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Aug 5Liked by Abi Whistance

Brilliant that you guys are making these posts free to all. It's so important in these dark days of rabid misinformation. ✌️❤️✊️

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Aug 5Liked by Abi Whistance

So, let me get this straight, three innocent children are murdered, so the immediate reaction is to jump on the computer and just stick a random name on there. The hard of thinking meanwhile, seem to reckon the best way to honour the kids' memories is to attack local businesses & a Mosque. Then, for some reason I still can't work out, they follow this up by burning a Library. Really showing yourself to be "Der Meister Reich"

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Aug 5Liked by Abi Whistance

On a different topic, congratulations on the write-up in the Observer. Or maybe it’s the same topic. I’ve been waiting to hear what you say about the riots and perhaps you’ll be able to drill down deeper in a way the nationals won’t.

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Some halfwit sends a tweet out and the rest of the tribe assault police, burn libraries A LIBRARY! and a citizens advice centre down. We really are doomed as a species. Doomed.

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It has the vibe of when a mob concerned with ‘paedos’ attacked a paediatrician. Book burning by thugs has a terrible association. I don’t think ‘far right’ is an appropriate label as it implies they have political thoughts. Racist sounds a more appropriate description.

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That particular "Paedo" was named in a national rag. The Wapping Liar apparently published a list,

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I forgot to add food bank to that list. Books, Food and a Place to go for Help. We really are f*****.

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Superb balanced journalism yet again 👍But please desist from the repugnant referencing of the ‘Taylor Swift’ themed dance class. It was a dance class attended by innocents. I don’t honestly understand what this adds to the narrative ( other than clickbait and ‘relevance’🤷🏽‍♂️)… leave the cheap stuff to the redtops and the Echo.

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It is horrible, but it is worth remembering that riots are a regular part of English life. They all have an ostensible motive, which differs, but they all end with bricks, bottles and wheelie bins on fire. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_riot, particularly the 2011 Tottenham riots, 2005 Birmingham riot, Brixton 1995, and our very own Toxteth riots in 1985.

I’m not a sociologist (just a socialist), but my take is that people at the bottom of the heap know they will always be at the bottom of the heap. Not a good feeling unless you can see a scapegoat to take it out on.

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Counter protesters were at St Georges Hall.

Save our Kids protest at Pier Head.

Police escorted 750 people to the Pier Head knowing full well it would lead to trouble.

My unedited video shows how the Save our Kids protest was peaceful until the left turned up to kick off. They thought they might relive glory days of running certain groups out of Liverpool. Those days have gone. More Scousers oppose migration now and the antifa have not got the numbers or the fighters to be a threat to anyone here.

There were more people at the Pier Head - police stopped the two sides clashing. A few missiles thrown. But it was peaceful.

No mention of the Muslim Defence League with machetes and knives on show - and mobs attacking white people. When they kill someone, The Post will have to backtrack on this 'blame the racists' spiel.

Blaming the 'far right' is not working at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCTw_pG_5g&t=696s

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Nice way to try to deflect blame/attention, while you might somehow be able to justify what went on at the waterfront (I wasn't there so will leave comments to those who were) I would be interested to read the justification for razing the Library and a CAB office

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Police escorted counter protest - video shows this to be so.

As for the CAB office and hub (not a proper library) - scallies set it alight - apolitical nihilists.

They would be muscle for the left - many on the left would praise them for fighting the police. ANTIFA could not take on the Matrix - the scallies can and often do.

BLM killed people and set alight lots of shops and so on. I bet you supported them. Many on the left did. But many hate the white working class.

We don't care what you think.

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On the Wirral redundancy costs, I'm intrigued because although £1.5m sounds a lot, it depends on a) how many staff were involved? 10 and it does suggest mega pay-offs; 100 and it's not a particularly large amount per person and b) is this just redundancy payments or does it include other costs such as pay in lieu of notice or outstanding holidays? If the latter most of these costs would have to be paid anyway.

I'm not defending Wirral Council, simply saying that without the full facts it might be a non-story.

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