Police in the northern English city of Rotherham struggled to hold back a group of far-right activists on Sunday, who broke into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers.
The disturbance is the latest in a series of violent protests by anti-immigration groups in British towns and cities this week after three girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport in northwest England on Monday.
Footage aired on British TV showed officers with shields targeted by a barrage of projectiles outside the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham, near Sheffield.
A few minutes later, the protesters can be seen storming the building and removing chairs from inside to use as weapons.
A small fire was also visible while windows in the hotel were smashed.
At least one officer was injured in the confrontation.
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Activists? Violent protesters?
No, this was an attack by criminals.
“The immigrants are wrecking our country. Only we can wreck our country!”
Lock them up, throw away the keys. You cannot reason with nazis.
Wasn’t it Hitler that said “be brutal, close your eyes to pity”?
^((maybe something to repeat (perhaps preferably in German) while punching out a Nazi.)^)
We have some lovely concentration camps in Rwanda, already paid for. I hear it’s totally safe over there. Maybe we could use them?
That is an excellent idea! And after making their time ask them politely if they would prefer to live in Russia since they like fascist regimes.
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Let’s see how convictions and incarceration times for these Nazis will compare to the ones handed down to the peaceful and objectively righteous Just Stop Oil protesters.
Maybe I’ll missing something obvious, but the three girls that were hurt in a knife attack, were they immigrants or local girls?
They were not just hurt, they were killed. The children were all locals as far as I know, the assailant was born in England to immigrant parents.
the assailant was born in England to immigrant parents.
Excluding that fact is in and of itself is racism. If the assailant was white (even if coming from immigrant background), the British far-right would have looked the other way. But the assailant is British-horn and black; and the far-right lapped it up.
I’m not trying to downplay the crime of the assailant; but this is one of those moments of “no, he’s one of us” and the response would have been mild if the perpetrator is white. But the assailant is a black British and people immediately went “immigrants are all bad!” The experience of many persons of colour living in majority white European countries is that they are seen as perpetual foreigners even if born and raised there.
Born in England? So they are native?
Where their parents are born doesn’t matter.
I agree, but you know that mob doesn’t
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Funny how they take issue with powerless asylum seekers, while the politicians and pundits who convinced these idiots of the Brexit footgun don’t get any of their ire. In a way I understand why upper classes have contempt for the working classes, the working class often votes for things against its best interest.
The ruling class manipulate and control the working class. People don’t act against their own interests apropos of nothing, they’re tricked into it. The media is responsible for these riots.
It really does seem like it boils down to this every time. How can an aggressive propaganda campaign be counteracted without infinite resources, and without alienating people?
People need to held accountable for irresponsible rhetoric, but it’s not just that. The working class has always been willing to believe that it can uplift itself by acting as a thug arm of the upper class.
You can go back in any time period in history and observe the same. I am not sure how much education helps resolve the inherent stupidity some people carry and cannot overcome.
Educating people is useless, they need UBI or social welfare or something so they can keep living their dumb lives instead of being miserable and blaming it on others worse off than them.
Maybe these folks need sending to Rwanda
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Yeah just to be sure to mention this DW is centre-right in Germany kinda like any other mass media here.
Funny how all the videos I watched are of drug addict looking benefits receiving toothless thugs creating chaos. No you do not represent us. Trash and loot more buildings because if the taxes increase you lot have nothing to worry about. Us working people who don’t have time to riot and live pay check to pay check just barely scraping by to support our loved ones are the ones who suffer.
live paycheck to paycheck
You saaaand loik a fackin immigrant nonce innit mate
i saw the ppl. kinda the same as we see every summer in spain and so on. fat drunk fucks that act like imperialists, short chubby women super drunk…all pretending england won some titles in football. super cringe to the rest of europe.
to me they look the same but i am sure there are ppl in london being different.
take the euro soccer cup. in germany we celebrated the scots for their culture, humor and being nice ppl all over. made new partnerships with clubs and cities. albania and romania got lots of love because of the players and fans. that NEVER happens when ppl from england are around. anywhere. never.
so i dont know your perception of what ppl think about ppl from england…but trust ne the majority in the EU thinks these rioters represent england very well.
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ah, you met one group and now know them all. explain racism again. lol.
Are you dumb? You did the same thing.
Judge them by their actions, not by their appearances.
We are seeing the rising tide of fascism which is the inevitable consequence of (neo-)liberalism.
The ruling elite control all of the wealth and power and starve public services of funding, meaning that working class people struggle to get their needs met, especially around health and education. Inflation and rising costs makes everything more expensive, while wages stagnate and workers rights are steadily eroded.
This results in a large population of people, struggling financially, likely with low levels of education, who don’t see how they will have much of a future, looking for someone to blame.
Since the ruling class control the media, they throw the disillusioned victims of the ruling class off the scent, choosing some vulnerable minority group as the scapegoat - jews, immigrants, whatever - to protect themselves against the threat of violence.
Yes, one of the oldest tricks in the book is in use. Unfortunately it still seems to work.
Don’t forget that immigrants have been convenient scapegoats since the dawn of civilization.
Of course, I always knew it had to be them. I didn’t know why. I just knew it. Thats how I know this is true.
People who think England is all tea & crumpets need to see this.
There is quite a lot of far right thugs in the UK, starting with number of Tories.
Don’t forget the hereditary right wing head of state.
He’s a hippie who likes talking to plants. There’s a quote from thatcher implying the problem with the royals is they’d be SDP voters.
Sure they head the church and military but associating them with the right isn’t really accurate
Do they want a civil war?
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the civil war already started
Care to elaborate?
Well clearly they’re hurt. Low income, high cost of living, high rent, the NHS is overwhelmed, impossible to find affordable living space, stuff like that. I think even Lemmy would agree that no one is doing well.
The thought is that it’s intentional, that the politicians are deliberately importing cheap labor and deliberately failing to protect domestic industry. Which imo, probably is.
The migrants are just pawns, but they’re much more accessible and seen as a symbol of the new awful British way.
Boohoo let’s form an SA and do some pogroms then! Clearly some poor fuckers in a hotel are the reason for the misery, not the €28 billion net worth of the British royals or the owning class in general that fills it pockets through years of Tory rule and shifting the Overton window so far to the right that anyone who speaks of helping the poor is considered to be the reincarnation of Karl Marx himself.
I would like to find nicer words but at this point working class right wingers to me seem like they have brain damage. You can’t be doing mental gymnastics to this extend and have a healthy functioning brain at the same time.
No, the politicians are responsible. There’s just a lot of consequences to that.
And how are the tories right wing? What right wing policies do they have?
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some seem to have supported Brexit.
If they were brain damaged that would make them less culpable for their actions.
They’re not brain damaged; they’re fully responsible for their actions. However, they are victims of propaganda. But that shouldn’t change how we react to them - by putting them down, hard.
The thought is that it’s intentional, that the politicians are deliberately importing cheap labor and deliberately failing to protect domestic industry. Which imo, probably is.
At this point I can only quote Walter White:
“Is this just a genetic thing with you? Is it congenital? Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby?”
Politicians control the immigration policies. They don’t just appear out of nowhere.
Same with a lack of protective tariffs.
Have you considered moving to North Korea? Not many migrants there and their internal market is fully protected.
Why aren’t they angry with the tories and Farage then? They’ve shaped our economy into a state that’s dependent on immigration while simultaneously destroying all our public services.
Because of propaganda, and a lack of education/critical thinking. The media tells them who to blame.
They are
I suppose many of those immigrants are from Commonwealth countries.
Protective tarriffs are only good for a small portion of society and make everyone else suffer by paying more for worse goods. If certain industries aren’t competitive they should shut down and Britain should pivot to doing things it’s actually good at.
Factories in first world countries are usually pretty good. Much better than their counterparts in other countries.
What’s the point of workers rights if you just move the factories to countries that don’t care about workers?
Some of those pawns are children, perhaps terrified children.
Literally, yes, they do. The “day of the rope” is a big dream for these people.
