I live in England's South East region, and there haven't been any disturbances here so far from what I can tell. I just wanted to point out that although the murder might have been the last straw for alot of people, posts like this are still getting almost 100K likes on X. Vast swathes of people will always be more concerned about "racism" that actually doing anything to stand up for English people. https://x.com/StanCollymore/status/1819442878956884182
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Yeah I'm in a rural area. Most people are just out enjoying the Summer weather
Most stuff like this happens in this way. We keep thinking the entire world turns to flames, but really it's a few blocks. The vast majority of the people keep on living like nothing happened.
My favorite example, people set up picnics and watching areas for early battles in the American Civil War.
That's somewhat disingenuous. The whole picnic thing really only happened during the First Battle of Bull Run because most people didn't take the war seriously and thought it would be over in a few weeks. And war was something most of them had never seen before. No TVs or even radio, so the average person had literally never seen even a glimpse of war in their entire lives. The War of Northern Aggression would end up ravaging entire States, putting millions of people into poverty from rationing or having their farms razed by armies, and entire cities destroyed. Their world did turn to flames. It just took a little while.
Most people assume the war will be over in a few weeks. Though I will concern the picnics were only at Bull Run.
Imagine if people tried something like that today a swarm of drones a mile up in the sky would drop hundreds of mortars on them.
It wouldn't be an American war without thousands of civilian casualties.
Lol oof
That'll be it, I won't doxx myself obviously and you shouldn't either, I'm in a pretty quiet suburb which is why I'm confident in my security. Also I've renovated my house in such a way any criminals would have to make a major racket to break in anywhere. In fact most times it's so damn quiet I get woken up by birds, still getting used to it because I recently moved.
One thing I did notice, protesters are mostly older working class men who like footie. I doubt their going to do anything significant on their own.
This is true which is why I made a point to the Americans to keep an eye on the class of the people involved, if the middle classes start getting the pitchforks as well that's when Britain is really in for it, same goes for farmers.
Two things, I'm middle class and all the other people of my age (under 30) I know are left leaning to woke. So if middle class does get involved, it'll be as anti-racist counter protest/antifa.