Roma, not necessarily Romanian.
Leeds Riots
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Roma, not necessarily Romanian.
Of course those vile charlatans are straight in there fanning the flames, pouring fuel on the fire.
I've been to many shitholes in the UK; places such as Peckham, Whitechapel, shadwell, Handsworth, Aston, small heath, oldham and moss side. Harehills is a cut above in shittiness.
Edit: Do these morons believe that torching buses and smashing cop cars will make the social services bring the kids back? We're lucky this didn't happen in the middle of the summer holidays.
Edit: Do these morons believe that torching buses and smashing cop cars will make the social services bring the kids back? We're lucky this didn't happen in the middle of the summer holidays.
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Does it get more multi cultural than people in London throwing plant pots at each other over event is Bangladesh. Maybe if it was about cricket?
First warm day this year, tomorrow even warmer.
First warm day this year, tomorrow even warmer.
Am I a bit stupid or does non-accidental mean someone assaulted a 7 month old? Feckin cheek to then question social services if that is done within your community.
The police statement referred to what I presume were social services as ‘agency workers’, which is a really odd phrase to use. In my mind, agency workers are temporary workers from an employment agency. Police forces always use such vague language in their press releases, which don’t really say much. It allows rumours and misinformation to spread unchecked and just makes me think they’re covering up their own incompetence.
I experienced a memorable riot at Leeds Festival in 2002 at Temple Newsham Park. It was unbelievable.
Because the council hire agency workers who carry out the social work for them…
In the same way the NHS use agency staff….
Would have thought that was obvious in the current climate with the public sector repeatedly being forced to hire and use staff from private agencies because of staff shortages.
If they were working for social services, they should just say that, as it adds much needed context. Would have thought that would be obvious. ‘Agency worker’ could mean anything. Councils also hire agency staff for a whole raft of other services. Whether they were agency or permanent staff is irrelevant in this context.
Good to see some of the usual suspects jumping on the Harehills riots as a sign of islamism violence. When it was nothing of the sort.
Are we sure that bus wasn't set alight by muslimanic Ray guns?
Bloody poor people living in poverty in areas with little investment.
Surprised your not calling for Harehills to be bombed into smithereens
It's definitely got worse over the years but I'm actually a little surprised it's known outside Leeds. I didn't think it was that bad
It's scary. The amount of traction they get and how twitter now just lets people run loose spreading false information.
Oh woe me, I am poor, let me riot, attack police and set fire to my town. So it is all justified?
No one in this thread at any time has mentioned "Islamism", you sir are the first person to bring it up and make this about race. Peculiar.
I think, and I might be wrong, but I think he's referencing Farage and Tommy Robinson and that.
So huge that it threatened the very existence of the festival, luckily it got moved to Wetherby.
Is this based on people in this thread mentioning how terrible it is? I live in Leeds myself but I'd never heard of the place before I moved here.
The donkeys that follow Robinson believed him when he tweeted the councillor was participating in the riots, I can not believe all his followers have an IQ of a potato, there must be one at least who has a brain and can question him.
It was a joke , as in “I predict a riot”. A line from a famous song. Chill out
Yeah pretty much. I used to live in Leeds and actually lived in Harehills myself for a couple of years. It was always a bit grim but I didn't even think it was the worst area of Leeds, never mind being one of the worst areas in the country
I thought, ill happily stand corrected, that you concur with the idea that islam isn't a race and this islamophobia isn't a thing.
Predictable
I was actually responding to the comment about their places being scummy...I wasn't actually justifying anything. But you carry on misrepresenting...you have form for it.
I do notice though that you've picked up on 2 of my comments but not on the one about you possibly wanting Harehills to be razed to the ground.
It's hardly surprising, but it is depressing how quickly they managed to spread the lie about the local councillor who was seemingly trying his hardest to stop the rioting.
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I love this new catchphrase. Always appears as if tolerance and understanding are the biggest issues in society.And the police are rarely the answer to structural issues.
Your knowledge of socio-economics is not great by the looks of things.
Understanding something is not justifying it.
Tbf, it might well be one of the kids left unattended that hurt the baby. Not that wouldn't be incredibly negligent parenting of course but it might not be an adult attacking a baby.
Is that you Nick?
Yes, actually way too little reliable information to say anything other than that I hope that that baby makes a full recovery.
I have no idea about this specific case, but this is simply not true. Parents have their kids taken away all the time for the most unfair/stupid reasons you can think of.
Chapeltown is probably the worst area but I didn't mention it because my sister married a guy from there so I'm a bit bias.
Yeah, Chapeltown was definitely on my mind when I made that post
I was at that one.
I saw the headline and immediately thought the sheep must have gone AWOL
The peasants are revolting
What the feck are Whitechapel and Peckham doing on that list? Mental suggestion.
Leeds always has/had an edge, not as bad as the Tennents but there were “riots” most years. I remember having an after party in a tent one night and hearing a racket, opened the door and there was a huge mob, setting fire to the telegraph poles and other stuff. Nothing else to do but join them as they were trampling tents.
I presume he visited in the 1980s.
Probably. Peckham has the best beer & food scene in the City. Whitechapel has outgrown any historic dramas too.
Both places have large cultures of owner-operator businesses and a massive sense of community. Great places to live in London nowadays.