AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

[Squirrel001]

Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

YABVU @Squirrel001. It's all over the news, TV and online.

@Velumental , well if that is how people respond to finding a place of safety then they are not safe to be free on our streets. The safety of our citizens should always be paramount.

Ah yes that actually explains a lot . They really do want to watch the demise of the UK

I can’t - maybe as they were integrated better?!

Snap shots of Reform's activity are always used without application of nuance. What should we conclude about Starmer taking the knee? Should we look at it in the wider social context or not?

Tbf Australians are pretty happy with their laws. No one would vote for deaths at sea again.

Ik you’d like an international system where everyone who needs to be is placed elsewhere but there’s no way we can have even more of these crimes.

Politicians are meant to prioritise safety of citizens, not the opposite.

And they were women and children who were vetted.

Perhaps the same limited and capped arrangement for women and children who are vetted would almost be ok (the public are probably getting fed up) but currently we focus on a system for non vetted men.

You are half a day late with this, my love.

I agree with you in that asylum hotels contracts are only beneficial to the proprietors who are making literally millions in profits, and offer very little in return. But integration has to cut both ways - if refugees don't want to, no one can make them. I've seen it in my own line of work too, if people can be absorbed into pre-existing communities where English isn't the default language and you can get by without having to learn it/ British culture, then I'm not sure what else can be done. Ultimately, you can't force people.

You can't protest because you will be called names? People like you are so fucking pathetic. You have these delusions that the left are allowed to do whatever they want, when really more folk on this political spectrum just have an actual backbone to stand for what they believe in, risking police violence and even their jobs at times. And we have been called everything but a child of god but media, politicians and the like.

Hmm, I saw an article about this early this morning but it was a bit odd & disjointed.

I am very much of the opinion that immigration has gotten out of control and that it has brought a lot of ills and problems to our society. But I am uncomfortable with these 'protests' that spring up on the day news like this breaks. I just don't see what throwing bins at police achieves but tar any opposition to immigration and multiculturalism with the same brush.

Will ESOL and banning protests prevent one of them raping me or trying to cut off my son's head?

Could well do …

Head it on the 1pm news on the BBC. Does sound absolutely awful.

Would this approach work with other crimes and perpetrators too?

@MsJinks
if you are sure re ESOL and integration would you risk it with this perpetrator? If you had offered a room would you feel safe enough

No caveats about the attacks. Just about the way they are used to whip up further violence like that’s the answer.

Seriously?
I don't buy your argument that some of these men are attacking people because they are treated badly in the UK. Having protesters outside a hotel does not encourage them to start raping and murdering people.

Its the attackers attacking people that whips up violence.

Being overly literal about ‘one’ doesn’t really help the argument.

Horrible violent crimes happen every day in this country I don't see them leading the national news within hours (if at all) particularly where it's just happened and there's a live police investigation which should be the priority.

Why have people become so demanding of immediate coverage and narrative across selective crimes?

Neither does making excuses for the ever occurring incidents, the incidents not barbarous enough to make into the newspaper but vile all the same.

And yet white attackers attacking people doesn’t. Odd that.

Well good rehab can work well - it’s a focus for the Baltic countries - but that’s obviously post event.

However, I also do think good education around sex, boundaries, etc etc may help get young people on the right track.