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8 Aug
7:13am, 8 Aug 2024
21,246 posts
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Dave W
Have to agree with 30p Lee about Starmer causing the riots. Definitely not the years and years of toxic anti-immigration rhetoric by him and his ilk. Definitely not the running down of all the welfare state backstops. Nope, nothing at all to do with fourteen years of Tory misrule and gaslighting.
Blame the bloke who has been in office less than a month and who has already started righting some of those wrongs. Who is trying to make the country more stable, prosperous and better for all. RW idiots don’t like that. Doesn’t fit with their culture war narrative. So it is Starmers fault.
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8 Aug
7:26am, 8 Aug 2024
17,604 posts
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jda
Starmer has of course also gone on about how immigration is out of control. He’s not an entirely innocent party in all of this.
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8 Aug
8:49am, 8 Aug 2024
50,642 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Great news that riots seem to have abated. Hope the underlying racism and simmering hatred will also dissipate but I fear not.
Well done the counter protestors. Apparently one group (Bristol?) sang a song of We Welcome Refugees. Now that's how to protest!  G
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8 Aug
11:29am, 8 Aug 2024
6,086 posts
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Ally-C
For anyone that’s interested, if you’ve Twitter/X and it remains inactive for 30 days, they delete it.
Finally getting around to it after curtailing my usage drastically because Musk is a POS.
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8 Aug
11:54am, 8 Aug 2024
6,087 posts
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Ally-C
William Nelson Morgan 69 years old and about to be sentenced for his part in the Southport riot, WTAF.
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8 Aug
11:55am, 8 Aug 2024
6,088 posts
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Ally-C
^ 32 months.
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8 Aug
12:03pm, 8 Aug 2024
32,899 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I imagine a lot of these numpties are "known to the police".
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8 Aug
12:06pm, 8 Aug 2024
32,900 posts
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Johnny Blaze
"The court hears that John O'Malley has a conviction from 2006 for excess alcohol and a conviction from 2023 for assault by beating."
Et voila.
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8 Aug
12:06pm, 8 Aug 2024
6,131 posts
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paulcook
From what I've seen so far, a lot of them seem to have significant-ish criminal records. Though there may be some confirmation bias / reporting bias there too.
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8 Aug
12:07pm, 8 Aug 2024
32,901 posts
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Johnny Blaze
"Separately, a man will appear in court over the burglary of a library that was set on fire and looted during riots in Liverpool.
The ground floor of the Spellow Lane Library Hub, which was opened last year to provide support for one of the country's most deprived communities, was severely damaged.
Adam Wharton, 28, from Walton, admitted burglary with intent to steal from the library on 4 August after he was arrested outside in the early hours of Sunday morning wearing a balaclava.
Wharton has 16 previous convictions for 26 offences, including robbery and burglary."
From a library, FFS.
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