Ray Crudgington

Solicitor. Managing Partner. (Opinions my own). Old Southendian. Southend United. Jesus follower (badly) Husband to @rjscwifemumplus

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

In the UK, sitting peacefully opposing genocide is deemed terrorism whilst burning houses, rioting and targeting minority groups is considered ‘protest’

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨🇬🇧 Look, Lucy Connolly is not the brightest button, so let's help her understand why she went to prison for her tweet, and why Bushra will not go to prison for her's.

Bushra Shaikh is not saying: “Go and burn white people’s houses down.”

She is making a sarcastic point about the racist double standard at the heart of these riots.

When a Muslim, Black, brown, or migrant man commits a crime, the far-right does not just blame the individual. They blame the whole community. They march on mosques. They attack hotels. They threaten families. They burn infrastructure. They turn one person’s alleged crime into a licence for collective punishment.

When a white man commits a crime, nobody asks whether we should burn down white neighbourhoods, attack white families, or terrorise random white people in retaliation.

Why?

Because most of us understand the basic moral principle here: individuals are responsible for their own crimes. Communities are not collectively guilty because of the race, religion, or immigration status of an offender.

That is Bushra’s point.

Lucy Connolly’s tweet was different.

She did not ask a sarcastic question exposing the absurdity of collective punishment. She targeted migrant hotels - the exact infrastructure already being demonised by the far-right - and wrote: “Set fire to all the fvcking hotels full of the bastards for all I care.”

And then mobs did exactly that.

That is not a clever point about hypocrisy. That is not anti-racism. That is not “free speech absolutism.”

It is language directed at a vulnerable out-group, in a volatile real-world context, approving or encouraging the destruction of the places they were living.

Bushra’s post says: “Why don’t you apply your own logic when the offender is white?”

Lucy’s post said: “Burn down the hotels full of migrants.”

If you can’t see the difference, I can't help you.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This man is a threat to our democracy. He backs violence and extremism.

Blaming a group of people for the awful actions of an individual leads us to a very dark place.

Musk, Lowe, Farage, Robinson - these men don't give a shit about this country, they want to rip us apart.

[Joolz Denby @JoolzDenby]

As of June 2026, 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. You didn’t go riot for them, did you? Fucking burning cars & houses with families and disabled children in them, you absolute dregs of humanity. Racist scum.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously.

The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together.

Now is a time for real leadership.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

You see these scenes from Belfast?

That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way.

Except this will be on a much bigger scale.

We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

From Southport to Belfast, we keep seeing the same pattern: a terrible crime, followed by racist mobs attacking black and brown people who had nothing to do with it.

These are pogroms.

The politicians and media figures who spent years demonising migrants and inflaming racial hatred have blood on their hands.

We must stand together against this hatred and organise against this fascism.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Arrest the rioters.

Arrest the arsonists.

Arrest the politicians who incited the riots.

Enough is enough.

[Withnail Jones @withnailjones]

Yaxley is sat in the bar of a 5 star hotel in Russia, drinking expensive booze that his gullible supporters have paid for, while watching live streams of people rioting their way into prison so he can use them to grift even more money. TBF he’s a genius.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Tommy Robinson should be arrested for incitement to riot as soon as he enters the country again.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s.

It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

HISTORY LESSON

The Nazi Party branded itself the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party' to appeal to working-class men. After staging massive 'pro-worker' May Day rallies on May 1, 1933, the very next day Hitler banned independent trade unions, seized their assets, and arrested their leaders.

On May 2, 1933, the SA (Storm Troopers), SS, and police occupied trade union offices nationwide in a coordinated action. They seized assets, records, and funds while arresting union leaders and officials. Contemporary U.S. State Department reports and other sources noted around 50 prominent arrests in the initial wave, including key figures like Theodor Leipart (chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation, ADGB), Peter Grassmann, and former Labor Minister Rudolf Wissell.

Many more local and regional leaders faced arrests in the following days and weeks. Large numbers endured beatings, imprisonment, or transfer to early concentration camps such as Dachau (opened in March 1933 primarily for political opponents).

Some officials were maltreated immediately, and the action extended to union banks and press offices.

This crackdown dismantled independent German trade unions (with millions of members, many aligned with Social Democrats or leftists) and replaced them with the Nazi-controlled German Labour Front (DAF). It formed part of the broader Gleichschaltung (coordination) process to eliminate independent organizations.

Over the period 1933–1945, thousands of German trade unionists, including leaders, activists, and officials, were arrested and held in prisons or concentration camps. Many suffered torture, extended detention, or surveillance after release. While outright executions of union leaders were relatively fewer in the early phase compared to other groups, many died later from camp maltreatment, disease, execution, or involvement in resistance.

The overall scale of persecution against labour organisers aligns with the regime's aim to crush independent working-class organising rather than immediately exterminate every individual.

This fits the documented pattern of political repression: by the end of July 1933, nearly 27,000 people (mostly political prisoners including communists, socialists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and left-wing activists and intellectuals) were held in early camps and detention sites.

The Nazis moved swiftly after seizing power to neutralise potential opposition from organised labor through mass arrests, violence, and forced integration into a state-controlled structure.

#JustSayin

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Telegraph: "a pastor told the BBC people were being forced out of their homes “because they’re black"". This is what happened in Belfast last night. Nigel Farage and Reform are going to condemn this unequivocally, right? No caveats. No deflection.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Dress it up however you like - this racist violence has been deliberately whipped up by far right politicians & their cowardly wannabes in the supposed mainstream.

You are either fighting against the anti-migrant narrative or you are with these thugs.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

What’s happening on social media isn’t just inorganic but foreign interference.

People are sold a fake, violent and racist idea of patriotism then conned into voting for millionaire shill traitors like Farage and Lowe by… Russian, Nigerian and Sri Lankan bot farms.

Ironic.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ is to be held in London this Sunday.

This disgraceful event will involve the sale of land stolen from Palestinians in illegal Israeli settlements.

Today, I called for the Government to ban this event.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Classic hybrid warfare gambit issued from Russia. Let the police do their job. Prosecute the alleged assailant. Don't let this POS incite impressionable people to violence that leads to CERTAIN prosecution and imprisonment. 👇🏽

[Ray Crudgington @Raycrud]

@SUFCRootsHall @CJPhillips1982 Toughest one yet. Thought it may suit him. Good luck Jack and thanks for the memories. And for seeing us through the toughest of times.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

JD Vance took time this week to explain to the British that the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak was actually about immigration.

Justice Secretary David Lammy apparently rang Vance to set the record straight. “You’re wrong about this,” Lammy told him. Which must have been an uncomfortable conversation for a vice-president who has built an entire political career on being confidently incorrect about things happening in other people’s countries.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, England’s football squad was busy preparing for the World Cup in Kansas City, Missouri. Nine people were shot near England’s planned training facility and hotel on Troost Avenue at four in the morning. Police arrived to find a large crowd scattering. A second shooting the same evening, just miles away on Troost Avenue, left two people dead. 

The Kansas City Police were quick to reassure everyone that the incident “did not occur near a World Cup venue or anything else World Cup-related.”  Which is technically true, in the same way that a house fire next door isn’t technically in your living room.

The Americans are hosting a World Cup. They have strong opinions about immigration and British crime statistics. They would just like everyone to ignore the bit where nine people get shot near the visiting team’s hotel before breakfast.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1