False information and incitement on SM and prosecuting the perpetrators

Whitewavemark2

Marydoll

Gosh, sorry for the typos, I'm not functioning very well this morning.

👍. Hope you are having a good day.

WWM, thank you!

Laughable really - under the previous government the beast got fed on a daily basis on here.

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Kandinsky

1000’s of illegals arriving by small boats every year ( & have been for decades ) & absolutely nothing - repeat nothing - being done about it is a fact.
Social media is not making that up!

That’s what these riots are about.

Yes I totally agree Kandinsky but some seem unable to accept the facts. Heads in the sand.

Spinnaker

Laughable really - under the previous government the beast got fed on a daily basis on here.

Yes it is laughable and quite clearly an effort to stop debate or any criticism of Starmer/Labour.

eazybee

Whitewavemark2 Tue 06-Aug-24 03:21:40

Twenty past three in the morning?
Dearie me.

Your point being……?

Kandinsky

And just saw that - crikey, who posts on GN at 3’ o’clock in the morning?

Some poor person who has trouble sleeping?

Whitewavemark2

I think that I will begin to post stuff about the situation in the U.K. like we did on the 100 days thread.

Hopefully it will stop misinformation, lies, racist rhetoric (some hope) etc.

I’ll do it later - busy morning

Are you applying for a job as a moderator by any chance!
Where is any proof of racist comments on any GN threads?
Talk about OTT pearl clutching.

RosiesMaw2

eazybee

Whitewavemark2 Tue 06-Aug-24 03:21:40

Twenty past three in the morning?
Dearie me.

Your point being……?

I think it was just a bit of pointless snideness... 😆

Kandinsky

And just saw that - crikey, who posts on GN at 3’ o’clock in the morning?

Many of us, judging by the various “Nightowl” threads we have had.
Sometimes the wee small hours are when thought is clearest -and with all that is going on, our brains don’t switch off with Horlicks and Newsnight.

Or are you saying posting during office hours only is your preference?

Exactly - ad hominem of course

Nicenanny3

Spinnaker

Laughable really - under the previous government the beast got fed on a daily basis on here.

Yes it is laughable and quite clearly an effort to stop debate or any criticism of Starmer/Labour.

Methinks you are just sore that you yourself had a post removed for spreading lies and misinformation ! Or do you regard lies and misinformation genuine debate? I honestly don’t know how you have the gall to write this

You can talk about immigration and politics but this is about outsiders trying to destroy our communities. Organised violence carried out by people from outside in our towns whilst they all return to their villages. It is senseless and unnecessary and is a problem. How anyone can support this is beyond me.

Maybe if these violent men integrated more they'd have less to fear

Nicenanny3

Spinnaker
“Laughable really - under the previous government the beast got fed on a daily basis on here.
Yes it is laughable and quite clearly an effort to stop debate or any criticism of Starmer/Labour.“

feeding the beast is absolutely nothing to do with not criticising labour!

Critique all you want, it’s perfectly fine!

It’s about
1) not blaming migrants for all our woes, 2) spreading misinformation quite deliberately
3) xenophobia
4) being deliberately divisive

Anyone, anyone at all, who condones the riots, attacks on mosques, attacking Moslems (or any other cohort of people) needs to give their heads a good wobble!

JaneJudge

You can talk about immigration and politics but this is about outsiders trying to destroy our communities. Organised violence carried out by people from outside in our towns whilst they all return to their villages. It is senseless and unnecessary and is a problem. How anyone can support this is beyond me.

Maybe if these violent men integrated more they'd have less to fear

👍👏👏👏👏👏

One of my neighbours is Muslim and has so much security stuff on their house. Now I know why

And still some don't get it and resort to commenting about the time OP started the thread.

Nicenanny3

eazybee

Whitewavemark2 Tue 06-Aug-24 03:21:40

Twenty past three in the morning?
Dearie me.

Yes ridiculous isn't it.

Why is it ridiculous to post at 3.20 am? I was woken at 3 am by roadworks taking place right outside my flat. I was wide awake anyway and dipped into GN and read WW2's post then. I also dipped into some other threads. At no time did I think it was a ridiculous thing to do in the early hours.

I am not sleeping very well because of the weather either. It is so humid. Still at least I'm not out and about smashing up my local town centre with my top off, setting fire to bins and being a racist asshole.

Oh not another thread, all about the same thing, but worded differently. I haven’t read the thread, and I’m not going to. I’m about as sick of these constant threads arguing the same thing in slightly different ways as I am of, oh I don’t know. Thank goodness I’m going out today and for the next couple of days and not relying on GN for a bit of entertainment.
Overkill in my opinion. Admittedly that’s just my opinion.

Appreciate the O/P.

Cossy this constant reference to ‘those who condone the riots and attacks on mosques needing to give their heads a wobble’ is entirely in your imagination when applied to the posters on this forum, there are literally no comments like that at all.
This thread won’t end well while there are imaginary scenarios being trotted out and applied erroneously to other posters, or also if a poster decides to be a self appointed moderator which shuts down all opposing thoughts.

maddyone

Oh not another thread, all about the same thing, but worded differently. I haven’t read the thread, and I’m not going to. I’m about as sick of these constant threads arguing the same thing in slightly different ways as I am of, oh I don’t know. Thank goodness I’m going out today and for the next couple of days and not relying on GN for a bit of entertainment.
Overkill in my opinion. Admittedly that’s just my opinion.

Mine too.
After working a nightshift and having breakfast am off for a sleep in a few minutes zzzzz

To return to the O/P, I to have been wondering about what we can do about the tide of hatred and violence

"I think prosecutors will want to have a strategy to identify people who may have been involved in inciting and encouraging these events, and they will want to arrest them and build cases against them. These are, in one sense, the most important people"

I hope we can do this.

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