Rioting used to be reserved for special occasions. Now we’ve got people attacking migrants, lobbing petrol bombs at police and setting cars alight in Ballymena for some reason.
Alleged crimes by a Romanian family this time. Looks pretty horrific what’s happened there from the brief snippet I watched this morning. Usual story probably of people pretending to care as an excuse to kick off.
Perfectly understandable behaviour, according to some. After all, "Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door", to quote Nigel Farage. They also fire-bombed the house of Philipino factory-worker (who was on night shift) with his wife and children inside. Just because they're foreign.
People were rightly given serious sentences for their parts in the anti-asylum seeker riots. Doesn’t seem to have been much of a deterrent.
