The morning after

I walked down to the centre early this morning, along my usual route by the river. I wanted to see if the physic garden, which I have shown many times before, and really love, was ok, as it it right beside the place where the far right rioters were on Saturday. And it was ok, see top right, it hadn’t been trampled down. I looked at the square where the police lines had stood between the Stand up to Racism rally and the others.  It looked perfect! I saw several council workers, by 8.30 am they had cleaned it all up, one of these incredible efficient people is shown bottom left, with just a small proportion of the beer cans, carefully bagged. I felt somewhat cheered up by seeing this.
The rest of the day was divided between gardening, watching some Olympic events, and listening with increasing despair to the radio as events in Rotherham got worse and worse. They are prepared, even eager, to kill now. If it were possible, I would sit down quietly with one of them, and ask, in the spirit of trying to understand, exactly what they feel asylum seekers have done to them. I can understand that many people are suffering from low wages, high costs, lack of housing opportunities. But why be angry with people fleeing the Taliban, or the Syrian regime, or the war in Sudan. 
To me it would make sense to turn your fury on the companies who pay the lowest wages they can possibly get away with in order to make huge profits, the politicians like Johnston and Gove who fooled us into Brexit and caused massive price increases especially food ( I know there are other causes, Putin is also to blame for price increases but hard to protest against him without winding up dead), and Thatcher for starting off selling social housing in the 80s, and the governments since then who have continued to do it, so that even last year, there was more council housing sold under right to buy than was built.
I simply don’t understand and I’m finding it really really hard to bear it.