Barnsley were on… said police outnumbered anti-nazi and anti-immigration groups. Then interviewed 2 locals (stereotypes?) who seemed to be against violence but anti immigration and one had been somewhere last Sunday and the police were the bad guys… no anti-nazi people interviewed.
Someone should send them that clip for editorial balance..... https://x.com/AyoCaesar/status/1821563621572305132
Theres nothing wrong with someone who condemns the violence but still sees an issue with our countries immigration issues.
We do have immigration issues, we don't have enough so thatmany of the jobs which indigenous British people think are beneath them don't get filled. Then of course there are asylum seekers (refugees) who the Mail and the Express have successfully conflated with immigration who we don't properly deal with.
True, as most parties don't disagree on that. but apparently as I've not seen the interviews. Why not include someone from the other perspective like that young lass. And not someone blaming the police for what went off last sunday, That's as daft as it gets. I have no liking for the met. After what happened during the miners strike. But it was 40yrs ago.
They made a big deal of the event itself and dodged the fact that it was just a handful of people with no trouble other than a couple of masked crusaders, one a kid. It actually was a non-event for protests but a a big one for police presence. Even the met had a van there apparently. i think most people recognise that immigration is a problem for the country. It drove the Brexit vote and numbers have increased since. While gov’s drive austerity, less police, cutting services it will raise frustration. I think most people also know that racism and violence isn't a path to solve these things and creates divide. I see some frustration in a lot of people but the mindless violence is bad and is then amplified more by the media. The Barnsley reports seemed to look different when reported on national news to the ones reported locally. The national news sensationalised the large police presence, high tension and separation of factions. The local news focussed on it being a storm in a tea cup with a lone idiot or two to contend with.
The Tory government were supposed to be cracking down on slavery and tax avoidance which goes hand in hand in ‘employing’ immigrants but postponed it due to COVID. This is a much bigger issue than most people realise and resolving would go a long way towards the immigration and its perception issues. Hopefully Labour will pick it back up again but I’m not hopeful as this workforce and practice is intricately ingrained into our economy.
They went the other way, basically saying "if you're an illegal immigrant we don't care if you're enslaved":
Yeah. Theresa May introduced the legislation around modern slavery (probably the best thing she did with hindsight), but then Sunak drove holes through it with his Immigration Act and May grumbled but didn't vote against it.
