"I Predict A Riot" - The Kaiser Chiefs Got That Right!

I fear the worst is yet to come.

So, there was I, enjoying a nice, peaceful break, away from Bristol in the Lancashire suburbs, and it all kicked off while I was living a quiet life.

Question - How did the police allow two opposing marches through the city on the same day? Not just the same day, but as one finished the other, more or less began.

If I'd have been in charge it would have been a two, or perhaps, at the very least a three-hour break in between one ending and the next beginning to at least give the cops time to head back to their station for a pee, a cuppa and a bacon sarnie before heading out again. But that's just me considering the troops, and quite rightly too.

Of course, Bristol wasn't the only location around the nation to be targeted. However, as I live in the city this is where I will focus my attention. So, what were these marches all about? Well, two entirely separate strands aren't to be conflated - although, by all accounts some already have. The initial incident happened in Southport, where young children met their untimely demise at the hands of an alleged migrant, who wasn't at all. Fact. Blunt, but true. Yes, a migrant, so social media idiots would have us all believe.

That is, of course, unless he made the perilous journey across the River Severn from Wales to England in a dinghy, and landed without documentation, which is generally par for the course nowadays.

Next, this incident caused a series of protests around the country that are in no way related to the Southport attack. More like an excuse for anarchists who were waiting for that one spark to light the tinder for mass public disorder to unfold in a plethora of towns and cities accommodating migrants.

In a country where we have the right to protest peacefully, it may not be liked at times where traffic is deliberately held up, and people aren't able to get to work, make vital hospital appointments, or, have other inconveniences imposed upon them.

Nonetheless, the right to protest is sacrosanct. That is, until, those with more pernicious intentions abuse that right. As in the case of current protests. Portsmouth, Rotherham, Sheffield, Stoke, Southampton, Tamworth, Walthamstow, Sunderland, Southend, Aldershot, Canterbury, Bedford, Birmingham, Bolton, Bristol, and Brentford, are just a handful of places targeted on a far bigger list. Everyone has been tantalised into calling those who are nothing more than anarchists 'far right' - whatever that means in the world of populist labelling culture, because it makes lazy thinking an easier option, rather than seeing idiots for who they really are when visited upon those towns I've mentioned above, and others around our nation for the purpose of civil, or, more appropriately 'uncivil' disobedience.

It feels like this current anarchic trend has been brewing for some time, and perhaps, by no coincidence, this has happened on the cusp of a new Labour government being elected. Why? Good question. If this is the case, then it's surely nothing more than a test of how weak, or how mighty this government is in relation to migration.

By all accounts, the former Conservative government, who we all miss so dearly would, perhaps, have expected to effectively deal with small boat crossings failed miserably, and in doing so made the situation far worse by failing to deal with a growing asylum backlog that sees the UK spending £8 million a day to house asylum seekers in hotels, which the government's website reveals as being between 800,000 and 1.2 million undocumented people now in the UK. Basically, a free-for-all all meleee of unknowns with good, or even with not so good intentions for being here. Of which, time will tell.

I'll be honest, it's taken a few days to complete this particular blog post as I've been monitoring allegedly 'far right' supposed, potential activities, and, in my research discovered some useful intelligence detailing all the various sites for targeting over the past weekend, of which there were about fifty in total. Including one right here on my doorstep in central Bristol. All having a direct connection with immigration, and were either lawyers or hubs.

According to the Bristol Post, somewhere in the region of 2.000 people turned up to oppose any thugs cunningly disguised as far-right arrivals who didn't arrive at all, and the entire event resulted in a whole lot to do about nothing, big non-event, with all the adult nappy wearing kidults without even a pub to retreat to as they had all been boarded up for the day. Shame, huh?

My neighbours, as with most of the people who turned up for the non-event, were all panicking like headless chickens at the thought of our normally quiet location being overrun with potentially violent, window-smashing thugs with tattoos plastered all over their bodies and faces, shouting all manner of offensive slurs. As it happened, watching the police horses pass was the most interesting thing about the entire evening before I went to bed out of sheer boredom. I later learned there were some minor incidents elsewhere in the city, but that was it.

Somehow I knew it would all come to a big fat nothing, but, no one I spoke with in my apartment block would listen. Oh no, it was panic stations all around with windows being boarded up like we were entering into a full-on war with Russia. It's probably due to the fact that I've lived through both the Brixton and Toxteth riots, and if you've seen one you've seen them all. So, I'm non-plussed, and, besides which, unlike what seems to be an overwhelming fetish for emotional incontinence nowadays, I am more of a practical and logic-driven person. I don't even panic when I have stuff going on that others would panic about. That's just not me.

So, my rational brain told me in advance that such a nationally well-organised series of protests simply wasn't going to happen. At least not here in Bristol anyway. To advertise a series of supposed 'far right’ protests around the country in advance, and in full knowledge that there would be resistance didn't make any sense at all. So it was either the dumbest plan, if ever there was one, or, it was organised as a test to gauge what resistance there was likely to be, and plan further action where there's little, if any, to counter it.

Call me a cynic, if you will, but I don't think we've seen the last of the thugs - which, after all, is what they are. Or, put another way, even terrorists, maybe? They certainly don't represent the majority of those whose politics lean to the right, of this I'm certain. This will be proven when further criminal damage, or worse, such as arson attacks are visited upon the same law centres and migrant hubs at times when, hopefully, no one is there. I fear the worst is yet to come.