Set high above the rest of London on a couple of hills, Hampstead and Highgate are the parts of London favoured by the UK's elite media class. This is where you will find journalists and producers for the BBC and their familes/ transgender partners residing in leafy urban splendour.
Naturally the place is an almost total Whitopia and thus an ideal place for Leftist media types to signal their strong support for multiculturalism and the ethnic "enrichment" that has swallowed up the rest of London, without having to deal with the chaotic consequences.
Now it appears that, at long last, even these bastions of White privilege and Left-wing moral posturing are starting to enjoy the same wonderful "blessings of diversity" they have helped foist on the rest of the country, with reports of a string of "informal asset transfers" involving enterprising youths from "underprivileged ethnic communities."
As reported by the Ham&High, the local paper that makes its money advertising properties selling in the millions:
A teenage gang threatened to stab a man before robbing him of his bag, wallet and mobile phone in a crime spree that continues to plague Highgate’s streets. The victim was walking in The Park, Highgate, last Sunday night when four men pushed him to the ground, slapped him and made their threat. The gang then fled in the direction of Highgate Village according to safer neighbourhood officers’ monthly newsletter.
The robbery is one of seven to hit Highgate last month.
A gang of youths aged 16 to 20 threatened a man with a knife in Winchester Road on January 4 at 7.40pm. The suspects, dressed in black, pushed him and snatched an iPhone 6s and two bank cards after ordering him to empty his pockets. Fifteen minutes later the same gang punched another victim as he tried to escape after the gang took his coat, bank card and phone in Milton Park, the newsletter states.
A fourth victim was walking in Langdon Park Road when six teens aged 17 to 19-years-old threatened him, taking his phone and bank cards at about 7pm.
A fifth victim narrowly escaped a week later after five men pushed and threatened him in Archway Road. The gang fled after a member of the public stepped in.
Highgate resident Kirat Nandra said crime was becoming more violent and frightening.
“Not enough is being done to stop our streets being ruled by thugs. Moped crime has been replaced by youths on foot intimidating others with weapons and the threat of violence.
“It is a huge concern. How and when will this end?” she added.
In a sixth incident near The Woodman pub a man disturbed three suspects trying to steal his bike. They threatened to stab him before another member of the public intervened.
The attacks follow the mugging of a schoolboy as he waited for a bus in Hampstead Lane on January 24. He handed over his phone after two youths aged 16 to 20 with faces covered threatened him saying they had a weapon.
This really is tragic and sad, but of course the good residents of Highgate and Hampstead can always take solace from the wise words of London's Mayor Sadiq Khan about terrorism, and look on these thrilling and enrichening encounters as "part and parcel" of life in a big multicultural city.
In other news, Enoch Powell, the most prescient politician of the post-war period, who warned of the dangers of multiculturalism in his famous "Rivers of Blood" speech in 1968 is being denied a blue commemorative plaque in his former parliamentary seat of Wolverhampton.
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