As the Migrant Right Network argue:
'We should not write off the far-right response as a “mindless minority”... but ask how rioters felt enabled to attack marginalised communities & mobilise so quickly at a time of national mourning'!
Only when we treat the far-right rioters as an organised mob will we begin to deal with the voters & their leaders effectively.
The police have been too interested in organising on the left & missed the real threat!
I agree - except that the police were not entirely free agents -- all the political pressure would have been to focus on the left and on #muslim groups.
Some time ago, some of the more cynical may have said, "Some of those that work forces", "Are the same that burn crosses"
And #sirmarkrowley was faced with a question today about 'two tier' policing - the suggestion from the right that they are being policed more heavily. He did not reply but later on #Sirkeirstarmer denied it vigorously. The 'two tier' issue had come close to costing #sirmark his job not so long ago when among others #suellabraverman and #gideonfalter went after him for going soft on the policing of demonstrations in #london over #gaza
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Donald Roy
Jeff Grigg