Do you live in an area of high immigration. I do. The landscape of my home town has changed out of all recognition. There is overcrowding. There is poverty. The crime rates have soared, you are not safe if you live anywhere near the migrant housing facilities. I think what you’ve left out of the long list of changing reasons for people’s anger, is probably the real one. That they have concerns about immigration, based on lived experience. They see the things politicians tell them are not happening, actually happening in front of them. They have experience for themselves the contempt with which a lot of migrants hold us and are resentful.
The asylum system is broken and unfit for purpose. That’s what this incident and others before it highlights very clearly - this man was a failed asylum seeker, given leave to remain. Had he not, this incident wouldn’t have happened. And what do we get from government each time this happens - ‘violence isn’t the answer’ and ‘this is the work of far right thugs’. That argument isn’t going to work for much longer. You can’t stand there wringing your hands, blaming the very people the system has let down for its’ failure.