{"id":103163,"date":"2024-08-06T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=103163"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:32:24","slug":"blaming-uk-riots-on-far-right-fails-to-address-root-cause-of-the-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=103163","title":{"rendered":"Blaming UK riots on \u2018far-right\u2019 fails to address root cause of the unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The immediate cause of the rioting by white working-class mobs – universally dubbed “far right” by the mainstream media – was anger at the fatal stabbing last Monday of three little girls in the coastal town of Southport near Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stabbing is allegedly to have been done by the 17-year-old son of immigrants from Rwanda, who is accused of attacking a childrens\u2019 dance class, killing the kids and injuring the adults who tried to protect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A delay by the authorities in releasing the name and ethnicity of the alleged perpetrator caused rumours to run riot on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rioting in the UK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Most toxically the attacker was wrongly said to be a recent Muslim migrant who was on a security service watch list of dangerous terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The horrific attack on the children followed a recent spate of incidents involving immigrants, including an attack on armed police officers at Manchester airport<\/a>, the near fatal stabbing of a senior army officer in Kent, and inter-ethnic riots and disorder<\/a> in Southend and Leeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A delay by the authorities in releasing the name and ethnicity of the alleged perpetrator caused rumours to run riot on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":101274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6407,85],"tags":[12254,8723,12315],"class_list":["post-103163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-police-incident","category-uk","tag-rioting","tag-serious-crime","tag-uk-civil-unrest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103167,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103163\/revisions\/103167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}