Posted on 11/06/2022 5:32:37 AM PST by C19fan
onfire Night across the country erupted into chaos last night as thugs chucked fireworks at passers-by, set alight wheelie bins and threw explosives at police.
Scenes of disarray were seen in Leeds and Edinburgh with police in Manchester and Merseyside reporting blockaded roads.
Multiple videos posted on TikTok showed riot police descending on the streets of the Hyde Park area of Leeds last night, with thugs firing explosives at officers.
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Ban the carrying of bonfires.
Bonfire Night? Is Guy Fawkes Day now politically incorrect?
Guy Fawkes day is labeled anti-Catholic by many apparently.
Excellent!
The Limeys deserve to be ruled by Muslims, Nazis, and Commies ...
like they are now.
Haven’t seen “yobs” used recently.
I wonder if msm over there are bringing the term around again to ‘white wash’ the thugs....
Did you say yobs?
It actually makes more sense to call it bonfire night. Calling it Guy Fawkes makes it sound like a celebration of him while it’s actually the opposite and bonfires were lit as celebration that he failed.
Apparently? Are you referring to history books. I live in Britain and can tell you for a fact that the average Britain could care less whether Guy Fawkes was Catholic, Moonie, Hindu, or whatever. The disturbances had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with hooliganism.
Doesn’t make much sense since he was Catholic & working with a group who wanted a Catholic monarchy.
It is primarily a British patriotic celebration (commemorating the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605) but it has a long history of anti-Catholic elements. It was for this reason George Washington forbade his troops to celebrate it.
Even to this day in parts of England, anti-Catholic aspects of the day continue, though with the loss of religion there in general, it's taken on a mostly secular tone. Like many other things, just an excuse for people to get stoned and rowdy.
Riot police with LGBT flag colored water pistols and nerf bats responded. I can just hear a police commander with a bad lisp yelling harshly into a bullhorn.
Oh I agree. Like Halloween here.
Well he was part of a Catholic Plof
Here in the colonies we called it Pope’s Day. There were Teo separate gangs in Boston. Each had a parade with
an effigy of the Pope. When the two parades met, they would fight each other. The winner was the one who captured the opposing Pope.
The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt by a group of Catholic English men to blow up Parliement. It WAS about religion.
The anti-Catholic Part is understandable under the circumstances.
Understandable in the context of the times these events occurred and in the times closely following, certainly. But not today. Both anti-Catholicism and anti-Protestantism have no place among Christians today.
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