ENGLAND is bracing itself for another day of far-right violence.
There are reports that the far-right is planning dozens of violent riots across England on Wednesday, targeting Muslims, immigrant communities, immigration lawyers, and advice centres.
There are unconfirmed rumours that British nationalist fascists are also planning to take over George Square in Glasgow today, which if true would represent the first time that these racist and Islamophobic riots would have spread to Scotland.
Police forces across England are bracing themselves for the worst day of disorder so far.
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Police Scotland have issued a statement denying that there is any intelligence to suggest a protest is planned today and have cautioned people to avoid speculation and sharing information which my be inaccurate.
As of lunchtime there was no sign of anything much happening in George Square although a doo was observed to perch on the head of a statue of some Victorian imperialist or other and crap on it.
It was obviously part of a woke mob which has no respect for British values.
Nigel Farage created the environment for far-right violence
Talking of sharing inaccurate information, Reform UK leader and professional right-wing stirrer Nigel Farage has claimed that he was misled by misogynistic online grifter Andrew Tate as to the identity of the alleged murderer of three young girls.
Tate falsely claimed that the knife wielding man who attacked the dance class was a Muslim asylum seeker who had crossed the English Channel in a small boat.
This raises a number of questions for the glib Farage.
Tate is currently facing charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania.
Why did Farage think that Tate might be in possession of privileged information about the alleged murderer when he was many hundreds of miles away?
Why is Farage relying on information from a vile misogynistic thug and alleged rapist for information?
The Reform that Farage had in mind apparently consists of British MPs engaging with far-right thugs on TikTok who are facing trial on charges of sex trafficking and rape.
Farage is a practiced liar, he's been doing it for years and he also has a long track record of avoiding responsibility for his incendiary language.
He has spent a lifetime sowing division and playing the victim.
Farage makes racist points and demonises minority communities but then claims he's just asking questions.
Farage and his ilk are a toxic blight on the body politic.
Meanwhile Farage's fellow Reform UK MP Lee Anderson is suddenly not such a fan of robust policing after all.
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Just a week or so ago Anderson was applauding the police officer who allegedly stomped on the head of an Asian man in Manchester Airport who had already been detained and restrained by police officers and who posed no immediate threat.
Anderson, who is Reform UK's chief whip in the Commons, told GB News that "British working class lads out throwing stones and damaging things aren’t far right thugs."
He added that they'd probably just had one too many and fallen in with the wrong crowd and insisted: "We all do daft things when we are young”.
He added that he felt the rioters should not be jailed.
Could that wrong crowd include Lee Anderson, Reform UK and GB News?
To use the formula so beloved of Nigel Farage, I'm just asking questions.
I don't know about Lee Anderson but the daft things I did in my misspent youth did not include participating in a race riot or setting fire to a hotel full of migrants then trying to block the exits.
Recent polling has shown that a third of Reform UK voters support the lawlessness on the streets of England.
Right-wing journalist Elizabeth Oakeshott has penned a piece for The Telegraph calling the riots a cry of rage and despair from white communities which have been let down and neglected by government.
It's interesting that the right wing is calling for reflection and understanding of the perpetrators of actual race riots.
I'm sure they and Anderson would feel very differently if the rioters were black or Muslim.
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They would be calling for the army to be brought in and the immediate deportation of anyone caught rioting.
Reflection and understanding would be the last thing they were calling for.
Just so we're clear then, a peaceful march in support of innocent Palestinians is "hate speech" but white men setting fire to cars and buildings, looting shops and assaulting anybody with brown skin is "British working class lads out throwing stones and doing daft things because they are young.”
We are used to hypocrisy from British nationalists but this is off the charts.
Jeremy Clarkson and the right's problem with Islamophobia
Meanwhile Jeremy Clarkson has weighed in with one of his hot takes telling us that he is surrounded by "farmers, brickies, and butchers and all I hear is that there's too much immigration “The London elite call them far right thugs, but they are just ordinary people."
But when those ordinary people take part in a violent Islamophobic riot, besiege a mosque, and try to burn down a hotel full of terrified asylum seekers, then they become far right thugs, and if Jeremy Clarkson, who is himself very much part of the "London elite" cannot see that, then there is something seriously amiss with his powers of observation.
The right-wing has a very serious problem when it comes to calling out and condemning far-right racist and Islamophobic violence.
We are constantly being called on to understand the anger and frustration of impoverished working class white communities, but not so much to feel empathy for people of colour who are now terrified to go out in public.
Keir Starmer, who was very quick to condemn antisemitism, still can't bring himself to call these riots Islamophobic.
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