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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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.