Gary Lineker tried to gently draw some parallels with the 1930s a while back, got quite the backlash
Backlash from the right wing media, with the likes of GB news, Talk tv and the mail/express leading the way. They're the enemy, they're the ones driving all this.
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As to immigration. The numbers are quite simple.
1.2m people came to the UK last year, and near 535,000 left. So net migration is about 685,000.
However, 670,000 died in the UK last year, and 605,000 were born. Obviously those born won't be entering the workforce any time soon, so overall theres not a great deal of change. Except for the fact there are more working adults
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Either way, having more people at working age is beneficial, and we all know immigration often provides an economic net benefit to the U.K. economy, as well as helping to maintain the working-age population while also plugging the current skills gap in many industries.
Well just come back from my efforts to find a shop open.Nearly everything closed(shops and pubs).Linthorpe,Parliament Rd and Union Street looked like war zones!Lots of windows boarded up and burnt out cars.Only police I saw in the whole town were outside a damaged Tesco. Chavy youth and angry Asian people(understandably)about looking dangerous.I was glad to get home.
PS,With all the glass out here my bike is being mothballed.
Anybody who thinks sending masses of immigrants to one of the poorest towns in Britain is a good idea has clearly never lived in the real world.O saw the net result tonight.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight PCC Donna Jones (Tory, shocker...), just wants to let the government know that the rioters are just misunderstood little flowers...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czk00ykdl75o
I try to avoid the news but realistically it’s impossible these days, and I feel a duty to be somewhat clued up on current affairs.
No, it’s not, and why do you? I haven’t watched any news at for the last couple of days, and the only current affairs I’ve been paying attention to involves the clown show that is Drumphs campaign, just for the shits’n’giggles.
God only knows how those poor people in those hotels feel — they've likely escaped unimaginable suffering and danger to reach the country they heard was supposed to be civilised, only to find an angry mob literally trying to burn them alive.
I try to avoid the news but realistically it’s impossible these days, and I feel a duty to be somewhat clued up on current affairs.
No, it’s not, and why do you?
Because people being clued up on current affairs is the only way that things will change in a positive way?
There burning the snowdome down in Tamworth .
The bastards.
I’d like to see these shit-sturring scum dumped on a piss wet thorough little island covered in bird shit 20 miles off shore. And left there. With absolutely nothing.
If they’re that desperate to fight Muslim “extremists” then ship them of to Somalia
for alpin, think the clip has been removed, but it was this guy
https://twitter.com/kj__1996/status/1820074464819765339?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg
Here’s an old clip of “punch a nazi” (not from these riots), shows the correct technique to use when confronting a nazi
https://twitter.com/lilaaron911/status/1268634751688007680?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg
There burning the snowdome down in Tamworth .
The bastards.
It's a slippery slope towards fascism when even the Labour MP is dog-whistling away to appease the far-right.
https://twitter.com/SarahEdwardsTam/status/1818240122103484735
Wheelie bin girl gets her comeuppance…
Was that the one in the last page that was on remand or something?
**** about find out indeed.
I did like how they made the minimal amount of movement to avoid that bin.
I did like how they made the minimal amount of movement to avoid that bin.
Loads of these roioters getting (illegally) doxxed on X, loads. Obviously I'm not posting any of that.. Amazingly, lots already have criminal convictions for, well, you name it.
Anyway...
here is the Dildo of Consequence in action:
https://twitter.com/LutsandDefoe/status/1820031385656078544
This is pretty remarkable!
https://twitter.com/MusaAdnan/status/1820021351043735929
Off to kip now. 🙂
^^ Apologies! It's not specifically illegal but can count as harassment.
Sorry for not checking properly.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight PCC Donna Jones (Tory, shocker…), just wants to let the government know that the rioters are just misunderstood little flowers…
That is outrageous, for all kinds of reasons. Though I couldn't help but chuckle at the total lack of self awareness that she, representing the party of government for the last 14 years, tried to blame the government of the last 4 weeks. Never liked the idea of PCCs especially as they have become political roles.
I appreciate the sense of karma in seeing protectors getting hit, or imagining creative ways to punish them, but talking hard man fantasies on social media is how this shit started. We need to be better than that.
To take up the point about school summer holidays...
Why do we think this is typically a time when rioting happens - especially far right?
It's unlikely to be anything to do with school itself - a bunch of thugs who never went to school anyway and whose kids, grandkids and great grandkids (status usually attained by the age of 45) are highly unlikely to have attended school either.
Isn't it just a combination of no football and the heat getting to their primitive brains driving them into a frenzy?
On the police response - pretty good, but not enough rubber bullets.
^Thats a new one, blame the immigrants for taking all the jobs. I thought their main grievance was that they don't work and get everything for free?
The bloke that got bitten in the arse by the lube dog has already been in court where, well, he cried.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/02/man-took-part-hartlepool-riot-cries-dock-21350627/
Video further down shows him walking into court with the older guy that will also be sentenced in September.
@poopscoop not sure if I'm giving too much benefit of the doubt but that bloke with the criminal record that can't make the connection. Surely that's a set up ? People aren't that dense are they? If the answer is yes then well done the reporter letting him sign his own stupidity cheque.
SYL is complaining today that he has been tracked down (by the Daily Mail among others) to his hotel in a foreign country and his kids are scared people are coming to get them.
I've yet to see any reports of anyone throwing bricks through the windows and then setting the hotel on fire.
Alanis Morrissette has been put on standby.
Tommy Robinson and others just openly lying now online:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2ggn0x802o
SYL is complaining today that he has been tracked down (by the Daily Mail among others) to his hotel in a foreign country
That’s SYL who has now decided that he’s not English and is traveling on an Irish passport now.
^Thats a new one, blame the immigrants for taking all the jobs. I thought their main grievance was that they don’t work and get everything for free
Schrodingers Immigrant?
Though, more seriously, the failure to rehabilitate and retrain inmates to give them a better chance of employment on release is another failure of (multiple) governments that has led to these kind of issues in that section of society.
I don't know if its bin dun but this really made my day: https://metro.co.uk/video/southport-rioter-gets-hit-head-brick-takes-low-blow-3243115/?ito=vjs-link
It has, but such schadenfreude is worth repeating
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@poopscoop not sure if I’m giving too much benefit of the doubt but that bloke with the criminal record that can’t make the connection. Surely that’s a set up ? People aren’t that dense are they? If the answer is yes then well done the reporter letting him sign his own stupidity cheque.
If only it were a setup eh? 🙁
don’t know if its bin dun but this really made my day: https://metro.co.uk/video/southport-rioter-gets-hit-head-brick-takes-low-blow-3243115/?ito=vjs-link/blockquote >
Where have you been?!You. Are. A. Disgrace!
😉
Apparently Farage is one of those calling for Parliament to be recalled over the disturbances. The government is ruling it out for now.
I'd recall Parliament. And read out the lies Farage spread on Twitter that helped fuel the violence. Make the toad faced arse accountable to the electorate for his actions.
not sure if I’m giving too much benefit of the doubt but that bloke with the criminal record that can’t make the connection. Surely that’s a set up ? People aren’t that dense are they? If the answer is yes then well done the reporter letting him sign his own stupidity cheque
Never underestimate the stupidity out there. Populist politicians certainly don't - and that is the main reason we are where we are.
The school holidays also coincide with the summer break from football. All those firms not getting to meet up for cordial drinks and a game of chess or backgammon must be a bit bored.
I'm not implying that all of the throbbers involved are members of football firms, but I'd be amazed if there aren't the usual suspects well known to match-day Police in the mix; worth remembering that the EDL formed as a result of members of the Luton Town firm.
Apparently Farage is one of those calling for Parliament to be recalled over the disturbances.
Which is a broad hint that recalling Parliament is a bad idea, because it just gives him an opportunity to grandstand. This is something that needs to be dealt with firmly by the executive, without a running commentary from the legislature. All they'll do is bloviate and make things worse.
SYL is complaining today that he has been tracked down (by the Daily Mail among others) to his hotel in a foreign country and his kids are scared people are coming to get them.
Whining about not having 'quality time' with his family while his supporters try to burn other families alive. Shame he won't be able to cross the British border without getting arrested in the future, he can enjoy all the quality time he wants in other countries, until his funding stream from foreign enemies dries up.
I don’t know if its bin dun but this really made my day:
He's bin dun too......arrested several days later at the scene of an unrelated domestic incident were police officers recognised his internet celebrity status.
He was found to have an untreated head injury so he was taken to A&E where he alledgedly racial abused another patient.
No updates concerning the state of his testicles though
No updates concerning the state of his testicles though
Already dubbed 'Eunuch Powell' on Twitter.
Whining about not having ‘quality time’ with his family while his supporters try to burn other families alive. Shame he won’t be able to cross the British border without getting arrested in the future, he can enjoy all the quality time he wants in other countries, until his funding stream from foreign enemies dries up.
He needs some sort of travel ban put in place/ his passport flagged which will likely be copy/pasted by the EU and most other countries.
