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Disorder in Leeds

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OrangeFurever · 18/07/2024 21:53

Anyone watching the public disorder in Leeds? Bloody disgusting behaviour. Animals. AIBU to wish police had so many more resources to bring consequences to these absolute excuses for humanity?

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marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 16:39

We are way too soft in this country…let them try that is some places and see what happens.

I feel sorry for the decency people caught up in the carnage, the bus company that had their bus torched…stop pussy footing about and get tough on those that did this.

the80sweregreat · 19/07/2024 16:36

I Agree with st Janetof too.

inamarina · 19/07/2024 16:31

StJanetof · 18/07/2024 23:30

I completely agree. The mental gymnastics being used to portray the rioters as the victims is ridiculous. The victims are the innocent people trapped and scared in their own homes by this bullshit, and the taxpayers who have to pay for this nonsense to be cleaned up.

Agree.

CantDealwithChristmas · 19/07/2024 16:25

JurassicClark · 19/07/2024 15:58

Unrelated. It was a coincidence, egged on by it being hot weather.

A lot of the Roma community turned up as the children were taken into care. Police came. Then people up for some disruption came.

No one hurt, no looting, a police car tipped over and a bus set on fire. More people filming on their phones than taking part. All quiet again by midnight.

There were some scary moments but ultimately it was a storm in a teacup.

Not exactly a storm in a teacup if you're one of the poor terrified residents

inamarina · 19/07/2024 16:22

Chickenuggetsticks · 18/07/2024 23:10

Also the working poor are going to be worried about being fired if they are out there setting fire to shit and getting filmed doing it. These are people who don’t worry about consequences because it won’t change their lives.

We have to stop excusing people because their life is a bit difficult. Loads of people have difficult lives but they are too busy holding their shit together to set fire to anything. What kind of person lets their kid join a bloody riot. Sorry but I don’t feel sorry for them one bit. Many people work hard and do their best and don’t make their communities worse. I’ll reserve my sympathy for them and anyone trying to protect children.

Couldn’t agree more.
My family were immigrants, had to give up their careers after moving to a new country and start from scratch.
We knew several families like ours, all faced difficulties, all had to work hard, and several unfortunately also encountered prejudice and xenophobia.
That didn’t prompt them to start smashing up police cars or setting things on fire.

Inkyblue123 · 19/07/2024 16:01

RosesAndHellebores · 18/07/2024 22:04

Poverty, dissatisfaction, drugs, no hope.

What a load of boolloocks , I grew up and live in a very impoverished area; not everybody chooses a life of crime, or drugs, or neglecting their kids. It’s a piss poor excuse. Unfortunately the police are not responsible for convicting people and it will be our courts who let them away with it. It’s this kind of excuse making that makes life difficult for the rest of us and actually short changes kids being brought up in this environment.

JurassicClark · 19/07/2024 15:58

CantDealwithChristmas · 19/07/2024 15:45

Is the riotong in Leeds linked in any way to the rioting in London or is that a coincidence?

Unrelated. It was a coincidence, egged on by it being hot weather.

A lot of the Roma community turned up as the children were taken into care. Police came. Then people up for some disruption came.

No one hurt, no looting, a police car tipped over and a bus set on fire. More people filming on their phones than taking part. All quiet again by midnight.

There were some scary moments but ultimately it was a storm in a teacup.

FinalCeleryScheme · 19/07/2024 15:53

LordPercyPercy · 19/07/2024 15:51

Is the riotong in Leeds linked in any way to the rioting in London or is that a coincidence?

The rioting in London related to a police shooting in Bangladesh so is unrelated.

A police shooting in Bangladesh? I blame the Tories.

LordPercyPercy · 19/07/2024 15:51

Is the riotong in Leeds linked in any way to the rioting in London or is that a coincidence?

The rioting in London related to a police shooting in Bangladesh so is unrelated.

CantDealwithChristmas · 19/07/2024 15:45

Is the riotong in Leeds linked in any way to the rioting in London or is that a coincidence?

marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 15:44

Well said @Yiks …v sensible comment. 😊

Yiks · 19/07/2024 15:41

Can't believe this is happening really hope them children get a better home as this is no way to act when kids are removed ! Baby fell from window kids removed for safety reasons ..know there is a riot I'm guessing as they are from a different country they don't feel as if our law applies to them :( but if U move to the UK U become a British citizen soo our law would apply to anyone even if Ur on holiday ? Really hope everyone is safe ...

IClaudine · 19/07/2024 15:31

🙄🙄🙄

marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 15:18

they aren’t pink, purple or tartan 🤣they are Romanian according to social media …take your pick which medium be it newspapers, Insta, TT….Facebook.

Some people if they’d a brain cell they’d be dangerous…Always pull the r card that’s the way they roll eh @IClaudine if narrative doesn’t suit them 👏🤣

Am off to enjoy the sunshine have a great day

marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 14:59

It’s stating a nationality simple as …it’s there for all to see on FB, main stream news …the family whose children were removed which started these events !

Give it a rest @IClaudine u parrot the same thing time and again …it’s tedious and predictable …🤣🤣

IClaudine · 19/07/2024 14:52

SayItSweetly · 19/07/2024 14:44

Being dim, what does it mean?

It means that @marshmallowmix is trying and failing not to seem something also beginning with R.

SayItSweetly · 19/07/2024 14:44

marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 13:30

the videos are all over tik tok and other social media. Police removing the kids from the home….then it kicks off. Neighbours and onlookers have named and where the family are from starts with an R! Doesn’t need any guesswork …

Being dim, what does it mean?

SayItSweetly · 19/07/2024 14:43

Good post @DWRobotics. So it's the Romani community. I wonder what the real story is. Gypsies have their own culture and the event needs to be look at from that angle. I feel sorry for the SW and police, how terrifying it must be for them.

justasking111 · 19/07/2024 14:25

Tik tok has it's own agenda which isn't westernised my student son said not to upload the app ever.

DWRobotics · 19/07/2024 14:08

Everyone keeps on mentioning Tik Tok, 'it's blowing up on tik tok' , ' its all streaming live on 'tik tok' , but seemingly wilfully overlooking why one platform might be so often mentioned. Tik Tok has been repeatedly observed to amplify incidents of social disorder in western countries. There are whole organisations in eastern countries dedicated to fomenting social unrest in western countries and their government has direct access to tik tok and its algorithms. There are whole buildings with offices and PC's in cubicles dedicated to understanding how to get people angry. Is nobody here joining up the dots? These eastern countries have been actively waging war on our society and we are too busy doing cutesy dances on tiktok to question why this giant platform run from china is so keen to keep western children addicted. We broadcast our homes, our wifi networks, our phone and tablet data - all running into servers based in the east. When you install the app, it has more access to your data than any other app available to modern smart phones. It has 'key loggers' which record every single thing you type in - including your passwords. Never has a foreign country had so much direct access to all of our personal data and now they have direct access to guide our kids, what are they concentrating on? Dancing and Riots it seems.

rallyup · 19/07/2024 13:34

Scarletrunner · 19/07/2024 08:31

Once the benefit system pays for people's housing then how are they ever to move from an area to improve their job opportunities etc There is a downside to having a generous benefit system. If you earn more won't your benefits be cut. it's a downward path.

Commute.

marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 13:30

Itsaharddlife · 19/07/2024 12:33

What ethnicity is that exactly?
I wouldn’t have been able to guess from the pictures. Did see a few articles confirm they were speaking romanian. I’m guessing you think otherwise

the videos are all over tik tok and other social media. Police removing the kids from the home….then it kicks off. Neighbours and onlookers have named and where the family are from starts with an R! Doesn’t need any guesswork …

Savemydrink · 19/07/2024 13:06

spikeandbuffy · 19/07/2024 12:53

How does that work Confused

It's like when people post "deport them" because someone is black. And they were born here and their family has been here for 3 generations

Well surely after 3 generations they should be fully integrated and know how to behave. They think they are big gangsters from the hood, mostly they are just brainless idiots intent on causing trouble.

spikeandbuffy · 19/07/2024 12:53

marshmallowmix · 19/07/2024 11:41

We have eyes we can see exactly what ethnicity they are ….

How does that work Confused

It's like when people post "deport them" because someone is black. And they were born here and their family has been here for 3 generations

Zimunya · 19/07/2024 12:33

ReggaetonLente · 18/07/2024 23:41

This is so bloody true.

This morning on the school run I saw a teenage boy hold a machete to the throat of an obvious drug user. Inner London. Me and my kids (and many others) had to hide in a train station until they’d resolved their disagreement. Police called - no one came. This stuff happens on our streets daily. A few years ago I’d have told you I wouldn’t move away from where I live for anything, I’m born and bred, I wanted to raise my kids here. But now I’d move out in a heartbeat and every single decent family I know feels the same. Our communities are being destroyed by violence and lawlessness while rich people buy up fancy new builds in the same streets. The rich don’t care because they get to send their kids to private school, live in a gated complex and generally move in their own circles, the scum don’t care because they are, well, scum, and all the people in the middle just have to get on with it, doing the best we can to raise decent human beings against the odds.

I'm so sorry about your experience. It is heartbreaking (and unfair) when families work hard to buy a house in an area that seems safe and affordable, and then end up, through no fault of their own, trying to protect their kids from this type of horror.