Britain - The Official Thread

[HenrySwanson]

Guardian live feed:

The PA news agency reports that videos from social media appeared to show rioters storming into the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham, with reports of a fire inside.

A police helicopter circled overhead, and at least one injured officer in riot gear was carried away, according to the news agency.

 

[Liquid]

Care so much about the country that they'll trash it and go robbing.

Cretins.

 

[Famine]

I'm baffled at the mind that thinks all their ills and woes can be fixed by stabbing a bunch of little girls at a dance club.

Similarly I'm baffled at the mind that thinks this act, (allegedly) perpetrated by a Welsh person, can be undone or warded off in the future by smashing up town centres, throwing bricks and burning wheelie bins at cops, and setting fire to mosques and hotels which house asylum-seekers.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Conservatives left UK wide open to far-right violence, says former adviser

Exclusive: Dame Sara Khan, who advised May, Johnson and Sunak, says recent administrations failed the country

www.theguardian.com

The last so called government gift keeps giving.

 

[HenrySwanson]

Rioters descend on second migrant hotel in Tamworth

Rioters have descended on a second hotel believed to be housing migrants and asylum seekers, as thugs set fire to a doorway, smashed windows, and threw projectiles at police in Britain's fifth day of violence.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Fezzik]

smashing up town centres, throwing bricks and burning wheelie bins at cops, and setting fire to mosques and hotels which house asylum-seekers.

They looted Greggs - got to save the sausage rolls from the immigrants.

 

[UKMikey]

This John Honey bloke appears to be filling his boots judging by the other pictures in this thread.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/teenagers-plan-get-rid-europeans-2262107

 

[UKMikey]

whoops double post

 

[HenrySwanson]

Oh, Tommy Tommy!

 

[UKMikey]

Oh, Tommy Tommy!

These people who are coming to get him... would they be law enforcement officials, by any chance?

 

[Liquid]

Being in a hotel with people trying to get you? Fancy that.

 

[HenrySwanson]

How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict

unherd.com

https://archive.ph/vE2KB

 

[UKMikey]

This sounds like incitement to me. Post now deleted.

 

[Fezzik]

Swift justice for some of the thugs

Liverpool riots: People appear in court - the youngest just 14 and the oldest a 69-year-old who turned up with wooden bat

Hundreds of people have been arrested across the country. Here are the details of some of their court appearances today.

news.sky.com

 

[UKMikey]

I love how the teenage thug has a Sikh lawyer.

 

[dylansan]

Tommy Robinson accidentally reveals that his lawyer has fired him for instigating riots and "destroying our country."

 

[Fezzik]

Tommy Robinson accidentally reveals that his lawyer has fired him for instigating riots and "destroying our country."

If that really is his lawyer, ignoring the obvious irony, why does Stephen need a tax specialist? Has he been evading the HMRC as well as the police?

 

[TheCracker]

why does Stephen need a tax specialist? Has he been evading the HMRC as well as the police?

Well, he's done time for mortgage fraud. He does have previous so it's not out of the realm of possibilities.

 

[HenrySwanson]

MSN

“Not only does it fit the definition of terrorism, it is terrorism. It’s nothing short of an attempt at a modern-day lynching and the people who did it should be facing life imprisonment, not a five-year sentence for violent disorder.”

 

[HenrySwanson]

Why was this story not bigger?

WARNING - Awful details of child sexual abuse (Independent)

The drug-addled gang that held ‘child rape nights’ in Glasgow home

Residents left ‘sick to their stomach’ after paedophile ring exposed in case which ‘plunges to the depths of human depravity’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[exceedblaze]

Why was this story not bigger?

WARNING - Awful details of child sexual abuse (Independent)

The drug-addled gang that held ‘child rape nights’ in Glasgow home

Residents left ‘sick to their stomach’ after paedophile ring exposed in case which ‘plunges to the depths of human depravity’

www.independent.co.uk

absolutely shocking. those poor girls

 

[UKMikey]

Take the traffic island back:

 

[HenrySwanson]

They needed to apply some common sense here:

Machete killer to be released after SIX MONTHS due to overcrowding

Gordon Gault (pictured), 14, died in hospital six days after he was attacked with a blade during an ongoing feud in Elswick, Newcastle, in November 2022.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[UKMikey]

They needed to apply some common sense here:

Machete killer to be released after SIX MONTHS due to overcrowding

Gordon Gault (pictured), 14, died in hospital six days after he was attacked with a blade during an ongoing feud in Elswick, Newcastle, in November 2022.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I won't click on a Mail link. Does it mention that the judge intends for him to be deported back to Belgium on completion of his custodial sentence? That'd appear to be pretty sensible to me.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Natty-and-Neto-Sentencing-Remarks.pdf

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A rather moving cartoon in the Grauniad this week:

 

[Scaff]

I won't click on a Mail link.

This is the right approach to take

Does it mention that the judge intends for him to be deported back to Belgium on completion of his custodial sentence? That'd appear to be pretty sensible to me.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Natty-and-Neto-Sentencing-Remarks.pdf

I doubt it, given that the Heil describes him as the 'killer' in the screen grab I can see in the post, when the one being released was convicted of manslaughter for supplying the weapon, not using it.

 

[HenrySwanson]

I would have thought he'd have automatically been exempt from the early release scheme as the conviction was for manslaughter. If we want to get tough on knife crime we can't be releasing such offenders that early.

 

[Liquid]

I would have thought he'd have automatically been exempt from the early release scheme as the conviction was for manslaughter. If we want to get tough on knife crime we can't be releasing such offenders that early.

We are still in a grace period to blame 15 years of unparalleled cuts to the justice system.

 

[UKMikey]

I would have thought he'd have automatically been exempt from the early release scheme as the conviction was for manslaughter. If we want to get tough on knife crime we can't be releasing such offenders that early.

I don't understand how it's early release if he's supposed to be immediately deported. Unless the Belgians want to release him onto their streets.

 

[Fezzik]

The mother of two brothers jailed for burglary after a library was set on fire and looted during riots in Liverpool has spoken to Sky News outside court.

Trudi Wharton said she had been "praying" for her sons and was relieved with the sentences, adding: "I was expecting longer."

She said they just got "carried away" and their behaviour was "very out of character",

Adam Wharton, who acted as the lookout, was arrested nearby with a balaclava on him. The court heard he has 16 previous convictions for 28 offences including attempted robbery, robbery, thefts, assault and burglary, and has served previous prison sentences.

Yeah, totally out of character, just a couple of choir boys.

 

[Famine]

Yeah, totally out of character, just a couple of choir boys.

Possibly not the right phrase to use in this particular situation...