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Right wing thugs 'protecting the flag' on St George's Day

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newnamethanks · 23/04/2024 22:41

Cruella's boot boys out on the street again protecting our British freedoms in their usual brutish fashion with violent disorder. She must feel very proud.

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ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 15:35

No the flag waving thugs are a extremist issue

just as not all brown/black people are women hating rapists not all white working class people are assholes

EasternStandard · 25/04/2024 15:36

User135644 · 25/04/2024 14:04

Before Brexit we had the right under EU law to send them back to the country they arrived from (i.e. France).

I don’t think it makes much difference. The numbers were tiny and we took more than sent back

It’s also not resolving the Med or migration issues for the countries within the EU

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 15:36

RidgeBBQ · 25/04/2024 15:21

No don’t be silly. I would not report that juvenile nonsense. I presume that childish comment is still there, don’t worry. I don’t even know what that insult means, have you spelt it correctly?

Some of your earlier racist posts have gone. Take a look. I didn’t report you but someone clearly did.

Which posts and which racist content please? Nothing I said was racist. Please back up such accusations.

MarioIa · 25/04/2024 15:41

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 15:35

No the flag waving thugs are a extremist issue

just as not all brown/black people are women hating rapists not all white working class people are assholes

I would agree with those statements.

Speaking factually, would you agree that men from non-Western countries are largely over-represented in sex crime/rape statistics or do you believe that the collective governments of Europe have made dozens of miscalculations in the publishing of their crime statistics?

I'm struggling to believe it's a smear campaign against foreign men tbh. Usually, if it walks like a duck....

RidgeBBQ · 25/04/2024 15:45

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 15:36

Which posts and which racist content please? Nothing I said was racist. Please back up such accusations.

I don’t remember the exact content. You were the one who wrote the posts!

I have done you a favour and looked back as you seem unable to. For some reason, MN decided to delete your comments from 1627, 1636 and 1648 yesterday.

You might want to consider why. I can’t help you with that.

I only reported one post made by the biology poster.

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 15:49

RidgeBBQ · 25/04/2024 15:45

I don’t remember the exact content. You were the one who wrote the posts!

I have done you a favour and looked back as you seem unable to. For some reason, MN decided to delete your comments from 1627, 1636 and 1648 yesterday.

You might want to consider why. I can’t help you with that.

I only reported one post made by the biology poster.

So you don't remember the content yet you're merrily claiming that they were racist. Makes sense.

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 15:55

MarioIa · 25/04/2024 15:41

I would agree with those statements.

Speaking factually, would you agree that men from non-Western countries are largely over-represented in sex crime/rape statistics or do you believe that the collective governments of Europe have made dozens of miscalculations in the publishing of their crime statistics?

I'm struggling to believe it's a smear campaign against foreign men tbh. Usually, if it walks like a duck....

I agree that, in the figures you have quoted, there does seem to be a disproportionate number, yes.

however I am not sure why you have chosen to try and refocus a debate on the behaviour of right wing extremists on to this

I am also interested if you you actually want to discuss how to tackle the issue beyond ‘stop the boats/send them all back’

RidgeBBQ · 25/04/2024 15:58

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 15:49

So you don't remember the content yet you're merrily claiming that they were racist. Makes sense.

Ok why do you think MN found your comments offensive then?

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 15:59

RidgeBBQ · 25/04/2024 15:58

Ok why do you think MN found your comments offensive then?

I have no clue therefore I won't jump to an unlikely conclusion and present it as fact. You could learn from that.

User135644 · 25/04/2024 16:16

EasternStandard · 25/04/2024 15:36

I don’t think it makes much difference. The numbers were tiny and we took more than sent back

It’s also not resolving the Med or migration issues for the countries within the EU

The point is though that when they started pouring in from France on The Channel and we couldn't do anything about it, the numbers went through the roof. Before Brexit there was no use doing it because they'd be sent straight back.

The channel crossings were barely an issue before Brexit.

EasternStandard · 25/04/2024 16:19

User135644 · 25/04/2024 16:16

The point is though that when they started pouring in from France on The Channel and we couldn't do anything about it, the numbers went through the roof. Before Brexit there was no use doing it because they'd be sent straight back.

The channel crossings were barely an issue before Brexit.

They just came via the Chunnel the numbers were about the same, here from Google. There was a whole clamp down on that route so traffickers built up the Channel business instead

The annual number of asylum applications to the UK peaked in 2002 at 84,132

And no we didn’t send them back then either

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 16:22

I see evidence of police kneeling - but not rioters

as per you statement One week in particular they were running riot in London while police officers were literally running away or kneeling

User135644 · 25/04/2024 16:24

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 16:22

I see evidence of police kneeling - but not rioters

as per you statement One week in particular they were running riot in London while police officers were literally running away or kneeling

Bing Videos

met police running away from blm - Search Videos

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ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 16:26

Probably right to disengage as they where not wearing protective clothing

but not kneeling while people rioted

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 16:27

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 16:26

Probably right to disengage as they where not wearing protective clothing

but not kneeling while people rioted

Shouldn't need protective clothing unless GASP the BLM protesters were violent thugs??

Combattingthemoaners · 25/04/2024 16:28

MarioIa · 25/04/2024 15:05

I'm curious to hear the thoughts of the posters that repeatedly asked me to provide stats now that I've posted them.

@Combattingthemoaners
@ghostyslovesheets
@TooBigForMyBoots

I didn’t ask you to provide stats but here we go anyway. That practice is truly awful and has no place in any society. However, you still cannot say brown/black men commit more sexual violence compared to white men because of this.

Louloulouenna · 25/04/2024 16:32

@Combattingthemoaners you might want to have a look at global statistics on the most dangerous places to live for women.

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 16:33

Shouldn't need protective clothing unless GASP a small number of the BLM protesters behaved like violent thugs??

fixed that for you - I was a BLM protester but not a violent thug

so we agree violent behaviour should not be tolerated - like the behaviour displayed on St George’s Day

OneTC · 25/04/2024 16:37

For years now police have been happy to just let most disorder go at protests and prosecute people later. The one thing they won't stand for is fighting the police. They don't stand for it from anyone. The "active" RW lot, who are largely made up of footie hooligans, love fighting the police. This is why it looks like their protests get policed harder

Combattingthemoaners · 25/04/2024 16:38

Louloulouenna · 25/04/2024 16:32

@Combattingthemoaners you might want to have a look at global statistics on the most dangerous places to live for women.

But this isn’t due to someone’s skin colour so I’m not sure why people are mentioning it. It’s because of patriarchal ideas and religious oppression of women in those countries. The previous poster quoted a whole section about Muslim men when she had original said it’s black/brown men who commit far too much sexual violence. What she actually meant was Muslims which is a religion and not an ethnicity.

Sofiabella · 25/04/2024 16:38

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 16:33

Shouldn't need protective clothing unless GASP a small number of the BLM protesters behaved like violent thugs??

fixed that for you - I was a BLM protester but not a violent thug

so we agree violent behaviour should not be tolerated - like the behaviour displayed on St George’s Day

It definitely wasn't small numbers but I'm glad we agree on the violent thugs part.

cerisepanther73 · 25/04/2024 16:41

@newnamethanks

Its just an excuse for yobs football ⚽️ hooligans and racists 🙄 to have a jolly of instigating provoking discontent fights as a form of entertainment and make a point

MarioIa · 25/04/2024 16:41

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2024 15:55

I agree that, in the figures you have quoted, there does seem to be a disproportionate number, yes.

however I am not sure why you have chosen to try and refocus a debate on the behaviour of right wing extremists on to this

I am also interested if you you actually want to discuss how to tackle the issue beyond ‘stop the boats/send them all back’

I'm just providing data in support of my first point on this thread that it's a complex matter and xenophobia doesn't just happen in a vacuum, even if these movements no doubt do attract troublemakers and those just looking for a fight.

Hirsi-Ali (who lived in the Netherlands) mentions that only 55% of the immigrants arriving in the 90s were working 15 years later, despite the Dutch government spending upwards of 16 billion euros on integration programs.

Statistics like this are not going to endear them to the working class nationals in times of austerity and predictably it's this working class demographic that seems to be the most resistant to immigration.

Then when we add mass sexual assaults of thousands of women in one evening and a swathe of smaller but similar events coupled with the police and the left actively downplaying it, it's not particularly hard to see why some feel they should 'take matters into their own hands'.

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