I am scared my husband will be beaten or worse

I don't think anyone is in a position to question how OP feels. I'm British with a brown complexion. I grew up in a small town and experienced racism throughout my life, but what the UK is experiencing now is another level - the tone has changed from casual racism to a level of hostility and a desire to hurt those "who don't belong here". I feel it too and I've moved abroad but when I come back - I feel safe in the big cities but the small towns are scary - Northern England in particular, Hereford also. There is alot of disinformation out there, alot of hatred stirred up by the Daily Mail, alot of UK citizens who are feeling the cost of living crisis, fed up of multiple governments that have only caused more misery, people are feeling poorer and more disgruntled and everyone wants someone to blame. I read this morning that a Sikh woman was raped at 8.30am broad daylight on a busy road by 2 white men somewhere in Northen England and whilst being raped they told her "to go back to her own country". So yes I do agree OP it is terrifying.

I'm amazed at how everyone assumes it is not true.
OP, I'm very sorry this is happening.
Pp's Google violence in NI. It is very much alive.
Speak to the housing association, ask for emergency accommodation, I'd cross the border.
It's a pity there's a housing crisis over the border. It's not as bad here, there's no where to live though.

@Flightsandfeelings does your husband drive OP? If so I know it's a faff and you shouldn't have to but could he drive to where he needs to get to, to avoid being out on the street?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/11/police-injured-houses-burned-in-second-night-of-riots-in-northern-ireland

https://www.itv.com/news/article

https://www.psni.police.uk/latest-news/police-investigate-arson-attack-coleraine-home-young-family

“I’m going to totally ignore the lived experiences of a section of the community, because it wasn’t reported on GBeebies News!”

Ahh, there’s nothing like a post on Mumsnet regarding race to bring all of the ignorant twats out.

Can you pm me please I can help you.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/6/11/police-injured-houses-burned-in-second-night-of-riots-in-northern-ireland

A quick Google search comes up with different places. I linked this one but there was a place in August aswell.
Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gloucestershire,..

Love how people say it is not true unless OP says where. I found several articles about it in different areas of the UK

This thread doesn’t ring true.

I bet you thought you were being clever with this comment didn’t you.

This is an awful thing to say.

Thank goodness someone else is reading what I'm reading and being shocked by it. I honestly never thought I'd see the likes of someone in fear being treated like this. A sad sign of the times.

Is this a veiled way of saying the OP's husband should go back to where he came from? How horrible.

A quick Google will tell you there have been racist arson attacks in, variously, Belfast, Tamworth, Rotherham, Sunderland over the past twelve months and multiple incidences of daytime violent assaults on minorities in these places plus Hull, Liverpool, Southport, York.

We can't pretend any longer. We have a growing fascist problem in the UK. Pandering to it, denying it, calling it other things, is emboldening them. We should have been clear and direct in our dialogues with the mouthpieces like Farage, Yaxley-Lennon etc years ago. We certainly shouldn't have given them a platform because now it's more difficult to challenge due to the shift in what is seen as acceptable discourse.

We can still pull it back but we have to first face the truth - that fascism exists, that it's dangerous for all of us and that we must challenge it. Not pussy foot around giving it "ooh everyone is entitled to their opinion, it's probably not that bad". It is that bad, and nobody is entitled to spread lies and rhetoric that encourage attacks on grounds of race.

I'm shocked this isn't on mainstream media in England, aggressive thugs wrapped in UK flags.

@Flightsandfeelings

Are you in Northern Ireland?

If yes, then you have a problem I'm afraid. And I come from there.

Ultimately you may need to move especially if your home is identified.

I'm so sorry.

How unusual. White person disagrees that racism is happening.

You're a visionary!

I’m gobsmacked at this thread. So very many people emboldened in recent times. I never thought I’d see it here on MN

OP, I’m so sorry life is like this for you atm. I hope things in this country improve. Ignore provocative posters pretending they don’t know what you mean…the rest of us can see what they are doing.

Racism including attacks on homes has not stopped and has always happened. The mainstream don't report it unless they do a documentary about it.
Sorry to hear you both are going through this OP. I hope things actively change.

Homes and cars are being set alight across certain areas NI, its happening years, the most racist place in Europe.
If they're not burning Catholics property, they're burning non nationals.

This is so true. Wake up.

Maybe she's in Northern Ireland, that's the only place I've heard of that happening in the uk.

It's widely enough reported that not having lived in northern Ireland for 20 years I knew about it from national news before any family members told me.

“White privilege” is not a racist slur.