Stabbings - UK & Worldwide

Well we did almost single handedly invent the biggest global slave trade economy ever seen across the Atlantic, so that's just as well.

Portugal may have a say in that. We did later abolish it though and then forced others to stop too.

Just seen online lefties have blocked Old market Street.No British there yet.

Police brace for further unrest as deputy PM says 'no excuse for thuggery'..by Johanna Chisholm and Ido Vock

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The Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, who is visiting a hotel in Rotherham which was attacked on Sunday.

Speaking about the unrest, Rayner says police will be there to respond to any violence or criminality planned for tonight, she says.

There is “no excuse for thuggery and criminality on our streets", she adds.

Rayner says any "online and offline criminality" will be faced with the law, and urges people to not get involved.

"That is not our British values," she says.

Rayner added police and the courts "'stand ready" to deal with people involved in the riots.

Attacking the police and hotels, like what happened at the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, isn't a "legitimate grievance", she adds, calling it "thuggery and violence".

She adds that some of the public have been "afraid and scared".

Rayner says now that those who plan to throw missiles, attack people, or incite hatred – online or offline – "will be met with the law".

"We end up in a situation where we have here, where people's lives are at risk, where police officers' lives were put at risk by a small minority of criminality and thuggish behaviour," she adds.

She finishes by saying that it's been "heartening" to see the community response to the disorder. The vast majority of the British people "see this for what it is", Rayners says.

I'm sure there will be, but I'm just saying apparently they are not here yet..

They are probably over Easton, but coming from the Eastville park end.

Correct, even though some don't like to be, and are indeed racist to their own.

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Let us know if any British don't look like those that got banged up today

Poor tactics from the patriots. Too many targets and their cannon fodder won't be so keen now having seen sentences happening so fast. More numbers turning up to counter too. Disrupting businesses will lose straggling sympathy and there aren't many that agree with the fires and looting. I'm starting to feel a bit more positive, despite being angry today about NHS colleagues feeling uncomfortable. The positivity is that I think they're steadily being found out, and that that this has been building for some time. Racism that is. People being found out now though.

I'm hoping this settles down enough for a decent conversation, like what causes racism, and immigration can be discussed sensibly

I'm not sure it would be that flattering 😁