If some are serial offenders it is just another holiday at His Majesty's Pleasure.
England | right wing knuckle draggers on the streets
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The comments in the go fund link me almost moved me to tears. Such a lovely response.
The evolution of Mackenzie Crook
Look at the state of them.
The one Sheffield appears to have ended up being nothing more a damp squib with about 20 or so 'protesters' outnumbered by the stand up to racism counter protest.
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/peop...-protesters-gather-in-the-city-centre-4733160
The library could just spend more on resources or donate it to local causes. The bloke hopefully gives himself a nice holiday.
Yeah not which ones have been swept along an which ones are right wing thugs? They can't all have fallen in with the wrong crowd. At least some of them are the wrong crowd.
This is a bit nuts, my OAP parents, who live near a mosque, have been advised to not leave the house.
My parents won't even let me commute over because they are that scared
My parents won't even let me commute over because they are that scared
Ffs.
I'm worried all of this is going to make them start attacking houses, which would turn ugly very fast.
It's heartbreaking, and there are so many stories like this up and down the country this week.
Once upon a time when I lived in Dublin, I lived in an area that didn't have a barber within a couple of miles, so people had to drive or catch the bus or go for a suuuper long walk to get to the nearest one. An Aghani bloke opened one up right on my street, and the day he opened, it was packed with people. It was so busy so quickly he had to hire additional barbers to meet the demand. Mums and dads would bring their kids for a trim and I would hear them thanking the barber because he had removed one hassle from their lives by providing a much needed service within 5 minutes walk. He became very popular in the area. This was over 10 years ago, and this guy thrived but imagine driving a guy like that out of the area because he is Muslim. My brain simply cannot comprehend it.
My family had a Sri Lankan GP all through the 70s and 80s and it was an area with a lot of social housing and the cheapest of private houses and it was during a huge recession. We were collectively quite poor. He was a slight curiosity as Ireland was pretty much all white then. There was no racism until the late 90s when there was a huge upsurge in aggression towards him and his daughter who by that time was a GP too. Both racial abuse and questioning him as a doctor. At that time the news was beginning to criticise the health system and the move to private began. We also saw the media tackle the first wave of non white immigration with the usual dog whistle language, and while @Pogue Mahone is right, we do have an innate fear and mistrust of the 'other', we don't always recognise someone different as the 'other' without it being pointed out and manipulated. I don't think it's as strong a reflex as sometimes suggested. Easily led and stupid rather than innately racist is my take.
Wife has been sent home from work from offices in Manchester Piccadilly. Anyone know why?
That wasn't the "planned" one here, that's at 8PM tonight. I think rumours just spread about this 1PM one more because there was another (equally as low turn out from the cnuts) here at 1PM on Sunday and people got confused. Think there'll be a bigger turnout later but hopefully they're outnumbered all the same.
I think people are just anticipating potential for trouble and making sure staff are safe this week. Same in Salford yesterday, but nothing happened in the end.
Are these 'protests going' to be met with Antifascist counter-demos? England has a huge and long-standing anti fascist network
How big is the antifascist scene in England these days anyway?
Good, if it starts impinging on profit it will be fully met by the police.
they’re dismissing all the suspected racists.
AFA and the like are very loose and reactive organisations in my experience. I attended a few demos in London in the early 90s and they attendees were from all walks. Lots of anarchist and grass roots types and union members. I used to really enjoy the feeling I got when I went. To know people were willing to stand wup as really quite amazing and inspring.
you probably didn’t get the full picture, anti-protesting.
I only went initially to impress an Italian lass I was chasing. I was a member of Fine Gael til then.
Is there a kind of overlap with more centrist organisations in England other than unions? Or a connection of some sorts? Here in Germany we have organisations kind of in between „the middle“ and the left, who help a lot when it’s about mobilising people for counter protests and stuff like that. They manage to get everyone from the AFA to average people on the streets. Which makes quite a huge difference in my view.
exactly
"Although 14.5% of the UK's population are immigrants, 39% of the country's top 100 fastest growing companies have a foreign-born founder or co-founder, new research reveals."
That is excluding business owners born to immigrant parents or grandparents.
https://www.enterprisenation.com/le...rs-39-per-cent-uk-fastest-growing-businesses/
Thinly veiled "Look at me I have a wife"
Look at the state of them.
Ha ha. Got what they deserve. Banged up.
Plenty more where that came from for the rest of them.
Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them end up like that. Don't feel like they have the numbers to put out 100 big "protests".
I told my parents to just stay upstairs.
I shouldn't have to say that. I'm just glad my daughters are on holiday/vacation at the moment and well away from here.
Still going to play football in the park at 8pm with a bunch of Muslim guys I met a few months ago. My defiance is keeping a clean sheet.
Stay safe. Same for your mum and dad.
I suspect that it's the "I have a wife but she lives in an other city" kind of wife.
Not as far as I know. In Ireland in structural terms I find the middle without malice mostly but in opposition to anything that threatens the status quo. A hindrance to real progressive politics in my opinion. There is a huge conservative element to the middle in Irish terms. Ireland is odd as this left / right dichotomy is almost entirely new to us, (being post colonial and lacking any participation in the industrial revolution and the politics that it entailed).
Can’t a guy check in on his racist wife who lives in another city without being insulted nowadays ffs.
Worked from home today but an email went round telling everyone in the office to avoid Piccadilly on their way home if possible.
Probably the result of snowballing anxiety and overcaution. Which is bad enough, but hopefully it's not anything worse!
I remember in my teen years I was part of the local communist youth, to be honest no one gave two fecks about communism, but almost every weekend we'd find out were the racist fascists would be and we'd show up in greater numbers, invariably those pussies just showed up, hurled a few racist insults and disappeared.
I feel they need to feel this again, wherever they show up, anti-racists and anti-fascists need to be there in much larger numbers. They feel like they are the silent majority, they need to be shown they're not, they're the opposite, a loud minority.
Last time those feckers tried to gather in one of lisbon's main squares to protest too many indians and pakistanis, a couple thousand people just showed up. They were about 200 and fecked off in about 15 minutes. I'm proud I was there.
I can't imagine dealing with a racist wife. I have a sectarian dog and that's mortifying.