I don’t know shit about politics. All I know is that in the UK the Labour party won, and the Conservative party lost.
I read some protestors are protesting against racism. What is this about? Protesting against new party that just won? I thought the Labour party was left-wing, meaning they are more on the social-equality side? I’m lost.
Kremlin social media disinformation campaign causing civil unrest
More likely Mossad. Everyone’s quick to blame Russia but Israel has the means and the motive.
What motive?
They seem to not want immigrants. And I suspect “immigrant” means “doesn’t look like me”. In other words, it’s just " they took are jerbs!"
The make-up and mindset of the citizenry doesn’t change just because the government changes.
It’s a small minority from the far right rioting, with massive counter-protests. You’re trying to say the whole population is rotten based on a few negative examples, which ironically is just what the racists are doing themselves.
You’re trying to say the whole population is rotten based on a few negative examples
I’m not trying to say that. I’ve no idea why you think I am.
I think that because you’re attributing those views to “the citizenry”. I can only go on the words you’ve used, and you’ve used a word that describes the whole country’s population, not a small minority.
you’re attributing those views to “the citizenry”
I haven’t attributed anything to the citizenry. I wrote two distinct paragraphs, only one of which contained the word “citizenry”.
Edit: improved wording, a bit
The Labour Party is “left-wing,” as in that they are similar to the Democrats being “left,” but in reality they are republican-lites (conservative-lite).
George Galloway talks about the race riots: https://lemmy.world/post/18407870
There was huge riots against alleged immigrants and alleged muslim. Protests are about Racism is evil, rioters are assholes
It started with a horrifying knife attack where the perpetrator stabbed 11 children and killing 3 of them. 2 adults were also stabbed. This attack horrified the nation.
News stories alleged that the perpetrator was an Islamic illegal immigrant, social media did what it does best: whipping up emotions and exaggeration and feeding it to people with poorer standard of education.
The background here is that there are concerns surrounding illegal immigration in the UK, as it is sold by criminal gangs as a country of neverending riches. Some opinions are justified, and some are not.
As you can imagine,far right organisation jumped on this as an excuse to encourage shitty behaviour, and the worst of them used it as an excuse to have a tantrum and damage peopkes properly, attack people of different ethnicities and get themselves locked up for it.
TL:DR : Horrible racist and bigoted individuals made a tragedy about them, and now we all have to deal with their shittiness.
Something to add to this.
The people protesting against racism are counter-protesters. They are showing up to protest against the far right who are in turn protesting against migrants.
In the past couple of days they have been out-numbering the far right protesters by at least an order of magnitude, and a lot of the expected riots have been averted.
Outnumber a fascist ten to one and he tends to remember his manners.
Only if one of the tens punches him in the goddamn mouth every time he speaks.
Weirdos whipped up into a frenzy about “forriners stealing benefits” by farage and his far right party
ed. Asylum seekers in hotels etc have been here for years, well before the new government came in. Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent. At no point did they ever care, until labour won and farage didn’t get seated. weirdo musko has also been posting a lot of hate speech and bullshit, which foments further anger and violence.
Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters are 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning
Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent.
Uhh…
Would you mind sharing the riots about asylum seekers and whatever else from the last five years? If you have a correction, post it. Dont just leave a useless sarcastic comment.
I am also speaking United Kingdom specifically
the last five years
Fascist violence has been around in the UK for longer than five years. Where did five years come from?
An arbitrary date
edit. Im not arguing its not been a problem for a long time. I am just saying the violence ramped up very recently compared to the last five years for an example arbitrary date
I am just saying the violence ramped up very recently compared to the last five years for an example arbitrary date
Why?
Ok. You pick a date.
pick a date
Why?
Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters are 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning
Was this the article? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/rioter-southport-jailed-far-right
I looked at the photos and thought, what a bunch of losers. Read the article and sure enough, losers.
They’re not protesters; they’re rioters
I read some protestors are protesting against racism.
There have been counter-protests which have vastly outnumbered the supremacist protest. It’s great to see.
Basically this was triggered by a false rumor that recent child murders were committed by a Muslim immigrant, where in reality they were an unstable 2nd generation (so fully UK born and raised) and from a Christian family. It was basically the tipping point for a lot of pent-up racists. A former MI6 agent has pretty much confirmed this rumor was probably started by a propaganda group, likely Russian, and likely a response to a more left-leaning political party recently being voted into No. 10.
