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Flicking through recent brexit news clips on YT and was saddened, not surprised, to see pro brexit supporters (oddly all 30+, white, male and looking like their wardrobe comes from either TK Maxx or M&S) fighting with police*.
Can we expect these people to kick off is brexit is cancelled?
If this government (or what's left of it) does go through with brexit are there going to be counter demonstrations? Are things going to kick off?
Personally, I'll be technically ****ed and my life turned upside-down off brexit goes ahead. I might come back to the UK just to join in; I've not much to lose.
*the restraint shown by the police, standing there with a mini baton is impressive. Doubt I could be so professional.
Probably will be. But I think a lot of the more gammony ones will just sit in the pub or in front of their tellies reading the Daily Mail and moaning about it. They strike me as largely a bit too lazy and far too disorganised to actually go and raise proper hell in any real numbers.
EDIT DIS-organised, sorry.
They’ll be small pockets of upset people who think throwing a milkshake at the lord and saviour Farage is an outrage but who’ll happily smash up their own town. The rest will continue to mumble over a pint in their kicks for a few years whilst enjoying the benefits of staying in the EU.
Just spray them with a Carling cannon, will pipe them down
Mass rioting? No. Right wing terror attacks? I fear so. Public protests? Probably. Is there a big danger of the two happening concurrently, and so conflated, and the response being heavy handed? History says the chances are high.
Mass rioting? No. Right wing terror attacks? I fear so. Public protests? Probably. Is there a big danger of the two happening concurrently, and so conflated, and the response being heavy handed? History says the chances are high.
^^^^ Pretty much this ^^^^
I wonder who's effigy will be getting burned on bonfire night?
There will be riots we've not seen the likes of since the great Werther's Originals shortage of '85.
I would say there will be far bigger protests if we do leave, particularly if without a deal in the end. Then there is the IRA...
Riots.... That's more the head banging ultra rights thing. They can't motivate many to get out on the streets so need to compensate by being being violent.
If they can tie the violence into England losing a football match or such all the better.
Tazer them. Makes for great YouTube giggles.👍
SO the riots if Brexit is cancelled vs the riots if Brexit goes ahead and we ennd up with fuel, food and medicine shortages...
Wonder what the crossover is within that - would the same people be rioting in either scenario?
We've not left, democracy, Farage, 17.4m - I'll go and riot
We've left, I can't afford food and there's no fuel left - I'll go and riot
i'm thinking that you'll always have the pro-brexit shouty types.
but would the anti-brexit contingent rise up and make their dissatisfaction known by dropping their witty placards and giving it to the man?
can see BoJo and Farage's effigies being burnt if brexit goes through.
SO the riots if Brexit is cancelled vs the riots if Brexit goes ahead and we ennd up with fuel, food and medicine shortages…
On the upside, there won't be many petrol bombs.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that we are rubbish at rioting. Remember London? It was more an opportunity to steal a television or some trainers. Consumerists through and through. I recall watching the news and seeing people fail to rock a van until it fell over. When you feel shame that your countrymen can’t even riot to an acceptable degree you know things are bad.
The French, now they know how to riot.
Can anyone point me at clips of these pro-Brexit supporters fighting with Police? I'm astonished my Leave-centric Facebook bubble hasn't jumped all over this!
On the upside, there won’t be many petrol bombs
I reckon there's better odds of loads of people calling in sick because they can't drive down the road to work. 😉
If it's cancelled there will be a few marches with drunk tank top clowns who will want a fight. That'll be it.
If no deal goes through - food shortages, medicine shortages, check points at irish border, inflation through the roof etc - all that will lead to weeks of rioting and given then current crop of wannabe dictators we have, we will have a full on police state/suspension of parliament.
Can anyone point me at clips of these pro-Brexit supporters fighting with Police?
On the upside, there won’t be many petrol bombs.
I enjoyed this very much
"Project funny" lol
I reckon there’s better odds of loads of people calling in sick because they can’t drive down the road to work.
A downside to cycling to work. Bummer.
A tiny minority in a fairly isolated incident then. I'll unbatten the hatches.
I can't see them hauling their fat arses of the sofa and actually rioting. Although the daily fail etc will threaten a mass uprising etc as part of it's pro-Brexit agenda. I suspect KFC running out of chicken would be a bigger issue....
Brexiteers are too old for rampages. The riots will come when Farage wins a landslide electon and becomes PM.
A tiny minority in a fairly isolated incident then. I’ll unbatten the hatches.
Plus it will be in the North, so no-one will notice 😉
I'm more concerned that it will be in the Midlands. I live in the former heartland of the BNP, home to their Red White and Blue festivals, first region to elect a UKIP MEP, now represented by Rees-Moggs awful sister.
Whether Brexit happens or it doesn't happen, there will be very angry people on the "losing" side and with the long-neglected social problems in the country - which prompted the Leave victory in the referendum - some idiots will use it as an excuse to push the boundaries of protesting. But I can't see full blown riots
I'm waiting for the Sunderland Nissan workers, having kept their jobs by abandoning Brexit, to torch their own factory in the ultimate act of pro-Brexit defiance...
The gammon promised civil war on the 1st of April after brexit was pushed back the first time. Troops with ptsd are already lined up for this. I say bring it on. The less gammon the better.
Plus it will be in the North, so no-one will notice
Funny, but that’s the attitude that got us into this **** in the first place
Dont worry, didnt Boris buy a couple of water cannons after the last riots? He can just trawl those out... shirley?!
Riots? No.
Don’t forget we’ve lived through riots before, and they lasted about a week or so and then the perps all got put away and that was it.
The only support for any brexit comes from those that seem to get angry when opening a bag of crisps, but they’re not into riots... they’re just into moaning and going red faced.
TBH I hope there is some civil unrest, then the police can round em all up and put them in the slammer. We can get on with our normal lives then.
One absolute certainty over Brexit is that whatever happens, approximately 50% of the population will be satisfied for a short period of time.
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Dont worry, didnt Boris buy a couple of water cannons after the last riots? He can just trawl those out… shirley?!
No, he sold them on for ten quid and a packet of B&H.
*the restraint shown by the police, standing there with a mini baton is impressive. Doubt I could be so professional
Why should this surprise you? Don't you recall the riots in London a few years ago, the Police stood by and did next to nothing while looters and rioters had free reign.
What did they do when Extinction Rebellion brought parts of London to a standstill? Bugger all.
Takes a lot to stir the boys in blue into action.
TBH I hope there is some civil unrest, then the police can round em all up and put them in the slammer
Trecherous MPs in jail would be deserving if a little harsh.
If you read the comments on the video it says the Police were kettling again. Only this time it wasn't a bunch of women and children.
What did they do when Extinction Rebellion brought parts of London to a standstill? Bugger all.
There is a difference between peaceful protesting and rioting.....
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Looks like they have no football today to keep them in the pub/on the sofa/off the street.
Takes a lot to stir the boys in blue into action.
Because the minute a tosser swearing in their face, spitting at them and throwing objects, gets a little bruise they're straight off to a lawyer for some police brutality compo.
Any planned action by the gammony ones wouldn’t make it past the first Weatherspoons
If these maniacs manage to crash us out with no deal, with the chaos that will entail, then it’ll definitely kick off, big time!
The self-serving mop knows this, hence trying to sweeten the police up with his press conference announcing 20,000 new officers
He knows how this goes
However, as part of a government that has treated the police like shit for the last ten years I think he might be a tad optimistic to think they’ll have much enthusiasm for putting their arses on the line to protect some entitled far right nutjobs from a (rightfully) vengeful feeling population
If he thinks it’s going to be like the miners strike with a politicised police force (Thatcherite militia) going in, gangbusters, against the working class militant communist scum (in his head, that’s probably about it) he may be in for a bit of a shock
and then the perps all got put away and that was it.
That was it as far as you knew. They just carried on rioting in jails but no-one hears about it so It's ok.
We're living in strange times when terrorists in the US like Cesar Sayoc and violent protestors in Parliament Square are both acting in support of their respective governments.
I honestly think there will be, I had a stroll down Whitehall yesterday and the atmosphere was scary. The far right are much better at mobilising meatheads and utilising social media to make noise
Funny thing is, none of them probably actually believe in "Brexit" its just another cause to hang their stone island hat to
I can’t see any way this shitstorm will end without a fall out.
The best hope we had was a deal, but the Brexit ultras killed both the deal and the chance of any sort of healing the rift, whatever deal was made they would always want more, partly perhaps to avoid the EU tax laws coming in Jan.
In hindsight maybe the only leader we had who actually wanted to un**** this was May. Cameron started the whole mess, Boris, we’ll, we all know what he’s done and Corbyn was vague and instead of being all things to all people, became nothing to no one.
If anyone thinks liberals don’t riot, doesn’t remember poll tax, it’s going to be very messy.
Certainly Boris' scorched earth policy doesn't look likely to end well; he seems content to burn down everything in his path...
All will be fine in the Cotswolds though (image courtesy Private Eye):
If it rains, then no!
(you may laugh, but history suggests the biggest effector on any public event in the uk is actually the weather. ie, sure i'll go out into the streets and set fire to someone/thing, but only if my new jeans aren't going to get wet....... )
One absolute certainty over Brexit is that whatever happens, approximately 50% of the population will be satisfied for a short period of time.
We get this wrong every time it’s quoted ^^
As far as the comment about rioting in jails, well if the then Home Sec (Maybot) hadn’t cut funding on both Police force and Jails System and given Governors and jail support staff the necessary guidance and funding then the riots surely would have been quashed as soon as they were initiated... No?
So... The Contards started it, so blame them for it.
I feel for ever one of you that has been in a position of dismay when governed by a bunch of self serving retards.
As far as the comment about rioting in jails, well if the then Home Sec (Maybot) hadn’t cut funding on both Police force and Jails System and given Governors and jail support staff the necessary guidance and funding then the riots surely would have been quashed as soon as they were initiated… No?
No (kind of) It was actually that useless **** Grayling who implemented the riddance of over 5000 HMPS staff when he was Justice secretary. I know cos I applied for VEDS (Voluntary Early Departure Scheme) when it was actuated. I didn't get it. He 'forgot' to replace said staff of course & are now blabbing on about how they are/or were recruiting 2500 'extra' officers.
So HMPS staff (the forgotten service) are still being governed by a bunch of self serving retards.
If they can tie the violence into England losing a football match or such all the better.
Or Rangers. Or Celtic
Second weekend of riot police being deployed to deal with some good old West of Scotland bigotry after "loyalists" attacked another Irish march, this time in the city centre.
One absolute certainty over Brexit is that whatever happens, approximately 50% of the population will be satisfied for a short period of time.
No, only if we remain will that be the case. If we leave it will either be too brexity, or not brexity enough for the leavers, and still leave for remainers. So > 50% unhappy. HTH.
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Hopefully if Brexit/Remain is determined by a 2nd referendum that will be enough to have only isolated fringe groups rioting.
If BoJo manages to force through a no deal and somehow in a subsequent GE we end up with a Tory majority government then riots could happen, although most of the Remain camp seem to be on the more moderate side and not so easily riled up by a few Facebook fake news stories/ads so maybe it would more be disruptive demonstrations than riots.
If Brexit gets cancelled without a 2nd referendum then I think there will be some rioting but as a fair chunk of the Brexit camp seem to be well-to-do pensioners hopefully there won't be enough of the knuckle-dragging Facebook-fake-news-influenced far-right Nationalists left to do too much damage but you never know.
you may laugh, but history suggests the biggest effector on any public event in the uk is actually the weather
Not just in the UK.
Propensity to riot Leave vs Remain is probably a good analogy for Brexit. Most sensible people don't think that smashing up their local shops in a fit of temper over something unrelated will do any more than make them worse off environmentally and financially.
So I'd suggest that those most likely to riot are those who are currently enthusiastic for a different form of national self-harm. Let's face it, they will probably also be the ones rioting six months after their precious no deal when things aren't going as swimmingly as they were told.
Didn't Wetherspoons knock 20p off the price of a pint the other day to prove how better we'll be under brexit?
Surely people will be celebrating rather than rioting, Wetherspoons the beacon they will flock to in the time of uncertainty, while their gallant leaders and millionaires Nigel Farage and Tim Martin assure them that they'll be ok and that their money is safe......and by "their", I mean Nigel and Tims money, everyone elses will be on fire.