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.

Because of the hugely aging population. I work in the NHS, 75% of our waiting list is made up of people aged 70 and over.

A woman literally had her head chopped off by her (white) boyfriend in East Kilbride, near Glasgow last year.

Oddly, I don't remember any protests after that. I wonder why?

www.itv.com/news/2025-07-14/postman-who-stabbed-and-beheaded-girlfriend-jailed-for-life

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.

A year ago also SYLnwas telling people he didn't have a problem with Sikhs, it was people from violent cultures coming in that were the problem. And also we were being told it wasn't racist because brown people can be British. It was the rise in new immigration that was the issue. Nowaks death is now being used as an example of the way immigration has failed (even though he wasn't an immigrant and is the good kind of brown person) but apparently if his parents hadn't been allowed in he wouldn't have committed the crime

The goalposts are always moving so even if the government did "listen" the thing people decided they are/were saying moves retrospectively.

I agree. The majority of us are struggling with the cost of living, stress, if you have kids the education system. Life is in the shits.

But people only seem to care about themselves and their views.

There aren't peace full protests anymore. Its descending into anarchy. Burning people's homes, looting. Any excuse for a racist riot it seems I feel ashamed to be British sometimes.

Was her boyfriend actively allowed into the country from a high risk or high violence third world area? Or was there very little that could be done about it?

Yeah, if mass uncontrolled immigration was so good for the economy and the NHS, both would be doing amazingly well. The woke cult can’t even produce any evidence to back up their point about immigration being beneficial.

Bring people in, they need more services and healthcare, so bring more people in. So the Ponzi scheme gets bigger and bigger.

I also wondered what "something far more dangerous," than burning a family out of their home could be.

Putin doesn't need an army. We're hellbent on destroying ourselves it seems.

Exactly. They’re just all too thick to remember who they were told to hate before this.

That doesn't fit the narratives though 😕

I would say it can but our institutions have messed this up very badly.

I don't see how even a Reform government can right these wrongs via mass deportations, so this is all extremely depressing.

So again we’re back to the position of VAWAG being okay and something we should just accept as long as it’s carried out by white men.

And we all know their narratives must be protected no matter what

Maybe they don't like seeing attempted beheadings on their streets rather than they're just thick idiots who follow whatever Tommy Robinson tells them?

Which city is constantly overtaken?

Yeah just go ahead and make stuff up which is clearly not what I was saying. They’re equal in harm and outcome, but not equal in preventability.

I hope you’re not one of those people advocating for single sex spaces because we ‘can’t tell which man is dangerous and which isn’t’.

Weird that they only don’t like them when the perpetrators aren’t white, as evidence by the multiple examples of violent crimes against women that have drawn no attention from Stephen Yaxley Lennon, Nigel Farage and that ilk?

It doesn't help that Palestinian supporters have been allowed to march in London shouting hate crime towards Jews week in week out.

It emboldens other groups to march and we end up with what we have now.

You’re literally saying that you think we should accept certain levels of crime, as long as they’re British born criminals.

I couldn’t give less of a shiny shite about single sex spaces. It’s another issue created by the right wing press to distract from the actual issues in this country

Always, always bringing it back to Palestine for absolutely no reason

But they are fine with actual beheadings as long as they are committed by a British people? Or is it fine if the actual beheadings happen in a house and not on the street?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7lgpxld24o

Or maybe they are in fact a bunch of thick, racist idiots who are easy to manipulate and whip up into a fury so they go around smashing in people's front doors and setting fires to buses and feeling very powerful for a brief period?

I'm not understanding what the link is between The Troubles and the futility of protesting against a foreign government thousands of miles away over which the UK has zero influence. And I do know about The Troubles. Anyone who was alive the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties does.

Too many of these protestors are professional thugs.
The Sarah Everade protestors were entirely justified and different.
Rioting and fighting is just thugs wanting a fight,

Some stories hit harder. Everard’s murder was particularly striking because she died at the hands of a police officer who we’re supposed to feel safe and protected by. Honour killings are hideous but sadly happen all too often so it wasn’t shocking in the same way. Ditto Belfast- I’ve heard some atrocious gory details about that one, it happened in broad daylight, stabbings aren’t common in Belfast full stop.

There is absolutely always a racial dimension at play though of course. Remember the horrendous story of the Sikh woman who was gang raped by white men in a racist attack? That also happened in broad daylight in a busy area. I don’t really remember all that much public outcry over that. Also if Henry Nowak was brown too, it wouldn’t have hit the news at all.

Rather not give away my location.

@NameChangeMay2026i really don’t think a large proportion of immigrants are net contributors!! I think many of those are leaving.