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Not to ignore the relevant points some people have made on other topics, I will probably return to them in due course, but I feel a burning need to address the events of yesterday. As a resident of Middlesbrough until recently and someone with the dubious distinction of having the place on my birth certificate, I can tell people in no uncertain terms exactly who made life in Middlesbrough so miserable that I finally packed up and left as a direct result of their effect on my neighbourhood: Not the asylum seekers, who were dumped there by the government because housing is cheap and nobody in Westminster gave a sh*t about the place (I very much doubt that given the choice, any of them would have chosen to live there). Not the Muslims, who by and large I found to be decent people and neighbours, but the drugs gangs composed almost entirely of young white British men. The exact same kind of violent thugs with no respect for anyone else's rights or property, who will make anybody's life a misery to make themselves feel like big men as were involved in the violence yesterday and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn they were the very same people. Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels indeed. In all honesty, I think Middlesbrough would have been massively improved overnight if the police had just mowed them all down with f*cking Bren guns. After being on the receiving end of these people's thuggery before I would quite happily have manned one myself without the slightest shred of remorse.