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[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 42 points 3 months ago

Decades of economic stagnation and eroded public services have exacerbated long running discontent among less well off people mainly in the north and Midlands who feel left behind by "metropolitan elites" in London and the south.

Populist figures like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson have landed on the traditional scapegoat of foreigners and whipped up tensions for years.

A brown person with obvious mental health issues has committed a horrendous act and these same people have used it as an excuse to loot shops, throw bricks at police and spray paint "p**is go home". Abetted by news that the prison system is full and they're releasing prisoners early to help deal with the overcrowding.

Anti racism protesters then showed up last night in huge numbers and along with a clear police presence and evidence of swift and strict sentences for the few people who have been identified meant that the latest round of pro fascist marches were abandoned and the nazis have gone back to hiding in their caves.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Pretty much dead on but the offender was a native born black 17 year old who is reported to have been very religious and a regular attendee at a church local to them.

The far right made out that they were a brown, Muslim asylum seeker.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That all started from one news outlet that quickly shut it down but the far right ran with it like a baton at the Olympics.

BBC did a great BBC verify article on it.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

No worries. Yeah the article is great. They did go to some lengths to try to get to the bottom of it in fairness. Those BBC Verify articles are always absolutely spot on.

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah. So they’ve become America. The circle is now complete!

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Spray paint what?

Penis go home? Paris?

[-] PoopBuffet@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I assume it is the racial slur originally directed at Pakistanis but is now used against all brown people because racists can't tell the difference. Not that it would make a difference if they could. Racists gonna racist.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Paki is short for “Pakistani” and is a slur people use to describe middle easterners. Note that if you look at a map Pakistan is not located in the Middle East. People who use the term also assume that all brown people practice Islam.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Damn that's really terrible. Glad you guys kicked some nazis asses though. We got a fairly big problem with them on our side of the pond too.

I knew about the economic and public services issues, but wasn't that a major campaigning point for Labour? Even as an American I heard about them running on rebuilding your public services like the NHS. They've been in power for like 20 minutes lol?

I'm guessing it's like our politics, the current administration gets blamed for all the failings of the previous one because economics have built in lag time.

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