Protests

I have explained why they could have been triggered by an event that (as it turned out) didn't involve an immigrant by referring to what happened at Manchester Airport. 

You asserting that an entire group of people who are "out on the streets" have a single viewpoint is no more correct than ascribing a single viewpoint to any other racial or religious group or more relevantly to the Gaza protestors - not all of them are anti-Semites are they ?. Saying people peacefully protesting (not rioting) in Hartlepool in particular don't have legitimate concerns is a stretch.   

Stopping illegal immigration by stopping the boats is Labour policy. It is literally there in their manifesto. You voted for it. 

And thank you for your oddly presumptuous opinion that everyone out on the streets protesting is far right which is akin to saying that everyone on the Gaza protests are anti-Semites. Some are, some aren't. 

For various reasons I haven't had the opportunity to see much news of later so what I know of what has occurred I have seen on Twitter (X).

Personally, I find this very unsettling and upsetting.

The police and government

Are being accused in some circles

Of treating different protests

Differently

Hence giving rise to allegations of a two tier approach

To policing and reaction to demonstrations
Despite some of these being quite disruptive and leading to some people feeling unsafe and threatened the wider response remains to turn a blind eye
Example below:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/palestine-israel-fiddler-roof-regents-park-b2591807.html

Ask a Jewish person in London

How they feel about many of the aforementioned protests

You make the error of comparing

I am not comparing protests

Setting fire to things and rioting is illegal and should be punished

The point some people are making is that different protests need different approaches

Instead certain demonstrations have a blind eye approach taken to them
Being made to feel unsafe in a verbal or loudly confrontational way
Might not be overtly breaking the law
But it leads to clear divisions in the London community and beyond
And it is that sort of insidious attitude which leads to breakdown and disorder when taken out of context and to the extreme by those intent on breaking the law

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/wes-streeting-nhs-people-government-royal-college-of-gps-b2591953.html

And this is a joke

In a 15 year career in the NHS

I have had 3 patients make overt racist comments about my skin colour

And 3 comment they didn’t want to see me due to what they perceived as my sexual orientation

Nothing was done about any of these cases

And they wonder why there are issues

BS they have a zero tolerance to racism in the NHS

The discussion is about "two-tier policing", that innately compares protests.

What is punishable about the pro-Palestine protests at present? Any anti-Semitic remarks should of course be punished accordingly, but how will hands-on policing achieve that any differently to what is the current strategy? There's certainly nothing like the recent events that would require more severe policing.

Criminalising peaceful protest because some people don't agree with the topic at hand will lead to breakdown and disorder, and that appears to be the only real suggestion to "solve" so-called two-tier policing.

From what I saw, it is almost entirely self-policing. Not that it was needed.

Xenophobia and the desire to blame the 'other' for our own dissatisfaction is as old as time. This particular bout, IMO, has been brewing, by design by certain groups, for a few years. Almost no-one was bothered about immigration or Turkey joining the EU until the Brexit referendum and all of the money and energy that went into getting that particular tax dodge for the super-rich off-shore tax dodgers over the line. Eight years on and Turkey still are no-where near joining the EU, we've relinquished our ability to return channel migrants to France, and it made us poorer.

Instead of showing some humility, the charlatans that wrote cheques they knew could not be cashed double-down. We're told our bad fortunes are not the consequences of our own actions, but actually the fault of immigrants and the solutions offered are progressively more mad, expensive and right-wing. And they would have worked if it weren't for those treacherous lefty lawyers (and cyclists). "Just one more heave to the right" shout the headlines from newspapers owned by foreign nationals, as the government panders more and more to the right wing press and alienates a large chunk of their own supporters to the point they lose the general election to a more moderate/left-wing party.

All might seem lost, but no - there's a leadership election for the Conservatives. What's needed to solve our woes (according to certain vocal commentators) is a proper conservative who will call in the Royal Navy to sink the small boats, ban the RNLI from saving foreign lives at sea, and finally - a proper Brexit.

In the midst of this tragedy strikes. Normal people are upset, but for some it's an opportunity. They don't care about the feelings of the victims and their families, or a small matter like the truth.

So here we are. Tommy Robinson is sharing his suggestions on locations to express 'legitimate concern'. People's homes are being trashed so that bricks can be lobbed at Mosques, rioters had to be chased out of a church graveyard to stop them from breaking-up headstones to use as weapons in their sincerely held defence of Christianity, and groups of angry men are dragging people from cars if they fail their ethnicity checks. They are setting fire to hotels with staff and residents still inside, destroying the Citizen's Advice Bureau and a library and smashing windows of the remaining businesses struggling to cling on in the high street - all in the name of preserving our way of life.

In large parts of the country anyone with an accent or darker skin is terrified to leave home. In some cases staying at home is not an option because they are being terrorised there. It's a disgrace and anyone thinking of excusing it deserves contempt. Maybe on the first day a few people could be excused for not understanding what they were getting into, but not now.

I've been reading reports from the courts. I think as word gets out that the magistrates are not messing about (or granting bail to anyone over 18 as far as I can tell) then things should peter out. It seems at least one online agitator has been arrested, so it will be interesting to see how many more of them they get in the coming weeks. Unfortunately the harm to communities will linger.

To me, on a personal level, I don't think the most common talking points against migration hold much water. But it's far easier to win an argument by acknowledging what others might think, rightly or wrongly, and convincing them the other side of the coin outweighs it rather than directly telling them "you are entirely wrong and I am entirely right".

As a manager of both catering & retail outlets over the past twenty five years or so, it was abundantly clear how reliant both areas were on foreign talent, both in work ethic and physical presence. Such a pathetic act of self sabotage as Brexit I doubt I will ever see again. I just couldn’t understand why you wouldn’t want more friends, or a wider talent pool?
(edit) Obviously I understand why those at the top of a business probably looked at what they would no longer pay out to the EU, and thought it might net them more money, but long term with increased costs of, well, everything, and a far weaker talent pool, it clearly has not.