To be embarrassed to be from Hull right now?

[Chester23]

These "protests" just look like a load of people out for a fight. People on live steams talking about going to get beer and seem to be having a great time.
Causes are lost because of reasons like this? Why would I support you when you are destroying my city? Setting fire to bins? Throwing all sorts at the police. I can't support this.

It’s not great to lose control so quickly but what do you expect Labour will do to sort immigration issues out?

I agree the Tories have done nothing for 14 years, apart from cook up stupid schemes that waste millions of pounds of taxpayers money. Hopefully Labour will get the asylum process back to some sort of functionality.

Sane reply as to the pp.

I agree the Tories have done nothing for 14 years, apart from cook up stupid schemes that waste millions of pounds of taxpayers money. Hopefully Labour will get the asylum process back to some sort of functionality.

By doing what?

I just can't believe it. I can't believe people were acting like they were having the time of their life, "let's go get some beers". I have never felt unsafe in Hull but I dont know how I will feel next time I have to go to city centre.

Yes, Reform did get a lot of votes. As I recall Ben Habib was in favour of allowing asylum seekers to drown. Do you think that is a viable way of addressing asylum seekers coming to the UK?

@TattiePants good natured banter...It is until our teams meet. (I'm black and white)

@Unforgettablefire definitely make an exception for Derby games! Although they're few and far between now.

Chester23 I agree.
How can anyone cat as if they would enjoy this.
I haven't seen much footage- thank goodness. Just heard police sirens and that picture of the fires behind Spring bank.

In Hull hospitals are reporting that doctors and nurses carnt get in and out of hospitals safely to change shifts. Truly despicable what's happing in Hull and many other areas.

My mum and sister were going to go on the tour of the Old Town, tomorrow but don't want to, now.

That's sad - the old town is definitely worth visiting. But yes- feels a different place at the moment.

My parents grew up in Hull @grafittiartist but mum was looking forward to seeing it all from a different angle. This is not quite the angle anticipated 😕

Indeed!
At least she knows that it is usually very different!

Well at least we know who all the racists are now.

I lived among very racist people for ages. And because I wasn't white Engerlish (but white British... ) I was told to fuck off back home on many an occasion. I thought people like that had disappeared from mainstream view, only sharing their hateful ideology amongst fellow fash. And now here they are again, in full sight, happy to show off their bigotry, their Nazi tattoos, their violent tendencies and zeig heiling like their grandparents hadn't fought against this shit in WW2

Hateful scum, the lot of them. And everyone defending them with "but we need to take our country back" and "we need to fight our cause." Just say you're a nasty racist - fewer letters.

Oh, sure. This is a standard discussion about the US, too. Thomas Friedman's book "The world is flat" from 2005(-ish) talks about a forthcoming realignment of left-right to what he calls the "Web party" (tech businesses, free-movement, social liberals) and the "Wall party" (organised labour, anti-immigration, social conservatives), and I think we are seeing some of that play out.

But this is mostly a problem for the Tories. Their paymasters, generally speaking, want immigration so that labour becomes cheaper, and don't tend to live in Stoke or Hull, or have kids who are having trouble scraping together a deposit. And post-Brexit they came to rely far more on Red Wall voters, who are more sensitive to immigration issues than the average voter in Amersham.

Of course it's all a lot more complicated than that because things are never that simple (for example, companies only want to pay low wages to their own employees; they would like every other company to pay their staff high wages so their customers have more purchasing power). But then, everything is more complicated than that. ¯\(ツ)/¯

No i don’t , but then i didn’t vote reform.

Maybe we should build a bridge from France to the uk so people can walk over in safety instead of the dangerous boat crossing. That way more of them could come over , and they wouldn’t have to give any money to the smugglers?

All paid for by taxpayers money of course. Im sure that would be a great vote winner for the party that bought that in ?

Did reform get a lot of votes? They got 5 seats. I don’t notice them being in power.

Hopefully anything will work better than the hideously expensive Rwanda nonsense.

I really have chosen not to read a lot of the responses on this post because it's descended into hatred and general disingenuity. I am, however, worried that this is what our country looks like to the world

Reform got 14% of the votes cast. . 2% more than the lib dems

@Ponkpinkpink15 Decency and community you say! Did you see the people of Southport rebuilding a wall (smashed by thugs). Did you see the people of Liverpool standing to protect their community from thugs!

What more do you want

The rest of the wold will be saying “ wow the uk has the worlds first pregnant man “. 🤣

Old town is beautiful. I had only ever seen it drunk 😂, but walked through one day and thought wow.
But I dont blame them. I think it will take a while to get back to normal

This wasn't the point of this post. So I apologise for that.
I'm very disappointed in people today. I understand immigration has issues but this is not what was needed.