I don’t know shit about politics. All I know is that in the UK the Labour party won, and the Conservative party lost.

I read some protestors are protesting against racism. What is this about? Protesting against new party that just won? I thought the Labour party was left-wing, meaning they are more on the social-equality side? I’m lost.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
    73·
    5 months ago

    I read some protestors are protesting against racism.

    There have been counter-protests which have vastly outnumbered the supremacist protest. It’s great to see.

    Basically this was triggered by a false rumor that recent child murders were committed by a Muslim immigrant, where in reality they were an unstable 1st generation (so fully UK born and raised) and from a Christian family. It was basically the tipping point for a lot of pent-up racists. A former MI6 agent has pretty much confirmed this rumor was probably started by a propaganda group, likely Russian, and likely a response to a more left-leaning political party recently being voted into No. 10.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    283·
    5 months ago

    Weirdos whipped up into a frenzy about “forriners stealing benefits” by farage and his far right party

    ed. Asylum seekers in hotels etc have been here for years, well before the new government came in. Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent. At no point did they ever care, until labour won and farage didn’t get seated. weirdo musko has also been posting a lot of hate speech and bullshit, which foments further anger and violence.

    Anecdotally from some article I read, on average the protesters rioters 40+ year old white men who you would find in wetherspoons 6 pints in on a wednesday morning

    • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
      23·
      5 months ago

      Its only since labour came into power the far right have decided to be violent.

      Uhh…

      • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        Would you mind sharing the riots about asylum seekers and whatever else from the last five years? If you have a correction, post it. Dont just leave a useless sarcastic comment.

        I am also speaking United Kingdom specifically

        • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
          13·
          5 months ago

          the last five years

          Fascist violence has been around in the UK for longer than five years. Where did five years come from?

          • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            An arbitrary date

            edit. Im not arguing its not been a problem for a long time. I am just saying the violence ramped up very recently compared to the last five years for an example arbitrary date

            • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
              13·
              5 months ago

              I am just saying the violence ramped up very recently compared to the last five years for an example arbitrary date

              Why?

  • Superfool@lemmy.world
    262·
    5 months ago

    It started with a horrifying knife attack where the perpetrator stabbed 11 children and killing 3 of them. 2 adults were also stabbed. This attack horrified the nation.

    News stories alleged that the perpetrator was an Islamic illegal immigrant, social media did what it does best: whipping up emotions and exaggeration and feeding it to people with poorer standard of education.

    The background here is that there are concerns surrounding illegal immigration in the UK, as it is sold by criminal gangs as a country of neverending riches. Some opinions are justified, and some are not.

    As you can imagine,far right organisation jumped on this as an excuse to encourage shitty behaviour, and the worst of them used it as an excuse to have a tantrum and damage peopkes properly, attack people of different ethnicities and get themselves locked up for it.

    TL:DR : Horrible racist and bigoted individuals made a tragedy about them, and now we all have to deal with their shittiness.

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    131·
    5 months ago

    They seem to not want immigrants. And I suspect “immigrant” means “doesn’t look like me”. In other words, it’s just “they took are jerbs!”

    The make-up and mindset of the citizenry doesn’t change just because the government changes.

    • Deebster@lemmy.ml
      22·
      5 months ago

      The make-up and mindset of the citizenry doesn’t change just because the government changes.

      It’s a small minority from the far right rioting, with massive counter-protests. You’re trying to say the whole population is rotten based on a few negative examples, which ironically is just what the racists are doing themselves.

      • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        You’re trying to say the whole population is rotten based on a few negative examples

        I’m not trying to say that. I’ve no idea why you think I am.

        • Deebster@lemmy.ml
          11·
          5 months ago

          I think that because you’re attributing those views to “the citizenry”. I can only go on the words you’ve used, and you’ve used a word that describes the whole country’s population, not a small minority.

          • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
            12·
            5 months ago

            you’re attributing those views to “the citizenry”

            I haven’t attributed anything to the citizenry. I wrote two distinct paragraphs, only one of which contained the word “citizenry”.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    5 months ago

    There was huge riots against alleged immigrants and alleged muslim. Protests are about Racism is evil, rioters are assholes