These riots, as in other countries, are in immigrant multi-cultural areas, the participants are largely immigrants and their descendants.

The majority of conflicts throughout the world have, at their root, differences in race, religion, language and culture.

Governments, particularly EU governments, encourage mass immigration and open borders that continually worsen the problems.

Left/Liberal governments everywhere have been stacking up their countries own funeral pyres for years with their irresponsible policies - look at what Sweden has become.

POLAND, Hungary , japan, Uganda, Mongolia, Chile, Papau New guinea, ..... the Nation-State has less civil strife than the multicultural-State.

Your first line above is prejudiced and ill informed.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

Another city and country ruined.

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Supposed to be going there in August.

Bit of a sorry response, including the irony of you bashing lack of evidence then providing none yourself, even a counter argument. I’ve never been happy with the use of the phrase ‘multiculturalism’ where it’s inappropriate but the whole idea in any instance.

Any society which exists must operate within a set of laws, written and unwritten, for harmonisation. This in itself can be seen as a shared goal or ideal for existence (a culture) and can include tolerance and freedom. Therefore if mass immigration can be seen as ‘multicultural’ it will only serve to cause disharmony, as multiple variants of culture will not align perfectly or even closely sometimes. The left wing stance in this is very much a push towards it alongside empowerment of introduced cultures to battle against the existent one, seeing it as despotic. The left wing is therefore often driven by and comprised of people who have failed within their own culture and as a result hold resentment against it and wish to see it dismantled as they have shirked responsibility for their own empowerment. Not all of course but many indeed.

I was a contemporary of the protagonists of the London riots and despite being from an immigrant family myself was left quite shocked and angry at the overt hostility shown towards ‘England’ and this was verbalised often. To suggest what we are seeing in France is the result of the liberal regime’s empowerment of other cultures, who have arrived en masse, driven to be hostile toward the existent nation and therefore when a catalyst is provided leads to mass lawlessness and rebellion, is very far from an absurd proposition even if not entirely true.

If there’s a more compelling case then that I’d like to hear it, genuinely, but given my experience with ‘multicultural’ London I am inclined to believe GN has a point, even if there is far more to it than the words provided.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I’m near Cannes. All pretty quiet other than a rave going off somewhere nearby.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.