UK far right trouble July/August 24

[birch villa]

And the people were liked to by top hats like Farage and Johnson.

And still lied to now

 

[Keeper!]

Your glass is certainly at least half full, but I admire your positivity

We looked to be heading for chaos and serious problems on the streets this time last week, thanks to fast action by the courts,police , government and the decent people of the UK that's been turned on it's head.

The vast majority of our population are decent, hard working and compassionate people, they just need to make themselves heard more and stop this scum racist minority.

 

[Keeper!]

And still lied to now

Those two *uckers only know how to lie.

 

[Keeper!]

These needs to happen every time the cnut breaks cover.

 

[birch villa]

These needs to happen every time the cnut breaks cover.

Pantomime

 

[Keeper!]

Pantomime

Circus act more like, the guy is a clown but a very dangerous, evil clown.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Pantomime

Oh no it isn’t.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

We looked to be heading for chaos and serious problems on the streets this time last week, thanks to fast action by the courts,police , government and the decent people of the UK that's been turned on it's head.

The vast majority of our population are decent, hard working and compassionate people, they just need to make themselves heard more and stop this scum racist minority.

Tbh I think it's more to do with the weather turning and yaxely Lennon going on his holibobs.
I actually think the media play a huge part and some seemed rather crestfallen that nothing happened this week. James O'Brian made a good analogy on his show yesterday - certain characters may have used social media etc to start the fire, but the media in this country have been piling up the dry tinder for a couple of decades.

 

[Keeper!]

Oh no it isn’t.

 

[Coatigan]

Trouble is the opinions behind it will still be bubbling in the background.

Facism grows where people are thrown into poverty or are disolutioned, it has majorly flared up in places where indusrty and investment has died and public services vanished, defeating will need proper investment in housebuilding, youth and adult services, creating jobs and not austerity and desolute town of boarded up shops and unmaned police stations etc.

Very true, but that is only part of the problem.

It is incredible, how much slow and steady progress made over 50+ years against prejudice in western societies, has been so quickly reversed in less than 10.

It will take a long long time just to get us back to where we were, not that long ago, never mind moving forward.

The bigger problem for me than the disillusionment reaction, is the layer on the sidelines that have bought into the biggotry, just because they can.

We were at a point where you had to be a real nutter to express racist or other prejudiced views. Most didn't have them, those few that did would have not dared show them because of the wider perception and acceptance of tolerance in society. Heck some of us probably had elders that we considered 'of a time' that had learned and accepted either that things had changed or simply not to say anything daft anymore because their younger families didn't want to hear it. They were, we would tell ourselves, supposedly the last of a time that we were going to collectively move past soon.

Now we have people across all generatons, and social classes, that not only think it is fine to express such views, but think they are actually the ones that are right, the real free thinkers exercising their freedom of speech. They have literally reversed the ethos behind the strive for a fairer society. How long now, before we get to where that latest generation are a minority 'of a time'.

That is the real legacy of the Brexit campaign, (note the word campaign, significant distinction) and the rhetoric that went into winning that vote. Which some have bought right into, others were happy to ignore, many just didn't notice. And this is now the real legacy of it. Not the fucked economy, ruined travel and trade, weakened services, wobbled industries, cost of living etc, but the impact on society and the long term division it left behind.