Risk of summer riots over rapid immigration and cost of living, Rayner warns

Risk of summer riots over rapid immigration and cost of living, Rayner warns



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  1. [Angela Rayner ](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/angela-rayner-is-prepared-to-let-go-of-her-union-roots-in-a-quest-for-power-3803367?ico=in-line_link)warned her Cabinet colleagues that public anger over rapid immigration risks [fuelling civil unrest ](https://inews.co.uk/news/far-right-riots-warning-over-afghan-immigration-cover-up-3807711?srsltid=AfmBOopVQnjtXpzERkgztBk7C_uOFdmUfS8C5sx_EjDBvMcrjmwucG-e&ico=in-line_link)amid fears that the UK could be rocked by a second summer of riots.

    The Deputy Prime Minister told Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting that social cohesion was deteriorating in deprived communities as a result of the “rapid pace” of de-industrialisation and immigration in areas that saw some of the [worst unrest last summer in the wake of the Southport attacks](https://inews.co.uk/news/education/southport-riots-triggered-rise-far-right-extremism-schools-teachers-warn-3638648?ico=in-line_link).

    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also spoke about the Home Office’s plans to boost visible police presence in communities, and used the beefing up of police numbers in Epping, Essex, where protests over an asylum hotel have been increasing, as an example.

    It comes amid growing concerns that the angry demonstrations in Essex, could become a “powder keg” for further unrest as happened after the Southport riots last year.

    Epping Forest District Council’s Conservative leader Chris Whitbread warned that the Bell Hotel in Epping was becoming a focus for national protests with the likes of Far Right agitators, such as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson, threatening to demonstrate in the area in the coming days.

  2. No doubt egged on by Farage, with once again no consequences.

  4. Dunno why protests even happen. If anything, it pisses off the every day person. It never achieves anything.

    I don’t know of any protests that have achieved anything in the UK in at least my lifetime.

    I remember the big student fee protests for example. They were huge. Nothing changed.

    Protest all you like, if it achieved anything the gov would make it illegal. The gov will do what they want whether you do a bunch of shouting and sign waving anyway.

  5. “Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also spoke about the Home Office’s plans to boost visible police presence in communities, and used the beefing up of police numbers in Epping, Essex, where protests over an asylum hotel have been increasing, as an example.”

    Spend money solving it, or beat down the people that are unhappy? The beatings will continue until morale improves. You will accept that this is happening. Eventually the economy will somehow become better if we get more. Any day now.

  6. You could say… they should solve the problem….but the labour party will be getting the police ready to arrest those that protest the wrong way.

  7. She’s probably hoping for a nice wet summer

    (Riots seem to happen on hot, dry summer evenings)

    Useful side effect is that if all of August is wet, it’ll mean no more hosepipe bans and the focus will be off tackling water companies.

    And of course as English schools have just broken up for the summer, and because the weather Just Knows, it’ll be going a bit manky anyhow just to annoy children

  8. Risk of riots when racists aren’t held to account and rule of law isn’t enforced.

  9. Labour, how about doing something that doesn’t shaft your voters for a change…?

    You might be a bit popular for a change.

  10. Anybody else feeling a disconnect between this sudden rush of “riot warnings” and what they’re seeing out there? 

    I live in a fairly rural but also fairly brexity area. Maybe the area is posher than we (or it) realise but I’m just not seeing this tension on the streets, not here and not in our nearby big town with a migrant hotel in the centre.

    I’m dubious tbh, there’s a strong air of AstroTurf to all this, much like when immigration suddenly became the official hot topic all over the Internet a couple of years back. 

  11. Starmer is already bending. They have just emptied that hotel in Epping and moved everyone to the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf. Let’s see how long they stay there.

  12. First they came for yookay circle jerk and I did not speak out.

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