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Police Station in Sunderland set on fire tonight

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harrigran Sat 03-Aug-24 07:57:25

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 Sat 03-Aug-24 07:57:11

That’ll be me.

MaizieD Sat 03-Aug-24 07:15:58

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.

Whitewavemark2 Sat 03-Aug-24 06:55:13

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

MayBee70 Sat 03-Aug-24 06:25:20

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?

MayBee70 Sat 03-Aug-24 06:22:25

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….

mae13 Fri 02-Aug-24 23:51:58

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 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:58:58

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.

VioletSky Fri 02-Aug-24 22:53:03

I feel like something else is driving this

These people were spring loaded waiting for a trigger

Wyllow3 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:48:26

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

Casdon Fri 02-Aug-24 22:42:18

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

Wyllow3 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:40:11

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.

Primrose53 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:38:08

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

Primrose53 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:32:23

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.

Wyllow3 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:30:31

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.

Elrel Fri 02-Aug-24 22:29:52

Some of them just want a fight.

twiglet77 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:27:29

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

Primrose53 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:26:12

Riots, cars overturned, missiles being thrown etc.

Anniebach Fri 02-Aug-24 22:23:12

I fear a death

Primrose53 Fri 02-Aug-24 22:18:42

Looks dreadful. I do feel every day is getting worse and this is just the start of it.