This is from someone interviewed in Essex Live, a guy called Steve, who did not be...

Who's got Local Steve, but they capitalized Local and Steve.

Oh, yeah, no, I know that guy. Yeah, yeah. Local Steve. Local Steve, who attended the protest last night, said, quote, I've come here to have a protest against the people in these hotels. They come down to Essex and they think they can do things to our children.

We're not having it.

We're not having it at all.

We're not far right people.

We're not racist people.

We're not having it. We're not having it at all. We're not far right people. We're not racist people. We're just concerned with our children being able to walk to school in the morning and then walk home. I'm going to see that motherfucker's tattoos. Yeah. Local Steve, why don't you pop your shirt off? Mm-hmm. We're not having it. Yeah. So basically, this is, this is local, Steve.

These think that's pretty representative, which is, we're not racist.

We just think that all the people in this hotel who are a different race to us are a threat to our children and make them unable to walk to and from school. Mm-hmm. But crucially, all the things that are threats to their children that are sort of like white British coded, those are like traditional values, you know?

Yeah, of course.

No friction between the idea that sort of like migrants, refugees, those are like traditional values, you know? Yeah, of course.

No friction between the idea that sort of like migrants, refugees, asylum seekers are

kind of like this huge danger to children, but also you should be able to hit your children

again. Yeah. Yeah. It does feel like we're kind of losing some kind of like information war here

where like what has essentially happened here is like there's been

some alleged offense committed by an asylum seeker and he has been promptly arrested and charged

by the police which is exactly what should happen that classic one tier justice yeah yeah so it's like

what like in in terms of the facts of the case it's like like, what is the complaint? It's like what?

Like, the criminal justice system has functioned.

Like, there's none of this like, oh, they're getting away with it. Or like, it's like... And so it's sort of... How have we gotten to this place where, like, this is seen by so many people as a crisis? Well, I can tell you how. and how is going on every single breakfast show going on question time on news night is Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage constantly has been saying for years and years, not just him, but people

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