Thank you Sue, you're a brave lady putting a contentious contrary view here. Unlike the others, I hope you continue to post, or freedom of speech won't be existing on these pages. As long as you're prepared to be ( verbally) shot down in flames.

"Whataboutery" is a perfectly valid argument in many situations, it's another way of pointing out hypocrisy or selective arguments. And up to your last sentence i felt your argument was worth making even as I don't agree with it, because it missed the more important point of what is actually happening in the streets of the UK (not Scotland so far) and that it seemed to be something of an apologia. . But the "I don't think it's Nigel Farage or Tommy Robinson who taught that particular lesson" Sorry, that's obviously seriously wrong and unhelpful, both teach and have taught for yeasr racial and social intolerance and in Tommy Robinson's case, a good measure of violence too.. Perhaps they weren't the first, but you'd have to go back thousands of years to find the person who first did teach this. But the most powerful purveyors of intolerance are Rupert Murdoch and the Mail, and far too many politicians. so the notion in your headline that the "MSM" media weren't responsible just stands no scrutiny. They've been stoking the flames for years.

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