The incessant labelling: far right etc. is pointless! Not everyone showing up at these silly gatherings is a member of a far-right group. These are largely misinformed people going with the flow and ending up supporting what they do not understand.
The government (largely the last Tory government should have) must get a lot better at communicating. Why has legal migration, which they can control, risen sharply to a point where net migration is such that we have let so many more people in than Brits exiting the country? There must be reasons for that. Why not explain it?
Legal migration should be brought down to mitigate the illegal migration that’s less easy to control. Or at least, the situation should be explained clearly to these groups who say they are compelled to riot.
Protesting is well and good. But the minute you begin to hurl rocks at police and injuring them, that is not a protest, it is criminal behaviour and violent disorder. When you look at some of the video recording, it really is appalling. These police officers are human beings too right? They have kids at home, who wouldn’t wish to see their parents battered right?! How can anyone even attempt to excuse such behaviour??? It is reprehensible!
I can partly understand why governments have never really tried to explain the immigration situation, as I find it difficult to see how some of these rock-hurling goons, could understand such explanations. If you’re dumb enough to run around mindlessly attacking the police and burning cars etc., you are highly unlikely to be bright enough to understand any explanation the government could provide. But I believe that notwithstanding, the government should try to explain it anyway.
The reality is that the economic detriment is very, very low. It’s the resulting impact, with pockets of communities who do not appear to be taking in the British way of life, which is a result of integration stalling, probably due to intolerance and low funding. To offer little in terms of shedding light on what’s been going on, isn’t going to work going forward or these mindless riots will become a regular, unending occurrence. Any excuse they get, they will be at it again, regardless of whether or not it is disinformation. Once it’s in motion, it’s like a runaway train.
The government has a responsibility to improve communication while indeed taking a zero tolerance approach to violent disorder. The perpetrators of this weeks’ rioting will soon get early morning knocks on their doors. But given that our prisons are already full, this really is a situation that needs to be preempted in future. It is so unnecessary
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