To be fed up with the riots being called “UK riots”?

I agree with the OP. Especially as the rioters in England probably largely see themselves as English first. The organisation associated with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is the English Defence League.

I'm the first to complain when people use "UK" to mean "England", it happens all the time on here. This isn't the time to make an issue of it though, especially when two of the four constituent countries of the UK have in fact had riots.

(My phone really wants to write Tories instead of riots. A different if related problem!)

Also they're surely only called UK riots in international reporting, here they're just called the riots? Why do you even care? I expect maybe if you get your news from twitter you must be bothered.

Nobody has suggested that areas without riots are "nicer"
(or, from an even stupider poster, that people in not rioting areas feel "left out" 🙄)

Just that the first step to understanding something is to name it correctly. As you say yourself, there are probably valid reasons why they are happening in some areas and not others which it would very likely be useful for a social, political or even practical (i.e. police preventive planning) perspective to understand.

As a pp said when there are riots in northern ireland they are never referred to as UK riots. Riots in Paris aren't referred to as European riots. If you search for the 2011 riots they are referred to as '2011 English riots' so fair enough to query why in this case it's different.

Bigger things going on in the world than anyone caring that the riots are called UK riots. Honestly.

Scotland and London both voted remain. Just saying.

It's not true that they have been concentrated in areas with high levels of ethnic minorities. There have been none here in London apart from a group who travelled to Downing Street. There have been none in London neighbourhoods. Yet another reason to love London, especially SE London where I live. Very ethnically diverse, and it works. I read disparaging comments about 'Sadiq's London' as if it's a hell hole here. It's not. Multiculturalism works here.

Do you really think a 'we are better than our neighbours' thread is the way forward during a period of people being attacked for being of different ethnicities?

Really tone deaf.

BBC Scotland reporting that there is intelligence of disorder planned in Scotland.

Yes it caught my attention this morning that the BBC website had a graphic showing the number of arrests on a map of the "UK" with most of Scotland cut off. But all reporting was about the UK riots. We are different culturally in Scotland and certainly in Glasgow sectarian violence is far more likely than racist violence. So it's not to suggest we're without our problems but they aren't the same problems.

"One in NI" 🙄 I guarantee you there has been many more than one. illinformed.

Couldn't be because not only are those areas nowhere near as densely populated, they are much much less culturally diverse? You are part of the UK whether you like it or not..

Not one part about the OP was racist.

But they are happening in the UK.

Well there’s been several days of trouble in NI in various towns, and obviously multiple sites across England so what should they be called other than UK riots?

Scotland and Wales might want to say they aren’t involved, but equally most of NI and England aren’t involved either but “UK” is still appropriate.

Scottish person complains about racism with racism, classic.

Apparently there is ine planned for Rhyl so they are moving to other parts of the UK.

Agreed that UK is accurate without being clunky. I'm worried its only a matter of time before we see this in Scotland, especially with more "protests" planned.

im from Ireland and there have been some riots in ROI as well, and some of the thugs from ROI travelled to NI participate in the Belfast riots. I have fears that these riots are going to spread unfortunately.

I liked your first version.

Op, just because we’ve not seen riots in Scotland at this point, does not mean we won’t.