A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots. The Accountability Project Northern Ireland, a volunteer group formed last summer to monitor anti-immigration activity online, sent dozens of reports to the PSNI between November 2025 and June 2026.
Ooop!
The Guardian understands a so-called hitlist of addresses has been circulating among far-right groups since August 2025 and was sent to the PSNI in January 2026. The addresses were among the locations targeted during this week’s anti-immigration disorder.
The reports sent to police also cited a Facebook post stating that HMOs in the Glengormley area “will now be treated as fair game and dealt with accordingly”.
Oh dear! Even the hapless Met Police would do better. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd suggest that it was ignored bevause a few weeping asylum seekers bundled into vans ahead of smoking homes made a good impression for Starmer's 'far right' crackdown.
But I'm not, and frankly incompetence is easier to understand. Especially from these clowns.
Anti-racist campaigners have spoken of their anger and frustration that months of warnings were not acted on in the runup to the rioting that has seen houses and cars burned, and racist checkpoints set up on main roads.
Wouldn't it be better to point that anger at the authorities who have stoked that local anger by ignoring concerns until a man nearly had his head hacked off by a person who shouldn’t have been in the country?
Community groups described helping vulnerable families leave areas, while volunteers organised support for minority ethnic students travelling to GCSE exams. Campaigners also reported that some workers from minority ethnic backgrounds were leaving work early because of concerns about travelling home safely.
At some point, will these people ever see themselves as part of the problem, and not the solution?
A spokesperson for End Deportations Belfast said the strategy used in the riots in Belfast were the same as those used in Northern Ireland since the 1970s. “They were setting up roadblocks and ID-checking cars around hospitals,” they said. “These roadblocks are designed to stretch police resources, and then they go and they commit pogroms in specific areas.”
It’s very different from the 1970s, then the tactics were designed to deal with people who wanted an occupying force out of their neighbourh…
Oh. As you were.
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