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After all the fuss, the British police are not gentle.

Text | Haishangke

On the other side of the channel, the Olympic Games are taking place in France, which is quite lively.

On the other side of the Channel, large-scale riots broke out in many parts of the UK this past weekend!

On the surface, the origin of the incident was a knife attack that occurred in the town of Southport in northwest England on July 29th local time. A 17-year-old man broke into a children's dance class with a knife and committed crimes, killing three children aged 6 to 9 and injuring at least eight people, including five children and two adults who were seriously injured.

Although the British police said that the suspect would be charged with more than a dozen crimes including murder, and stated that the attack had nothing to do with terrorism, the incident still shocked British society and quickly led to large-scale riots!

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On the evening of July 31, thousands of protesters ran to the door of 10 Downing Street in London and clashed violently with the police. At that time, the police arrested at least hundreds of protesters.

On August 3, as so-called news spread on social media that the 17-year-old man who killed three children was a radical Muslim, many British people with anti-immigration attitudes took to the streets.

Even though the police showed evidence that the 17-year-old boy——

The suspect, Axel Rudakubana, was born in the UK. But the angry crowd did not buy it.

Reference News quoted Reuters as saying that "violent riots broke out in four cities in different parts of the UK, including Liverpool, Bristol, Hull and Belfast, with anti-immigration protesters scuffled with anti-racism groups and threw bricks and bottles at each other."

Merseyside Police even said that at least two officers were hospitalized with suspected facial fractures, and one officer was pushed off a motorcycle!

Arson of arson,

Robbery is robbery.

Of course, there was the attack on the mosque in Southport! Who was Axel Rudakubana, supposedly a Muslim?

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British Prime Minister Starmer declared that "rioters must be brought to justice at all costs." This implies that Axel Rudakubana must have been brought to justice. And according to the British police, the rioters are mainly "extreme right-wing elements." This is something that we can think about.

Starmer is the leader of the Labour Party. In the British general election held not long ago, the Labour Party defeated the Conservative Party and forced Indian-American Rishi Sunak to step down.

That is, at the time of the British general election, the European Parliament election within the EU had also been held. Generally speaking, the far-right forces have made some gains in the European Parliament elections, including the recent elections in some European countries. But in the UK, the situation is completely different.

It is not just because the UK has already completed Brexit, which means it will not participate in the European Parliament elections. Rather, there is no extreme right-wing party in the UK. It is either the Conservative Party or the Labour Party. Generally speaking, the public can only find their feelings in these two parties. This is the so-called "pendulum effect"!

In fact, in the current European continent, where there are extreme right-wing parties, those extreme right-wing parties may not do anything out of the ordinary. For example, in countries such as Hungary and Italy, extreme right-wing parties are currently in power. Aren’t the people of these two countries living a good life?

But in the UK, a country where there is no large-scale far-right political party, when encountering riots, they blame the far-right.

The question is, are those who took to the streets to riot really the extreme right? Or is it not necessary to look at this issue from the perspective of the political spectrum?

Let's take a look at what Musk said. He said: "The British Civil War has begun."

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Why not take a look at the kind of people walking on the streets of London on a daily basis!

Of course there are the traditional so-called Anglo-Saxon white people, but in recent years, there are also more and more Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Asians, etc., making London and even many places in the UK look like an immigrant country!

In fact, if you count carefully -

For example, the Mayor of London is a Muslim.

Rishi Sunak, the former British Prime Minister who recently resigned, is of Indian descent.

Some commentators believe that "the integration of multiple races and nationalities has achieved mutual success, but friction is inevitable, especially in religious beliefs and customs." The rise of the so-called extreme right-wing forces is nothing more than some Anglo-Saxons who originally lived in Britain - they believe that foreign immigrants have occupied the land that originally belonged to the British.

There is one more point that must be mentioned. Britain used to be the "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets". In other words, it once colonized many parts of the world. Although it is no longer the colonial era, those places that were once full of British flags have long since gotten rid of British colonial rule. But the British are still so nosy. It should not be his family's business, but he seems to be extremely concerned. This has attracted many so-called "asylum-seeking" new immigrants.

When the Conservatives were in power, they once made all kinds of promises to immigrants. But now, with Starmer in power, new immigrants have found that making a living in the UK is far from perfect as Johnson and Sunak promised. The lack of jobs and the rapidly declining quality of life have made new immigrants feel depressed.

Before they came to England from their motherland, they thought too highly of England! Even the second generation of immigrants born in England, do they really think that everyone can become Sunak? The reason why people like Axel Rudakubana are still regarded as foreign immigrants by the British who took to the streets to protest is that these second and third generation immigrants may not be able to integrate into the local culture.

In such circumstances, when they go to extremes, their cultural imprint emerges and becomes one of the reasons the locals look for to cause trouble!

The question is how the British government views these rioters. The Global Times quoted a report from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) saying that the British government has approved the police to establish a nationwide special police force to deal with violent riots. "Police in various regions are required to share intelligence and use AI and facial recognition technology to identify rioters in order to deter violent acts."

After all the fuss, the British police are not gentle. This is what the British "Summer of Discontent" clearly shows.