Social media. These people have always existed, but they had no real idea of realising how many people shared their views. Previously it was just their mates down the pub. Felt pretty isolated. Now they can see solidarity on social media and feel emboldened by it, fed lies by the right wing poster boys like Farage and Robinson.
Bollox.
I work with and know quite a few lads who are EDL/Brexit supporting knackers (1 of them this morning was loving the riots in Southport because its finally started the ‘race war’ he’s been wanting to happen for years) and they all get 100% of their information on anything and everything that happens in the world from Facebook, Twitter/X and YouTube. It definitely does reinforce the belief that they are doing what’s right and they generally see anyone who watches and takes notice of actual journalism/mainstream news as deluded because ‘they’re all in it together and so are the politicians’. To say that social media and the echo chamber of lies it feeds to these idiots is not to blame is absolute bollox
“The video clip of him earlier certainly suggests an element of substance abuse.”
I’d warrant a guess that he wasn’t the only one & follow it up with a second guess for good measure that the drug of choice was most likely coke. It’s fing everywhere.
Brickman surely would be the foundation for a Monty Python animation with said dropping pianos, plank swings and finally the foot of god completing his downfall?
So upsetting that on top of what is a horrifying crime that such a group can seek to make benefit from the situation – and I don’t just mean the rioters.
I mentioned the story in passing to my wife who immediately referred to the nationality of the perpetrator and said it had been confirmed by the BBC?
I don’t really want to add to the speculation but given that she has spent the day hanging out with her Daily Mail reading parents I’m curious as to the provenance of her ‘facts’…
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I mentioned the story in passing to my wife who immediately referred to the nationality of the perpetrator and said it had been confirmed by the BBC?
Well yeh… I’m pretty sure it’s been reported all along he was from Cardiff, so British. Whats your wife’s understanding?
Has it……. I thought they refused to confirm everything beyond that he was born in the UK?
By the BBC I meant. Yes, I assume the info is from people who know them.
‘The BBC understands the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, moved to the Southport area in 2013. His parents are from Rwanda and he has an older brother also born in Cardiff.’
11:45 30 July
The BBC can report that the 17-year-old currently being questioned by the police in connection with the attack in Southport was born in Cardiff and moved to the Southport area in 2013.
His parents are from Rwanda and he has an older brother who was also born in Cardiff. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/
I’m not sure why the BBC chose to report where his parents are from, there’s no obvious reason for it other than click bait. I’m sure if I did something newsworthy (unlikely) they wouldn’t be reporting my Mum was from Birmingham and my Dad from Somerset.
Well I hope that the Rwanda claim is officially confirmed since it makes the likelihood of him being Muslim minute. Apparently only 2% of the population in Rwanda are Muslims compared to 6% in the UK.
And if the neighbours are wrong and instead his parents are from say Nigeria then that changes everything. I would really like to say that the EDL are wrong about him being Muslim but I can’t make claims based on assumptions, which is of course what the EDL do
A 31-year-old man from St Helens, a 31-year-old man from West Derby, Liverpool and a 39-year-old man from Southport were all arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, while a 32-year-old man from Manchester with a probation address in Southport was arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of a bladed article.
It’s like a roll call of absolute nobheads egging this on, isn’t it?
Tommy Robinson
Laurence Fox
Andrew Tate
Nigel Farage
All grifters who are very effective at monetising all this and extracting cash from morons.
All happy to watch the chaos they create from safely behind a keyboard, in the case of Tate and Robinson in another country. How very ‘patriotic’ of them.
How ****ing thick do you have to be to fall for what these shysters are peddling?