[soulboy]

Swindon Adver's live blog is reporting on such exclusives as "the County Ground is currently empty" and "no protests or disorder on Manchester Road".

[Andy McDandy]

Just remember that for all his News Agents cred, 14 years ago John Sopel was scurrying through Northumbrian back gardens and trying to present Rothbury as a town quaking in fear, rather than slightly bemused by the police presence in the Raoul Moat manhunt. News is essentially about filling the fucking space, and making people emotionally invested in fuck all. In the second case, I give you Madeline McCann and that fucking circus.

[AOB]

The Telegram messaging app has confirmed to BBC Verify that it is “removing channels and posts containing calls to violence” in the UK.

We contacted the company after noticing that a Telegram group with 15,000 members, that was influential in organising protests across the country, was removed on Monday night amid a series of violent threats and racist messages posted by its members.

"Moderators are actively monitoring the situation and are removing channels and posts containing calls to violence. Calls to violence are explicitly forbidden by Telegram's terms of service," the company confirmed in a statement to the BBC.

BBC Verify has since observed two further attempts by those who set up the group to launch replacement ones - which have also been removed.

The group was among the first to circulate calls for protests in nearly 40 locations tonight.

That's good, but it shouldn't have been down to the BBC to alert Telegram. MI6 all on annual leave?

[Andy McDandy]

Less Bond or Smiley, more Fry and Laurie's Murchison and Control.

[davidjay]

Is it really a counter-protest if there's no protest to counter?

[satnav]

Tommy Robinson is now saying that the only thing he is guilty of 'is being a great investigative journalist that they can't control' He is utterly delusional.

[Abernathy]

He’s a journalist now ?

[kreuzberger]

Nah, he is just a very naughty boy who has reportedly scuttled off to Athens, the home base of Golden Shower.

[Abernathy]

Thought he'd gone to Cyprus.

[Youngian]

Gutless cockroaches can’t even stand by their pals when the shit hits the fan.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Was this our Cable Street?

[RedSparrows]

United Britain?

The people marching against the cunts are the union types, the 'militants', the blue haired and weird sexualities, the intellectuals (some thereof, at least), the 'bougie' cosmopolitans and anyone else who DOESNT READ YOUR FUCKING RAGS.

[Youngian]

The people marching against the cunts are the union types, the 'militants', the blue haired and weird sexualities, the intellectuals (some thereof, at least), the 'bougie' cosmopolitans and anyone else who DOESNT READ YOUR FUCKING RAGS.

Not the sort of people who would steal or damage your car after eight cans of Stella and some lines. Mail readers don’t like the consequences of their poison spilling over in their street.

[davidjay]

There's a longstanding tradition in the UK of encouraging extremists and saying something must be done, right up to the point where they do something.

[Andy McDandy]

All fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Anyone see Zarah Sultana vs Andrew Pierce the other day? He was needling her to name one racist headline from the Mail - she didn't have one on the tip of her tongue (but plenty of people watching started supplying them). Pierce was depending on the dog whistle and the hasty disclaimer - "Of course, this doesn't excuse genuine cases of racism...", "The vast majority of [group] are fine, it's just a few that spoil the barrel...", "Not that [person] has anything to do with [thing], but...".

As Jon Snow (the fictional character) said, everything before the 'but' is horse shit.

During the BLM protests a few years ago, the Sun very much backed the "patriots" against the woke mob, right until in one protest, they got a shot of a black man helping a red-faced twat to safety. They then changed their angle to "reasonable people against the extremists (from both ends)". Same sort of face-saving we're seeing now.

[Philip Marlow]

Gutless cockroaches can’t even stand by their pals when the shit hits the fan.

Heh.

[safe_timber_man]

This is one of Musk's go-to Far Right propagandist:

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Desperate stuff.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Once, long, long ago, in halls, I was having a drink, late at night, with people post-club. Being a true philosophy undergrad I was nattering absolute shite about justice with a fellow pissed philosophy pseud.

Housemate turns around and says 'everyone in jail, just kill them. Why should I care?'

She was pissed as hell, but also... where the fuck did that come from?

And lo...

That's her, or have I misunderstood?

[RandomElement]

This is one of Musk's go-to Far Right propagandist:



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Desperate stuff.

If understand Mr Ngô those are lefties peacefully protesting in their 1000s and not the voice of the Silent Majority™ but rabble-rousers. But a few hundred rioters are committing arson, GBH and animal cruelty are the true patriots.

I think there is a word commonly used in this parish to describe people with those kinds of views.

[Abernathy]

This "open borders" stuff is absolute bollocks, as is "Labour's open door mass immigration policy". Labour has never ever had any policy on immigration that could be construed as "open door", and even when the UK was an EU member, it was never part of the Schengen zone.