UK Far-Right Protest Hots Up As Stores And Shops Looted. Pockets of cities across the United Kingdom are currently witnessing disturbing protests from extreme far-right activist groups.
Cities and towns such as Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford, Tamworth, and Rotherham, among others, have witnessed these disturbing anti-immigration protests.
However, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kier Starmer, has vowed that the extreme far-right protesters will regret their actions.
The world has not had a reasonable period in recent weeks, as it has experienced various violent protests.
Recently, many political leaders have been confused and panicked due to this unrest. It is also to be noted that these various demonstrations have usually been deadly and chaotic.
The United Kingdom is no exception. The region is known to be peaceful and tranquil, but the situation recently proved otherwise.
Many stores and shops have been looted, which has become worrisome and is now a global phenomenon.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in his public address, “I guarantee you will regret participating in this disorder. Whether directly or those whipping up this action online, and then running away themselves.”
He flayed the protesters for exhibiting the “far-right thuggery” and vowed to bring the perpetrators “to justice.”
There were clips played on the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, which showed how the rioters were forcing their way into stores and shops, looting and damaging various items.
In Rotherham, footage on the BBC channels also showed the protesters forcefully pushing themselves into a Holiday Inn, attempting to burn it down. However, it was unclear if the occupants were inside the building.
In many places, like Middleborough, hundreds of protesters were seen confronting riot police, stoning them with bricks, cans, and pots.
Many of these unruly protesters were reportedly arrested on Saturday following misconduct at far-right demonstrations in Manchester, Blackpool, Liverpool, Bristol, Belfast, and Hull.
Rioters were spotted throwing bottles, flares, and bricks at the police, which inflicted various degrees of injuries on them; they looted and razed down stores and shops and were heard chanting anti-Islamic slurs amidst clashes with counter-protesters.
The ongoing riot is the worst in the history of the country since 2011 after the extrajudicial killing of a mixed-raced man by the police in North London.
UK Far-Right Protest Hots Up As Stores And Shops Looted
Tiffany Lynch of the Police Federation of England and Wales said, “We’re now seeing it [trouble] flooding across major cities and towns.”
Morganable News can also recall that the riots started in Southport on Tuesday night following a Monday knife attack at Taylor Swiftthemed’s dance party.
The 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana is reportedly accused of murdering three children and inflicting injuries on others.
Yet-to-be-confirmed reports show that his antecedence and conduct on social media triggered the unrest.
The United Kingdom police linked the unrest to the English Defence League, an anti-Islam organization known for football gangsterism and hooliganism.
A group of demonstrators already attacked not less than two mosques, a move which has wheeled the United Kingdom interior ministry to reinforce security presence in all the Islamic worship centres.
The ongoing rally across the UK is tagged ‘Enough is enough’ on the rioter’s social media platforms.
The demonstrators are seen waving both English and British flags and heard chanting a slogan, “Stop the boats,” pointing to inappropriate migrants coming from France into Britain.
Counter rallies are also held in various cities by anti-fascist protesters.
They are also chanting “Nazi scum off our streets” in Leeds, as the far-right protesters react to their chants by claiming that the anti-fascist protesters are no longer English.
Various reports indicated that some rallies were peaceful while others were violent. In Aldershot, for example, it was quiet; some protesters were only seen carrying placards reading, “Stop the invasion” and “We are not far right; we’re just right.”
The new United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces an early challenge in his government’s efforts to address disorder. A month ago, he was appointed into service after Labour’s flawless victory over the Conservatives.
UK Far-Right Protest Hots Up As Stores And Shops Looted
ASYLUM SEEKERS’ HOTELS ATTACKED, WORST IN YEARS
Hotels used in sheltering asylum seekers have been attacked by rioters, who set fire to a building in northern England on Saturday. The worst unrest in years shakes the country.
The unrest started when three young girls reportedly to have been stabbed to death in Southport, Northwest England, last week.
The extremists are using that privilege to proliferate disinformation, with a claim that the stabber was an immigrant.
They started to mobilise people for anti-Islam and anti-immigration demonstration which has consumed the peace and tranquility of the country for some days.
Countering their claim, the British Police claimed that the boy was born in Britain.
Several footage have shown the rioters vandalising and burning Holiday Inn in northern England.
In Tamworth, one Inn used for asylum seekers was attacked, and the rioters attacked another in Rotherham.
Protesters were spotted throwing smashed windows and projectiles and kindling fires, which eventually injured one police officer.
Meanwhile, in Rotterdam, they threw wooden planks and used fire extinguishers against the police officers. They also razed objects seen around the hotel and shattered windows to gain access to the building, reports said.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had slammed the violent protesters for their unruly and extreme attitude during the violent protest, which has seen not less than 147 people arrested due to violence and destruction of both the public and private facilities since the inception of the protest.
“Those who are involved in this violence will face the full force of law,” warned Keir Starmer
“People in this country have a right to be safe, and yet, we’ve seen Muslim communities targeted, attacks on mosques, other minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric. So no, I won’t shy away from calling it what it is: Far-right thuggery,” Starmer said from Downing Street on Sunday.
Addressing the violence that erupted in Rotherham, Starmer described it as “marauding gangs intent on law-breaking” and stated that violence is never an attribute of the country and extreme rioters do not represent the country in any way.
Rioters were seen throwing fired trash bin outside the Holiday Inn Express at Rotterdam on Sunday in a quest to set it ablaze.
Responding to the scene, the UK’s minister of police described a tactical approach to dealing with the rioters causing unrest in the country as a ‘nick them quick’ approach, suggesting that there would not be any need to call in the army.
The ongoing violent unrest is the worst since the 2011 riots and poses a great test and task for the new Labour government, just weeks after Keir Starmer came to power.
Discussions are being held about deploying the army’s service to assist the police in quelling the violence and eventually restoring peace, but refuting the suggestion, Johnson said, “Currently, there is no need to bring in the army.
“The police have made it clear that they have all the resources they need now. As I’ve just described, there’s mutual aid, and they have the necessary powers.”
The UK’s Home Office has announced that mosques in the United Kingdom will be offered “greater protection with new emergency security” following recent attacks.
According to the new move, “the police, local authorities, and Islamic places of worship can request rapid security to be deployed, protecting communities and allowing for a return to worship as quickly as possible,” the Home Office said.
“Nobody should make any excuses for the shameful actions of the hooligans, thugs, and extremist groups who have been attacking police officers, looting local shops, or attacking people based on the colour of their skin,” Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said.
Disclosing the role social media play in promoting and fuelling volatile disinformation and promotion of protests, Joe Mulhall, Director of Research at Hope Not Hate – a charity that campaigns against racism and fascism – has warned that the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has recently been used as a medium and a tool to promote aggravating contents, widespread disinformation and protest across the globe.
Speaking to CNN, Mulhall said: “This wave of riots and racist attacks is not centrally organised but rather has emerged out of decentralised far-right networks, many of which operate on X.
“A number of the most critical figures spreading disinformation and exacerbating tensions, most notably Stephen Lennon (a.k.a. Tommy Robinson), had previously been de-platformed on X but have been given their accounts back since Elon Musk took control of the platform.
“This has resulted in far-right extremists once again being able to reach millions of people with their dangerous and divisive propaganda,” he concluded.
UK Far-Right Protest Hots Up As Stores And Shops Looted