#Most people are decent and tolerant accepting of others cultures and religion and skin colour

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“So much for Britain sliding into civil war, eh, Mr Musk? Pretty much a whole nation was braced yesterday evening for the worst civil disorder in a decade or more. Fair to say, too, that some were also hoping, for their own malign reasons, for chaos, mayhem, and even death.

But it did not turn out like that, or anything like it. In fact, it was a rout for the far right in the best possible way – a peaceful one where they were overwhelmed by folk who despise what they stand for, as much as their incoherent claims make any sense at all.

Britain really is not what we saw over the last week, and the reasonable, tolerant, democratically-minded centre held.

The fascists were, frankly, humiliated, often a handful marooned in a windswept roundabout or in a corner of a High Street, surrounded by their fellow Britons demonstrating that “we are many, you are few”. Indeed they are, and a criminal few as well. The Metropolitan Police commissioner Mark Rowley says that 70 per cent of those arrested have criminal records.

In his words: “They are not your average man on the street. They are thugs and criminals, they are not patriots or protesters and they are being held to account.”

It was a bad night for the likes of Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk.

The far right have emerged from these events weaker, not stronger, their cause exposed for the nihilism it is.”