This sinister evebt does not: surprise me. The far right cancer has been spreading for the last couple of years Look at the Liverpool Echo online comments the Echo seems to welcome far right poison and CANCELS so called "anti-woke" commenters, or sabotages them by making it difficult to post . Anyone who shows respect for diversity is fair game to be labelled WOKE. The far right is given succour from the likes Tory Home Secretaries of Braverman and Patel, along with Tory chairman Lee Anderson. These are only the tip of the iceberg.
Once we had a gutter press now we have gutter TV courtesy of GB News and Talk TV GBNs presenters are the most rabid including two Uncle Tom type presenters of African ancestry. The constant use of the word WOKE is designed to demonise those who don't follow their hate agenda. Make no mistake race hate is these channels modus operandi. Of course the web provides other outlets for the race hate lobby and the racists who tried to storm the Suites hotel in the manner of Trump's followers into the Capitol in Washington DC two years ago.
I fear this is only the start of a hate campaign against refugees. Ofcom closed down Russia Today and they should close GB News and Talk TV immediately if not sooner!
It is the far right which is formenting hate against refugees . The economic decline in the borough of Knowsley is the fault of big business and an arrogant Labour council which is obsessed with filling the declining green space with unaffordable private housing and vanity projects like the £38m tinder box in Prescot. Blame the politicians not refugees .
Interesting to see a quote from MP George "Trident" Howarth. Fascinating to know you are still around, it must be getting close to a general election!
Until this weekend, I wasn't even aware "Sir" George Howarth Was even still active (?) in politics, never mind as as MP for Knowsley! I'm not a Knowsley resident, so have no axe to grind, but I'm pretty certain that if I did, I'd be less than pleased at his current leve of activity, but then again, on an issue like this, and with it being something so serious perhaps it doesn't come as any kind of surprise that he suddenly appears from his bunker to utter a few "Suitable Phrases" and then disappear for anotherlong spell
As so often people target the wrong enemy. Sue Ellen Braverman and Pound Shop Anderson proclaim that people fleeing from terror (while bully Raab was paddle boarding) are invading us. No mention of the golden visas they’ve gifted Russian crooks or the thirteen years of corrupt Tory government which have destroyed our common weal and further engorged Tory pals. Yes, much of Merseyside is in desperate condition and local councils who’ve lost 60% of their budgets to Tory cuts are left to collect the fragments. If only the kids targeting cops and fellow victims joined nurses’ and rail workers’ picket lines they would learn who the enemy are, and pick up some political education. The awful media, in all forms (and not including your own excellent platform), have poisoned people very effectively. The liars who did decades of damage after Hillsborough are the same swine inciting hatred in Kirkby.
The MSM (Main Stream Media) have a hell of a lot to answer for, you'd expect some of the views emanating from the likes of Talk Shite(Sport) Radio and GB News, as well as Talk TV, as that is the main reason they were set up, (would be interesting to know if they would have been granted licenses under a different administration, not necessarily a Labour one) and obviously given the line-ups of presenters, it's not surprising the poison they spew.
Another interesting point regarding elections, People often tend to vote for certain candidates simply because of who they represent, no research is ever done, Politics and or Political History is never taught in the schools, and quite often, when you see the results of certain elections, you realise why it suits many of them to keep it that way
Successive governments set the scene for what happened, and have made the ground fertile for far right types to exploit should they wish to.
A poor ignored area left to fester with high unemployment and low living standards won't take much to be sparked to anger.
I'm sure a well to-to area's residents would also be less than impressed about having this sort of facility in their area, but they wouldn't possess the sort of resentment prone to boil over into unrest.
The fact is that the people in that hotel have been dumped there because the area is on its backside, which makes the accommodation cheap. It's been shown to be a false economy.
In an era where the likes of Russia will be throwing money and resource at undermining our society (and may well have a hand in facilitating small boat crossings and preventing the government from dealing with the issue, in order to develop these tensions) both Tories and Labour need to get a grip. It's no good just telling people "this isn't who we are".
It's not simply the small boat crossings that need to be addressed by the government. It's also the state of our local economy and associated factors such as education provision and low quality of life. These are the real factors that put areas at risk of extremist manipulation.
As they say charity begins at home and charity needs to be driven by compassion. At a time when millions are struggling to survive in this cost-of-living crisis created by an incompetent government that saw energy corporations showing not an ounce of compassion to the millions of impoverished householders, we should not condemn those that were driven by frustration to vent their anger at the presence of people from the outside who came over here with an asylum-seeker tag and given a more comfortable and almost care-free life than many of the hard-pressed locals.
This is a pernicious interpretation of the conditions the people housed in the hotel are in. They are kept in poverty, not allowed to work or even volunteer, they don't own cars and are monitored closely - they cannot leave their accommodation for more than 24 hours.
I was there on Friday and we absolutely *should* condemn the violent mob who chanted "get them out" and believe the most inconclusive rumours because they fit their prejudices.
Firstly, there were two sets of protesters, those for and those against the presence of asylum seekers and we must see the views from both sides. Secondly, most of those so-called asylum seekers have paid thousands of euros/dollars to traffickers to transport them into the UK, the kind of money most of those protesters are not likely to possess. And thirdly, from many of the asylum seekers I have met over the years(and I have met quite a few), the reason they insisted on coming here and not to stay in European countries where they first ended up like France was because they already had contacts in this country taken care of their stay and work opportunities, and this is also why, according to the Home Office, so many of them had simply disappeared into the local population no long after they arrived here. And finally, I live only a few streets away from where the 2021 Armistice Day bomber outside the Women's Hospital used to live and I can fully understand why practically the whole neighbourhood have since lost all sympathy for asylum seekers.
As I said, I was there, in support of the refugees because I don't believe anyone should have their lives threatened for being somewhere they have no other choice to be. No one is disputing that people in Knowsley have seen their living conditions fall - as a result of the government not a tiny group of migrants - but at least they have their freedom and human rights.
It's not just hateful but illogical to judge a whole demographic on the actions of individuals. It's exactly the kind of fear and mistrust that the Tories want in working class communities.
Like I said at the beginning, charity begins at home and like everything else on earth, there are limits to how much we can give including the level of compassion and assistance to the less fortunate. Under the growing economic and social pressure being exerted by our own inept government on the general populace, millions of newly impoverish people in the country are feeling that they are in many way worse off than those who came over here as victims of geopolitics. It is neither hateful nor illogical for people to become mistrustful of most asylum seekers after having witnessed so many horrific incidents in the past. It is the 'once bitten twice shy' instinct that has protected individual and groups of humans from being overrun by others since time immemorial.
Everyone on Merseyside knows that there is no “far right” in Kirkby. Unfortunately there is a travelling circus of right wing extremers and left wing anti fascists who will jump on and hijack any protest event in the country where they can have a go at each other and hit the news.
This is unfortunate because the media rhetoric then focuses on the wrong issues. These people in Kirkby are normal concerned families who are very worried about the safety of their children and desperate that no one is listening to them.
Is it true that a nearby school has erected high fences around the playground to keep children away from view of congregating young immigrant men?
Is it true that concerns have been voiced to authorities and politicians for over a year by worried families only for them to be disregarded as racist bigots?
The Post has made some attempt to go deeper than the main media “extremism” headlines but this story is still not adequately told.
This sinister evebt does not: surprise me. The far right cancer has been spreading for the last couple of years Look at the Liverpool Echo online comments the Echo seems to welcome far right poison and CANCELS so called "anti-woke" commenters, or sabotages them by making it difficult to post . Anyone who shows respect for diversity is fair game to be labelled WOKE. The far right is given succour from the likes Tory Home Secretaries of Braverman and Patel, along with Tory chairman Lee Anderson. These are only the tip of the iceberg.
Once we had a gutter press now we have gutter TV courtesy of GB News and Talk TV GBNs presenters are the most rabid including two Uncle Tom type presenters of African ancestry. The constant use of the word WOKE is designed to demonise those who don't follow their hate agenda. Make no mistake race hate is these channels modus operandi. Of course the web provides other outlets for the race hate lobby and the racists who tried to storm the Suites hotel in the manner of Trump's followers into the Capitol in Washington DC two years ago.
I fear this is only the start of a hate campaign against refugees. Ofcom closed down Russia Today and they should close GB News and Talk TV immediately if not sooner!
Correction the Echo censors the anti+racist point of view. YouTube are full of character s advocating armed white vigilantes (terrorism).
The far-left are no different. Keep reading the Guardian and Canary, you'll be fine.
It is the far right which is formenting hate against refugees . The economic decline in the borough of Knowsley is the fault of big business and an arrogant Labour council which is obsessed with filling the declining green space with unaffordable private housing and vanity projects like the £38m tinder box in Prescot. Blame the politicians not refugees .
Interesting to see a quote from MP George "Trident" Howarth. Fascinating to know you are still around, it must be getting close to a general election!
Until this weekend, I wasn't even aware "Sir" George Howarth Was even still active (?) in politics, never mind as as MP for Knowsley! I'm not a Knowsley resident, so have no axe to grind, but I'm pretty certain that if I did, I'd be less than pleased at his current leve of activity, but then again, on an issue like this, and with it being something so serious perhaps it doesn't come as any kind of surprise that he suddenly appears from his bunker to utter a few "Suitable Phrases" and then disappear for anotherlong spell
As so often people target the wrong enemy. Sue Ellen Braverman and Pound Shop Anderson proclaim that people fleeing from terror (while bully Raab was paddle boarding) are invading us. No mention of the golden visas they’ve gifted Russian crooks or the thirteen years of corrupt Tory government which have destroyed our common weal and further engorged Tory pals. Yes, much of Merseyside is in desperate condition and local councils who’ve lost 60% of their budgets to Tory cuts are left to collect the fragments. If only the kids targeting cops and fellow victims joined nurses’ and rail workers’ picket lines they would learn who the enemy are, and pick up some political education. The awful media, in all forms (and not including your own excellent platform), have poisoned people very effectively. The liars who did decades of damage after Hillsborough are the same swine inciting hatred in Kirkby.
The MSM (Main Stream Media) have a hell of a lot to answer for, you'd expect some of the views emanating from the likes of Talk Shite(Sport) Radio and GB News, as well as Talk TV, as that is the main reason they were set up, (would be interesting to know if they would have been granted licenses under a different administration, not necessarily a Labour one) and obviously given the line-ups of presenters, it's not surprising the poison they spew.
Another interesting point regarding elections, People often tend to vote for certain candidates simply because of who they represent, no research is ever done, Politics and or Political History is never taught in the schools, and quite often, when you see the results of certain elections, you realise why it suits many of them to keep it that way
Successive governments set the scene for what happened, and have made the ground fertile for far right types to exploit should they wish to.
A poor ignored area left to fester with high unemployment and low living standards won't take much to be sparked to anger.
I'm sure a well to-to area's residents would also be less than impressed about having this sort of facility in their area, but they wouldn't possess the sort of resentment prone to boil over into unrest.
The fact is that the people in that hotel have been dumped there because the area is on its backside, which makes the accommodation cheap. It's been shown to be a false economy.
In an era where the likes of Russia will be throwing money and resource at undermining our society (and may well have a hand in facilitating small boat crossings and preventing the government from dealing with the issue, in order to develop these tensions) both Tories and Labour need to get a grip. It's no good just telling people "this isn't who we are".
It's not simply the small boat crossings that need to be addressed by the government. It's also the state of our local economy and associated factors such as education provision and low quality of life. These are the real factors that put areas at risk of extremist manipulation.
Fabric District?
As they say charity begins at home and charity needs to be driven by compassion. At a time when millions are struggling to survive in this cost-of-living crisis created by an incompetent government that saw energy corporations showing not an ounce of compassion to the millions of impoverished householders, we should not condemn those that were driven by frustration to vent their anger at the presence of people from the outside who came over here with an asylum-seeker tag and given a more comfortable and almost care-free life than many of the hard-pressed locals.
This is a pernicious interpretation of the conditions the people housed in the hotel are in. They are kept in poverty, not allowed to work or even volunteer, they don't own cars and are monitored closely - they cannot leave their accommodation for more than 24 hours.
I was there on Friday and we absolutely *should* condemn the violent mob who chanted "get them out" and believe the most inconclusive rumours because they fit their prejudices.
Firstly, there were two sets of protesters, those for and those against the presence of asylum seekers and we must see the views from both sides. Secondly, most of those so-called asylum seekers have paid thousands of euros/dollars to traffickers to transport them into the UK, the kind of money most of those protesters are not likely to possess. And thirdly, from many of the asylum seekers I have met over the years(and I have met quite a few), the reason they insisted on coming here and not to stay in European countries where they first ended up like France was because they already had contacts in this country taken care of their stay and work opportunities, and this is also why, according to the Home Office, so many of them had simply disappeared into the local population no long after they arrived here. And finally, I live only a few streets away from where the 2021 Armistice Day bomber outside the Women's Hospital used to live and I can fully understand why practically the whole neighbourhood have since lost all sympathy for asylum seekers.
As I said, I was there, in support of the refugees because I don't believe anyone should have their lives threatened for being somewhere they have no other choice to be. No one is disputing that people in Knowsley have seen their living conditions fall - as a result of the government not a tiny group of migrants - but at least they have their freedom and human rights.
It's not just hateful but illogical to judge a whole demographic on the actions of individuals. It's exactly the kind of fear and mistrust that the Tories want in working class communities.
Like I said at the beginning, charity begins at home and like everything else on earth, there are limits to how much we can give including the level of compassion and assistance to the less fortunate. Under the growing economic and social pressure being exerted by our own inept government on the general populace, millions of newly impoverish people in the country are feeling that they are in many way worse off than those who came over here as victims of geopolitics. It is neither hateful nor illogical for people to become mistrustful of most asylum seekers after having witnessed so many horrific incidents in the past. It is the 'once bitten twice shy' instinct that has protected individual and groups of humans from being overrun by others since time immemorial.
Everyone on Merseyside knows that there is no “far right” in Kirkby. Unfortunately there is a travelling circus of right wing extremers and left wing anti fascists who will jump on and hijack any protest event in the country where they can have a go at each other and hit the news.
This is unfortunate because the media rhetoric then focuses on the wrong issues. These people in Kirkby are normal concerned families who are very worried about the safety of their children and desperate that no one is listening to them.
Is it true that a nearby school has erected high fences around the playground to keep children away from view of congregating young immigrant men?
Is it true that concerns have been voiced to authorities and politicians for over a year by worried families only for them to be disregarded as racist bigots?
The Post has made some attempt to go deeper than the main media “extremism” headlines but this story is still not adequately told.
Your two questions:
1. Which school? Does that sound realistic to you?
2. The police have said that the people in the video that was circulating didn't even report it until the police themselves identified them, and there have been no other reports in the last year: https://www.knowsleynews.co.uk/what-we-know-about-the-incident-at-the-suites-hotel-on-friday-10-february-2023/
This is a well repeated, bad faith moral panic and it's sad to see so many people eager to fall for it.