| Protests in Norwich already 12:18 - Aug 10 with 3954 views | Mullet |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 12:26 - Aug 10 with 3162 views | nrb1985 |
Just had a looked the X account that posted this.
Frightening to think people like that have the vote. No wonder we are in such a mess. |  | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 12:33 - Aug 10 with 3052 views | Bent_double |
Oh well, losing at home first game of the season will do that.
Hang on, this is not about Norwich Sh*ty is it?  |  |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 12:38 - Aug 10 with 2990 views | NedPlimpton |
Absolute state of this
"peaceful pink protest for women and children"
What exactly is it that they're protesting against and why aren't they putting it on their poster I wonder? |  | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 13:22 - Aug 10 with 2689 views | Durovigutum |
| Protests in Norwich already on 12:26 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Just had a looked the X account that posted this.
Frightening to think people like that have the vote. No wonder we are in such a mess. |
Joined May 2020. This means the account has been active about 1,800 days.
The account has made 18,800 posts.
That’s 10 posts a day. Every day. Without fail.
It fewer than most troll/bot accounts - those often have 100+ a day. Maybe it is a genuine account - but that we are even having the debate shows how bad things are.
The age ID thing was the wrong solution to a question the politicians didn’t understand. We need a digital identity to prove the person is real - even if staying anonymous. |  | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 13:25 - Aug 10 with 2656 views | J2BLUE |
| Protests in Norwich already on 12:38 - Aug 10 by NedPlimpton |
Absolute state of this
"peaceful pink protest for women and children"
What exactly is it that they're protesting against and why aren't they putting it on their poster I wonder? |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 13:28 - Aug 10 with 2636 views | Zx1988 |
I live about a mile down the road from this place, and the 'propaganda' is scary. Countless posts in the local Facebook groups about the residents of the hotel committing all manner of sexual offences against local women/children, and not a single article in the local media to support said claims.
Yet people willingly lap it up. | |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 13:31 - Aug 10 with 2586 views | Mullet |
| Protests in Norwich already on 13:28 - Aug 10 by Zx1988 |
I live about a mile down the road from this place, and the 'propaganda' is scary. Countless posts in the local Facebook groups about the residents of the hotel committing all manner of sexual offences against local women/children, and not a single article in the local media to support said claims.
Yet people willingly lap it up. |
Same here. MEN have been all over protests Friday night outside local hotels. It’s barely a dozen people apiece and most are trotting out the Facebook nod and wink stuff. Weirdly that account blocked me for asking why they’ve had to write peaceful on it. | |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 13:33 - Aug 10 with 2555 views | BlueBoots |
If they want the government to start listening to "the people", someone ought to tell them that 15% of the British population aren't white; wonder why that isn't reflected in their poster... |  |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 13:39 - Aug 10 with 2490 views | blueprint |
They don’t like outsiders. They like to sick to their own.
I’ve seen the big eared boys on the farms. |  | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 14:12 - Aug 10 with 2294 views | wrightsrightglove |
There’s scum everywhere but Norfolk, particularly North Norfolk, has a serious far right problem [Post edited 10 Aug 14:13]
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| Protests in Norwich already on 14:27 - Aug 10 with 2162 views | The_Major |
| Protests in Norwich already on 13:28 - Aug 10 by Zx1988 |
I live about a mile down the road from this place, and the 'propaganda' is scary. Countless posts in the local Facebook groups about the residents of the hotel committing all manner of sexual offences against local women/children, and not a single article in the local media to support said claims.
Yet people willingly lap it up. |
Coming up to the 30th anniversary of me living in Nodge, and I can say with a fair degree of certainty that the vast majority of the mouth breathers who will be protesting in Nodge won’t even be from here themselves.
It’s always seemed to me to be a pretty harmonious welcoming place (I mean, they’ve tolerated me all this time, football allegiances and all), and is a pretty progressive place overall – no Reform or even Tory city councillors, strong support for the arts, one of the biggest Pride Days outside of London – plus there are hundreds of youngsters from overseas who go to the UEA and the City College. You can walk down St Stephens Street and hear about 17 different languages sometimes, nobody bats an eyelid in general.
The very first night after the Brexit vote, some scrote went to a shop in Magdalen Street run by a Romanian family, and stuck a bunch of rags that they’d set alight through the letterbox – the family lived in the flat above the shop, and included small children. They escaped unhurt, but there was a lot of damage to their shop. Friends of the family set up a local appeal just to raise £500 to help them get by for a couple of weeks, and within twelve hours or so, it had raised about £30k. Hardly the actions of a community that is anti-immigrant.
I don’t deny that once you get outside the city, some places, particularly towards North Walsham are a mixture of Westeros and Hazzard County, but by and large it’s OK here.
But of course, it’s a question of people coming in to wind things up – these people, along with parts of the media are absolutely desperate to see things kick off like they did last year – you’ve only got to look at what that despicable individual Jenrick is saying on the front of the Daily Blackshirts this very morning to see that. And yet, you know that if, God forbid, something did happen, and one of these hotels were burnt to the ground with people inside, not one, not a single one of these inadequate, cowardly, pathetic creatures who are the ring leaders will take a shred of responsibility. They never do.
You have the case of Rupert Lowe getting worked up that a small boat was heading for the Great Yarmouth beach, but he either lacked the intelligence to think that given the treacherous conditions that an overloaded dinghy faces on just travelling 25 miles or so across the Strait of Dover, it would be unlikely that it went north from Calais to travel about 150 miles instead to head for the Britannia Pier, or he knew damned well that was the case, and raised the alarm to wind people up.
Lowe is nothing more than a treacherous little runt (and I’m sure if you had a chat with some Southampton fans next week, they’d be less then complimentary), but is indulged by the media, so the chances of him shutting the hell up is pretty remote.
Immigration needs to be controlled, I don’t deny that – but people need to wake up, and realise that the vast majority of problems in this country, not to mention the world are caused by billionaires wanting to become even richer, and not by some poor soul willing to risk life and limb on a sea journey – but obviously they’re here to take all the jobs AND all the benefits apparently.
Last thing, a shout out to the moron filmed at a protest yesterday, waving the flags, “concerned” about women and children, and saying that the only hope for the country was the US to take over and make us the 51st state.
So, let me get this straight, oh great patriot, you want us to be ruled by another state, currently led by someone who’s attitude to women isn’t exactly great, and is alleged to have been involved in, or at the very least was aware of, the trafficking of minors.
Righto. |  | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:09 - Aug 10 with 1877 views | SomethingBlue |
| Protests in Norwich already on 12:26 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Just had a looked the X account that posted this.
Frightening to think people like that have the vote. No wonder we are in such a mess. |
The public are being coached into this position by a combination of craven governments, a toxic and/or complacent media landscape, dangerously unregulated social media and inadequate education. It's going to deteriorate further; very hard to see it getting better. [Post edited 10 Aug 15:10]
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| Protests in Norwich already on 15:17 - Aug 10 with 1826 views | Guthrum |
It's funny how few of the protesters look like that.
And as for "protecting the children" (echoes of the Fourteen Words, perhaps?), most of the abusers you see in local newspaper court reports are older white men, with names which don't sound very much like asylum seekers. |  |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 15:27 - Aug 10 with 1765 views | WD19 |
| Protests in Norwich already on 13:33 - Aug 10 by BlueBoots |
If they want the government to start listening to "the people", someone ought to tell them that 15% of the British population aren't white; wonder why that isn't reflected in their poster... |
To be fair there is one with a bit of a tan.
But they have had to put him in a different colour T-shirt because they are not sure about him anymore. He changed after 10-days all inclusive in Majorca. |  | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:27 - Aug 10 with 1761 views | Herbivore |
| Protests in Norwich already on 14:27 - Aug 10 by The_Major |
Coming up to the 30th anniversary of me living in Nodge, and I can say with a fair degree of certainty that the vast majority of the mouth breathers who will be protesting in Nodge won’t even be from here themselves.
It’s always seemed to me to be a pretty harmonious welcoming place (I mean, they’ve tolerated me all this time, football allegiances and all), and is a pretty progressive place overall – no Reform or even Tory city councillors, strong support for the arts, one of the biggest Pride Days outside of London – plus there are hundreds of youngsters from overseas who go to the UEA and the City College. You can walk down St Stephens Street and hear about 17 different languages sometimes, nobody bats an eyelid in general.
The very first night after the Brexit vote, some scrote went to a shop in Magdalen Street run by a Romanian family, and stuck a bunch of rags that they’d set alight through the letterbox – the family lived in the flat above the shop, and included small children. They escaped unhurt, but there was a lot of damage to their shop. Friends of the family set up a local appeal just to raise £500 to help them get by for a couple of weeks, and within twelve hours or so, it had raised about £30k. Hardly the actions of a community that is anti-immigrant.
I don’t deny that once you get outside the city, some places, particularly towards North Walsham are a mixture of Westeros and Hazzard County, but by and large it’s OK here.
But of course, it’s a question of people coming in to wind things up – these people, along with parts of the media are absolutely desperate to see things kick off like they did last year – you’ve only got to look at what that despicable individual Jenrick is saying on the front of the Daily Blackshirts this very morning to see that. And yet, you know that if, God forbid, something did happen, and one of these hotels were burnt to the ground with people inside, not one, not a single one of these inadequate, cowardly, pathetic creatures who are the ring leaders will take a shred of responsibility. They never do.
You have the case of Rupert Lowe getting worked up that a small boat was heading for the Great Yarmouth beach, but he either lacked the intelligence to think that given the treacherous conditions that an overloaded dinghy faces on just travelling 25 miles or so across the Strait of Dover, it would be unlikely that it went north from Calais to travel about 150 miles instead to head for the Britannia Pier, or he knew damned well that was the case, and raised the alarm to wind people up.
Lowe is nothing more than a treacherous little runt (and I’m sure if you had a chat with some Southampton fans next week, they’d be less then complimentary), but is indulged by the media, so the chances of him shutting the hell up is pretty remote.
Immigration needs to be controlled, I don’t deny that – but people need to wake up, and realise that the vast majority of problems in this country, not to mention the world are caused by billionaires wanting to become even richer, and not by some poor soul willing to risk life and limb on a sea journey – but obviously they’re here to take all the jobs AND all the benefits apparently.
Last thing, a shout out to the moron filmed at a protest yesterday, waving the flags, “concerned” about women and children, and saying that the only hope for the country was the US to take over and make us the 51st state.
So, let me get this straight, oh great patriot, you want us to be ruled by another state, currently led by someone who’s attitude to women isn’t exactly great, and is alleged to have been involved in, or at the very least was aware of, the trafficking of minors.
Righto. |
Good post. Norwich, like most cities, is a bit of a mix. Much of it is very liberal and left leaning, and while not the most diverse of places, it is very welcoming for the most part. That said, there's some large estates (I note the protest is being organised in Bowthorpe) where you have a lot of poorer, disenfranchised folks who are angry and looking for someone to blame for society not working for them. They've been told repeatedly by politicians and the media that immigrants are the problem and so that's where the anger is getting directed. It's sad to see and I expect there'll be a decent sized counter protest, but it's reflective of where the country is at right now.
Modern capitalism isn't working for anyone other than the top few percent, our infrastructure and public services are crumbling, or have already crumbled in some cases. The government is spending tens of billions a month just to service its debts (making the banks ever richer) and continues to underfund everything. We're a comparatively wealthy nation, so where is all the money going? It's not going to immigrants, that's for sure, but it's in the interests of those who are continuing to prosper to convince everyone else to not look at them and to instead look at other poor and disadvantaged folks and see them as the enemy instead. |  |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 15:39 - Aug 10 with 1677 views | TheBlueGnu |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:09 - Aug 10 by SomethingBlue |
The public are being coached into this position by a combination of craven governments, a toxic and/or complacent media landscape, dangerously unregulated social media and inadequate education. It's going to deteriorate further; very hard to see it getting better. [Post edited 10 Aug 15:10]
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| Protests in Norwich already on 15:47 - Aug 10 with 1620 views | nrb1985 |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:27 - Aug 10 by Herbivore |
Good post. Norwich, like most cities, is a bit of a mix. Much of it is very liberal and left leaning, and while not the most diverse of places, it is very welcoming for the most part. That said, there's some large estates (I note the protest is being organised in Bowthorpe) where you have a lot of poorer, disenfranchised folks who are angry and looking for someone to blame for society not working for them. They've been told repeatedly by politicians and the media that immigrants are the problem and so that's where the anger is getting directed. It's sad to see and I expect there'll be a decent sized counter protest, but it's reflective of where the country is at right now.
Modern capitalism isn't working for anyone other than the top few percent, our infrastructure and public services are crumbling, or have already crumbled in some cases. The government is spending tens of billions a month just to service its debts (making the banks ever richer) and continues to underfund everything. We're a comparatively wealthy nation, so where is all the money going? It's not going to immigrants, that's for sure, but it's in the interests of those who are continuing to prosper to convince everyone else to not look at them and to instead look at other poor and disadvantaged folks and see them as the enemy instead. |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 15:54 - Aug 10 with 1557 views | Herbivore |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:47 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Zzzzzzzz |
One of your better contributions to the forum to be fair. | |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 15:57 - Aug 10 with 1527 views | nrb1985 |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:54 - Aug 10 by Herbivore |
One of your better contributions to the forum to be fair. |
Was quite funny actually.
Will give you an uppie myself.
Doesn’t make your views any less infantile though. | | | |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:58 - Aug 10 with 1511 views | Herbivore |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:57 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Was quite funny actually.
Will give you an uppie myself.
Doesn’t make your views any less infantile though. |
You've really added to the debate here, chief. Top work. | |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 16:03 - Aug 10 with 1481 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Protests in Norwich already on 12:26 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Just had a looked the X account that posted this.
Frightening to think people like that have the vote. No wonder we are in such a mess. |
Proudly anti-anti-facism, but doesn’t have the sense/self awareness to realise how that will make her come across. |  |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 16:30 - Aug 10 with 1362 views | Mullet |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:47 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Zzzzzzzz |
Do you know Norwich at all? He’s pretty much spot on in my experience - even 20 years ago it was like that. | |
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| Protests in Norwich already on 16:38 - Aug 10 with 1291 views | CoachRob |
| Protests in Norwich already on 15:57 - Aug 10 by nrb1985 |
Was quite funny actually.
Will give you an uppie myself.
Doesn’t make your views any less infantile though. |
Are you the account that sounds like an aggregator of City AM and The Economist? Do you have any of your own material/research? [Post edited 10 Aug 16:43]
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| Protests in Norwich already on 16:48 - Aug 10 with 1228 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Protests in Norwich already on 16:03 - Aug 10 by Swansea_Blue |
Proudly anti-anti-facism, but doesn’t have the sense/self awareness to realise how that will make her come across. |
"Proudly anti-anti-facism, but doesn’t have the sense/self awareness to realise how that will make her come across."
As pro-fascism? Surely, that doesn't take any sense or self awareness. It's just obvious basic English.
EDIT: Or is facism something different? [Post edited 10 Aug 16:49]
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| Protests in Norwich already on 16:57 - Aug 10 with 1189 views | Herbivore |
| Protests in Norwich already on 16:30 - Aug 10 by Mullet |
Do you know Norwich at all? He’s pretty much spot on in my experience - even 20 years ago it was like that. |
He's not happy about me having a pop at the super rich and how immigration is often used as a convenient smokescreen to hide the fact that the super rich keep extracting wealth from the country while everyone else struggles. He works in private banking so is part of the top few percent for whom modern capitalism is actually working and he's a shill for those at the very top of the food chain, so it's no surprise to see him wanting to preserve the status quo and reacting negatively to anyone questioning it. | |
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