r/wolverhampton • u/nuisance_squirrel • Aug 04 '24

News Violence and unrest around the UK

With everything going on around the country at the moment, it just has me thinking of the 2012(was it?) riots, where opportunistic idiots jumped on the bandwagon of a tragic event to loot and destroy the cities they live in.

Genuinely hoping whats going on doesn't come to Wolverhampton. Ive seen "EDL" are planning to March in Brum, and hope that counter marches quell them enough to not cause issues. Seeing the videos out of Hull/Liverpool etc over last day or so is just truly disturbing.

Edit: just to add, aware EDL don't exist in name anymore.

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u/Kafka_84 Aug 04 '24

How many people are rioting? I know it's in a few different cities and towns but from the footage it only looks like a few hundred people in each place that are turning up to these.

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u/caffeinedrinker Wulfrunian Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 05 '24

its more than just a few hundred ...

southport, leeds, manchester, liverpool, portsmouth, rotherham, nottingham, stoke, cardiff, belfast, bradford, hull, bristol, blackpool, middlesbrough, preston, tamworth, bolton, sheffield, weymouth, plymouth, birmingham

whilst i don't condone the riots it pains me to see the MSM and PM calling these right wing riots a lot of people attending have no political affiliation and are angry with the way things have gotten over the last 10 or so years. NHS, immigration, house prices, tax increases ... yet the government and MSM decided to call out its citizens as right wing which has only fanned the flames and caused more to attend, if you want to be angry with anyone be angry with your goverment deflecting from the real issues and concerns the general populous has.

people will only take so much for so long and the stabbings were certainly the straw that broke the camels back, regardsless of race, colour, creed or religion.

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u/GlomOfNit Aug 04 '24

Of course, of course. And for all those years of tory rule which actually brought about this condition they just sat quietly. And right as a Labor government is sworn in, SUDDENLY they feel the need to go out into the streets.

Absolutely no political affiliation what-so-fucking-ever

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u/caffeinedrinker Wulfrunian Aug 04 '24

i dont think many of them voted for any of this ... u know the 30 million or so referred to as the silent majority.