The murder of three young girls and the injuries sustained by other girls and the mums who did their best to fend off a knife wielding attacker at a dance event in Southport on Monday 29th July have left us in a state of shock: What’s happening in Southport?
I agree with a lot of your analysis and no doubt there were plenty of bad actors but there were also a lot of ordinary Scousers on Tuesday night too. Working class folk are not stupid and they can see 'the narrative' around what happened in Harefields a few weeks back is different to the official story about Southport (rw extremists yadda yadda). I think a nuanced analysis is called for. Hard to do right now, I get that. No one's rolled out that Oasis song yet - is that progress? this isn't going to go away by building a couple of community centres.
Beautifully put. I feel haunted by this horrific event, and it's vile that some people want to make political capital out of it. Lack of open and respectful communication fosters distrust and builds the cycle of violence.
I agree with a lot of your analysis and no doubt there were plenty of bad actors but there were also a lot of ordinary Scousers on Tuesday night too. Working class folk are not stupid and they can see 'the narrative' around what happened in Harefields a few weeks back is different to the official story about Southport (rw extremists yadda yadda). I think a nuanced analysis is called for. Hard to do right now, I get that. No one's rolled out that Oasis song yet - is that progress? this isn't going to go away by building a couple of community centres.
Beautifully put. I feel haunted by this horrific event, and it's vile that some people want to make political capital out of it. Lack of open and respectful communication fosters distrust and builds the cycle of violence.