AIBU to feel deeply unsettled by the Southampton protest scenes?

[HopelessPessimist]

Southampton protest against police, huge crowd, Tommy Robinson whipping everyone into a frenzy and saying "this IS about race"

Other speakers declaring that England is a Christian country. The Lords Prayer chanted by every speaker. The leader of UKIP saying he will deport all migrants and make government Christian. The leaders of the protest saying they are being pushed by the police cordon, while the camera angle shows the police haven't moved. The leaders of the protest mocking the female police officer who are taking over a shift from another police officer in the cordon "They're replacing all the men with women!"

This is awful. It feels like the start of civil war. Maybe human beings just aren't supposed to go decades without a fight.

I’m not even a Christian and even I take issue with TR’s cronies appropriating it like they’re regular church attending, God abiding citizens.

Most of them have likely never encountered a Bible.

I don’t have an issue with Christianity. They’re not Christians.

That’s not racial profiling unless they are profiling all white people in that way. It’s class profiling although if it’s based on them protesting it’s class and behaviour profiling.

Very well said. @Livelovebehappy, please note @OneFunBrickNewt is saying the same as what I’d said in my post - that the pro-Palestine marches only attract a minority of antisemitic protesters. They are not in themselves antisemitic marches.

Not the same thing at all checking someone not seeing anything and saying I don't think you have mate is completely different to shrugging and saying don't think so mate.

Why? Why should this just be 'let go'?

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/stop-and-search/latest/

I just watched the video and this is not accurate at all. He said ‘I don’t think you have mate’ in a patronising tone. If he had checked, he might have noticed that the boy who was saying he had been stabbed had in fact.. been stabbed.

I saw the video, it wasn't how you are describing it.

The PM did make a statement though. He made one. Which he should have. Is there anything else he should do?

Nowak’s parents requested it?

Nowak’s parents requested it?

Nowak’s parents requested it?

Nowak’s parents requested it?

Go back in time and make one before Lindsey Hoyle kicked his arse to?

I suggest you watch it again then as its exactly how im describing it

Which you know has hugely reduced over the last decade, due to policy change in the stop and search process of people of colour. Resulting in knife crime increasing in London on the back of it. Over 50% of knife crime is committed by people of colour in London, which suggests that of course focus should be on these figures and how to reduce them. Whether it’s by more in-school education, or more police presence in these communities. It’s not good enough for people to say ‘nothing to see here’, when there clearly is plenty to see.

Yes if you listen to the copper he's very flippant when he says "don't think so mate" it had a "yeah yeah whatever" tone about it

This

How would watching it again change what happened?!!

Why? It’s a horrible way for an 18 year old to be treated as he died.

Handcuffed and arrested for a crime he didn’t do. Scared and surrounded by people not helping him, including the perpetrator of his fatal stabbing. Surely you can see that?

Actually yes, I'm distressed by all of it. The treatment of Palestine, the horrific Hamas attack on Israel, Netenyahu's response, the terrorisation of Jewish people since, racism, Islamaphobia, the rape of girls in the North, the Southport murders, the increase in Nationalism since those, it's all shit and scary and feels like it's careering out of control. I just want to live in less volatile times.

Why? Are you Polish? Tommy Robinson, UKIP, Farage, Reform and his lot whipped up the frenzy against Polish immigrants in 2015 resulting in murders and attacks then.

But now in 2026, they’re pretending a racially motivated murder of a Polish student could happen to any young white British lad when they’re the ones that started the racism against other Europeans, not the British Sikhs ffs.

You dont have to be a devout Christian to want this shit show that is Britain to be sorted out

I think there's people deliberately lying about what is on the video now.

It is how the Commons works; the speaker introduces the government statement.