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I am going to regret asking this I am sure, but what in the world is happening in ?

I feel like labelling it far-right protests seem simplistic

Ps: I just want to add lest I am misunderstood, that I think migrants are being an easy target for the frustration bubbling in Britain. Just exactly what that frustration is I am not very clear ...

Cassandrich

@liztai To answer your clarifying edit: anger that the nazi state they were promised didn't come to be, and that the team they were duped into tying their entire identities to is one whose time is finished.

There's no actual harm they're suffering that they're trying to stop, except maybe to their pride.

@dalias @liztai Yeah, it's "I was a football hooligan and now I've been validated by Tory party/Reform UK/Daily Mail rhetoric and false promises of sunlit uplands after Brexit, and so I'm going to get violent and trash things because we haven't been taken back to a nostalgic pure white Britain that never actually existed".

What seems to have turned these occasional "protests" into more violent riots is apparently lies about the identity of a teenager who killed some kids and injured more.

@dalias @liztai I don't think the "protests" by the far-right have ever *not* been violent. But it was previously "I'm a drunken yob who thinks he can punch a few police officers because it's my right as an Englishman" and scuffles broke out. Now it's full-on broken windows and torching stuff.

I guess the election didn't help either. Now we have the Labour party in power for the first time in 14 years and they're not seeing their racist dreams in government manifestos and they don't like it.

@ibboard @dalias am so sorry you guys are going through this 😐. I hope you are safe

@liztai @dalias I don't think it's as wide spread as the press makes it seem. And I've not seen huge crowds. It's just that the small gangs of thugs have all come out at the same time in multiple places.

I probably wouldn't want to be back in Bolton town centre right now (where I grew up). Although, as a white guy, I'd probably be safe as long as I didn't tell the bigots to fuck off with their regressive racist views!

@ibboard @dalias yeah I'm always suspicious of the media and prefer to ask people on the ground how it really looks like. I'm glad you're safe! I hope you avoid the danger zones.

@dalias @liztai It's the culmination of "the EU forced us to have bendy/straight bananas* and we need to take back our laws**" and "criminal foreigners are coming here to take your jobs and unfairly claim benefits!***" right-wing narratives.

* no-one can remember which!
** despite the UK proposing lots of them and others being minimums that we could exceed while the Tories claimed they hindered us doing more
*** Schrödinger's immigrants - lazy scroungers AND industrious job thieves