The headline on the front page of The Sunday Times 4 described the tense situation across the country. In the past week, three girls in Southport, Merseyside, have been killed in knife attacks, leading to riots across the country and continuing to burn. From Bristol and Storke to Liverpool, Manchester and Belfast, protesters have clashed with police and a Sunderland Police building has been set on fire, molotov cocktails were thrown even near the Prime Minister’s residence in central London, and police forces were“On the verge of collapse”. Residents of Muslim and immigrant communities across Britain who have been targeted by the riots are worried. British Prime Minister Stamer held an emergency cabinet meeting Wednesday to discuss the riots. Stamer accused “Rioters” of using the country’s grief to “Spread hatred” and said “Anyone who commits acts of violence will be fully sanctioned by the law”. The The Daily Telegraph said multiple courts would be “On 24-hour call” to speed up sentencing of those responsible. According to the report, it was the worst riot in more than a decade and the first major crisis for the newly installed Stamer administration.
Molotov cocktails were thrown in Downing Street
Far-right activists have stoked unrest in many areas for a week, the BBC reported Thursday, adding to tensions over the weekend. Protests broke out in more than 30 cities and towns in the UK on March 3rd and 4th. Demonstrations in many places turned into riots, with mobs throwing Molotov cocktails, looting shops and even attacking and burning police stations in some places.
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“It’s a summer of discontent in the UK,” The Daily Mail said Thursday, adding that in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Storke and Kingston upon Hull, as well as Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, the rioting was particularly severe. In Liverpool, rioters stormed supermarkets and mobile phone shops in the centre of the city, some shouting“Get the phone! Get the phone!” Rioters swept shelves clean. In Manchester, a supermarket in the centre of the city was forced to close after being“Stormed” by rioters. In Belfast, shops were vandalized and then set on fire by rioters. Many innocent citizens, especially ethnic minorities, have been attacked by mobs. In Höör Municipality, an asian-n man was attacked by rioters who shouted, smashed his car window and beat him as he drove near the riot site. In Manchester, a black man was besieged by a mob.British police are under pressure in the face of violent rioting. The Daily Mail said police forces in many places were“On the verge of collapse”. In Sandrin, in the north of England, local police faced “Serious and ongoing violence”. In 2 riots, the local police building was ransacked, and was set on fire, many police officers were injured and hospitalized. “This is not a protest,” fumed Mark Houle, Sandrin’s police chief. This is unforgivable violence and rioting,” he said, referring to the recent 10 Downing Street of violence around the Prime Minister’s residence. On the night of July 31, thousands of protesters demonstrated near Downing Street, chanting slogans such as“We want our country back” and“No immigration boats”. Some pushed down police fences, more than 100 protesters were arrested after they clashed with police and threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks at the Prime Minister’s residence and a statue of Churchill.
Agitators have targeted Muslim communities across the Southport following online rumours that the knife-wielding assailant who killed three girls was a Muslim, AFP said. Zara Muhammad, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, said: “The Muslim community is now deeply anxious.” Many Muslim communities have received “Threatening phone calls”. A head of a security company said he had received inquiries from more than 100 mosques“Seeking help” in the past two days and that“Many mosques have expressed their vulnerability and fear to US”.
The government is prepared to punish the rioters severely
British prime minister Stamer called an emergency cabinet meeting Wednesday to address the country’s civil unrest. The Prime Minister’s Office later issued a statement saying it“Fully supports the police in taking all necessary action to ensure safe streets”. The statement attributed the violence to“Extreme right-wing incitement to hatred” and vowed to end the unrest. “The bottom Secretary of State for the Home Department is that we can not tolerate this kind of violence or criminal unrest on the streets,” said Cupar
The BBC says the British government has given the go-ahead for police to set up a nationwide police task force to deal with the violence. Local police were asked to share intelligence and use AI and facial recognition technology to identify rioters to deter violence. In addition, the judiciary has 70 additional prosecutors on standby ready to file charges against persons arrested in connection with violent disturbances. The The Daily Telegraph said courts would be “On 24-hour call” to speed up sentencing of those responsible. Plans are also under way to vacate some prisons and transfer their inmates so that more cells are available in dangerous areas to hold arrested rioters.
British“Sunday Express” 4, also disclosed that Britain’s most mysterious military intelligence agency-the Ministry of Defense Intelligence Team, began to help track down the recent violent riots involved the far right. In addition, some“Secret agents” have been recalled to help the security services by“Infiltrating the far-right groups believed to be behind the riots”. Cupar also Secretary of State for the Home Department that if the situation got out of hand and the police were understaffed, he would ask for military personnel to help maintain order.
Deep exposure in the UK
“The Daily Telegraph” said on the 4th that whatever the excuse, violent riots are unacceptable. But amid the turmoil across the country, Stamer needs to consider deeper questions. The rise in immigration and the failure to control it, inconsistent enforcement, and divisions over“Diversity and inclusiveness” are making a growing number of Britons uneasy. Illegal acts of violence must be resolutely stopped and addressed, but there are also fundamental issues that need to be addressed.
The rise of the far right has been a neglected issue in Qa?ar’s Al Jazeera elections. The far right, represented by Oriana Fallaci, the Reform Party’s leader, has been at pains to instigate that “Britain is being stolen by foreign immigrants”. In a recent post on social media site X, Oriana Fallaci claimed that “White” people no longer make up the majority of the population in London, Manchester and Birmingham. The report said, in fact, this statement is completely false.
The UK, which prides itself on being a paragon of western civilisational values, is in such a mess that it has previously been seen in vulnerable developing countries, the national newspaper of Pakistan said Thursday. Reported that recently, Britain’s anti-immigration and anti-islamic undercurrent surfaced. Parts of the country have become battlefields of violence that terrorize the Muslim community. After a disastrous Brexit, Britain now faces a cost-of-living crisis. If far-right xenophobia is allowed to take root, British society risks splitting into bitter infighting.