Will the unrest in the UK spread to more countries in Europe?
After all, most western Europe are facing the same insecurity issues.
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@autumngirl27 I've not really seen any mainstream media trying to justify any of this. Even the usually right leaning Daily Mail is firmly calling this far right activity and blames the likes of Tommy Robinson for inflaming tensions. If they link the story to the killings in Southport it's only to explain where this all started and that is accurate. However, they also point out that the uproar was built on misinformation. I've not seen any media that hasn't put the far right at the centre of this.
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@UBotMate The person who started this is Farage, when he said he's not saying that the suspect was a Muslim who arrived in a small boat, but he did think the police were holding back information and that there are "questions that need to be answered"
@SW-User I said that it started in Southport, which it did, purely on the basis of the timeline of events. I don't believe that the Southport incident is in any way a legitimate reason for any of this. I also don't believe that Tommy Robinson, nor Nigel Farage, are solely responsible either. I think that looking to the far right as the reason behind all of this is missing the extent of the problem. The far right in the UK have relatively small numbers and have not had much influence for years. Of course they will get involved, but then extremists often infiltrate protests as well as starting then. There were extremist elements in the pro palestine marches and in the BLM protests, but they were not the whole story.
The fringe elements represent sporadic risks but rarely more than that. It is when those in the middle ground drift towards the extremes that problems become much bigger. It's also not enough to blame misinformation and indoctrination. If politicians want to fix this then they will need to do more than just put a label on it and hope it goes away. They slept on Brexit happening, they don't need to be sleeping on this too.
The fringe elements represent sporadic risks but rarely more than that. It is when those in the middle ground drift towards the extremes that problems become much bigger. It's also not enough to blame misinformation and indoctrination. If politicians want to fix this then they will need to do more than just put a label on it and hope it goes away. They slept on Brexit happening, they don't need to be sleeping on this too.
@UBotMate i saw some of the comments made during the rioting in Sunderland. Comments like "We have Police protecting Sharia" "Send the" muzzies"home and "Time to fight for England" are some of the more repeatable comments I saw on the newsfeed I was on at the time. The poibt is that we have a radicalised right wing after the effects of half truths and outright lies in the press and dog whistling politicians that has been going on for as long as I remember and more than likely, longer than that.
@autumngirl27 Were these the comments of the press themselves or of people that they were reporting on? I didn't see any mainstream media outlets printing anything other than narratives around the far right. We know the the public will have extreme views at times but the press have actually been very unified in their commentary from what I've seen. I was even shocked by some of it being so moderate considering the outlets.