes at school on the streets where they live. Um and it's our job to make sure that they feel safe um secure. It's our job uh to uh make sure that we absolutely deal with the roots of anti-semitism and extremism.

[00:03:51]That is what we will do.

[00:03:53]I mean you can't hold meetings to stop extremism can you? It doesn't work. You know you need to stop the extremism at the core of where it starts which is i.e. don't let these bloody extremists into the country in the first place.

[00:04:05]>> Well absolutely step one don't do that and actually we frankly have to start conceptualizing and understanding ways we can remove the ones who are here >> and get rid of them as well.

[00:04:16]>> Yeah.

[00:04:16]>> You know this is the 21st century Mike.

[00:04:18]You know we're in the middle of the 21st century now. Our conceptualization of citizenship in this country was derived from a period when it was entirely inconceivable that anybody could move to the UK or want to live here and not buy into the fundamental values of the society here, of the British people and of what the national identity was. There was a there was a sense of this was impossible. If you were coming here, of course, you would buy into it. You you would want to be you'd want to buy into it. What we now have are large swaves of uh the country where people do not believe in the values of Britain uh historical values of Britain. They want to reshape our society to be more like the societies they have come from elsewhere.

[00:04:56]>> That tells you something's wrong with our idea of what it is to be a British citizen today. And until we address that part, we will have continuations of this going on and on and on.

[00:05:05]>> Right? Because you have to ask the question, I mean, we don't know this guy's name. All we know is he's from Somalia. Um but how many more of him uh and his ilk are there here? And I would imagine the answer to that is is sort of legion.

[00:05:18]>> Yeah. And here here's your point. So that there you know there are many people of course and now fortunately most people who hold even reprehensible views do not act on them. But only the small number of people as we're starting to see who are willing to do so. And suddenly you end up having chaos on Britain streets week in week out.

[00:05:35]Attacks attacks attacks. And anyone who thinks, by the way, this is going to end with the Jews is mad. Uh there is a long history of what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. And there is no anti-semat in history who's gone, right, I've dealt with the Jews. I'm satisfied now. Let's get on with life.

[00:05:51]They always move on to the next target.

[00:05:53]>> Yeah. And that is the problem. But again, I mean, will there be any investigation as to how this man's nationality was determined? You know, who gave him British nationality? Why was he given British nationality? What questions were asked before he was given British nationality? You know, what's the process? How the hell uh is it working?

[00:06:11]>> Yes. Well, exactly. All these questions need to be asked. We've got to get to a point where um we are uh investigating how bad decisions have been made, the conditions within which they were made, who made the decisions, of course, what criteria they were using, and then we need to extrapolate from that what other bad decisions have been made we don't know about yet. Yeah.

[00:06:29]>> And as you pointed out a moment ago, there were probably many other people in a very similar position to him. Well, isn't it time we investigated what on earth had gone on in the migration and citizenship sort of path to things? And are we then going to be able to have some answers on that and crucially action to stop it happening? Again, this is where we need to be at as a country.

[00:06:49]It's baffling to me and I'm sure to you and to everyone listening that we can be in a situation where none of us know the answers to these questions.

[00:06:55]>> Yeah, I know. It is absolutely shocking.

[00:06:57]Alan, great to see you. Thank you very much indeed. Alam Mendoza there from the Henry Jackson Society. Um he's tweeted out um previously to this um people who reject our national ideals or who subscribe to an alien religious ideology that is incompatible with life in a 21st century liberal democracy need to be removed from this country. There is no other solution. And those who tell you there is is lying either because they can be they can't bear to admit the truth or because they are ideologically part of the problem. Um, and of course we see the picture, uh, it's on the front pages this morning, uh, of this character whose name I don't think we quite know yet, but who's from Somalia and who, as we pointed out, was given British nationality at some point in recent history. Nobody really knows why or what it's all about, but I'm delighted to say that we are joined in the studio by Laya Cunningham. Very nice to see you. Welcome to the new home of the Mike Graham Show. Fantastic home.

[00:07:47]Um, thank you for coming in. Um, this is obviously the story of the day, the story that we're we're sort of focused on this morning. It's it's it's a terrible sad story. Um, but it's but it's a terrible indictment, is it not, of our sort of our own government and our culture and how we've allowed this all to happen? As I say, my main question this morning has been >> when I found out that this guy was a British national, it was like, well, who gave him British nationality and and what was the qualification process and how did and how many more of these guys are there? Well, you know, it you get you you're British after a certain amount of time in this country. That's the problem. You know, it's a time limit as opposed to >> you don't you don't qualify necessarily for it. You know, at the same >> you just become it.

[00:08:28]>> You just become it. And I think that's the