UK far right trouble July/August 24

[Elbow beards]

Slightly off topic but related, just seen this, the murdering **** was chose for a BBC promo. They don't half pick em.

 

[Eccles Blue]

That is the counter protest Eccles.

Whoops thank you. I just saw a thing that said those two words and didn’t realise. I’m so disgusted and saddened with it I just try and avoid it but I spotted that phrase and didn’t read the whole thing.
Thanks and apologies. :-)

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Don't leave the country, mate...we need her here.

I'm trying mate. Contrary to how I might come across on here as a bit dower and sceptical, I do genuinely like my country. I think the vast majority of people are good, mild-mannered folk who are trying to get through life the same as me. I even kind of like the shit weather, I can't handle 25C+.

But it is getting increasingly difficult to make the case to her, when 4 million+ people vote for Reform and then people start rioting over immigration and bricking mosques. It tends to send a certain message out, and immigrant families are listening and receiving that message loud and clear.

There was a post a few pages back of somebody getting punched by a rioter while walking down the street just because they weren't white. I don't want that to be my child one day. That's slightly hyperbolic, as I still think at the moment that kind of behaviour is thankfully rare. But it is getting more common, and having kids forces you to think 5-10-15 years into the future about what their world might look like.

I think we have a lot of reasons still to stay, we both want to give back to a country that has given a lot to us. I just need to hope these fucking idiots stop making what should be an easy decision unnecessarily difficult.

 

[bert38]

A highlight is scum getting sprayed with CS then washing their face with water!

That’s gonna sting!!

 

[Fordyboy46]

Are they? They seem a lot more peaceful to me.

Both terrorists

 

[Scottyboi]

A highlight is scum getting sprayed with CS then washing their face with water!

That’s gonna sting!!

Going to be a long night, rowdy as fuck in Hull and Stoke.

 

[argyle]

Just saw a video of the far right thugs, sorry patriots, all ganging up on a black man in Piccadilly Gardens. His eye looked in bad shape.

 

[BTH]

Clive of India represented me once. He got me off. ;)

Clive of India was one of my distant ancestors. True story.

 

[urban genie]

giving muslamic reagans a modernday run for stupidity

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It's sad that all this has prompted my wife (who is black) to start a serious discussion with me about where we choose to raise the child we're looking at having in the next few years.

To be clear, I don't want to leave the UK - not yet at least (not while City are good) - but I can totally understand why what she's seeing makes her nervous. She's a doctor in the NHS, she was a Samaritans volunteer too. This is the indirect impact of a lot of the rhetoric we're seeing, immigrants who are net contributors start to question whether they really feel welcome. And the ones who are well-educated and highly skilled also tend to have far more mobility to just leave and go somewhere else.

The issue I have with going somewhere else is that it isn't clear to me there are a lot of obviously better options out there. The UK is far from perfect, but its situation isn't unique.

Yep the right wing took away your right to move countries easily and then turned the one you’re in into a shithole.