this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2026
85 points (96.7% liked)

United Kingdom

6873 readers
211 users here now

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
top 19 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago

Not enough firebombs.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Probably a rival car rental agency. It's a cutthroat business.

[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 30 points 1 day ago

Eat the rich. (and set their cars on fire)

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The people who were almost hit look like Arabs, based on their clothing. Everyone here is cheering the attack because of the cars parked outside but people were almost hit by molotovs. You're cool with the attack if it turns out to be racially motivated? Or because they were Muslim?

[–] ati@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago

Indian wedding, likely racist attack.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I was kind of wondering whether the firebombers were right-wing, and racially motivated, or left-wing, after wealthy people.

I will say one thing, that either way, any property damage probably is covered by insurance, so it gets paid for by slightly driving up British insurance premiums.

[–] ns1@feddit.uk 3 points 18 hours ago

To be fair the motive could also be non-political like some kind of personal vendetta

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are SUPER cars, and every knows supers are impervious to fire (see super man, super girl etc) So no need to get excited. Those ultra rich people are just being dramatic, just like when you spit in their soup. Just ignore them.

Unless they're Martian supercars and then it's a hate crime

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

You love to see it.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Its for the best.

[–] matelt@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hope no one was hurt and that it's kind of a 'slashing-tires-of-huge-SUVs' sort of operation.

[–] imadethis@fedinsfw.app 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If anyone was hurt there's no way any news outlet would let such a juicy headline go past in favor of just reporting on the cars.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 15 hours ago

If it bleeds, it leads.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They are super cars not huge SUVs.

[–] matelt@feddit.uk 2 points 15 hours ago

'sort of operation' I wrote, I'm aware that supercars aren't SUVs but they are yet another egregious, offensive wealth display like huge SUVs are. So ya know, eat the rich and all that jazz.