Police Station in Sunderland set on fire tonight

I fear a death

Riots, cars overturned, missiles being thrown etc.

What on earth is wrong with these people? Ugly mob violence and it’s nowhere near the last of it.

Some of them just want a fight.

Appalling. sooner or later Anniebach something could happen I hope it brings people who claim its "protecting our culture" to their senses.

"A fire has been set next to a police building as protesters clashed with police in Sunderland during a demonstration linked to the Southport knife attack.

It follows beer cans and stones being thrown at police in riot gear outside a mosque in the city, and other clashes between rioters and the force.

Mounted officers pushed back demonstrators, some of whom were in masks, from the mosque on St Mark's Road.
Northumbria Police said its officers had been "subjected to serious violence" and advised members of the public to avoid the area.

Police also had beer barrels thrown at them, as young men chanted "whose streets, our streets".

Members of the crowd chanted in support of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, while others shouted racist slurs

Cars in the city centre have also been targeted by the group, with one overturned car being set on fire."

Time for well known figures on the right, who might be listened to, to call for a halt on this violence.

Yvette Cooper has just spoken out against it and said perpetrators will feel the full force.

This is just days after they announced they were letting prisoners out early so how is that going to work? Wrong ‘uns know Starmer is a wet weekend.

Looks like it could be a summer of violence for Starmer. Don’t suppose he will get much sleep tonight.

No point in demanding to be tough on crime there are no prison places, whoever you are. We've discussed at length in GN about the legacy in the prisons from the last government..

I'm quite clear Cooper and Starmer and any decent person want those places for people like those turning out tonight.

It’s like 2011. That was in the summer too.

(yes I have thought some cold weather and heavy rain might be useful atm Casdon)💁

I feel like something else is driving this

These people were spring loaded waiting for a trigger

I wonder if these far right thugs are coming out of the woodwork because their poster girl Braverman and their cronies in power are no longer there to support their heinous agendas.

Only last week it was publicised that mysogyny and incidents against women and girls are running at the rate of approx. 3000 per day - what IS wrong with men, particularly young men, in this country?

And then we have the current civil unrest to add to it.

Maybe a collective lobotomy will be the only way to teach them civilised behaviour.

Babs03

I wonder if these far right thugs are coming out of the woodwork because their poster girl Braverman and their cronies in power are no longer there to support their heinous agendas.

They’ve got Reform now. So they have representation in Parliament….

What did Farage say after the election. ‘Labour, we’re coming to get you’. Maybe it was a rallying call for those who voted for them purely for their anti immigrant stance?

Farage’s recent comments on GBNews and social media show that he is just as dangerous as Trump.

Interesting twitter thread showing how incidents are manipulated to feed the anti-immigrant agenda.
It starts with a recent murder which hasn't become high profile.

x.com/marcowenjones/status/1819501170236576058

Apologies to non twitter followers who won't be able to see it.

That’ll be me.

I was shocked to see this on the news last night, that is my city centre and the riot and burning car were beside the Minster, the theatre and the Fire station ( used to be a fire station but is now a concert hall ) The cultural part of the city not the sink estates.

Urmstongran

That’ll be me.

You can see it - I don’t have X either, but if you click on *MaizieD’s link you can still see that individual post, it works as a link. You don’t have to sign up for anything.

Maybe those who are plotting and coordinating these riots will get the same sentences as those who planned to close a motorway for 24 hours? I doubt it somehow.

“Further demonstrations were expected last night, and over the weekend, in dozens of cities and towns, including London, Aldershot, Sunderland, Hull, Liverpool, Cardiff and Manchester.

Flyers are also being circulated online for rallies in Nottingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Belfast, Bristol and Hull.

The Prime Minister has claimed that the protests have been coordinated by the far-Right. But speaking to The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch said too many people were not being honest about the failures of integration.

“You look at all the tension that we’ve been seeing in the country over the last few days in Southport and Hartlepool, everybody’s quiet,” she said.

“They don’t want to upset the cultural establishment that wants to pretend that nothing is going on. You can’t just pretend that there are no tensions.

“And we’ve been seeing this not just between ethnic minorities and white British people, but it’s even between ethnic minorities. This is not normal.”

I’m on Twitter and some of the right wing posts from UK and the USA are appalling and indeed very frightening. The misinformation is ridiculous. If trump loses in November, his supporters are already planning uprisings and accusations of the vote being ‘stollen’. In the UK I am afraid Farage will be in huge trouble if he continues to post lies. To quote Malcolm Tucker, the situation is febrile.

vegansrock

Maybe those who are plotting and coordinating these riots will get the same sentences as those who planned to close a motorway for 24 hours? I doubt it somehow.

Shouldn't think they'll walk free. Unlike the men who assaulted the police officers in Manchester. They won the "got out of jail card".