Now, caveat, this is the guardian and the guardian readers are the biggest middle class leftists you've ever seen and the observer follows closely behind but I do think this poll is fairly significant.
In terms of the severity of the response, 44% think the government has reacted proportionately to the outbreaks of violence and unrest and 26% think it didn’t go far enough. Only 18% believed ministers had overreacted. There was a similar view on the sentences handed out, with some 70% thinking they were either about right or not harsh enough.
While Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, has been criticising the UK’s approach to arresting those found to have been inciting online, the public appear to disagree. Musk has described Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions in England and Wales, as being part of “The Woke Stasi”. However, 67% of voters said it was fair that people had been arrested for inciting racial hatred on social media, with 15% disagreeing.
Basically a chunk of the normies think they didn't go hard enough on the rioters and that's one thing but they fucking advocate for people to be persecuted online just for shitposting and venting frustration which is what most people who have been arrested were doing contrary to what the media think but apparently that's how much the conversation has shifted. The average member of the public thinks that if you simply have a negative opinion about migration you are dangerous and should be locked up.
I fucking denounce my country and wash my hands of it, especially with the TERFs now on the march against single men just for being single and refusing to date them which is what their screeching is really about. For the record, I do believe the unrest will continue and people will try to fight back, but if the normies are this far gone and think people should be arrested over social media posts this country is done.
Call me black pilled and a doomer, I am, if you're in the UK gtfo fast or make plans now, this is going to get far worse than I anticipated if the public are on side with this bullshit and I think they are.
Not to defend the British public, but a big chunk of the "approval" is likely from people who simply have no idea about the multi-year (and sometimes effectively death due to being put into a prison full of sandniggers) sentences for blasphemy, they're clueless, not evil. They think "The government would never! They just protect us from far-right rioters!".
Their ignorance is exactly what concerns me the most, even I didn't think they'd be this bad because I figured if enough moms and old boomers were thrown in jail it would at least red pill some of them. Instead it seems they've gone full bubble and insist on pretending the government isn't interested in their cat videos not realising that glowies are scanning their messages with their family members talking about migration.
I hope I'm wrong, I really do, but I think that it's going to take Muslim caliphates being declared and them getting locked up themselves before they finally think "Okay, maybe mass migration and the WEF is a bad idea". The only good thing out of all of this is that the Labour party are purely going to get the blame for it, you can already see the leftists coping hard when Keir Starmer does anything bad constantly trying to blame the Conservatives.
Well, yeah, the ones who got thrown into jail and their friends will probably get redpilled, but noone else will until it happens to them too, they probably won't even hear about it.
Many others probably just didn't want to admit they supported the riots for fear of being added to a list and getting a visit from lesbian Nan
I’m starting to trend towards the “ignorance does not merit innocence” stance. These people should know better and deserve to be punished amongst the rest of the enemies
Ignorance is weakness that allows evil to thrive. I have zero sympathy for it, especially after all this time.