UK: Far-right rioters storm hotel housing migrants – DW – 08/04/2024
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to do "whatever it takes" to bring those responsible to justice. Riots have spread across the country after misinformation was spread about a knife attack that killed three girls.

Police in the northern English city of Rotherham struggled to hold back a group of far-right activists on Sunday, who broke into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers.

The disturbance is the latest in a series of violent protests by anti-immigration groups in British towns and cities this week after three girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport in northwest England on Monday.

Footage aired on British TV showed officers with shields targeted by a barrage of projectiles outside the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham, near Sheffield.

A few minutes later, the protesters can be seen storming the building and removing chairs from inside to use as weapons.

A small fire was also visible while windows in the hotel were smashed.

At least one officer was injured in the confrontation.

  • roboto@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Boohoo let’s form an SA and do some pogroms then! Clearly some poor fuckers in a hotel are the reason for the misery, not the €28 billion net worth of the British royals or the owning class in general that fills it pockets through years of Tory rule and shifting the Overton window so far to the right that anyone who speaks of helping the poor is considered to be the reincarnation of Karl Marx himself.

    I would like to find nicer words but at this point working class right wingers to me seem like they have brain damage. You can’t be doing mental gymnastics to this extend and have a healthy functioning brain at the same time.

    • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      If they were brain damaged that would make them less culpable for their actions.

      They’re not brain damaged; they’re fully responsible for their actions. However, they are victims of propaganda. But that shouldn’t change how we react to them - by putting them down, hard.

    • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      No, the politicians are responsible. There’s just a lot of consequences to that.

      And how are the tories right wing? What right wing policies do they have?