Will all the strikes be the start of civil unrest

[workiskillingme]

I feel like the tide is turning at the moment. The professions that would traditionally never strike have had dreamt about striking have been pushed too far. Cost of living for everyone is at an all time high. 2 years of lockdown and various conditions imposed on how people live. Possible blackouts. Is this going to be the start of people kicking back?

No it's not

No.

It feel very like 95/96 at the moment when Conservative sleaze dominated the news cycle and all the public services were at rock bottom.

I was not around in the mid 70s. Is it similar to then?

No, civil unrest would be extreme.

Highly unlikely

People in the UK don't do civil unrest. We need to be more like the French.

Nah, people are too lazy and it's cold out.

This is very true

Poll Tax Riots anyone? I still don't think it will happen now

I think the potential is there if we're still deeply in the shit next summer.

I don't think civil unrest, but I do think Sunak doesn't understand the zeitgeist. He and his client journalists are trying to turn people against the strikers but I think most working people support them.

Apparently there is no money for payrises but they love wasting and looting our money. For example secretly giving Michelle Mone £29M or putting a £1.3M statue in Downing Street? 🤔

Everybody is striking now: nurses, ambulance, fire crew, postie's, rail workers, barristers, refuse collectors, university staff. Good on them all.

I don't think we are allowed to strike but we are definitely due a decent pay rise!!

No. Lot's of people are doing fine.
Some people postal workers, nurses etc are not doing well but are striking as is their right. They don't want riots, how would that possibly benefit them? They want to keep their Jobs and the economy to grow.
The absolutely desperate, who are struggling to feed themselves do not have the power to cause civil unrest as they are either too busy working second and third jobs, or are so thoroughly disenfranchised that they would not be able to organise collectively.

No, hopefully this greedy, selfish government will give the workers who got the country through the pandemic a decent payrise . Not asking for much !

No people will just try and find a different group to blame now that the EU can't be blamed for everything.

Can't blame labour at the moment.

So the people wet and homeless crossing the channel on boats are currently at fault for the UK's lack of GPs I think.

As long as there is someone else to blame enough people are happy to not riot.

There has always be the odd demonstration or pocket of civil unrest, I was at the Criminal justice bill demo in 1994 and that did end up as a riot. The coach I was on was petrol bombed.

Actual civil unrest that doesn’t stem from a peaceful demonstration tends to always be in poor neighbourhoods. I remember going through Brixton on a school trip on the coach as a kid not long after the 1981 riots. When I was at University a lad I knew had lived in Toxteth and remembers seeing all the smoke from fires during that riot.

If it did happen it will be the usual places, the places where the poor live. The places of those summer riots in 2011 was very similar to 1981.

As soon as people start stealing during civil unrest such as in 2011 they completely lose the moral high ground and the media crucify them. Civil unrest always attracts opportunists. That clip of the older black woman having a go at young lads in the street while a full blown riot was kicking off round her summed it up perfectly.

tory press(and Tories) will blame migrants, agents of chaos, anti growth coalition until we all believe it. So no we wont be out on the streets yet.

Civil unrest and riot only occur when it’s warm. If we have a heat wave over the summer then who knows but not until. It’s too cold.

I hope so.

Unfortunately not OP. Brits only take to the. Streets in large numbers for a bit of flag waving for royal events, and only when it’s warm. Never happens for any actual protesting!

The French know how to do civil unrest!

No. This comes up often but still a no

I wouldn’t want communities wrecked and violence and I think people are a bit naive when they say they hope so.

No, I think it is unlikely due to the fact that we tend to favour civil unrest when its warmer and think we are due some snow shortly which will mean the entire country will grind to a halt due to a couple of inches of slush

Unlikely in the winter I suspect.

Doubt it.

Of course not, soon we won’t even have a right to protest, forget about striking.

The UK is not the kind of country whose people will be in the street fighting to keep their rights. We trust authority far too much.