What a week as you sit, damp air around as it continues to rain and you feel you're reliving the dark days of the past and it all connects with what we referred to last week.
A Sudanese refugee undergoing a claim for asylum kneels around the neck of an individual and attempts to knife and behead him.
Bravely individuals manage to get him off so that person, Steven, severally injured is able to get to hospital and the attacker arrested.
That is as it should be and we all acknowledge concerns about migration, similar instances elsewhere in the UK of attacks by such persons and even the extent to which areas change culture, something as a West Midlander I, like most, are well aware off.
What happens is this incident is shared on Social Media and a mob comes, attempts to block roads before burning people out of their homes.
Below is day one - and I'm chosing the least distressing images - streets like those my family are from with burnt out property, cars set on fire, families some going back to twenty years losing their homes.
It is frankly not just disgusting but evil, corralling people and attempt to burn them out regardless of status or race.
This kind of action at the start of the troubles was why then Prime Minister Harold Wilson had to bring the army in cos back then the authorities did next to nothing and today the same attitude is on display by young men who weren't around over 50 years ago when that happened.
Yes concerns need to listened to, co-operation with Southern Ireland given there is a criss-crossing of the internal borders plays a part in the refugee issue which itself is facing similar protests but above all this evil must not prevail.
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