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.
The police have a lot to answer for here.
During peaceful protests they are happy to storm in and arrest people for simply protesting, whereas people looking to destroy property and attack people are being greeted by half a dozen officers. Here in Bristol protestors were held back by a counter-protest, because there were THREE officers at the scene.
Counter this with the riots that took place here after the police stormed a peaceful protest, and the police worked tirelessly to find anyone and everyone involved - in some cases rightly so. If the same effort isn’t placed here then something is fundamentally wrong.
Maybe these folks need sending to Rwanda
We are seeing the rising tide of fascism which is the inevitable consequence of (neo-)liberalism.
The ruling elite control all of the wealth and power and starve public services of funding, meaning that working class people struggle to get their needs met, especially around health and education. Inflation and rising costs makes everything more expensive, while wages stagnate and workers rights are steadily eroded.
This results in a large population of people, struggling financially, likely with low levels of education, who don’t see how they will have much of a future, looking for someone to blame.
Since the ruling class control the media, they throw the disillusioned victims of the ruling class off the scent, choosing some vulnerable minority group as the scapegoat - jews, immigrants, whatever - to protect themselves against the threat of violence.
Don’t forget that immigrants have been convenient scapegoats since the dawn of civilization.
Funny how all the videos I watched are of drug addict looking benefits receiving toothless thugs creating chaos. No you do not represent us. Trash and loot more buildings because if the taxes increase you lot have nothing to worry about. Us working people who don’t have time to riot and live pay check to pay check just barely scraping by to support our loved ones are the ones who suffer.
i saw the ppl. kinda the same as we see every summer in spain and so on. fat drunk fucks that act like imperialists, short chubby women super drunk…all pretending england won some titles in football. super cringe to the rest of europe.
to me they look the same but i am sure there are ppl in london being different.
take the euro soccer cup. in germany we celebrated the scots for their culture, humor and being nice ppl all over. made new partnerships with clubs and cities. albania and romania got lots of love because of the players and fans. that NEVER happens when ppl from england are around. anywhere. never.
so i dont know your perception of what ppl think about ppl from england…but trust ne the majority in the EU thinks these rioters represent england very well.
