Iffy_k2002💙

Romance reader, (hey who doesn't love a happy ending), mother, citizen's advice worker and serial retweeter.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

This man and women kicked a South Asian woman in tne head on County Road in Liverpool today.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

FAO: All media outlets.

These are not protests

They are riots

They are not protestors

They are rioters

They are not the working class

They are the Far Right

#WordsMatter

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

On the riots:

1. There is no justification for rioting, violence, racial harassment or racial violence. None whatsoever.

2. That's why none of those behaviours are protected by the human right to free expression or to assembly, and there is accordingly no defence of free expression to those offences.

3. The police have sufficient powers to deal with the rioting - the original Public Order Act (1936) was enacted to deal with far right processions through Jewish areas. It has been extensively updated.

4. Riot, violent disorder, affray, racial hatred and many more offences all have high penalties, and there are also many ways the police can control public processions and assemblies both under the POA and in other legislation such as relating to antisocial behaviour and serious crime prevention orders (already mentioned by the government).

5. There is certainly a debate to be had over immigration and social cohesion. Violent riots have nothing to do with that debate. These are not protests they are mob violence.

6. If people are anti-immigration there are political parties like Reform and the right of the Tory Party who robustly express those views. The far right (and I mean the real far right - the ones rioting at the moment) are not adding anything except fear and violent carnage.

7. Muslim, asylum seeker and other communities which are being targeted must be protected by the authorities and supported by the wider public. They are vulnerable communities and we need to use every possible resource to keep them safe. The rule of law must prevail.

8. No lawyers should be supporting or justifying these riots nor should they be flirting with far right leaders like Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

9. That said, in the coming weeks and months, plenty of lawyers will be called upon to defend the people accused of riots, violence, assaults, even murders. Those lawyers will be doing what lawyers should do - acting without fear or favour for their clients. They should be commended for doing so and not associated with those clients.

10. Keir Starmer has been here before (though in a different context) with the London riots and will hopefully have a good sense of what to do to contain them. I appreciate the courts are already overburdened but the idea of getting rioters through the system quickly if possible is a good one because it takes them off the streets and also shows others who are considering joining in what is going to happen to them if they do.

11. It's probably going to be rough period for our country because there appear to be enough people willing to cause carnage in many areas. It will be rough for the police and vulnerable communities, and for the still new government. I hope that our authorities are able to get a grip on things, but the people ultimately responsible are the ones who are smashing and burning things, not the authorities, politicians, people on X (though spreading misinformation can do real harm, and nobody should be encouraging this whether online or in person). There will be time later for political point scoring but I don't think it is really helping now.

Just some thoughts, obviously not comprehensive.

[Nick Lowles @lowles_nick]

There are many who have sought to frame this week of far-right riots as outpourings of legitimate anger. They are not. This is racist violence spurred on by far-right hatred. Those directly involved in these horrifying scenes need to face the full force of the law. 3/7

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

There is NO civil war

It’s criminality posing as protest

It’s a minority of radicalised individuals binging on lies & disinformation

It’s grifters grifting

Meanwhile, good people are protecting the vulnerable

Thinking of the families of Alice, Elsie & Bebe - lest we forget

[Iffy_k2002💙 @IffyK2002]

RT @paulmasonnews: The ideology driving fasicst violence in Britain is frighteningly consistent, and you'll hear it echoed increasingly by…

[James Bloodworth @J_Bloodworth]

Worth keeping in mind the seditious element to what’s going on. People who have had their own way for a long time, who have convinced themselves on radicalisation mills like this one that they are the ‘voice of the people’, resent having to live under a Labour government

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

Outside a hotel in Redcliffe, Bristol - the hotel is being protected by hundreds of Bristolians shouting ‘We are many, you are few. We are Bristol, who are you?’ to a group of around 100 protesters who had marched on the hotel

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[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Free legal advice:

You don’t have to attend a riot to be prosecuted for conspiracy to riot. You don’t have to be present at a terrorist incident to be guilty of encouraging it.

A lot of Twitter warriors will be getting some unpleasant knocks on the door over the coming weeks.

[Alex McCormick @alexlouisemc]

https://t.co/3OZPVQuAOU

Heartbroken to think kids have been robbed of a safe, community space to read and learn. So I’ve set up a fundraiser to try and replenish some of the books destroyed and help get Spellow Library back on its feet. Shares and donations welcome

[Iffy_k2002💙 @IffyK2002]

@Rick_Turner @nickreeves9876 Was contemplating the same thing.

[daffodil🪬 @BattenDaffodil]

Setting fire to the holiday inn in Rotherham and blocking the exits when there's potentially staff, children and innocent people inside doesn't make you a patriot. It makes you a murderous scumbag. Lowest of the low.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

The resurgence of far-right violence in the UK is in part due to Elon Musk’s decision to allow figures such as Tommy Robinson back on to the social media platform X https://t.co/CYwkQmWxAk

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Twitter do your thing and make him famous.

He was outside Abdullah Quilliam in Liverpool.

[Nick Lowles @lowles_nick]

The far right mob burnt down the Citizens Advice Bureau last night in Sunderland, a place that provides a vital service to those in need. When people of Sunderland next go to the polls, let them be reminded that Reform UK leaders have acted as apologists for these troublemakers

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Imane Khelif is a biological woman and if you want to protect our daughters, you should protect her. If you don’t do the research to find the truth, then we should be protected from you.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Anyone unable to back that response is stating, pretty clearly, that they sympathise with far-right ideals, are unwilling to denounce them, and are indifferent to the safety of Muslims. They should be treated as the contemptible creatures they so evidently are.