All lives matter.

[Stagger]

No discrimination.

Justice equally for all.

[Witton Park]

I'm sat here today and I feel sick to the stomach.

What in hell is happening in our country?

Rioters are allowed to just crack on and the police are largely taking a back seat.

You say justice equally for all Stagger, but I can't put on a fell race for 50 people on the West Pennine Moors, but 1000's can head in to the cities and vandalise them and attack the police.

[anthonykay]

You say justice equally for all Stagger, but I can't put on a fell race for 50 people on the West Pennine Moors, but 1000's can head in to the cities and vandalise them and attack the police.

Suggest you call your fell race the "Rossendale Riot". Then it might be allowed.

[molehill]

I see the press are already focusing on the police, the usual c**p of finding one demonstrator to quote who said they saw the police being aggressive and fearing for their lives when they saw the police horses .

I am becoming seriously concerned that this could all kick off big time in the UK with riots and general civil disorder, unrest at the covid restrictions etc. and whatever anyone does they can simply point the finger and blame someone else (the government) for causing it.

If all those protestors can carry on as they have, why don't they sod off back to work.

[Graham Breeze]

If all those protestors can carry on as they have, why don't they sod off back to work.

I thought they all worked for Rent A Mob.

[molehill]

I thought they all worked for Rent A Mob.

I'm joining Rant a mob this evening, I might calm down after food and beer.

[pockjennings]

The media plays a big role in creating chaos. Often, it really is just a kitten, not a cougar.

[Wheeze]

I think Keir Starmer put it very well. The statue should have been removed peacefully some time ago. Its not about erasing history. The written record remains. But as attitudes evolve so must our way of marking decent humans. Slave trading is abhorrent and the guilty slavers (of any colour) should not be commemorated in public places.

[Witton Park]

I think Keir Starmer put it very well. The statue should have been removed peacefully some time ago. Its not about erasing history. The written record remains. But as attitudes evolve so must our way of marking decent humans. Slave trading is abhorrent and the guilty slavers (of any colour) should not be commemorated in public places.

so why not take the Auschwitz approach and put some text around such a statue explaining the history?

[Hank]

so why not take the Auschwitz approach and put some text around such a statue explaining the history?

Because Auschwitz is a specific place with a specific context and a role to play in educating people about humanity's past mistakes. A statue of a slave-master is a statue of a slave-master. The history of slavery can be explained without a statue looming above people out doing their shopping.