Summer 2024: Rioting across UK cities

[Blackadder1916]

It may not be an appropriate time to visit the UK.

New rioting across UK cities as arrests multiply

Petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Belfast while police in Birmingham are investigating a number of offences.

www.bbc.com

Starmer: Rioters will feel the full force of the law

Rioters will face “the full force of the law”, Sir Keir Starmer has vowed ahead of a further expected wave of riots across the UK.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Seven days of disorder - how the UK's far-right riots spread

Violent disorder has spread across the UK in the week since the Southport stabbing attack.

www.bbc.com

How Online Misinformation Stoked Anti-Migrant Riots in Britain

What to know about the anti-migrant violence erupting in Britain and how social media escalated the attacks.

time.com

Mod edit to make thread title a bit more specific - will change again if it continues past the summer. Milnet.ca Staff

 

[CBH99]

The biggest issue I have wirh the media coverage of the unrest so far has been labeling the protesters as "far right" and "far right extremists"

While at the same time seemingly turning a blind eye to the groups of immigrant youth who have been violently assaulting people (even just over these last few days) as mere "asylum seekers"

Not everybody protesting the mass immigration to their fairly small country is of the far right, nor is everybody on the opposing side an asylum seeker.



(If you're fleeing a shitty country and a poor quality of life in that country, I wouldn't be causing ANY problems in the country you're trying to seek asylum in...)

Native Britons have every right to be pissed off with mass immigration that they didn't vote for, weren't consulted on, yet is having a very real impact on their day to day lives & the future of their country

 

[daftandbarmy]

It may not be an appropriate time to visit the UK.

New rioting across UK cities as arrests multiply

Petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Belfast while police in Birmingham are investigating a number of offences.

www.bbc.com

Starmer: Rioters will feel the full force of the law

Rioters will face “the full force of the law”, Sir Keir Starmer has vowed ahead of a further expected wave of riots across the UK.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Seven days of disorder - how the UK's far-right riots spread

Violent disorder has spread across the UK in the week since the Southport stabbing attack.

www.bbc.com

How Online Misinformation Stoked Anti-Migrant Riots in Britain

What to know about the anti-migrant violence erupting in Britain and how social media escalated the attacks.

time.com

Highly localized, and fun to watch from afar with a pint in one's hand on a sunny summer's eve

 

[tomydoom]

Highly localized, and fun to watch from afar with a pint in one's hand on a sunny summer's eve

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Belfast violence brings together unlikely protest alliance

Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast at the weekend included British loyalists and Irish nationalists.

www.bbc.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Belfast violence brings together unlikely protest alliance

Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast at the weekend included British loyalists and Irish nationalists.

www.bbc.com

 

[tomydoom]

It caused my wife to dissallow my periodic Tim Hortons run to Belfast.

 

[daftandbarmy]

It caused my wife to dissallow my periodic Tim Hortons run to Belfast.

I recall a time when Belfast residents would casually step over unexploded IRA mortar bombs, lying in the street, on their way to work ... a great example to us all of course

 

[The Bread Guy]

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Belfast violence brings together unlikely protest alliance

Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast at the weekend included British loyalists and Irish nationalists.

www.bbc.com

Yup ...

More on this ....

Union flags and Irish flags are flown side by side at anti immigrant protest in Belfast city centre

Both Union flags and Irish tricolours were flown at an anti immigrant protest in Belfast, which was followed by clashes with anti-racist protestors in the city centre.

www.newsletter.co.uk

My day with the Belfast rioters

unherd.com

Belfast riots: PSNI says paramilitary groups involved in disorder

Violence has flared amid anti-immigration protests

www.irishnews.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Yup ...

More on this ....

Union flags and Irish flags are flown side by side at anti immigrant protest in Belfast city centre

Both Union flags and Irish tricolours were flown at an anti immigrant protest in Belfast, which was followed by clashes with anti-racist protestors in the city centre.

www.newsletter.co.uk

My day with the Belfast rioters

unherd.com

Belfast riots: PSNI says paramilitary groups involved in disorder

Violence has flared amid anti-immigration protests

www.irishnews.com

Fun factoid: the Irish are amongst the most racist people in Europe, and you could easily throw in the North with those figures...

Infographic: Widespread Racism Against Black People In The EU

This chart shows the share of black people who experienced racist harassment in the past 5 years.

www.statista.com

The experiences of minority ethnic and migrant people in Northern Ireland.

Four key issues that minority ethnic and migrant communities in Northern Ireland told us need to be addressed

ukparliament.shorthandstories.com

 

[Blackadder1916]

Fun factoid: the Irish are amongst the most racist people in Europe, and you could easily throw in the North with those figures...

Infographic: Widespread Racism Against Black People In The EU

This chart shows the share of black people who experienced racist harassment in the past 5 years.

www.statista.com

The experiences of minority ethnic and migrant people in Northern Ireland.

Four key issues that minority ethnic and migrant communities in Northern Ireland told us need to be addressed

ukparliament.shorthandstories.com

The simple explanation* is that they learned from the best.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030639689203300403?journalCode=racb

* Of course, there is no such thing as a "simple explanation".

 

[The Bread Guy]

Fun factoid: the Irish are amongst the most racist people in Europe, and you could easily throw in the North with those figures...

Both sides seem to be tired of feckin' foreigners, just coincidingly different ones this time around

 

[Halifax Tar]

It caused my wife to dissallow my periodic Tim Hortons run to Belfast.

There were Timmies in Dublin last time was there...

 

[tomydoom]

There were Timmies in Dublin last time was there...

There was one on Grafton Street many years back, but it’s gone now. There are rumours of them coming back to the Republic soon, starting in Limerick.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Scotland seems to have a fair amount of Tim Hortons- which figures…

 

[Cloud Cover]

Scotland seems to have a fair amount of Tim Hortons- which figures…

Indian cuisine in Scotland.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Tribalism, not racism. Any group can exhibit tribalism. The people who usually encourage it just don't like it coming from whites. Monkey see, monkey eventually do.

 

[RangerRay]

Scotland seems to have a fair amount of Tim Hortons- which figures…

As my Scottish friend constantly ask: why do Canadians like bad coffee?

 

[dapaterson]

As my Scottish friend constantly ask: why do Canadians like bad coffee?

Because Scotland has the affinity for sheep national trait already claimed?

 

[daftandbarmy]

As my Scottish friend constantly ask: why do Canadians like bad coffee?

The UK's Costa Coffee shops have a much better product than Starbucks, IMHO.

 

[Kilted]

Scotland seems to have a fair amount of Tim Hortons- which figures…

I've been to one in Wales. They served hamburgers.