Tory police and crime commissioner branded ‘totally unacceptable’ after she appears to justify far-right riots

5 comments

1. One of the problems with the Johnson purge and the country giving them a beating a few weeks ago is that we are left with a random bunch of failures in safe seats. All the good ones are long gone

2. White mobs are attempting to drag minority members from cars and burn down mosques, after falsely and maliciously accusing a hated minority group of a terrible crime.

   The British people still don’t seem to realize the enormity of what’s been happening these past few days.

3. Tories create an issue and want to tell Labour how to go about fixing it even though they repeatedly failed to do so themselves.

4. She isn’t wrong – the source is festering xenophobia, racism, and media manipulation by political and foreign interests – but a very unwise thing for someone in her position to say without clarifying precisely what she means.

5. >the only way to stem the tide of violent disorder is to acknowledge what is causing it

   Racism is causing it. Whatever your stance on immigration (or whatever else they’re using to justify violence), rioting isn’t going to solve it.

   Thugs looking for an excuse for violence won’t stop being thugs just because the government changes its immigration policies.