LBC Presenter Nails Exactly Why Online Response To Mass Train Stabbing Is So 'Disturbing'

Lewis Goodall on LBCLewis Goodall furiously criticised the “disturbing” online response to the mass train stabbing last night.A 32-year-old British man of Caribbean descent, Anthony Williams, has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and one count of actual bodily harm following a mass attack on Saturday.Eleven people had to be treated in hospital and one person is still in a life-threatening condition.Police have confirmed that they are not treating it as a terrorist incident – but that has not stopped large amounts of speculation about the suspect and possible motives online.Speaking on his LBC show last night, Goodall claimed the online reaction demonstrated how there was a “disgusting” amount of “reflexive racism” in this country.He read out a message from a friend abroad who said: “What has happened to your country? Three words, he says, ‘Mass uncontrolled migration.’”Goodall responded: “For goodness sake. This is absurd! We’ve just heard from the police that the two suspects are British nationals. They’re both born in the UK.”Police did initially arrest a 35-year-old man as well, but he has since been released.Goodall said: “That’s not immigration, that’s people who are here. And these people basically just using, hoping, for even tragedies to fit their narratives.“People who have got huge social media followings and so on – instead of just waiting for the police to say what they’ve got to say and the appropriate conclusions can be drawn.“Astounding. The legitimisation of just base, reflexive racism in this country, day after day after day, is worrying. It’s disturbing, and disgusting.“Then they turn around, these people, and say, ‘oh, tensions are rising’.“Well, who rose the tensions? Who inflamed the tensions? You.”‘The rise of base, reflexive racism in this country is disturbing.’@Lewis_Goodall hits back at social media accounts stoking talk of ‘civil war’ after quoting an unnamed ‘academic’. pic.twitter.com/A8KdtWUdow— LBC (@LBC) November 2, 2025Huntingdon MP Ben Obese-Jecty has also called out the online speculation around the incident, which happened in his constituency.The politician, who is mixed-race, told LBC: “It’s language I’m used to seeing all the time – people often call for me to be deported, to be re-migrated, that I’m not British, etc.”“I think it is a sad, sad realisation of the state of affairs that we’re in,” he added. “A lot of the people speculating online should know better.”Related...Home Secretary Urges Public To 'Avoid Speculation' After Mass Train StabbingBBC Presenter Roasts Chris Philp Over 'Opportunistic' Knife Law Demand

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