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Why are majority of the riots in northern towns?

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PhoebeMcPeePee · 04/08/2024 12:13

DH & I were watching the riots on the news this morning like most people absolutely horrified.

He's from one of the northern towns affected although we live in the south and started discussing why these riots now (and historically) tend to be more focused on northern towns but didn't really come up with any one thing. Any thoughts on this?

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Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:28

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:23

Thank you
Methinks some people want to live in denial.

Denial!

I guarantee that my 70s/80s academic upbringing was more multicultural than your Shepherds Bush WC upbringing.

Also, homosexuals were welcomed in out part of the North.

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:33

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:26

I think seeing grown men shouting in thick Northern accents "alla alla hoo the fook is alla" and torching a hotel full pf refugees is enough to get me gobbing off about how thick and racist they are. You should too. You shamelss racist apologist 🤢

Just baheve yourself. Do you identify with skinheads and casuals? No.

I don't presume for a minute I know how you speak. You must be a fool to think the North is a homogeneous place.

Silly.

Which is why I suspect you're a Russian bot. I don't actually think you're English.

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:34

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:28

Denial!

I guarantee that my 70s/80s academic upbringing was more multicultural than your Shepherds Bush WC upbringing.

Also, homosexuals were welcomed in out part of the North.

Homosexuals were welcomed where I grew up too. What is your fucking point?
Why are you so concerned about my unbringing?!
I sense massive bigotry, assumptions and defensiveness.
Just call them out for the vile racist misguided thugs they are.
No excuses for me!
What are you defending exactly?
Complacent attitutudes and sympathizinf with the far right has led the countey into this mess.
This is terrorism.
Anotjer thing: why are they not rioting against Huw Edwards or Lucy Letby?
Why arent they angry about them?

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:34

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:33

Just baheve yourself. Do you identify with skinheads and casuals? No.

I don't presume for a minute I know how you speak. You must be a fool to think the North is a homogeneous place.

Silly.

Which is why I suspect you're a Russian bot. I don't actually think you're English.

Hahahaa
Ok

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:35

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:34

Homosexuals were welcomed where I grew up too. What is your fucking point?
Why are you so concerned about my unbringing?!
I sense massive bigotry, assumptions and defensiveness.
Just call them out for the vile racist misguided thugs they are.
No excuses for me!
What are you defending exactly?
Complacent attitutudes and sympathizinf with the far right has led the countey into this mess.
This is terrorism.
Anotjer thing: why are they not rioting against Huw Edwards or Lucy Letby?
Why arent they angry about them?

You've overplayed your hand there.

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:35

Unbelievable the level of sympathy these racist scum get in this country.

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:37

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:35

You've overplayed your hand there.

Wtf are you on about?

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:38

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:37

Wtf are you on about?

Lolz.

Well done.

You did whip everyone up a bit there for a minute.

Bugger off now.

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:39

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:35

Unbelievable the level of sympathy these racist scum get in this country.

You just keep repeating botto.

Sure girly-pops.

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Oki

BrieHugger · 05/08/2024 01:41

Wow. This thread explains why there is such a north/south divide. Absolute ignorance predominantly coming from people who’ve rarely set foot “up north; evidently not as educated or worldly as you’d like to believe.

You know how some countries are brainwashed into thinking they’re the greatest on the planet? Seems to be some cities too.

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Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:43

BrieHugger · 05/08/2024 01:41

Wow. This thread explains why there is such a north/south divide. Absolute ignorance predominantly coming from people who’ve rarely set foot “up north; evidently not as educated or worldly as you’d like to believe.

You know how some countries are brainwashed into thinking they’re the greatest on the planet? Seems to be some cities too.

@BrieHugger it's a nasty Russian troll I think that's been sowing dissent.

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:44

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You are sounding completely sane.

Thumbs up to you.

Fella.

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:45

I feel all vindicated.

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:48

Who taught the thugs the 17 year old killer of the girls was a Muslim? Who would plant that?
And you talk about bots? The country is a mess because of apologists like you all.

Tatare · 05/08/2024 01:48

Needspace2023 · 05/08/2024 01:48

Who taught the thugs the 17 year old killer of the girls was a Muslim? Who would plant that?
And you talk about bots? The country is a mess because of apologists like you all.

Are you still trying?

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Goldenbear · 05/08/2024 01:52

MrsSkylerWhite · 05/08/2024 01:11

Understood, @Goldenbear

My mum spent a year tracing my family tree. I Go back to the early 1400s and Scottish nobility (sadly no more, the castle is long
gone 😂).
The laird sent his son to Jamaica where he, my 9 times great grandfather and plantation overseer, begat a son with a west African slave called Rosanna. We have no idea whether it was consensual or not but he freed his son, which suggests it may have been. That son was named Robert Wedderburn (another indication that his father acknowledged him). He later travelled to the UK, where his Scottish nobility family disowned him. He went on to become an ally of Wilberforce, published his writings (still available on Amazon!) and was imprisoned as an agitator.

I’m immensely proud of my ancestor.

That is really fascinating for. A Family tree and must have taken a bit of time to find out although my Mum did similar back in the 70’s but the most surprising and funny thing was the woman’s name as pretty much her surname with an e on the end!

allbymysel · 05/08/2024 01:53

They are rioting because they are furious about immigration and have been for years this has been fuelled in the press and by Farage et al and the attack in Southport gave them an 'excuse' to start a war.

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So botty.

Laughable.

Goldenbear · 05/08/2024 01:54

A woman’s not, ‘the woman’s’

JustAnotherDadOf2 · 05/08/2024 01:57

RainyWoodland · 04/08/2024 12:27

The Tottenham riots started in Tottenham. The statue toppling was in the south.

From what I’ve heard, this current unrest seems to be in the North West - people who possibly have been to Southport at some point for a holiday?

Really? Nobody ever went to Southport for a holiday. Nothing wrong with the place, its just not a holiday destination.
Whya are the riots happening in the North? Rioters are being mobilised from far-and-wide. The question shouldnt be "why in the North" but rather "Where are they coming from?". After that should come the "Why". It's easier to target a small town with a few EDL numpties than a major city like London/Bham/Mchr with the same small group of numpties. The small town doesnt have the resources / experiences to respond in the same way.
The EDL are just a bunch or radical die-hards who want to be seen on TV, they are no different to Extinction Rebellion or some other extreme Liberal Jihad. Just a bunch of nutters, forget them, they're irrelevant until you give them focus, then they can take over.

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