“We Just Can’t Take It Anymore”: Anti-Migrant Riots Rage on Across Northern Ireland

The authorities are responding severely to ongoing—and spreading—violent protests in Northern Ireland, even requesting support from the rest of the UK to stop what they describe as “racist thuggery.”

But these officials are in many ways responsible for the rioting, which has seen dozens of police officers injured, buildings set alight by (mostly masked) young men and totally innocent migrants left terrified.

In a blistering piece warning that “we are sliding, dangerously, towards a civil war,” journalist Rod Liddle pointed to years of uncontrolled mass migration and stressed: “Nobody in the UK voted for any of this.” Nor, indeed, across the rest of Europe, where similar trends have been observed.

Nobody went down the ballot box and thought: Yep, I think we need a whole bunch of new immigrants … Especially those immigrants who can’t speak English, don’t understand our way of life and have no intention of integrating …

It has been an epic disaster. And it means that after decades of getting along OK with the limited numbers coming in, now all bets are off.

These particular riots began on Monday after a vigil in support of a young girl whom two Romanian-speaking teenagers are alleged to have attempted to rape. But Ballymena, the area where the violence began, has since been described as a tinderbox, ready to ignite at any moment, thanks to long-running tensions with the Roma community.

One Slovakian migrant from the town told The Daily Telegraph that “there have been tensions for some time with the Roma, and with the girl allegedly being assaulted it escalates.”

It was the last drop and the authorities, along with government and the courts, didn’t take it seriously enough so people had to take it into their own hands.

And after speaking to other locals, GB News correspondent Dougie Beattie said “‘they’re very frustrated.”

They believe they have no leadership from [the] government. They believe what they voted for didn’t come to pass. They have continually asked for migrants to be quelled coming into the country. They don’t want people coming into the country that are [from] a different culture. They don’t mind immigrants as long as they work and they take to their culture.

They’re saying to me: “We can’t take it anymore. We just can’t take it anymore.”

The spreading violence has been compared to English riots last summer, sparked by Axel Rudakubana’s murder of three young girls—and attempted murders of eight other children and two adults—at a dance class in Southport.