Except these lot don’t care about the housing crisis, they’re literally looking for an excuse to smash things up
I don’t think that’s true in many cases. You can literally just go on YouTube and look at the Sky News, Channel 4 and ITV reportage where they interview people at these protests/riots and many of them explicitly say that the reason they’re there is because of the crisis in housing, the NHS, etc. and which they pin on the scale of immigration.
I’m not agreeing with them, but when you say they’re just looking for an excuse to smash things up, I think you’re sort of sidelining what they themselves are often saying. Obviously the vast majority are also expressing deplorable racist prejudices too, but again, we should at least take them at their word that that’s why they’re on the streets.
Sure we need societal change too but that alone won’t fix the issue unless these problem causes are dealt with at the root.
I don’t think you can solve this at the root without a) solving the very real problem that we might very well have net immigration of 1 million this year which is fucking insane; b) meaningfully invest in local councils, public services like SureStart (or some new version of it), free English language services, and finding ways to sort of push together communities with new arrivals so that they just have to get to know each other and get along, while the new arrivals revise their opinions and values in line with the new expectations. Even that would really just be a starting point but I’ve had a couple of pint safter work so I don’t want to overstretch myself with ‘grand plans.’
And since dealing with them is much quicker than dealing with large social issues that should be the priority in the next few months.
Agreed. Smash the rioters, lock them up, then I think/hope our new government will be able to take a proper look at this issue that’s been bubbling up for so many years. This violence isn’t isolated, it’s not about social media or Tommy Ten-Names or whoever, and it won’t go away even if we lock up all the rioters. We have problems in this country which require serious, thoughtful, nuanced responess in national policy.
But, again: I want the police to fucking smash these people, slam them up in a prison cell and make them regret their vile, racist, brutal attacks on innocent people.
I don’t think that’s true in many cases. You can literally just go on YouTube and look at the Sky News, Channel 4 and ITV reportage where they interview people at these protests/riots and many of them explicitly say that the reason they’re there is because of the crisis in housing, the NHS, etc. and which they pin on the scale of immigration.
I’m not agreeing with them, but when you say they’re just looking for an excuse to smash things up, I think you’re sort of sidelining what they themselves are often saying. Obviously the vast majority are also expressing deplorable racist prejudices too, but again, we should at least take them at their word that that’s why they’re on the streets.
I don’t think you can solve this at the root without a) solving the very real problem that we might very well have net immigration of 1 million this year which is fucking insane; b) meaningfully invest in local councils, public services like SureStart (or some new version of it), free English language services, and finding ways to sort of push together communities with new arrivals so that they just have to get to know each other and get along, while the new arrivals revise their opinions and values in line with the new expectations. Even that would really just be a starting point but I’ve had a couple of pint safter work so I don’t want to overstretch myself with ‘grand plans.’
Agreed. Smash the rioters, lock them up, then I think/hope our new government will be able to take a proper look at this issue that’s been bubbling up for so many years. This violence isn’t isolated, it’s not about social media or Tommy Ten-Names or whoever, and it won’t go away even if we lock up all the rioters. We have problems in this country which require serious, thoughtful, nuanced responess in national policy.
But, again: I want the police to fucking smash these people, slam them up in a prison cell and make them regret their vile, racist, brutal attacks on innocent people.