It is a tough situation. Change won't be instantaneous but someone has to do something. We can't keep having the two sides pushing each other further and further apart.
It may have increased membership of the BUF for a while, but in the local elections in 1937 they were soundly beaten. That one day was was the start of a wider community fight back against discrimination. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/remembering-the-battle-of-cable-street
Did they roll the marbles under the police horses hooves so that they fell and broke their legs, by chance?
Dunno about that but my Great Grandad was very left wing. On a watch list which my dad was asked about when he was a radio operator in the Navy and asked to sign the official secrets act, so it’s possible he was an arsehole, but probably just one of a large crowd along with the dockers helping the Jews protect themselves.
I remember reading a Jerusalem Post article claiming the crowds in the East End that day were over 90% Jewish and only a minority were Communist sympathisers and Trade Unionists, I can't seem to find the article now. I was going to ask if `you were Jewish but thought that was a tad too far.
Lots of dockers came out. My great grandad used to go on holiday to mates in Poland on the 30s apparently as he had some kind of rail pass being a rail worker. But as you ask I’m not Jewish but my mother worked at the Menorah school and I went there on the odd occasion. Nice people the Jews when you gain their trust.
So what do you do? Impose a lockdown? You can’t stop people taking to the streets to protest what they feel is right unfortunately, otherwise then you’ll have an ever bigger problem on your hands. It just needs to be policed correctly and those who want to incite bother, throw racist slurs around, act like general daft ****s should arrested swiftly then and there to ensure it remains peaceful. Do I agree with what they’re protesting? No. Do I agree with what most people are protesting for? No. I think they’re all sad bastards if i’m honest. Can’t remember the same energy from the left when the BLM protests turned to absolute chaos. They’re just as bad as the far right but they’ll never accept that because they’re some of the most narcissistic people you’ll ever come across.
I remember she made her views apparent on Sunderland have your say once and vowed never to consider using her removals form. Hopefully many others will now
Far right movement in Hull now. Blackburn centre been taken over by large Muslim presence. Going to end up being hell on in a major city in the next few weeks at this rate.
If you have two sides that both have ideological red lines, and both sides consider each others to be abhorrent, how do you bridge that gap? I know this is a football forum and most on here don't even want resolution anyway, but fück me, if I was younger and single I'd try to get out of this country. No future but conflict.
I left the UK in 2007 aged 40 for many reasons. As I posted earlier I’m proud to be British, proud to come from Sunderland and proud that I’ve served my country both in the armed forces and in the police. I’m not a pessimistic person by any stretch and perhaps I was getting jaded with the way I perceived society was going, but I can honestly say that leaving was the best thing I’ve ever done for my family. I’m not saying that Australia is a paradise. It’s far from it. Every week there are reports of shootings going on (albeit over on the east coast), Politicians here are just as bad at times as their UK counterparts. Meth is an insidious drug but it is very prevalent here. But overall the way of life we have here outweighs the bad stuff that happens. I would honestly say to anyone thinking about it to give it a try.
