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Without having first hand contact with the rioters it’s hard to know the motivation. We have had disturbances like this before and will have again. The current ‘reasons’ given - Brexit, sea border, drugs raids are relatively new. Previously, no reasons were really needed - recreational rioting is the normal term for it. The weather hasn’t been too bad and schools are off - recipe of this behaviour. I would hope there is nothing more than that in the long term. Schools go back on Monday so we will see how next week is.
Also, just to throw it into the mix, a new ‘craze’ has started here over the past year - organised fights. Arranged on social media and usually between groups aligned to religion - which can also mean groups from particular areas here. The violence over the past week may be an escalation of that - and then stick the police in the middle.
If nothing, this country is a disaster - politicians call for calm - the rioters aren’t old enough to vote! One thing which could start more major trouble would be a death of a participant - then tit for tat could happen so fingers crossed we avoid that.
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The less serious it is (relatively) the more it plays to Johnson's base. And he's insulated - the only thing his base will really care about is violence returning to the mainland, and I'd think (but am prepared to be told I'm wrong) that the loyalist side are unlikely to run a campaign of that nature.
Also means that Johnson will have no reservations about provoking more riots if they're essentially football violence.