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It’s good that we didn’t see the level of disorder and criminality on our streets that we have in previous days,
They’re thugs and criminals,
I think it will all come down to the intelligence, it will come down to the engagement we have with communities,
she told BBC Radio 4’s Today program on Thursday When [protesters] say they’re recreating Cable Street, you think — the point is we never wanted to get to Cable Street in the first place.”
However, Walthamstow’s Labour MP Stella Creasy told POLITICO We need to have a national conversation about what is feeding that toxicity, because that isn’t social media in itself. Social media is just another realm in which it is happening.”
We’ve seen violence on both sides, but let’s be frank, more thuggery from young white youths than Muslim gangs. However, policed very differently,
People are much more connected, but much more divided as a result,
Nothing will change. Policing won’t change. His narrative won’t change. All that might slightly change is that [X proprietor] Elon Musk and X might face a bit of regulation,
I think the show of force from the police, and frankly, the show of unity from communities, together defeated the challenges that we've seen,
I was very keen that we're able to demonstrate that if you're involved in disorder, within days, you'll be in the criminal justice system,
Any suggestion they're patriots, or they've got a cause... is nonsense,
By whipping up Islamophobia with comments about Muslims and immigrants not being part of ‘British culture’, Farage reveals his true colours,
In London you would never see them rioting on the scale that they have outside London,
I normally walk through this city center all the time,
said Nadeem Akhtar, 18, who has lived in Sheffield his whole life We today have got such brilliant numbers in our community,
an organizer shouted through a megaphone to a hastily organized crowd There are many, many more of us than you,
crowds chanted at the anti-racism demonstrations across the country, bolstered by a markedly stronger police presence than over the weekend, and with virtually no sign of any far-right supporters I ain’t done nothing. Double standards.”
As one man was escorted away by police, he called out The richest man in the world is stirring the pot for a race war,
These sickening riots have exposed our social model as a fraudulent sham”, ... Our zero-sum game welfare state is crippled by massive dependency and a misplaced sense of entitlement. We need a rethink on immigration…”
The editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Allister Heath, in full froth, under the headline I will keep you safe,
Keir Starmer promised early in the day and indeed the “full force of the law” and a “standing army” of 6,000 police did just that, aided by the crowds of citizens praised today by police chiefs