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.

But there was riots over the killing of Henry Nowak but his murderer was not an immigrant?

Do not fool yourself into thinking these men are rioting on the streets because they want to make the streets safer.
They are the danger.
They don’t care about you.

Firstly, they are the ones being violent and putting innocent lives at risk.
Secondly, these men are statistically more likely to have criminal records for violence against women and children.

You are more at risk from the men you are defending, than from the immigrants.

If you think that immigration needs tighter restrictions then you can voice that without attacking and trying to kill innocent people.

We live in a democracy so vote how you want.

But do not give these violent criminals any credit, when statistically they have wives and children who live in fear of them every day.
And are now terrorising innocent people on the streets as well as putting our first responders at risk.

Where were the riots when this happened? All of you out here defending rioting only defending it when it is a white victim. Here you have a homegrown white (female) perpetrator attempting to behead a non-white man.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/15/neo-nazi-obsessed-teen-jailed-for-trying-to-kill-kurdish-man-in-bristol-with-axe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Racists are blind to their hypocrisy. It is never the victim you are concerned about. It is always about the colour of person you are rioting against.

The words of Brendan O'Neill are apposite to this thread

"Already the political class is fretting more about the masses’ response to this apocalyptic event than the event itself. Just as Starmer lamented the calls for ‘pure, cold rage’ over the death of Henry Nowak, so they will seek to crush our outrage over the barbarism in Belfast. An MP for Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party is fuming about the 'English right-wing politicians' who might exploit this atrocity to ‘further their own ends’. Imagine witnessing such End Times violence and thinking, ‘Shit, how are people going to react?’. They are so lost. They are beyond lost"

www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/09/the-barbarism-in-belfast/

If they don't want people to riot, stop giving them reasons to would be my answer. Step 1 - no undocumented single male migrant allowed in the country to 'claim asylum' or for any other reason. Same as you can't just rock up at Heathrow without a passport and be let in and expect to be put up at the taxpayers expense for 2.5 years.

They don’t care. They’re so blinded by their racism that they think it’s okay to try to murder babies.

So condemn it. Without weasel words. Without deflection. Just a simple “anyone burning down houses is a thug”. You could even try “anyone burning down houses because of the skin colour of the person living in them is a racist thug”.

You’re soooo right. Them setting houses alight is justified because of one crime. Let’s just let them burn the entire place to the ground!

She won’t, lol. She’s twisted my words this entire thread and when she runs out of arguments just goes “WOKE”

Like I stated commenting on crimes by British people is a side issue and deflecting from the issue at hand regarding some asylum seekers. Read the post fully before commenting and pointlessly detracting.

It’s pointless referring to other crimes when the issue at hand is asylum seekers who think it’s ok to rape, attack and murder people without a second thought and having these un vetted people living in your community and having no say in the matter. And when they do end up in court it transpires that they have committed shocking crimes in their own countries which is why they left in the first place, to escape a prison sentence on their home country.

If your daughter was gang raped and your son hacked to within an inch of their life on your doorstep then you’d want your community to protest so it doesn’t happen to anyone else. You obviously would not want them to start attacking innocent families because obviously that’s unacceptable and just as bad as the people they’re protesting about in the first place. But psychotic people aside, people feel like they need to vent their frustration and I understand that.

Oh the irony.

Condemn it. What like the outright refusal to condemn sexual violence and physical violence perpetrated at a higher clip by migrant men. No, because then, it’s all excuses, isn’t it.

The government seem to be setting out to create civil disturbance with their responses to horrific events - calling people far right for getting upset over murders. When a Labour government, a party that is meant to represent the working class, instead demonises them then those people feel the state no longer acts in their interest.

So can we just get it clear that while the “far left” “woke” “mob” you so avidly hate have actively condemned the attempted beheading, you won’t condemn people setting houses on fire while babies sleep in them?

Wow

I’d say people setting houses alight are far right thugs. Call a spade a spade

If you don’t want people to call you out for woke gaslighting and being a defender of rapists and murderers, there is a simple solution. Stop with woke gaslighting and defending rapists and murderers.

More lying.

Condemn it then. Go on.

I’ve not done any of that. Your brain is just rotted

It’s strange how those who support this level of violence like setting fire to homes, are also the ones banging on about our county not being safe 🤔

We want a safe country for ourselves and children.
That means we do not want to be raped, we do not want to be murdered, we do not want to be stabbed and we do not want our homes set on fire.

The only difference between us and you, is that we don’t want these things to happen to us regardless of the race, religion or nationality of the perpetrators.

You don’t seem to care about these things unless the perpetrators are non-white.

We’re not going to apologise for not wanting hundreds of men setting fire to our homes just because they’re white.

You’d not be this forgiving if this was hundreds of brown skinned men setting fires to our homes.

We want to feel safe in our own country.
That means feeling safe from immigrants but also from the men who were born and raised here.

Well, I looked up the police report and the person she attacked suffered only minor injuries, presumably since men have vastly more strength than women and girls. Maybe that's why there weren't riots.

In the Belfast case, this victim would have died had it not been for strangers intervening and was horrifically injured.

Single young men can cause vastly more harm than weaker women and girls shocker.

And she got a pretty long custodial sentence despite the lack of serious injuries. No-one is saying homegrown criminals shouldn't get justice - they should. However we clearly have enough problems with criminals like this without importing more, so that should stop.

We shouldn't let men in unless we know their criminal past, there was a case recently where the rapist had previously been jailed for rape in Germany. A young girl's - a child's - life destroyed and he should never have been let in.

I know you are struggling with being called out for lying and defending rapists and murderers. But the whataboutery won’t wash anymore.

There is no (white) family where the daughter has been gang-raped and the son hacked to death by asylum seekers. The guy arrested in Belfast wasn't an asylum seeker, nor was Harry Nowak's killer. They're both severely mentally ill people who happen to be black. The media/right-wing agitators are taking relatively isolated incidents and twisting them to drive the narrative that marauding gangs of brown people are sweeping through Britain murdering whites and raping their women.

I have a close friend whose brother murdered their mother. All white. Also because he had a psychotic breakdown. Do I feel any less safe because of it? No.

And FWIW I live in an ethnically diverse community and feel safe here.

Did you miss “without deflection “. I mean it should be quite simple to condemn people targeting and burning the homes of people because of their skin colour. Doing that would certainly create some clear blue water between people with genuine concerns about immigration and plain, old-fashioned racists.

Re: birth rates. It’s simply about supply of labour so the fact it’s mainly men is irrelevant (although I think you’re conflating asylum with migration.)

Multiple posts refusing to condemn the attempted murder of babies.

Says it all

A lot of pointless words. Really it’s just deflection and whataboutery.

Why do you think people setting houses alight (criminal, and should be prosecuted) is worse than trying to behead and gouge out someone's eyes?