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No 10 to hold Cobra meeting after weekend of escalating violence
BBC News ^ | Aug 4, 2024 | Lucy Clarke-Billings

Posted on 08/04/2024 5:03:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Downing Street has confirmed there will be an emergency response meeting on Monday after more than 150 people were arrested following violent disorder in UK towns and cities over the weekend. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer condemned an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and promised those involved in unrest would face "the full force of the law". Police responded to violent scenes in Tamworth, Middlesbrough, Bolton, Hull and Weymouth, among other parts of the UK.

The prime minister vowed to do "whatever it takes to bring these thugs to justice" as he addressed the nation on Sunday.

During the televised address, he warned those involved that they will "regret" taking part. "People in this country have a right to be safe, and yet we've seen Muslim communities targeted, attacks on mosques," the prime minister said. "Other minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric, so no, I won't shy away from calling it what it is: far-right thuggery."

In a statement on Sunday, the Home Office offered mosques greater protections as part of a new process, under which it said "rapid security" deployment can be requested in order to allow a return to worship as fast as possible. Monday's meeting of the emergency committee, known as Cobra, will be intended to provide the government with an update on the violence over the weekend and the response in the coming days. It will involve relevant ministers and police representatives.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: civilwar; keirstarmer
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1 posted on 08/04/2024 5:03:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They would be better advised to hold a weasel meeting.


2 posted on 08/04/2024 5:04:53 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: MinorityRepublican
"Come on baby, light my fire!"

3 posted on 08/04/2024 5:06:48 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Their J6


4 posted on 08/04/2024 5:08:41 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: nwrep

The real killers will face nothing of any consequence— maybe praise and scholarships to an elite school of choice. Possibly an award of the highest order.


5 posted on 08/04/2024 5:10:54 PM PDT by whistleduck
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To: MinorityRepublican

The MAGA equivalents in the UK are about to learn just how POWERLESS they actually are against a government that hates them...just as MAGA learned the same on Jan 6th.


6 posted on 08/04/2024 5:11:03 PM PDT by BobL
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To: MinorityRepublican

Kick the moslems out and the problem would be solved.


7 posted on 08/04/2024 5:15:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Never Trust A Man Whose Uncle Was Eaten By Cannibals)
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To: bigbob
Their J6

Yep, those poor bastards.
8 posted on 08/04/2024 5:19:02 PM PDT by JoSixChip (P.S. There’s a fed in that thread you’re in right now.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

isn’t it pronounced “The full farce of the law”?


9 posted on 08/04/2024 5:21:05 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: MinorityRepublican

As the fog begins ……


10 posted on 08/04/2024 5:23:59 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: BobL
We weren't powerless. We had the power of the pocketbook.

However, we couldn't ween ourselves off of the entertainment and convenience of the companies that were openly working against us, and continued to patronize (IE fund) them while they were attacking Trump during his term and pushing the J6 narrative.

For the most part, I think we are still doing it.

11 posted on 08/04/2024 5:24:18 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Brings up so called Nazi salutes. Exactly the type BS used against the truckers in Canada. Sounds like Justin Trudeau who later entertained, and clapped for a real nazi in parliament with his Ukraine nazi lovin’ boy Zelensky.


12 posted on 08/04/2024 5:28:22 PM PDT by dforest
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To: MinorityRepublican

The government will crack down on the British.
The government will do all it can to protect and encourage the Muslims.

Probably won’t be a long term solution to anything.


13 posted on 08/04/2024 5:28:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Are they going to implement Sharia Law?


14 posted on 08/04/2024 5:31:32 PM PDT by McGruff (Deep State is running the country.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s the Kalergi Plan to a T.


15 posted on 08/04/2024 5:31:47 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Kick the moslems out and the problem would be solved.

Not possible, because Leftists are children who can never admit they were wrong about anything.

It's their defining trait. And it's deadly.

16 posted on 08/04/2024 5:32:30 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“asylum seekers”

Far left speech for enemy invaders.


17 posted on 08/04/2024 5:32:36 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: dljordan

I was not familiar with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan

Thanks


18 posted on 08/04/2024 5:33:58 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hey Starmer, why don’t you use “the full force of the law” against these 7th century savages who have invaded your country instead?


19 posted on 08/04/2024 5:34:25 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe they should close the border?


20 posted on 08/04/2024 5:37:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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