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Well said.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Of course I read it. I think you need to also read what you wrote. What you actually claimed was:-

“I think it’s something like 40 odd percent agree with the grievances of protesters and 30% think they should be happening.”

Which is nothing remotely like what the survey found. Their headline in bold says:-

“Few Britons support the disorder, with the vast majority saying it is unjustified and that the views of the rioters are not representative of the wider population”

Then goes on to say the quote you reference, which does NOT mean what you suggest it does, and then:-

“Just one in eight Britons say the riots were justified”

Pretty obviously not that 30% agree they should be happening.

It also says:-

“Although six in ten Britons have sympathies with the peaceful protests, just 8% sympathise with rioters”

We have not witnessed peaceful protests! We have witnessed riots!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

It's a lie to say there haven't been peaceful protests.

Yes there has, most of the people who turned up were not violent.

Just because some media obsessives parrot what they read and hear doesn't mean they speak the truth.

Let it not for forgotten that the media coverage of these protests/riots has been extremely negative towards anyone who came out....let us not forget that a judge recently stated that even casual observers should be arrested.

So to have a 1 in 3 people express support for protests against the state of Britain is significant within a largely pro immigration media culture....and I'd also add that immigration tops the polls on voter concerns.

In my view roughly 25 percent of the people within the country will have migrant heritage of some kind so this is a significant viewpoint within the population.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Even if 90% of the people who were at a riot were just bystanders to it, it is still a violent riot. Passive support is still support. Unless they tried to stop the violence, or walked away from it, they are culpable too.

I very much doubt if any of the events last week attracted many who went to peacefully protest, given the way they were first promoted and then reported. Peaceful protesters knowing that rioting has happened elsewhere don’t attend something which has the same purpose.

Trying to portray recent events as peaceful protesters being misunderstood and misreported by the media is to take excuse making to new heights. These were disgraceful events carried out by yobs and bone heads having been fermented by far right influencers on social media. It’s their poison which now needs to be drawn and neutralised. That’s where we should expect action. With all the “freedom of speech” bs quickly following.

We know people have concerns about immigration. Mostly about illegal immigration and the housing of asylum seekers. The same people know we cannot do without legal, managed, migration, at least for the moment.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Did you say the same about BLM protests, where public property was wilfully damaged?