Further arrests in Thetford after violent anti-immigration protests
If you give the vigilante mob what they want - nodding and agreeing as you understand their "legitimate concerns" - what you get is more vigilante mobs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Leonardo Carella30Of course, the government didn't start the fire. They've just been very bad at putting it out. And the arsonist go unpunished. bsky.app/profile/leon...
Jo Hutchinson4I expect that the motivation of the thugs who bit a woman for doing her job was ‘protecting our girls’. <stone cold survivor death stare>
yk6623lm.bsky.social3Absolutely true. The weasel words government response has the effect of validating the confected (rather than 'legitimate') concerns of the racist mobs. This further emboldens the thugs to move on to even more towns and villages.
Same as it ever was; the rabble rousers rouse the rabble. Only difference now, MSM is complicit and the spark of social media lights the fire.
Dave Marley2I do not know the status of the people placed in these properties or their legal status, but I know they are human beings that must be afforded the same rights that we all expect in this country. "Whatever our own individuals views on immigration - mob rule and vigilantism is not acceptable."
Susanita2They have no ‘legitimate’ concerns because they are reacting to lies & dog whistles . Until that is accepted they get away with this racist 💩.
Gareth Watkins36(Sigh) How many days until the inevitable '87% of rioters arrested in Thetford had convictions for domestic violence'?
Sarah Kay5We were the template. So many international far right and extreme far right organisations covering Belfast with glee and enjoining everyone else to replicate. Failure to prevent our pogroms - that absolutely could be prevented, with a many begging for prevention for a year - has a domino effect.
No, the riots in Thetford aren't a reasonable protest that sadly escalated into violence. The violence was the point from the start. The reasons for the 'protest' were not reasonable, fair or valid. Stop making racist violence seem 'OK'. Just stop.
yk6623lm.bsky.social19It terrifies me that we are rapidly plunging into a very dark alternative reality where violent racism and physical intimidation of non-whites can hide under the cloak of reasonable protest and legitimate concerns.
Pudsey7Sadly, Burnham appears to have gone to the same pander to racists school as Starmer!!
Tom O'Connell7Sorry Paul, but I think the last 80 years have been a blip, caused by the shock of two world wars and the attempted multiple genocides of whole peoples. That shock has now so worn off politicians, media, wealthy, that they've made everything that caused the above to be acceptable again to people.
redneeraj.bsky.social6And a month from now we will discover in court that these racists are also wife beaters and child abusers.
John B5Also it’s policing based on desire not to escalate, when escalation at the beginning of a situation is sometimes necessary. A choice is being made. Crowds are not dispersed prior to violence. “Protest” is not adjudged to be illegal & baseless intimidation.
Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴2I feel like someone with actual skills needs to take some footage of the football hooliganism that used to plague this country, and over dub any reference to their team name, team members, violence and riots with 'legitimate concerns' and 'protests' and see who stupid it really is.
Far Right rioters having one of their Fun Days. “It came after police officers were "subjected to significant aggression" on Wednesday, including a female police officer who was "seriously bitten".”
Simon Ferrigno11Just when there's an uptick in doh whistling around boats and a by-election coming up. Wonder who's pushing what on the X-cesspool?
LordWessenden1239What is wrong with these people? They need help to understand just as we have to put up with them being obnoxious, horrible, bigoted people, they also have to put up with and share the planet with human beings who aren’t aggressive, hostile and bitter.
Ian Halstead イアン・ハルステッド5One comment I saw elsewhere… “Outsiders threaten their centuries old inbreeding programme…”
PastaPete4And I wonder who is stirring up this charade during investigations into Reform individuals’ finances? Just wondering 🤔 and pondering, that’s all. Oh look, 👀 over there, do you see a smokescreen?
Emms3“Protectin are wimmin” no doubt. individuals who probably have a minimum of one ntc order and don’t bother working otherwise they’d worry about being arrested ruining their chances.
Javier Garcia3Boozed up on Belgian beer no doubt
Grotesque response by the Home Office, reassuring far right would-be stormtroopers that they’re on their side and that they have a legitimate point to make, as long as they just tone the violence down and lay off the police
Alasdair Mackenzie100And this Labour MP seeming to imply, hopefully unintentionally, that the problem is people being misidentified as asylum seekers, rather than actual asylum seekers being brutalised and intimidated
Jamie, Snatcher of Castles9"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy" - except if you're criticising the government's stance on Palestine or fossil fuels, apparently
Andrew McGrae7Illegitimate forms of protest: * Holding a sign opposing genocide. * Getting yellow paint on literally anything. * Blocking a road. Legitimate forms of protest: * Trying to murder brown people.
Rivers5The people doing acts of violence aren’t concerned about immigration. They hate people who aren’t white. Protesting an immigration centre with a placard is a protest. Burning things and violently attacking people is racially motivated disorder.
Sean of the guitar camp4our right to protest as pensioners sitting down in the street not even mentioning PA?
jonsmith841.bsky.social2The Home Office response is talking about protest on one hand, and the other is talking about violence and the would be SA are claiming they are protesting, whilst in reality, they are rioting.
Chris Boyd38amazing. they legitimate concerns'd anywhere between 30 and 50 people out of a mob of at least 100 scumbags smashing up houses, trying to get *into* houses, attacking residents. the home office are garbage, the people doing this are scum, our government is a literal shower of good for nothings
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈37according to labour 'the right to protest' only extends to racist thugs engaged in pogroms.
Gledster3"The right to protest is fundamental..." Unless you are an 80 year old ex-vicar protesting a genocide in another country. Then we will lock you up so fast your head will spin.
♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust2#nzpol should note that this is the same labour party the nz labour party gets their advice from
Genuinely scary that people now say stuff about race the BNP would never have dared say, and the media carry sentiment that would have been rejected as totally out of bounds in the 1990s. These are the fruits of sheer hatred, directed by politicians and 'commentators'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️🌈5And this is aided and abetted by other politicians who are too scared to stand up against the racists and street thugs.
Sal4We have 3 racist parties in parliament now. So much worse now than in the BNP days. They were pretty much universally condemned by politicians and the media. Now it seems racism is an actual legitimate political position and both sides by the media as a 50/50 debate. So sad and frightening...
Some local media in Norfolk have been running Hello!-style coverage of the Far Right for a while and are now absolutely amazed that thugs are now running amok. The two things can't be linked, surely? 😀 archive.is/Nh9eQ
James Austin104The most infuriating thing is that - as @sundersays.bsky.social has repeatly documented - these views are very much marginal. Most British people have a civil view of nationality. They utterly reject these views on race. Yet we are letting these guys drive the debate and the govt runs scared.
Gaia Vince45Describing racist thuggery and vigilante mobs as “protests” is a choice
Matthieu Guyot5A Thetford, 3eme nuits anti demandeurs d’asile avec tentatives d’envahir des maisons 2 policiers blessés, dont l’une mordue au sang "Que vous choisissiez ou non la violence, la violence viendra à vous. Vous ripostez ou vous mourrez" (Elon Musk en 2025 aux manifestants londoniens, dont Eric Zemmour)
AJ 🦋2Rabid ham on the rampage again
Nick S2Ofcom’s cowardice in the face of Freeview gobshite mediocrities and Musk’s white supremacist website has a real cost.
This violence is not exceptional or limited to the actions of extreme individuals It's the direct result of years of mainstreaming led by mainstream media and politicians who have legitimised racism and other forms of exclusion Arrests will not stop this spiral www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
🏴 🇮🇪 🏴12England is fast becoming a nazi state what else can you call it when peaceful protesters holding placards get labelled terrorists and arrested but the right wing can literally riot there politicians call for "cold rage" and our supposed PM is doing absolutely fuck all screams complicity
Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP9They should have arrested all the ringleaders, not just the ones who injured the officers. The crime was attacking people's homes and racist violence. Not against the police but against other residents who have been legitimately housed there by the authorities. Shockingly inadequate policing.
Harry8The Guardian...the fucking Guardian, managing to 'reasonable concerns' wash this more than the Eastern Daily Press which is basically a Reform Loyalist paper. There was no link to the proposed housing refugees at the ex army base. It was not a protest. It was a riot/pogrom.
Dave Johnson5Yes, stoking racism. It's disguised as being about "immigration," but as the guy says in this report, “They don’t want the white man any more, they want to swap us.”
Elthampug 🇬🇧🇺🇦2More serious criminal offences have been committed by American service personnel in East Anglia than by ‘refugees’ but……..
Harry4The state of the Grauniad in this peice. It was a riot. It was a pogrom. It was nothing about the nearby military base/refugee camp. They went hunting for brown people to chase out of their homes under threat of death. Fucking state of the press in this country.
His Royal Huwness 🏴🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺3I was taught about the rise of the Nazis in the 70s. I recall that they scapegoated Gastarbeiters (immigrants) mostly Turkish I think, as well as Jews, lefties etc. The parallels are obviously too uncomfortable for our media to report. @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social
David Strak2In other news, the Leader of the Opposition, who has appointed a Nazi as an adviser, explains why the eviction of foreigners from their homes is necessary for community cohesion, and we debate whether the literal fucking King of England is sufficiently 'white British'.
I’m a bit alarmed by how little attention 3 days of racist violence seems to be getting. The UK has a real and growing problem with fascist street violence. What is the government going to do about it?
LondonDiscuss6Burnham needs to come out hard against it and the Tories / others. Full throated not in our names stuff. It's a minority and needs to be driven back against.
Michael5Less than nothing, it seems.
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU2Nothing, apparently. But if you peacefully hold up a piece of paper saying you support Palestine Action they'll arrest you and throw you in prison immediately.
Claudia Conway1Yes, I only just heard about this
But sure "legitimate concerns" and all that nonsense. These are purely racist attacks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dr Simon Ubsdell17“Disorder”, ”protests”. Not “ugly racist violence” which is the correct way to describe it.
Gill Tate3The people I'd rather see removed from this country are the white bigots that disturb the peace, threaten people and bite police officers. Not fit to be in a civilised society. Kick em out.
Lord JG3And Tom Paine was a son of Thetford. This is racism of the worst kind. Not f**king British at all. Deport the racist offenders.
thomasdix.bsky.social2'Alleged asylum seekers' is a term I've not seen before.
Assembled Person1Worth noting that Thetford elected an intellectual giant like Liz Truss.
Aida1yes, but labor was also very clear in their post-elections manifesto that their goal is to make england more white. Why are people still surprised by this?
The BBC & the Home Office, calling pogroms & riots, “disorder” and “protest”, and the Home Office foregrounding the rioters “concerns”. Utter cowardice on the part of the BBC & the Home Office, too frit to stand up and name what the far right is doing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴2Complicit. The Home Office, which has control over policing, and the BBC, the state propaganda channel, are complicit in right wing race riots.
OldeNaturalist1These people are the "terrorists" that should all be arrested, not little old ladies holding up a piece of cardboard. You kind of expect the Home Office and police to side with racists, but it's come to something when the BBC are doing it as well.
Are Reform UK behind this? Are these thugs being covertly encouraged by Nigel Farage? Does he secretly support violence against minorities, and the police trying to maintain order? Of course, I'm only asking questions... 🤮 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Demdike6From what I understand a Reform councillor publicly announced the address. Should be arrested for inciting violence & hate.
@CreativeCamden6What's the betting that most of those men rioting on the streets will have a record of domestic violence just like the other racist tribes that #Farage and his buddies have whipped up online?
Paul Harper3Yes, yes and yes respectively.
Pete2"Covertly" ? Rupert Lowe is probably funding them!
Bristol in Spring2Find out where those who are arrested live, is it local or?
Old sea dog2They're just mindless reformers expressing pure cold rage.
RotorRat2RELEASE THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES!
"There were some skirmishes, it was a spirited protest but I didn't see any violence” say local Reform Councillor despite a male police officer being struck with a rock & a woman officer bitten so hard it broke her skin.. Which is why I view these Reform thugs & their puppet masters as Utter Scum❗️🤬
elvisisalive.bsky.social2Aye, but biting cops is Normal for Norfolk. The rabies shots are apparently fucking horrific so I feel really sorry for the cop.
OCB16402As someone whose father was a lifelong cop, got plenty of friends & family in police service-including deputy chief of riot forces-I’d invite said gent to stand on the line with the police. No body armour, shield etc since it’s “non violent”. Watch how the little scumbag would shit himself.
LetteJ2Funny how these riots all start again once Reform start spouting about immigrants and boats?
It’s depressing these can’t getting called out properly by people in power but good that they’re still pathetically small despite 2 full years of the UK press begging for race riots
James Austin8This will just be the usual scrotes. Politicians: its the usual scrotes! You can just crack down on them! Everyone will thank you!
Tom Hunter5They should start proactively rounding up the guys organising these & buying hotel rooms to fill with 14 year olds lured in by groomed teens they’ve promised to turn into far right “journalists” on youtube
Nick Croom2Today kept on talking about "we can't resolve this issue through politics." Presumably the only resolution is expelling asylum seekers because nothing else will placate these protestors.
