Closure of community spaces fuelled ‘tinderbox’ for far right to spark Southport riots, says report
In a new report, the loss of community areas created “Tinderbox conditions için for violence before last year’s extreme right uprisings.
An article published by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that it left common community areas-from young clubs and leisure centers to high street bars and scaffolding-more vulnerable to extreme right effect.
He said that the closure of these areas forced people to isolate and forced them to spend more time online and push them to the right.
The report warned a “infertile movement of abandonment and gentrification, led to the loss of community areas such as Southport Pier, which was closed in 2022 and the loss of community areas such as increase in isolation in many areas.
In the report, which referred to the previous research, 50 PUBs were closed permanently in England every month and that the estimated 600 young club was closed between 2012 and 2016. He said that London lost the community area, which was operated by about 10 local authorities a year between 2018-2023.
According to Dr Sacha Hilhorst, the author of the report, the violence spread to some parts of England and Northern Ireland after attacking a dance lesson in the town of 17 -year -old Axel Rudakubana should serve as a “wake -up call” by killing three young girls.
Dr Hilhorst said: “Southport rebellions were a call to wake up-a certain reminder of what could happen when they once lost their places when they lost people.
“Reconstruction of local infrastructure is not only about nostalgia – a vital contamination against division and the dangerous attraction of the distant right.
“But the communities are not indifferent. They cry for places to gather, organize and belong. We need new generation institutions to help them do so.”
The report said that the distant right benefited from the lack of southport’s furiousness, and then “struggle to invest in local opportunities attracted very little attention”.
He suggested the introduction of the “21st Century Welfare Fund ılan collected with the Amazon tax, so that the warehouses and distribution centers are subject to higher taxes or online sales taxes.
He argued that online retailers, who built “giant structures olan, a show of their high values, often do not“ have sufficiently contribute to the communities around them ”.
He said taxes for companies with revenues over £ 1 million can help to produce larger, longer resources than the current community renewal efforts for communities ”.
The report added: “If there is a thread that combines high octane events in late July [2024] And the slow local politics of the pier is the loss of physical spaces we can come together and the radicalization of some digital spaces that change them.
“As the scaffold’s campaign shows, there is an appetite for the community action, but the lack of investment and space.
“In the absence of structures that can encourage wider solidarity, many of them are withdrawn to the home space or worse, the ethno-ulusal fantasies of muscular sovereignty.”
The government was contacted for a comment.
