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Whatever the apparent motivation, this is not protest, it is pure violence and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities,
The disinformation that we’ve seen online attracts amplification from known bot activity, which, as I say, can be linked to state-backed activity,
Has Nigel Farage condemned the violence? Has he condemned the EDL? Fomenting discord in society is what these people seem to exist for,
There will be people who were thinking they were going on their summer holidays this week, and instead they will face a knock on the door from the police.”
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stated in a recent interview with Sky News Nationwide anti-immigrant riots on a scale never seen before. Threatening life, property and our police force. We need to recall Parliament.”
Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott said on X What you’ve seen on the streets of Hartlepool, London or Southport is nothing compared to what could happen over the course of the next few weeks,
If you were there, we will find you and you will be held accountable for yesterday’s violence.”
In a recent news conference, South Yorkshire Police’s Assistant Chief Constable Lindsey Butterfield stated The far right are a reaction to fear, to discomfort, to unease that is out there shared by tens of millions of people,
Our country is woefully unprepared,
Instead of hiding their faces, they have now been coming out … we cannot blame a Labour Party that has [only] been in government [for] the past four weeks,
When British people are ignored and labelled ‘far-right’… something has to happen.”
On Sunday, Robinson, who is on holiday abroad, posted footage of the Rotherham hotel attack on X, saying I should be very clear that anyone who stokes this violence, whether on the internet or in person, can be prosecuted and face prison.
The police, Home Office, DSIT (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) and NCA (National Crime Agency) are working to tackle criminality online, to ensure people are prosecuted for online criminal activity
In a read-out of Monday morning's emergency Cobra meeting, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said A policing presence will remain in the town today and the coming days, to provide reassurance and be on hand to respond to any concerns from the public. A full investigation is now underway."
Intense street fighting erupts on Parliament Road in Middlesbrough following a car being set on fire earlier. Stay safe and avoid the area."
A post accompanying the clip said Are you white? Are you English?"
One thug can be heard shouting I think what you've seen is that networks of different individuals and groups that have been trying to fan the flames,
she told Sky News, swerving questions on whether foreign states had been involved They are lying to you all,
Yaxley-Lennon, who is known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, wrote Civil war is inevitable."
Responding to a post on X that blamed mass migration and open borders for the disorder in Britain, he wrote Reasonable people who have all those sorts of views and concerns do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police,