Summer 2024: Rioting across UK cities

[Blackadder1916]

It may not be an appropriate time to visit the UK.

New rioting across UK cities as arrests multiply

Petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Belfast while police in Birmingham are investigating a number of offences.

www.bbc.com

UK riots latest: Thousands more riot police on standby over fears of violence at immigration centres

An extra 2,200 specialist riot officers are being put on standby ahead of warnings that far right thugs are planning to target more than 30 immigration centres across Britain.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Footage shows seven days of violence and disorder in the UK

A wave of unrest has spread in the UK in the days after the Southport stabbing attack.

www.bbc.com

How Online Misinformation Stoked Anti-Migrant Riots in Britain

What to know about the anti-migrant violence erupting in Britain and how social media escalated the attacks.

time.com

Mod edit to make thread title a bit more specific - will change again if it continues past the summer. Milnet.ca Staff

 

[CBH99]

The biggest issue I have wirh the media coverage of the unrest so far has been labeling the protesters as "far right" and "far right extremists"

While at the same time seemingly turning a blind eye to the groups of immigrant youth who have been violently assaulting people (even just over these last few days) as mere "asylum seekers"

Not everybody protesting the mass immigration to their fairly small country is of the far right, nor is everybody on the opposing side an asylum seeker.



(If you're fleeing a shitty country and a poor quality of life in that country, I wouldn't be causing ANY problems in the country you're trying to seek asylum in...)

Native Britons have every right to be pissed off with mass immigration that they didn't vote for, weren't consulted on, yet is having a very real impact on their day to day lives & the future of their country

 

[daftandbarmy]

It may not be an appropriate time to visit the UK.

New rioting across UK cities as arrests multiply

Petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Belfast while police in Birmingham are investigating a number of offences.

www.bbc.com

UK riots latest: Thousands more riot police on standby over fears of violence at immigration centres

An extra 2,200 specialist riot officers are being put on standby ahead of warnings that far right thugs are planning to target more than 30 immigration centres across Britain.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Footage shows seven days of violence and disorder in the UK

A wave of unrest has spread in the UK in the days after the Southport stabbing attack.

www.bbc.com

How Online Misinformation Stoked Anti-Migrant Riots in Britain

What to know about the anti-migrant violence erupting in Britain and how social media escalated the attacks.

time.com

Highly localized, and fun to watch from afar with a pint in one's hand on a sunny summer's eve

 

[Czech_pivo]

From reading this, similar arguments might be made here.

Federal government announces crackdown on ‘bad actors’ abusing the temporary foreign worker program​

Federal government announces crackdown on ‘bad actors’ abusing the temporary foreign worker program

Changes announced Tuesday include the potential implementation of “a refusal to process applications,” which would prevent employers in certain areas and industries from using the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program

www.thestar.com

Employers were given the green light to hire 239,646 temporary foreign workers in 2023, according to data from ESDC — more than double the number in 2018 when 108,988 TFW positions were approved.

Its little wonder that unemployment of Canadian youths between the ages of 15-24 was 13.5% for the month of June, the highest September 2014 (youth unemployment is now higher than during the Pandemic).

The rate of unemployment among university/college students between semesters at school is at its highest level since 1998, StatCan said, as less than half (46.8 per cent) of this cohort found jobs this summer.

Canadian youth face the toughest summer job market in decades. Why? - National | Globalnews.ca

Canadian youth are facing one of the hardest summer job markets in decades. Here's why it's so hard to land that first job, and what young workers can do to stand out.

globalnews.ca

The information above is very similar to what's fueled the current situation in the UK - loss of jobs available to those already living in the country, rising numbers of foreigners/foreign workers/asylum seekers.

 

[tomydoom]

Highly localized, and fun to watch from afar with a pint in one's hand on a sunny summer's eve

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Belfast violence brings together unlikely protest alliance

Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast at the weekend included British loyalists and Irish nationalists.

www.bbc.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Belfast violence brings together unlikely protest alliance

Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast at the weekend included British loyalists and Irish nationalists.

www.bbc.com

 

[tomydoom]

It caused my wife to dissallow my periodic Tim Hortons run to Belfast.

 

[daftandbarmy]

It caused my wife to dissallow my periodic Tim Hortons run to Belfast.

I recall a time when Belfast residents would casually step over unexploded IRA mortar bombs, lying in the street, on their way to work ... a great example to us all of course

 

[The Bread Guy]

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Belfast violence brings together unlikely protest alliance

Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast at the weekend included British loyalists and Irish nationalists.

www.bbc.com

Yup ...

More on this ....

Union flags and Irish flags are flown side by side at anti immigrant protest in Belfast city centre

Both Union flags and Irish tricolours were flown at an anti immigrant protest in Belfast, which was followed by clashes with anti-racist protestors in the city centre.

www.newsletter.co.uk

My day with the Belfast rioters

unherd.com

Belfast riots: PSNI says paramilitary groups involved in disorder

Violence has flared amid anti-immigration protests

www.irishnews.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

And it’s made some unlikely allies in Belfast. The UDF and IRA united in rascism.

Yup ...

More on this ....

Union flags and Irish flags are flown side by side at anti immigrant protest in Belfast city centre

Both Union flags and Irish tricolours were flown at an anti immigrant protest in Belfast, which was followed by clashes with anti-racist protestors in the city centre.

www.newsletter.co.uk

My day with the Belfast rioters

unherd.com

Belfast riots: PSNI says paramilitary groups involved in disorder

Violence has flared amid anti-immigration protests

www.irishnews.com

Fun factoid: the Irish are amongst the most racist people in Europe, and you could easily throw in the North with those figures...

https://www.statista.com/chart/16250/black-people-who-experienced-racist-harassment-in-the-eu/

The experiences of minority ethnic and migrant people in Northern Ireland.

Four key issues that minority ethnic and migrant communities in Northern Ireland told us need to be addressed

ukparliament.shorthandstories.com

 

[Blackadder1916]

Fun factoid: the Irish are amongst the most racist people in Europe, and you could easily throw in the North with those figures...

https://www.statista.com/chart/16250/black-people-who-experienced-racist-harassment-in-the-eu/

The experiences of minority ethnic and migrant people in Northern Ireland.

Four key issues that minority ethnic and migrant communities in Northern Ireland told us need to be addressed

ukparliament.shorthandstories.com

The simple explanation* is that they learned from the best.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030639689203300403?journalCode=racb

* Of course, there is no such thing as a "simple explanation".

 

[The Bread Guy]

Fun factoid: the Irish are amongst the most racist people in Europe, and you could easily throw in the North with those figures...

Both sides seem to be tired of feckin' foreigners, just coincidingly different ones this time around