So It’s Plymouth’s Turn Tonight

Any individuals regardless of race, colour or creed who are caught rioting, looting etc should be arrested and prosecuted.
But you know full well that part of the plan of the far right was to incite fear and provoke a violent response so that their fellow travellers could point the finger and say "look at these Muslims and immigrants".
Well....you SHOULD know.

 

It doesn't but the big difference is that these people were feeling threatened in their own home area and being fed information about locations of EDL guys coming to attack their Mosques and communities. Things got out of control but their own community calmed them down and dispersed them.

I don't condone the violence but even the coppers who turned up to the fight, having seen the footage, referred to it as a typical Saturday night scuffle that was over before they could even get there. Depressing but, for context, I've been on the receiving end of worse in Wakey!

If you aren't more worried about organised groups travelling the country and setting fire to buildings in areas they don't live near, then I have concerns. Both are bad. One is quantifiably much worse.

 

Fascism always starts in the upper and middle classes. They don't do the dirty work though - they wind up enough idiots and point them at a target.

See Laurence Fox calling for a race war and kicking Islam out of the country - just before he jets off to Ireland for a holiday...

Or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon winding people up then going back to his home in Spain then on holiday to Cyprus yet loads of content appearing on his Twitter feed winding people up...

 

I liked the follow up to this Birmingham pub incident, on a few of the news channels.
They got a 'select' few individuals from both sides on tv, apologising to each other, and shaking hands.
And I know it maybe sounds naive, but hey that's all it needs. People taking a step back, and thinking about what they are doing.
Just don't behave like this, and think about things more sensibly ehh. Rather than taking this sort of awful action, which is probably alcohol and maybe even drug fuelled!.