The Combo/Milky resolution was outragous

It's a television show, not a documentary. Meadows wrote the conclusion to Combo/Milkys story perfectly. It was brilliantly acted and made sense to the narrative of the story.

I said the same thing to myself last night. It was shocking and painful to watch a man go to his death like that. The kicking and screaming reminded me of Cagney in angels with dirty faces.
iN response to the OP. I also thought that in 'real life' as this series reflects so well, this scenario was somewhat OTT. Something from the sopranos almost. If they had the can driving off for us to reach our own conclusion then I think that would've been better. Or even if the family just beat him badly in a remote place. The act of killing and the way it was done felt a little out of place for the show.

I got the impression Milky's family had handed Combo over to his Nazi (ex) friends, who'd killed Combo for turning his back on it all. Wasn't one of the people who took him in the original film? I think he was even there when Combo beat Milky, bet his uncles didn't know that!

I don't think Milky truly knew what would happen, he thought his family would give Combo a good hiding. Instead, they turned him over to people who were capable of much more. Maybe I'm being too kind to Milky. Either way, definitely a coward, and proof that two wrongs don't make a right.

The Combo and Milky ending was either sloppy writing or Sean Meadows just putting far too much faith in the audience.
I would have thought better alternative endings would have been either for Combo to be dragged up to the top of that abandoned building by Milky's family/friends, with Combo screaming realizing he's not getting a beating but he's going to be killed or thrown off the roof and left to die a slow painful death alone. Or for Milky to stop Combo's demise at the last minute and come away the better man.
As it ended Milky was left looking an unsympathetic almost villainous character who slept with Lol when she was mentally unstable and vulnerable and at the same time wrecked his best friend Woody's life, and who led a supposedly reformed and remorseful man to his death.

The whole willingly going with the black guys and then being petrified as the white men dragged him out of the van made little sense. There was never any hint of Combo having problems with his past NF associates or anyone else, and the only thing I can think of that could hint at that in in This is England '86, when Combo turned up a Sean's house bleeding and collapsed, though that was never explained.
Even if Combo had enemies that wanted him dead, they could have got to him in prison and must have known where he was as he was still living in the same area after his release, and this was months after he was released from prison.

I find Combo' s ending believable, although very sad.
We don' t know much of Milky' s family, so, there might have been members connected to criminality, or there might not, and ultimately it does not matter. My mom once when I was young told me that if somebody would rape or hurt me, she would pay a criminal to have that person killed. My family is strictly bourgeois, do not have any connection to criminality, probably just words, but you never know, maybe she would have done so if her fear was to become true.
This is the case I see here. Milky' s family have suffered greatly and have been humiliated. Some members of the family organized to have him killed as soon as there was a chance. I did not understand who were the black guys that turned up with the van at the bar, they might have been members or friends of his family, or members of a Yardie gang paid by his family, who then "sublet" the job to the skinheads at the end as they are probably specialists in "disappearances". That was a bit more contrite, still it is plausible if you keep in mind an honest thruth, that is: criminals put their ideologies aside when it' s business time.

Yes the ultra pc bit at the end where Milky's relatives couldn't be shown actually killing compo so instead had to hand Compo over to the stereotype White fellas was indeed pathetic. Obviously that wasn't surprising in a show that pushed as many cultural marxist ideas as possible into the lives of the primitive working class little Englanders. Still a great show though.

I can see your point but i think it works thematically. Milky chose the wrong path, violence over forgiveness, and he ruins his soul as a result. I thought it was devastating and it quite upset me.

Jean and Scotty never have to worry.

Apologies if this has already been said, but Combo did more than beat Milky up. He beat him within an inch of his life. Could have killed him. How many parents say they would kill anyone who harmed their child? It was totally realistic.