Thread 36 Starmer - Triggered by ads and Da iawn, Caerffili.

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Oh, it will be twisted round to “look at the fabulous job they do and this evil government want to take it all away again in tax.”

The 35 yr old man has been released without charge - so only one attacker now which very much supports your theory

BBC

We've just received an update from British Transport Police.

They say a 32-year-old man arrested yesterday is now being treated "as the only suspect".

"A 35-year-old man from London who was also arrested at the scene has been released with no further action," the update reads.
"It was reported in good faith to officers responding to the incident that he was involved in the attack, and following enquiries we can confirm that he was not involved."

A LNER staff member is in critical condition still, their actions are reported to have saved many lives.

You’ve got to feel sorry for someone caught up in that horrific situation and having the trauma compounded by spending nearly 24 hours in custody. What nightmare.

But they are paid too much...

I hope the scum media leave him alone.

I hate how people with responsibility for peoples lives are so low paid in the UK.

I don't know. 24 hours without having to listen to Farage and the reformistas seems quite a treat these days.

Some of the MN variety might be name-changing after the disgusting shite they have posted today.

Thank goodness he wasn't named

No, I think we have some out and out racists on MN. The type that suggest Sunak could not be an Englishman.

There are a few account names which I suspect were set up during the riots and are used intermittently to spread racism and disinformation.

Exactly. He’d never escape it, would he? I expect a lot of posters will be having a plateful of their words for supper tonight.

One poster in particular was absolutely baying for the names. So she could analyse them for Muslim content, I assume.

I saw someone on the local newspaper Facebook page when there was an article you had to click on to see that the attacker shouted two words (“Kill me”) to the police saying what was that and suggesting a well known phrase used by Islamic terrorists (or the closest they could get to spelling it)

I saw another “intellectual” claiming that someone of Jamaican “dissent” couldn’t be British 🙄

They won't. They won't even be ashamed.

Good. Let’s hope the police can now focus their enquiries where it matters.

This country has problems. One is racism and the other in this incident is likely to be serious mental health issues. I expect that there will be a lot of work done this weekend to establish that issue.

MN’s threads on this matter have often been a racist cesspit. I suppose at least I know who they are.

One poster on the other threads, in particular surprised me, we ve clashed many times and now i don't ever respond to her but i've always thought her beliefs were based on the economy, and party loyalty.
Today i found out that she sets the standard for sinking into the depths of racism.

I know which one you mean. I was shocked by that too. As Pandora says, a few masks have slipped in the last 24 hours.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This. Well done to those whose quick thinking saved lives.

The same happened on the Brexit threads a few years ago.

People tried making "reasonable" arguments in favour of Brexit, but when their "arguments" were destroyed, as they inevitably were, it turned out to be purely xenophobia...

Yes, we should take some positives from the fact that there are some bloody brave people out there, who put themselves in danger to protect others.

Only one person remains in a life-threatening condition the LNER staff member - hopefully he won't pay for his immense bravery with his health or worse still his life

He's a guard. You know, the job half of MN was claiming doesn't exist any more for most of today (which was almost certainly Keir's fault).

Yes, the role rail unions went on strike to protect. Much to the fury of the Tories.