off topic but, are the riots happening in the areas who voted in the majority for Brexit? Is this demonstrating/rioting being carried out by the 17 million Brexit voters who feel they didnt get what they voted for?
Honest answer...
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Cos I'm less likely to get banned here - but hey if I get banned at least I might write great novel before the cancer gets me)
The "incidents" (
I'll call them that because having lived through the aftermath of the Bradford riots, and talked to the OH, who experienced the actual rioting) aren't riots - so much as staged provocations - that Starmer has either fallen for, or taken advantage of...
And I know there is an argument that you cannot blame the Labour government because 14 years of etc... and they have only been in power for a month - but this government have announced they intend an amnesty for migrants, a new race relations bill and outlawing Islamophobia (
whatever that means)
At which point you can ask (
assuming questions are still allowed) if Harehills, Manchester Airport and Southport were the spark.
Or if this was always something that was waiting to happen - given that Labour is a party of student politics, and parliament no longer has any real function in politics beyond deciding how many middle class tzars are required control the lower classes - and keep them in their place.
As to the Brexit point...
Instead of listening to the talking heads, get yourself a map of the look at the
Red Wall.
Now cast aside all political allegiance and what you will see is is the towns surrounding the newly formed mayoralties (which vote Labour) voted Conservative.
Quite why no one in the Conservatives noticed this - I can only guess is because the north is up there, and we've run out of ideas.
No doubt pundits will come up with endless theories as to why this happened.
But since I have already outed myself as having a connection to Bradford, I shall mention the Bradford plan (
and don't worry it doesn't officially exist, I only found out about it because of a disgruntled trade union official) - basically the plan is this - all services (
libraries, registrars, poll tax payments, etc) were all cntralised in order that people in the surrounding towns would go to Bradford and take advantage of Blairs regeneration project that had built a new shopping centre.
And I don't doubt this all seemed like a brilliant idea to whoever dreamed it up - but for the most part you are dealing with areas of the country still dealing with the 1974 local government reorganization - I well recall friends in Middlesbrough who absolutely refused to accept they were in Cleveland and not part of Yorkshire.
So not only have you got towns separated from their proper county, with Super Mayors stripping them of services services, and status - But, it is not uncommon to find them not only been stripped of services, but they are paying vastly more to Mayorality than they are receiving.
I'm not slagging off Bradford (
as in truth I rather like the place) rather using it as an example.
And assuming the failings there, apply more widely across the Red Wall, with regard to the failure of the Super Mayors.
Btw, the only way religion comes into this (beyond the extremeists funded by government money) is that sometimes the Muslims go nuts... at which point Labour will go all out for the Muslim clan vote (
Which doesn't exist - but everyone knows it does) and completly ignores the votes of everyone else -in case you are wondering.... look at every election George Galloway has ever won.
Or in the last election, when 'islamicist' candidates won in Blackburn, Dewsbury etc....
It isn't any surprise, to me (
and I am no doubt risking arrest,
as seemingly Starmer is going to arrest everyone) to see the list of towns that reacted to the siren call...
They are pretty much places that have in one way or another attempted to escape the firm hand of Labour only to be recaptured by the principled middle classes (
who wouldn't vote for anyone but Labour, becauseit is their duty to oppress save the poor) mainly because by now, anyone with any common sense knows that change is impossible - at least with Labour there will always be food banks, for those undignified to use them.
Oh, and btw...
I had a chat with the OH tonight.
And we both agreed that given the chance, the kids should get the hell out of this county.
They can write to us if they want, to let us know how they getting on,,, but it's fine if they don't.
Which is a converstaion I never thought I'd have.
And this is from someone who considers it a blessing that my daighter was stillborn at the height of Labour's last suprression of free speech during the grooming scandal.
