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Rioting, Politics in Modern Britain

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
2 min readAug 10, 2024

The United Kingdom, over the past few weeks, starting from late July, has been experiencing rioting predominantly in working-class communities and within northern England; many factors are responsible for this violence happening in modern Britain.

A list of cities where writing has taken place includes Liverpool, Sunderland, Blackpool, Hull, Nottingham, Bristol, and Portsmouth.

The violence itself was ignited due to the murder of three young girls these are Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King.

They were killed in the Southport attack, which occurred on 29 July.

These crimes were committed by a 17-year-old teenager whose parents were originally from Rwanda.

Discontent in Britain

The person who committed this crime is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born in Wales in Cardiff in 2006.

The riots themselves are not just about the murder of three young girls.

The systemic structural economic problems in modern Britain have not been resolved in over 40 years, and these problems are continuously kicked down the road.

Contemporary politicians don’t understand people’s lives outside of the city of London due to the deeper centralisation of the state in the city and the centralisation of information within the city: political…

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

Written by Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.

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