What they rioting about now?, hey someone stole my jam sandwich..... RAAAAAAAAAAAA
Personally I had expected some riots this summer, but nothing on this scale, things have been building for a long time, it's like a pressure cooker that has finally exploded.
We already had major problems in many inner city areas, before the recession, youngsters that have little chance of making anything of themselves because of things like schools failing them, lack of jobs, totally disenfranchised and with no real stalk in their community, the gap between the rich & poor continues to raise, massive government cut-backs in services, tax increases, fuel & food costs out of control, etc., etc.
It's certainly not as easy as dismissing it as a few louts and criminals, this is a far bigger problem, there are increasing numbers across the country that feel fed-up with being screwed over by the banks and big business and what they see as their political puppets.
One post I read made an interesting point - whatever the cost of damage to property in all this, it will still only be a tiny fraction of the damage inflicted by the bankers - and they walked away with massive bonuses and pay-offs, not just a telly from Curry's.
I am certainly not making excuses for them, just trying to put some context to it.
And just to add one last thing - these are NOT race riots, if they need a label 'class war' perhaps sums it up better.
OMG - Sky News is reporting on vigilante groups roaming the streets of London, because 'the police can't cope', despite the extra resources poured in tonight, they are interviewing one group's leader that is coming across as a serious bonehead.
Don't want.
Just saw that lot, Sikhs I think, as you say guarding their place of worship, no problem with that particularly - also no problem with groups of people hanging about guarding their own streets/homes.
The ones I was posting about were a bunch of heavy-built types, Sky was saying about 60, that were patrolling/roaming the area - the leader came across as thick as two short planks, gave the impression of being a BNP/EDL type, although I could be jumping to conclusion there, which would be wrong. But, he did seriously come across as looking for and wanting a bloody good punch-up.
That was the guy, and you believed what he was claiming? Sorry, but he just doesn't come across as legit to me, maybe because I've encountered too many people that come across like he did, very nasty people, as I say I could be wrong, but that's my gut feeling.
Yep, seems like the police are holding London OK so far, but Greater Manchester, West Midlands , Nottingham & Leicester are struggling - but all of those cities combined have not reached anywhere near the level of *war* that occurred in London last night, which is good.
Is that a cop or a meter maid? She doesn't exactly strike fear in to the hearts of men. Get Gwen Cooper out there!Only in Britain, amid a city in chaos people make tea.
Clearly something needs to happen, there's always an excuse to do nothing. Police can't handle it, this is unacceptable. People are losing businesses they have build up in 11 years.I do wish people would read my posts!
It appears the army can't be moved in legally, without a vote in Parliament, which is on holiday, the police are trained to deal with riots and the army are not, soldiers are not employed for riot control and could make the whole situation worst, they are likely to refuse to fight their own people, if the army was called in it could result in a collapse in the stock-market and our currency.
Also, the majority of these rioters are teenagers, some as young as 11, some into their 20s, maybe a few older ones - we need to control kids, not kill them!
Our police do not have water cannons, the police have never used them on the mainland, they would need to get them from Northern Ireland, they are useful for dealing with and moving large groups of rioters, here we have small mobile groups popping up all over the place, many on bikes, as soon as a water cannon appeared the small crowd would melt away and pop-up elsewhere, pre-arranged on their mobile phones. Water cannon would be useless.
I hope you read this post!
