To think there will be riots?

[Anoni]

Announced on the news that boris johnson may suspend parliament to reduce the chance of mps being able to block a no deal brexit allowing him to democratically force the uk to leave the EU.

Am i wrong in thinking if this goes ahead there may be serious protests and maybe even riots in london and all across the country to force the governments hand?

Civil Unrest of some description in October / November is likely.

How widespread it is, is probably my only point of contension at this point.

Oh, please! No, there won't be riots. The Tories have done a brilliant job of making people even poorer, they won't have time or energy to riot too busy trying to make the rent and bills.

I don’t think that riots will happen now, I think that will happen in November.

Look we're English or British rather, roiting hasnt been in our mindset for years it's somethiug we picked up from them thar Froggies since we joined this here EU club;!

Even Leavers should recognise the dangers in this action. Leave, but not "by any means".

There will be if we don't leave on 31 October

I can’t believe people are comparing this to HK 🙄.

I can't believe you can't believe that.

Unelected PM closes down parliament to force through damaging policy for which he has no democratic mandate.

What's next??

I don't think calling for riots and civil unrest is a wise move OP. People on other sites are reporting each other to the police for less.

I agree with Boggles that 'riot types of people don’t tend to take an interest in politics andnormal people don’t riot' If there are riots then it won't be because of Brexit and it won't be people interested in politics who are rioting.

I'm always suspicious of people suggesting rioting as a solution. Rioting disadvantages poorer communities and unfairly impacts on vulnerable minority groups. It also provides the perfect excuse for a crackdown on civil liberties.

The people who may protest/riot do not have to get up feed the kids and get to work. The rest of us will rub along as best we can.

I am old enough to recall the power cuts of the 70`s I had a weekend job and was serving bacon and cheese with candles on the top of the counter. It was not great, sitting in the dark with a torch to read a book, no electricity for hours on end. We used to say a hurrah when the power came back on. Everyone survived no-one died.

My father told me of the cuban crisis he and many others looked at their children helplessly and prayed. What is happening now is nowhere as bad.

I expected lots of protests from remainders over the past 4 years, street marches, there hasn't been many therefore I can't see riots in most areas.
People should have been marching weekly if they are unhappy with the decisions by goverment.
Get out now, November will be to late.

Any society is only four meals away from anarchy.

When there are food shortages and the power goes off that’s when it will all kick off.

Society is a very thin veneer. Just remember all the stories you’ve read on AIBU about aggressive people kicking off.

I think the riots will come after, as the shortages really bite.

If the Queen agrees something so profoundly undemocratic, then surely its time to abolish the Monarchy.

I don't think calling for riots and civil unrest is a wise move OP. People on other sites are reporting each other to the police for less.

OP said she thinks there might be riots. Which is not calling for riots

Everyone seems so angry and on edge these days. It won’t take much for people to kick off.

No, sadly, I don't see riots before Brexit.

I can, however, see riots if the predicted doom of no deal happens.

It's interesting how few people really consider the idea that shortages can happen. I fall into this, I know that most of the food we consume in November /December is imported, I know that Brexit will interupt inports/exports to some extent, so of course logically there will be some problems, but I find it really hard to take seriously that it won't just get sorted out. I know that's my comfortable middle class bubble talking, and that I do need to think about stockpiling basics, but it feels silly to do so, because things usually sort themselves out... (as it is, I can only bring myself to buy extras of stuff we would normally have in, like tinned tomatoes/pasta/rice/frozen peas etc, so if it's all fine, it's not a waste of money - I've just spent part of November's food budget in August, I know I need to think about bottled water and torches etc, I just can't help feeling deep down it's a waste of money...)

Lots of people are like me, sort of convinced it'll all be alright. I'm not the rioting type, but I do worry if it's not all ok really, then the shock of that will cause a massive outpouring of anger. How that anger is directed will be hard to predict.

Of course there won't be and I say that as someone outraged by the on-going events esp today. We won't riot - I've been on the marches and they're super polite. Wrong bunch to riot.

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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE OPPOSITION?

Navel gazing on his Islington allotment or making jam, probably.

What Johnson is trying to do is dreadful.

But an EFFECTIVE opposition would be screaming that from the rooftops. Labour are totally apathetic about the whole thing. Jo Swinson is shouting as loud as she can, as are the SNP, but their voices are being drowned out by the silence from Labour.

But then again, Corbyn was never keen on the EU in the first place.

Johnson is a disgrace. Corbyn is an equally big disgrace.

There won’t be riots over this because the people who’d be more likely to riot are those who are gung ho for no deal Brexit. If a no-deal Brexit happens, leading to shortages and problems? Yes I think it’s highly likely.

Most of the country who live in areas where we are not crammed into a too small space will watch any uprisings in London with curiosity thanking god once again we do not have to live there.

I do admit @cinammoncake , that i did say we could grind the uk to a halt by blocking roads, but anyone is welcome to report that comment to the police, who i am sure have loads of time to deal with 1 comment like that, that doesn't even break any laws.

I do honestly think violence and riots are on the horizon. We're undemocratically being threatened with being taken out of the eu without our democratically lead parliament being able to have a say.
If the queen votes for this and allows this to happen, causing a no deal brexit to occur, food shortages, medicine shortages, high prices on goods against a week pound, job losses and an inadaquate government i believe will cause so much tension it will pop

There won't be riots like in HK. There is lots of evidence that they should b concerned.

I think that people will riot after it happens and it's too late. They don't think it will really happen.

I don't think there will be a great deal of civil unrest. It seems to me that most people will endure any old shit with nothing more than a little grumbling so long as they can see that someone else is having a shitter time.

I can't be the only person to see the irony in the fact that those calling the deeply flawed Brexit result 'democracy', who also said they wanted out of the EU so that our Parliament would be "sovereign", now applaud the totalitarian overthrow of that very Parliamentary democracy by a Prime Minister (who chided Gordon Brown for not being PM via a general election and told him he should have immediately called one) who has not been elected from a general election.

Anyone who thinks the govt should make Brexit should happen regardless of the cost to the nation is a fool.

And if we crash out with no deal, we still have to make deals. It's just that we'll have utterly no cards to play any more.