I'm just not sure it is quite as 'organised' as this. I don't buy into the idea that groups are being brought in and told to fight; I think a lot of these riots are taking place in areas of and with surrounding areas of high deprivation and poverty, which, as we know, is the perfect breeding ground for extreme views. It seems that many of the men arrested after the Southport riots were local and from surrounding areas. The videos from Sunderland are full of local accents and even football shirts linked to the area. Don't get me wrong, there clearly are influential people organisations sparking them, but then the local herd follows.
The level of poverty in these types of areas across the country has been steadily increasing over the years, accelerated over the last 14, and you're left with people who don't do well academically, have drink and drug problems, are low paid or unemployed, grow up with adverse childhood experiences and ultimately are being exploited by the likes of Farage, the right of the Tory party, online grifters and russian bots. When you're living in poverty and the nuances and reasons of why aren't discussed properly, then there's the constant drip drip of anti immigration rhetoric supplied by social media and much of the mainstream media, it's absolutely no surprise that it doesn't take much to cause an explosion.
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