Planned riot in Middlesborough last weekend.

I'd like to think that if these 'protests' turn out the way most are expecting them to, it will eventually show up the extremists and isolate them. The vast majority of people won't stand it for long and it will disappear back into the wintery shadows.
Hopefully without a 'show of force' to try and stop them.
 
It is unbelievable but tells you everything about what is going on that we have people on here defending insurrection. These are not protests - never have been. These are orchestrated right wing acts of violence against non whites and anybody - mainly the police who get in their way. Ignore button working well for people I hope to God I and my wife and kids never meet
 
I was thinking about the civil disorder that followed Trump's defeat in the US election.

Is this something similar? A backlash to defeat at the ballot box?

I think one thing we've learned is that the internet creates bubbles: people really struggle to accept that they're in a minority. At election time, I recall someone posting about a colleague who believed Reform would win because everyone on their social media was voting Reform.

The reality of the election result must come as quite a shock to those living in such a bubble.some, as is the modern way, will jump to the conclusion that they're the victim of a conspiracy, or the election has been stolen etc.
There are definitely parallels. The easily-led, intellectually- challenged have had disinformation poured into their heads for years by grifting politicians and their billionaire owners and their client media, same as in the US. GBeebies and TalkTV are copies of Fox News, with a similar group of oligarchs funding them. The 'Christian' fundamentalist/nationalist dimension is largely missing in the UK though. As often, the US is the problem as the oligarchs there want full control of the empire without even a veneer of democracy limiting their rule.
 
It’s known on X already that out of towners are coming on Sunday. That should be enough to say it’s called off unless it’s an ego boost to Jake.

Our Town is a tip now. Wait until mondag morning after thousands of pounds worth of damage.

I’d get the lads from Catterick on the street to protect the police station whilst the police get busy.
Fijians and Gurkhas would be given a wide berth that's for sure.
 
AND ON A LIGHTER NOTE:

Meanwhile, police said they received a number of calls on Saturday afternoon in which members of the public expressed concerns that a large group of men singing loudly in Middlesbrough town centre may be from a far-right organisation.

Cleveland Police reassured everyone the men are in fact SC Heerenveen fans from the Netherlands who are here for the match at the Riverside and are "simply in very jovial mood."
 
That one's already been answered (see post 186 on this thread).

A protest is a protest. A spontaneous mob is not a protest.
Far right now means white people who refuse to allow our culture to be destroyed and are fed up of being called racist and privileged

look beyond the individual protests...British people are fed up of being replaced by migrants...the protests may be wrong but the sentiment is there...we are fed up with every town being taken over...our country is being sold down the river by weak and pathetic politicians
 
Far right now means white people who refuse to allow our culture to be destroyed and are fed up of being called racist and privileged

look beyond the individual protests...British people are fed up of being replaced by migrants...the protests may be wrong but the sentiment is there...we are fed up with every town being taken over...our country is being sold down the river by weak and pathetic politicians
Have you been replaced by a migrant?

What is it that he does that you can no longer do?
 
Far right now means white people who refuse to allow our culture to be destroyed and are fed up of being called racist and privileged

look beyond the individual protests...British people are fed up of being replaced by migrants...the protests may be wrong but the sentiment is there...we are fed up with every town being taken over...our country is being sold down the river by weak and pathetic politicians
In the spirit of healthy debate, I'd be very interested to see some evidence to back up what you state........British people being replaced by migrants and every town being taken over (don't need any more evidence of the country being sold down the river by politicians, there's decades of evidence of that already!)

Oh, and as already stated several times, protests aren't wrong, riots are.
 
If anyone wants a laugh from this whole thing:

A woman who was caught in a load of videos from the Sunderland riot last night, has been identified as the owner of Leanne’s Removals. Someone recorded the police visiting her house today (with the removal van parked outside).

She’s had a few bad reviews since then…

 
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