Attacking CABs, burning down new libraries, anyone would think the new media/politics hard right grifters and the old media right wing papers who have made fortunes out of whipping up fear and hatred feel there is an advantage to making sure working class people aren’t aware of their rights or educated about the world they live in.
1/ 🧵Just did a network analysis of the "far right thugs unite" hashtag. It largely seems to be a simulated scandal/outrage to promote the Reform Party and Nigel Farage and - while also being an attack on Keir Starmer.
For the absolute rightwing and a few liberal wallopers that are “both sides” these race riots,
let me explain.
One side is attacking mosques, black and brown people, people that look foreign, and looting and burning stuff.
The other side is trying to stop them.
You’re welcome.
Many people are going to be arrested and jailed for their involvement in these riots, but it is also vital that the authorities investigate those fanning the flames and encouraging them too. They are just as guilty…
Shocked by what has happened in Hull tonight. Unsurprised to see a notorious veteran of the British far right in the middle of it all. Once saw him with my own eyes arrested for seig-heiling on the street. Brian Stovell. Late of BNP and Britain First. https://t.co/kpYsLw5ZM1
The arsonists last night destroyed a Citizens Advice Bureau.
For those outside the UK, that's a place where the British public, particularly low income or disadvantaged communities, get free legal advice and support.
Staff are devastated.
"We're protecting our community"
Criminal disorder and violent thuggery has absolutely no place on our streets and will not be tolerated. The perpetrators will face the full force of the law.
Thank you to all those brave Police officers and emergency service workers on duty this w/end.
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
Excellent from @carolecadwalla in @ObserverUK
We must act to prevent far right groups using social media to fuel divisions and hatred promoting violent attacks and the social media companies must accept responsibility for publishing misleading material. https://t.co/93eqp9oiLw
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
When public school-educated multimillionaires fire up fascists to burn down the Citizens' Advice Bureau in a town where one child in three lives in poverty, that's more than just 'rightwing populism'
BREAKING: John Giles, the Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, which is the third largest city in Arizona, is ditching Donald Trump and endorsing Kamala Harris. This is huge.
Protests? Asking questions? They’re throwing bricks mate. They’re looting shops and setting light to cars and beating up coppers. If this was eco-crusties throwing piss at a painting you’d be calling for them to throw away the key.
Lord Gordon was very much the Farage of his day. A twittish, upper-class populist who led the anti-Catholic, xenophobic Protestant Association. The riots that followed saw foreign owned buildings and Catholic churches burned to the ground and extreme drunken violence in London
I'm white, English and grew up in Stoke. To everyone who doesn't look like me, whatever your religion, born here or not. I love that we share our country with each other. And I think most people believe the same. That's it really.