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11 August - Bang them all up

The EV charging point is fitted for my Pakistani Muslim friend. It took five hours instead of the hoped for two, maybe we should not have spent so much time setting the country to rights.

We agreed on the causes of the current disturbances and whether the right wing is responsible for the rioting or whether it is just simple mindless thuggery. The same on the subject of two-tier policing and two-tier justice and if Sir Keir Starmer and his motley crew are doing a good job or done their best to make the situation worse. And Nigel Farage over the past couple of weeks.

100% agreement on everything apart from the Jewish question which we skipped quickly over.

A new video showed up on YouTube yesterday showing the riot - there can be no other word for it - in Middlesbrough last Sunday, it was the most shocking thing I have ever seen on British soil. So were the potholes in residential roads. If filled with water they might make pretty good garden ponds.

This was the riot in which a woman pushed a burning wheelie bin into a line of policemen and has since been given 20 months inside. She was unlucky, not sure that is the right word, because she tripped under the nose of the police and was quickly nabbed. There were 50 of so doing much the same but they got away unless the video identified them for picking up later. There were far more flinging bricks at the police and they were very vulnerable. There may well have been 200 rioters with nothing but violence on their minds in the middle of a major road junction (Photo 3) and only a dozen cops in a line. What could happen does not bear thinking about.

But that was far from being the worst of it.

The video began with a large crowd, many hundreds, charging along what might usually be a quiet residential street in a run down area of Middlesbrough. (Photo 1.) (I suspect that the whole of Middlesbrough is run down.)

It was a typical poor old fashioned street with no front gardens; the doors opened directly on to a narrow footpath with residents’ cars parked outside.

The mob, mainly men but some women and youngsters on bikes stampeded towards some unknown goal clad in balaclavas and masks. As they passed front windows on both sides of the road, they were caved in with hammers - Sidcup style. Others walked over the top of cars kicking in the windscreens. Two (in a different street) were set on fire.

Two houses had their doors kicked in. Two men took flying leaps across the road with their leg outstretched and the PVC doors disintegrated. A section of the mob invaded the homes.

What sort of dehumanized thug can destroy the lives and property of their fellow citizens and neighbours? Nearly everyone who spoke on camera lived locally. There was barely a brain cell between them.

The cameraman four times described it as a war zone and that he would never return to Middlesbrough ever again. His judgment was right on both counts.

There was absolutely zero police officers in evidence while homes and cars were destroyed so hundreds of people who should be behind bars for a very long time will be free to do it all over again while their innocent victims struggle to rebuild their lives and their finances.

One of the cars destroyed by fire was owned by a care worker who returned to find he no longer had any way of doing his job. The cameraman was so moved that he started a GoFundMe and the care worker has a new vehicle, or will soon.
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All absolutely horrifying. There were no chanting Antifa flag wavers present and only two bystanders wearing English flags.

When the cameraman returned to his own car in a car park 15 minutes away he found that every single parked car had had its windscreen smashed. He had left his girlfriend in his which was perhaps a stupid thing to do but fortuitously, because it was occupied, the thugs left her and the car alone. She was terrified and hysterical as you might imagine.

Now that we live in police state Britain where innocent bystanding is an imprisonable offence I don’t think I can provide you with a link. However in the 24 hours since I found the video 1,238,501 people have viewed it. Three times the circulation of the Daily Mail.

Do yourself a favour. Never go to Middlesbrough. Unlike other Northern cities the architecture was crap even before the local Neanderthals let rip last Sunday.

 

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