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.

No one is triggered - just tired of trying to have a rational debate against populist slogans and word salads 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh - and with people who think it’s perfectly reasonable to burn people out of their homes and destroy their own streets, because one man did an absolutely abhorrent act.

Just make it make sense!

To save trawling through. It’s here. I absolutely condemn the violent attack carried out by that man in Belfast. In fact I’ll go further. If it turns out that he went door-to-door looking for a white man to target, I’ll call it a racist attack by a racist thug.

Your turn.

He was in the country illegally. Again, keep lying. No one believes it any more.

And yet she’s afraid because she thinks our country is so dangerous and wants to make it safer.

So attempted murder by stabbings is wrong but attempted murder by arson is ok.

I wonder if it was brown skinned men setting fire to her home if she’d also think it was ok.

I guess you really can’t argue with stupid 🤦‍♀️

And the way to do this is to burn people out of their homes, as they’re not white? Burn them.

Ok - just to clarify - you are saying all non whites need to go?

I think it’s the inconsistency.
A woman was jailed for an attempted beheading of a kurdish barber with little to no response from
the people protesting now. (Granted though we are stuck with our homegrown thugs but should not have to deal with imported ones).

But people can also be fed up of riots in response because it leads to more people being harmed (including those at risk of being burned alive in the homes.)

Do you think that there is a problem with high immigration? And that bringing in huge numbers of people with higher propensity to commit crime doesn’t make sense, adding in to the problem we already have.

Oh look another racist. I bet you are happy to talk about Chinese, Africans, Arabs, Pakistanis, Indians, Māoris, native Americans… but when it comes to Europe suddenly we must pretend there is no such thing as indigenous race.

He was granted asylum.

How was he in the country illegally? He had a visa.

All these posts and you still can’t say that the attempted murder of a baby is wrong.

Not if he'd been granted refugee status. That would make him here legally, albeit potentially temporarily.

'Nobody' believes it, do they? So you're speaking for everyone are you? Riiiight.

Ever heard of attacking the argument rather than the person? Maybe you could try it.

Yet I keep arguing with you. Fine, I’ll take your advice.

And the riots in this case?
Find me a single recent situation where there has been any form of riot/protest where the victim was not white.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/24/man-john-ashby-32-jailed-for-life-for-rape-and-assault-of-sikh-woman-in-walsall?CMP=ShareAndroidAppOther

You cannot stop 'importing' criminals unless you are proposing zero immigration as they may well have no previous record of offending.

This.

It’s pretty clear why people in Belfast are protesting. Governments have been making promises and have done nothing. It doesn’t matter how peacefully people try to express dissatisfaction at the rate of unwanted change, immigration from third world cultures, the cost of boat people (social and financial), they are never the less told to shut up and stop being racist. It doesn’t matter how many polite but strongly worded letters are written to MPs. I mean, Labour MPs voted against the grooming gang enquiry. They did everything they could to scupper Tory attempts to deter the boats. Criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes have been allowed to stay in the country whilst lawyers line their pockets at the tax payers’ expense. People are pissed off. Some areas in the UK feel far less safe than they used to be, and it’s not because of ‘far right thick white thugs’.

Then years after people have had to put up with all this, some are apparently surprised when protest takes a more violent and angry turn. It’s not pretty at all.

This just about sums it all up:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GE18tewaf3s&ra=m

Just because some idiots went too far by burning houses etc it shouldn’t be used to detract from the issue at hand.

The reason so many people felt the need to protest was because they do not want asylum seekers living in their communities who want to hack someone’s head off or gang rape their daughters.

So you’d be ok with hundreds of brown and black men setting fire to your home because someone somewhere tried to kill someone else that had absolutely nothing to do with you?

Why are you people so 1 dimensional?

Why can’t you be disgusted by the attempted murder of 1 man as well as be disgusted with the attempted murder by arson?

Perhaps that’s the problem here.
That some people can only think about 1 thing at a time.

I want the streets to be safer to me and my DC.
That includes not being stabbed on the street and not having my home set on fire.
I guess you’re ok with having your home set on fire with your children inside.

You still haven’t posted your statistics showing that immigrants have higher levels of sexual and physical violence.

It's absolute nonsense that this is somehow Labour's fault. Around 36,000 people arrived by small boat in the year leading up to May 2026, representing a 13% drop compared to the prior year. Arrivals during the first five months of 2026 saw a 38% decrease year-over-year.

I realise this is pointless to point out though given how committed so many people on this thread are to the narrative that gangs of brown people want to kill and rape us all and that this is what the 'fast left' wants.

Very clear yes - they finally had an ‘excuse’ to be the absolute thugs that they are - oh, you didn’t really think they cared about the victim did you?

BLM

Wow!

Also hasn’t condemned the attempted murder of a two month old baby.

The government has been careful to neither record nor publish such statistics. Maybe ask why?

What about the hero that saved the man from being stabbed to death.

He was white - good.
But he was also an immigrant - bad.

How do the rights simple mind comprehend this.

Is he a dangerous violent rapist because he’s an immigrant?
Or is he safe and allowed to burn down homes with children in because he’s white?