Disorder in Leeds

It's a valid point actually, it's remarkable that we've haven't had many riots recently.

@ApocalypseNowt also can hear helicopters still going and I’m some way from Harehills. Wondering if it’s the media now tbh

Why are you calling them animals. Animals don’t behave like that.

So have I got this right. Leeds is running a-mock and going berserk because SS and the Police moved kids for their own safety. What would they rather the kids be left there unsafe.

I was just naming areas that rioted in the 80s to indicate it happened then, even if you yourself didn't take part. Note that Kensington and Chelsea/Harrogate/Godalming etc don't feature.

But they usually had a valid point

Cars are getting through easily enough, no road closures!

All left home alone.... that's why

Some people don't deserve kids

@DarkDarkNight it's literally a fire( almost out) and a load of people milling around 😂 nothing more is happening

@LordPercyPercy I did not think for a minute that the kids were taken into care without any reason. No idea how old the other kids are.
Watching videos on twitter it is quite clear that most people are just there for a nosy.

He says him and his wife were at work and the 5 kids were at home. One of the kids dropped the 7 month old baby on its head. He is complaining it is an accident, but they took all his kids into care.

Aye, that'll tend to happen if you leave a baby in a house with no adults. Father of the year he isn't 🙄

All I hope is no one needs an ambulance tonight in that part of Leeds. The police retreating and leaving them to it for the safety of the force is extremely concerning.

If poverty is the excuse then why does location matter?

I went to twitter. It is awful, so much racism. But there is also a video from the father. He says him and his wife were at work and the 5 kids were at home. One of the kids dropped the 7 month old baby on its head. He is complaining it is an accident, but they took all his kids into care.

Mothin
FFS autocorrect

Morning Ali was on one of the live videos telling them to stop, video of him helping out out one of the fires now

You obviously didn't grow up in Toxteth/Tottenham/Chapeltown. Riots go hand in hand with Tory rule.

You left out the Royal Family, minus the Sussexes.
The DM are some of the biggest RF suck ups and some of the biggest Sussex haters.
They’re also big on American right-wing politicians and Donald Trump - but that might be the US version of DM.

Fracture skull I was told

It's not only the poverty though. It's the drugs, the lack of access to decent education and healthcare, (often justified) distrust of authority, lack of support for those who want to make life better for the communities, the racial tensions that have been stirred up by government over the last decade ....

The streets where all this is happening is 2 mins from St James Hospital. Part of a huge trust and is a teaching hospital. Yes the NHS is beset by problems but I’ve been an outpatient in 4 departments there for over 4O years and the care has been excellent. It’s also a few minutes from Roundhay School ( Liz Truss’s alma mater). It’s rated outstanding in ofsted inspections for many years. There’s also a massive and beautiful city park nearby. Harehills has been home to many waves of immigration. My family lived there when they first came to the UK. There’s been Jewish, Eastern European, Pakistani, Punjabi, Afghani communities there. Trouble has flared up over the years. There’s been riots before. There’s an undercurrent of unease there and in other areas of the city. The last few years there’s a feeling that many people are on the edge and are utterly pissed off, stressed out, struggling and disengaged.

Well the helicopters are still circling and I can hear voices outside. It's quite unsettling tbh.

I’m surprised you can recognize tremendous comments, or know the difference. You seem quite, well, limited.

Well done, @suburberphobe.

@Michigan5 To me he does 😅😬 Perhaps I'm not the best judge of character. However I have just come across a train wreck of an interview he gave to a user named Zahid noor on TikTok . He says he helped Tom protect the polite and helped to get the driver and passengers from the bus off. The start of the interview sounds like he's giving sympathy to the rioters though. It's all very confusing. He does look bewildered though

It is not a no go area.

Harehills and Chapeltown area of Leeds has always been a no-go area for the Police.

Being born in the UK means nothing to the DM when it is shit-stirring. It only supports: middle/upper-class, middle-aged and older white, English,C of E, Tory males and their institutions (public schools, cricket clubs, golf clubs, gentlemen's clubs, horse-racing etc), and animals.

It hates everyone else- women, LQBT+, other races, other religions, anyone under 50, anyone state-school educated or who works for a public service, celebs( I am with them on that one), and spiders and sharks.