Far rioting
IN almost every case, I was not pro the riots triggered by the horrific Southport stabbing. The idea that looting Shoezone is the solution to Britain's immigration problems is obviously absurd.
That said, it is clear that much of the establishment media’s coverage of these riots was aimed at eroding freedom of speech and expression.
I was struck by one outrageously biased BBC online article (“Riots show how the UK's far right has changed” – investigations correspondent Daniel De Simone – quoted below) written by an ideologue under the guise of objective unbiased analysis.
It presented the following faulty assumptions which have been common across the mainstream liberal/left establishment media.
Firstly, that the protesters were made up of people that are "right wing/far/extreme right". No one has any idea how everyone involved votes or thinks. It’s likely they included Labour voters. The ‘Red Wall’ demonstrates many former and current …
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