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UK a ‘powder keg’ of social tensions a year on from summer riots, report warns
The Guardian ^ | Tue 15 Jul 2025 | Jessica Murray and Robert Booth

Posted on 07/21/2025 9:16:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The UK is a “powder keg” of social tensions, with a third of people rarely meeting anyone from different backgrounds, research has found.

A report from the thinktank British Future and the social cohesion group Belong Network found that a year on from last summer’s riots, there was a risk of unrest being reignited unless urgent action was taken to address issues of polarisation and division.

The research found 31% of adults said they rarely or never had opportunities to meet people from different backgrounds, and a third say they did not frequently get a chance to meet other people at all in their local community.

In a foreword to the report, the former Conservative chancellor Sajid Javid and the Labour politician Jon Cruddas said: “The bonds that hold society together – civic participation and a shared sense of belonging – are under growing pressure.

“This is leaving our society more fragmented, fragile and less resilient to internal and external threats. At the same time, forces driving division are intensifying, political polarisation is deepening and trust in institutions is declining.

Unless we address these forces, the very basis of our democracy is at risk.”

They said last summer’s riots after the Southport knife attack, the more recent racially motivated rioting in Northern Ireland and the findings of the grooming gangs inquiry had “laid bare the fragility of social cohesion in the UK” and were part of pressures that have been “building for decades”.

The new report, The State of Us, will be a “foundational input” to the new Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, chaired by Javid and Cruddas.

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1 posted on 07/21/2025 9:16:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
The prison concept has flipped 180. The criminals roam free with the peasants, while the ruling classes are locked down behind walls and gates, guarded, protected, and secure.

Simmer on it a bit. You will see it.

2 posted on 07/21/2025 9:21:06 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The solution is simple, deport the Muslims.

No politician from Labor or the Tories will address the issue, and I’ve come to the realization, it’s not because they are dumb and spineless, it’s because they want the Muslims to move in and take over.


3 posted on 07/21/2025 9:30:23 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Thousands of British girls gang raped before someone said enough. They buried it and jailed the ones who spoke up.


4 posted on 07/21/2025 9:36:22 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: srmanuel
The solution is simple, deport the Muslims.

Yes, but there is something else that has to happen or they'll open the borders again in the near future and have the same problem again. The Brits need another spiritual great awakening and remember why they have a first world society -- one that's worth protecting.

5 posted on 07/21/2025 9:36:59 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“racially motivated rioting in Northern Ireland”

Oh, you mean people who don’t like being replaced in their own country.


6 posted on 07/21/2025 9:37:53 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Muslim grooming gangs.
Muslims randomly knifing people in the street.

I see a commonality here. But the British elite evidently do not. They think the problem is that people rarely meet anyone from different backgrounds.

Perhaps every British household in the country should be required to take in at least one Muslim. That should solve the problem, eh?


7 posted on 07/21/2025 9:46:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gee, Wally, how did things get to thus pont?


8 posted on 07/21/2025 9:51:24 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Diversity is a wonderful thing.


9 posted on 07/21/2025 10:09:53 AM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: MinorityRepublican

Enoch Powell tried to warn them.


10 posted on 07/21/2025 10:16:34 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Hindus and Muslims will bring the India-Pakistan War to Britain.


11 posted on 07/21/2025 10:19:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1946707306344841688


12 posted on 07/21/2025 10:20:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: dljordan

Give Ireland Back To The Irish.


13 posted on 07/21/2025 10:20:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Red Guardian keeping the lie alive. The problem, they insist, is simply insufficient contact with, and appreciation for, the people who are assaulting women and children, trashing their surroundings, and committing a far disproportionate share of crimes both major and petty. Anyone who would object to that is simply an ignorant hater.

They're admitting that the public regards uncontrolled immigration as threatening and harmful, and concluding that the problem is that the public thinks that way, and not whether it happens to be true.

14 posted on 07/21/2025 10:28:26 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dfwgator

Make Ireland, Irish today. Hate that song.


15 posted on 07/21/2025 10:31:14 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If you get to the point where you need an International Commission on Community and Cohesion, you’re already pretty well screwed.


16 posted on 07/21/2025 11:03:41 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“All you racist stubborn white Christian native Brits better get out and allow those violent imported turds to beat you, rob you, stab you, burn your neighborhoods, ransack your churches, rape your women and boys, or you’ll be arrested.”


17 posted on 07/21/2025 11:33:56 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: blackdog

“The research found 31% of adults said they rarely or never had opportunities to meet people from different backgrounds”

SO the UK government is doing all they can to dump these imported savages in every town and village in every corner of the UK. You Brits are gonna meet these violent savages wether you like it or not and you’re going to pay for it. And you damned well better not complain or you’ll be locked up. This is a caliphate now.


18 posted on 07/21/2025 11:36:08 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: cowboyusa

And it’s mostly the Sinn Fein folks, who have created the mess they’re in now.


19 posted on 07/21/2025 2:28:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Organic Panic

“All you racist stubborn white Christian native Brits better get out and allow those violent imported turds to beat you, rob you, stab you, burn your neighborhoods, ransack your churches, rape your women and boys, or you’ll be arrested.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
That scenario is precisely what we could now be experiencing here had the majority of the electorate not seen it coming and stopped the Marxist-Democrats by electing DJT President
for the THIRD consecutive time!


20 posted on 07/21/2025 2:48:43 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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