I think the media and the policing of the recent riots have focused very much on labelling them as rightwing extremists. I think, to some extent, they are rightwing thugs and horrible people, but I don't remember quite as much political motivation to set up magistrates courts on weekends and jail the rioters after the Leeds riot, after Roma children were taken off their family.
He definitely did not agree with the violence of the riots, but it sounded a bit like he was blaming the prosecutions, the government which turned it round really quickly with the sentencing more than the rioters.
When he mentioned the left, it felt like it was almost in a conspiracy tone, as if tech billionaires are funding it all.
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