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There are a lot of people that blame immigrants for the state of this country,
My message to anyone who chooses to take part in this violence and thuggery is simple: the police, courts and prisons stand ready and you will face the consequences of your appalling acts,
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said These people being violent to immigrants ain’t too surprising considering the times that we’re living in. Heightened suspicions and rising divisions are direct products of right-wing conditioning.”
They were yelling, ‘There ain’t no black in the Union Jack’ and randomly smashing windows in the hope the houses belonged to immigrant families.”
The Daily Telegraph’s crime editor shared a quote from a resident in Middlesbrough, where riots broke out on Sunday So Britain’s descended into race riots,
begins a new poem shared on Monday by George the Poet, a celebrated artist All them boats coming here, I honestly believe they’re terrorists,
We're not so far away either, it's really worrying times for all of us concerned.
I think that you need to be cautious about applying counter-terrorism in effectively a live incident, it could be escalatory
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme My focus is on making sure that we stop this disorder, that the criminal sanctions are swift and be seen to be followed."
Shouldn't you be concerned about attacks on *all* communities?"
We will make sure that anyone who is given a custodial sentence as a result of the riots and disorder, there will be a prison place waiting for them,
What type of evil individual(s) would undertake such outrageous actions, in a sacrosanct place of reflection, where loved ones are buried, solely intended to provoke racial tensions?”
local councillor Afrasiab Anwar said I think it is deeply irresponsible. I think everyone should be appealing for calm,
Starmer’s big challenge is to provide decent economic futures for the people in these parts of England that feel like they've been left behind.”
This is a really messy situation for the British government to be in right now,
Something has to be done simply to restore public order, and some sense of confidence that a government is in control,
The short answer is that the intervention by the government and by the police will fairly quickly bring these riots back under control. So the disruption, I think, is just short-term,
What they've done, I imagine, is just to cancel some leave and put some budget into some overtime,
The tensions have clearly been fuelled by social media, which has been simply dishonest in the way in which it has represented the circumstances around the knife attack last week,
said Bruce Wilson, director of RMIT University’s European Union Centre of Excellence But if this extends for any period of time, you are then looking at the communities that feel threatened organising themselves, and that escalates the situation,
he told CNA’s Asia First on Tuesday