Why are there suddenly loads of protests?

[Newsenmum]

All these awful EDL protests- why are they suddenly happening? Whats kicking them all off? One in Bristol today is scary.

Riot Summer.

They aren’t protests, they’re highly orchestrated right-wing ‘events’ piggy-backing on the awful murders in Southport, carried out by a British citizen who happens to be black. In the tiny minds of these right-wing thugs, that means he becomes the embodiment of all immigrants, people of colour and Moslems, who are all the same as far as the right are concerned and responsible for 100% of crime in the UK. Facts and truth are not a priority for the far right, nor do they have the intellectual capacity to understand anything more complex than the single theme narrative going on in their dulled brains.

Southport, not Stockport.

The horror is Southport has been the catalyst for this. But it's been brewing for a long time. The Manchester airport incident, the pro Palestine protests calling for death to all Jews , the rioting in Leeds. The 2 tier policing. This is just the recent stuff. The authorities need to get a grip, and by that I mean get a grip on everyone, not selecting who and what they will police

Other people have pointed that out and she has apologised, read the bloody thread.

So people are angry that a crime has been committed.
So they go out and commit crimes.
Please explain.

Apologies. I admit am guilty of not reading an entire thread before I reply because I lose the post that I’d be replying to. I’m not good at multitasking!

Just thick people who have absolutely nothing to offer society …am sure they get more benefits than any immigrants ,without any contribution to our tax system!!

Like it or not there are a lot of working class people who have been massively disenfranchised over the last few decades. Combine it with how divisive social media has been and it was bound to boil over eventually.

Personally I'm hoping it's the kick up the backside we need to realise that we need to get on and stop allowing intolerance from all sides.

These people have been simmering under the surface just waiting for the opportunity to cause chaos and attack people of colour.
They dont give a single fuck about those beautiful little girls who were murdered.
They're just disgusting monsters who want to get pissed up, coked up and kick off. Stupid people in large numbers being cunts.
I've seen videos shared of these thugs jumping on cars containing people and children of colour as they're having crowds shout "kill them". My DP went to a counter protest to the rioting tonight and had to help a young woman who was being dragged to the floor by men because she had a anti racism sign. Funny they didn't go for him. Just a wee lass.

If this rioting had been done in the name of something else such as austerity, with no violence to others but maybe some angry marches around town halls etc and you could argue it was a group of disenfranchised people unable to cope with the uncertainty of needing to use food banks or fear of the nhs going, I'd be able to maybe get my head around the anger.

But this?! Attacking mosques? Setting fire to police vans? Calling for the slaughter of Muslim children who are just in the car with their parent trying to get home? Each and every single one of those fucking idiots needs arresting and rehabilitation on how to behave like a human and not a fucking monster. I've seen videos of women being screamed theyre a cunt and spat at. I've read on here Muslim women, women who do more for our society than these gobshites ever will, are to scared to leave their homes.
How fucking dare these scumbags make people feel so scared to leave their homes?! How fucking dare they.

They're fucking idiots who follow some stupid Tommy Robinson type scum social media pages and are crying about patriotism when setting fucking fire to the country they allegedly love. Nope, not having it. They're violent thugs with more hatred in them than intelligence.
The real "patriots" are the ones who'll be out these following weeks rebuilding and cleaning up the things these fuckers have broken.

(Sorry I'm particularly sweary today)

Some of our posts were almost a x post.
Been here years and never had one before!

Thank you.
And in response to another poster, I can understand you being hurt when me and another poster said Stockport in error - apologies again.
It's not that I can't be bothered to get the name right - I've never been to either place, and know very little about English geography and regions etc, it was simply misremembering the town name. X

"Two tier policing" Hey Tommy, come get your boy.

Protests?

They are smashing up our cities and attacking innocent bystanders and the police

And you can understand why?

You cannot expect a rational person to explain irrational actions

I think the children were returned?

What makes you assume it's EDL? People have had enough of the bias discrimination. The PM has said he is giving police powers to protect the public from "extremists" which is equally funny as I don't remember him doing that 2 weeks ago when Leeds was burning or the other times protesters have unacceptably gone turbo.

Again Manchester airport police officer was accused of being racist and protests broke out. Floyd affect were statues were torn down and police were told not to get involved.

There certainly isn't equality going on. Have 3 BAME girls got stabbed by a white guy the streets would also be burning and rightly so. People are angry at the inequality taking place.

People are quick to jump on the bandwagon about racist police brutality but when the tables turn the other way they are called stupid and thick.

No wonder everyone is losing their heads.

100%

I'm a Sikh, Indian woman.
A white old English man in his 70's attacked me after his wife came into my garden to sing "go back home" etc to me. Lived here for over 10 years, they've always given me dirty looks which I guessed was due to me not being white. Don't care about that, wouldn't have 2 words to say to people like them anyway. However, I'm sure these riots emboldened them to attack me. They are lucky I'm not going to hit old people, I just blocked the attack and reported to the police. I'm sure these riots and heatwave made these two disgusting people show how much venom they had against me.

Yeah this is where I am at. I think they’ll do the usual - try to squash it & ignore until it pops up again in 5-10 years, while acting very surprised it inevitably happened again

That's an interesting post and I can't argue with the perception of two-tier policing. I also think you're right that there would be race riots if it were black girls murdered by a random white man.

I'm not sure these are the reasons why we're seeing riots though.

As far as I'm aware there haven't even been any 'objectives' made public. It just appears to be football hooligans enjoying a day out and smashing the place up.

I'm sorry to hear this. I hope that you can get a restraining order or something so that they won't feel free to come into your garden and attack and abuse you. WTF is the matter with some people that they think it's ok to behave like this?

Another riot happened only a couple of weeks ago, with burning cars/buses and smashed up streets, and there was absolute crickets about it on here. Fine - nobody is compelled to discuss anything they don’t want to. But you can’t then blub when people query why that very same incident received virtually no press or MN attention, along with police arriving 3 hours late to the incident and the PM looking the other way, when these equally brainless events have inspired a specialist task force set up by the prime minister and a very robust and vocal police response.

I would be VERY interested to see any direct replies to the above, not just crying about how mean I am or some shit like that?

I'm so sorry to read this. Sending you a hug. I don't even know what to say, you must have been so scared.
Hateful bastards, they're utter scum and normal people hate knowing you've been treated so badly x

@TransformerZ that must have been horrible. I hope you're ok.