to be utterly sick of protests, marches, rallies, and riots

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What happened today in Belfast was dreadful. Of course it was.

When Sarah Everard died, there were marches. But a day before she died, an Indian woman Sarah's age was knifed to death in the street in Leicestershire. It was an "honour" killing, I think.

Where was HER lantern on the doorstep of Downing Street? Where was HER march?

My point is, dreadful things happen every day and I am so sick and tired of news items sparking so much public rowdiness. It used to be that the media could report on current events without starting a riot. I know that we have always had riots, but they were the occasional one. And because they were not common, they helped effect change. They were a desperate measure reserved for when nothing else had helped.

Now, together with marches, rallies, and protests, society is constantly disrupted, and I am so, so sick of it. I live in a major city and I can't go anywhere without checking what march, rally, protest, or riot is happening, especially at the weekends. And they are so common that they don't help effect change anymore.

The riots are terrible. Thousands and thousands of pounds' worth of lost property in fires, injured bystanders, police calld away from other duties to attend them. And there are "professional" rabble-rousers who travel to marches, protests, and riots. It's not because they're passionate about a cause. They're just passionate about causing trouble.

I travel for work to major American cities and it's even worse over there. Another day, another riot/protest/march/rally.

They have become a feature of today's society, and I wish they would just stop.

Edit: I actually stay in more because of them. I don't go out of my hotel as much when staying in America, and I don't go to the city centre where I live as much. It's so bad when regular people are put off from walking around city centres because of all these annoying dickheads.

I think it is worse in America, and I'm tired of feeling scared to go out when there, in case I run into an uncontrolled crowd - where the police have guns, and the protestors might, depending on the state.

The burning buildings in Belfast are a disgrace. It's not the owners' fault that this happened.

Newsflash…..it’s not the doctors and the engineers who are forming grooming gangs and raping young girls in Rochdale.

It’s not the doctors and engineers who are sexually abusing women in the reported cases.

And unless some new information comes out, the man who tried to behead someone in Belfast is not a doctor.

If you are going to try and deflect and gaslight people, you could come up with a better argument.

They set fire to/tried to bomb several passenger trains I believe, showered children with glass in a nearby building with another bomb and booby-trapped mail boxes in the street.

To all the people trying to gaslight genuine people with genuine concerns, why don’t struggle to answer the simple question.

Why do we need to add more murderers and rapists to the country by bringing them in?

How do you propose we stop violent men entering the UK?

Do we stop all immigration, because if we did, the NHS would collapse.

riot summers are not new, check out St Pauls riots and Bristol riots. Mind you I'd put Tommy Robinson in a box and leave him there.

Let's rejoin the single market. That's one way to improve the growth issue - and impose more effective taxes on the big boys.
If we drive this government out, do you honestly think a Reform (or God forbid a Restore one!) would even consider that for a millisecond? No. Their agenda is to asset strip this country for their mega billionaire handlers.

It’s only going to get worse

I love the apologists for the riots. It's always someone else's fault.

If you push immigration and multiculturalism to the point where the host population feels ignored and overwhelmed, then civil disruption and conflict is what you'll get. Add in woke 'all whites are evil' ideology into every institution and you're speed-running the inevitable.

Do you think the thugs on the street terrorising people check to ask are you a doctor or a nurse or an engineer before terrorising them? No, they see that you aren't white and think you're fair game. I'm not trying to deflect. What happened is atrocious and the man shouldn't have been in the country. My point is that people are using tragic incidents, that happen every day by all races across the country, to stoke hatred and division and to excuse thuggery and mob violence.

I would say to you stop deflecting and gas lighting too. These men out rioting are nothing more than thugs who want any excuse to commit violence. They don't actually give a flying fuck about the victim. If they did they'd be out committing Street violence every time some one is stabbed or murdered or raped. Suggesting that the tracksuit brigades out on the streets are just decent, honest, concerned citizens is gas lighting!

What are you talking about. It makes no sense at all. Comparing murderer and rapists to doctors. That’s what you did and it makes no sense.

The answer to criminality is better, more effective policing. Let's rebuild the police force properly and punish criminals for what they DO not who they are.

You don't think what we are seeing eg on the streets of Belfast is dangerous?? I think it's extremely dangerous. I am very concerned about where it is leading. I don't think there is any excuse for setting fires and rioting?

Where are you getting this deliberate misinformation that we don't have enough doctors and nurses, when we have UK doctors and nurses unable to get jobs in the UK?

https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-seeks-deal-on-doctor-unemployment-as-survey-reveals-half-of-resident-doctors-finishing-foundation-training-have-no-job-to-go-to-next-month

Oh and for nurses:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk0z501pmmo?app-referrer=deep-link

What we need is more law and order. Not emotional 'rage' like some low level politicians are calling for. We need actual growth to our economy, not ideology. A fascist revolution will not solve either points, to say the least...

Unlikely to be convicted as manslaughter.

Juries tend to see carrying a knife as evidence of intent. Plus they tend not to sympathetic to gang members!

Persephonia1966 · Today 07:22
Even a year ago the unrest in Belfast (and attempts at unrest in other parts of the country) were targeting Eastern Europeans (primarily Romanians and Bulgarians) because the boys accused of rape were Romanian.

Romanian/Bulgarian Roma I believe - Roma are discriminated against and marginalised in Romania, Bulgaria and Eastern Europe as well.

How about importing less criminals?

Violent protest is entirely unacceptable.

There seems however to be a great deal of confusion on the juxtaposition of legal migration and mass/illegal/hostile migration. Do people genuinely not realise that the majority, the reasonable, concern relates to the latter?

It's tedium to habitually see bores online refer to same as 'racism' and 'far right' sentiment; an insult to populaces who have actually suffered under far right dictatorships. It allows the poor UK government to avoid accountability; useful idiots, as it were.

People are angry at things that are happening every day.

They’re not though, that’s the issue.

These pathetic idiots only choose to be angry at certain events but seemingly ignore the others.

Do you know how many stabbings have happened in the past few weeks?
Do you know how many murders?

Why is there not riots about the neo-nazi who tried to kill a random barber with an axe?

What about Alfie Coleman who was planning a terrorist attack that would have killed multiple people?

What about the 80 year old woman that was raped and killed in her own home?

There have been over 500 murders in this country this year alone, only a handful of these have been caused by immigrants (most of which did not come over in a boat).

Where are the protests and anger over the other hundreds of murders?

The riots are only concerned if they can try and spin it into something to be racist about.

Are you cognitively challenged? My point is that those out rioting don't care what your profession is. They're out to terrorise anyone who isn't white, they want every person of colour to pay for the crimes of one evil man. When burning down houses, as happened last night, they don't knock on the door and check what your profession is first. They are collectively targeting all non white people for the crimes of one black man. The fact that you don't see this suggests one of two things. Willful ignorance or outright stupidity.

If we stopped all immigration it's a myth that the NHS would collapse. There are many UK nationals qualified as doctors and nurses and unable to get jobs in the NHS.

Yes it might cost the NHS more as it's cheaper to hire lower cost migrants than employ Uk nationals.

I don’t mind protests etc, as they’re part of democracy. But I never quite understand why it so often means looting or attacking the police.

Too many are just rent a mob. 🙄

Why? Let’s say we accept your argument. Why does this particular issue lead to the type of violent protest that we see? Where are the violent women protesting against rape culture? Where are the violent mobs protesting against cuts in mental health services? There are dozens of issues that people are concerned about. What is it about this one that seems to attract such thuggery?