GB News‘ regular programming was interrupted as presenter Nana Akua discussed the violence which erupted across Belfast after protests after a knife attack. Buses, cars and homes were set alight by masked thugs after police charged a 30-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan with attempted murder. This was in connection with an attack in north Belfast on Monday (June 8) that left a man critically injured and sparked widespread shock. On the show, Nana was joined by commentators Josh Howie and Cristo Foufas as he stated: “A lot of the politicians and their almost blind to what is happening and lack of will to want to do anything about this terrible and illegal migration.

“All these back doors that people can use, and the fact that a lot of these illegal migrants, they all know the rules … they knew how to get to the countries. Nana continued: “It’s a racket of people, and the Government don’t seem to have the want to do anything about it, no wonder people are angry. I don’t want my money spent on asylum hotels where they can walk out and do what they like.”

Josh responded: “People are absolutely rightly furious because the different governments of the day have ignored this; they are being voted in to deal with this, and each one has consecutively not done it.

“Of course there’s been these loopholes, of course we’ve seen tax money spent, of course we’ve seen violence come out becasue of this, of course no one has taken the real action necessary to deal with any of it.”

The political commentator added: “When they talk about divisiveness, that is divisiveness that has been created from the political class of this country.”

Cristo agreed: “That is absolutely the division, and no one wants to admit it. If you are someone that has done the right thing, paid your taxes, but voted for the successive governments that have repeated promises to sort this problem for the last 30 years, no wonder you are now furious.

“Righteous fury, angry fury, whatever kind of fury you might have … that is what is complained about, rather than the actual problem that people are angry about

This comes after Northern Ireland’s First minister, Michelle O’Neill, condemned the violence, labelling them “dangerous attempts to exploit” the attack.

In a social media post, she said: “Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice. This has nothing to do with community. This is outright thuggery.”

Earlier, O’Neill urged the public not to be persuaded by social media accounts to start causing disorder: “For all of those people out there who are stoking up tensions in that social media space, who are happy to raise tensions, they do not represent us.

“We are good people, and I don’t want to see anybody living in fear.”

Tommy Robinson was among those who encouraged people to take to the streets after sharing the video of the Belfast attack and called for protests in central London and elsewhere in the UK.