Widespread rioting in England

Utterly shameful behaviour.

If anything demonstrates Britain's rapid decline into near-victorian levels of inequality it is how one woman was recently jailed for 5 months for receiving (not actually stealing) a stolen pair of shorts while some of our MPs get away with defrauding the public for thousands of pounds, and some of our bankers get actively GIVEN millions of taxpayer's money for incompetently sending the economy down the toilet. It's funny how the government was also so keen to have anyone involved in the riots evicted from their council estates, stripped of their benefits, and sentenced to the hilt (making our prison population, already the largest in Europe, even more bloated) when David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson were all involved in violent thuggishness when they were young men. Cameron and BoJo were members of Oxford's infamous Bullingdon club; an obnoxious rich kids group famed for smashing up restaurants (before contemptuously compensating the owners with their vast wealth, as if money... Read more

Update: It's sad. It's as if Britain is no longer considering it's next generation at all. If your between the ages of 16-24, over here it's a joke. We now have NEETS (Not in Education Employment or Training). At least when I was in that age group if you left school you could get work or go on to do a YTS (Youth Training Scheme) course. You had OPTIONS people. This is no longer the case. They've also been pushed out of Higher Education as Universities offer cheaper tuition fees to foreign students!!!! I mean honestly where is the sense in that when they have the option and skills to go back to their country of origin?! Can't Nancy Cam and his fools see that giving skills to people in this country would be more beneficial to the economy, growth etc. Where as before foreign students were the ones paying more which made far more sense. Again I'm not condoning the burning down of businesses, but if any of us were in that position whose to say how we'd react. I'd definitely recommend Ric... Read more

Interesting. . .held the attention for two whole news cycles. . .but has since faded. . .there are other home-runs on this list. . .

The lesson here, kids? Go big or go home. The Gubbermint can always clean up after a disturbance and marginalize your ass when its over if you don't bring it.

Anarchy in the UK ?

The PM has recalled Parliament, so it is serious. The metropolitan police have been overwhelmed. The press is treading softly since the rioters come primarily from, ahem, the "diversity" community.When the non-diversity local Englishmen banded together in some neighborhoods to stop the invaders, the press had a field day about racists and such.Hilarious, and the media wonder why they are so despised.

There are some reviewers here that actually see the severity of what has happened in England! Those ones see that it’s not just the rioting that is the problem and I give kudos for those who actually commented intelligently! I know that most see this as a joke in the US, but the media can be put to shame over their world news coverage, it was piss poor and not factual! To recap! This all started on Aug 6th 2011 in Tottenham, a low-income, multicultural neighborhood in north London where 300 people had gathered to protest the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan. The 29-year-old man was gunned down in disputed circumstances on Aug 4th 2011. Now this man did have a hand gun and a police radio. In England police don't just walk around wily nilly with guns. There is a branch within every Police borough that deals with Gun/life threatening related crimes! I find it hard to believe that the Police did not act in reaction to Mr. Duggan! So I actually support the actions of the Police, if they... Read more

A high percentage of unemployed youths who lack opportunity, government budget austerity policies, complaints of police brutality and racial profiling, provocateurs fueling the rage further, a London police force recently weakened by the resignation of its chief in the wake of the far-reaching Murdoch phone hacking scandal (which is curiously enough now off the news due to this event) , and you get riots such as this. While most of the violence is borne from outright criminality, one cannot ignore the fact that it has been concentrated in the most economically deprived parts of the country. Britain has spent billions of dollars fighting alongside the United States in the Middle East and Asia, yet the real threat to the country might just be internal--the general breakdown of social cohesion from within. Expect more of these in the Western world in the upcoming years, as economic breakdown, budget austerity hitting the lower and middle class precincts the worst, and chronic unempl... Read more

UPDATE: So, what did the riots accomplish? Not a damn thing. So England if full of pissed off young people who have just figured out that their cushy life of entitlements that they were so looking forward to does not exist. Welcome to the real world, bozos. Now, if you little fools had a lick of sense, which you obviously do not, you might put all that energy into something positive. Get with the program, assholes. So the yobs are rioting. Who freakin' cares. It's to be expected; after all, when you have over 49 million people crammed into a place the size of Alabama, you know there's going to be problems. If you think this is bad, wait 'till the gas pumps go dry, and they run out of food... ...now, when the rednecks and other morons here in the states start rioting, that should be a scene. After all, we have guns, not just cricket bats and coke bottles full of petrol.

This may certainly be a turning point in this country's history. As someone who witnessed, first-hand, this kind of event in Detroit back in the 60's, I'd say there is reason to be concerned about how England steps up to the plate. The seminal events were similar: a single, isolated event that raged out of control, not unlike dropping a lighted match in a dry wheat field. Let's be honest; this kind of thing would never have happened in Detroit's suburbs, where unrest could best be defined as a parent saying "No" to their children, who, in turn, went into their room, slammed the door and that was that. Their parents were employed, their families were well-fed, the children went to school and Summer camps. This, of course, was not how life in the city could be described. At this point, it is unimportant why masses of people would rage like this. The rage has to run its course first. Then we'll see if the leaders can figure it out. Detroit, which never recovered from the 1967 riots, did ... Read more

Sooo... There is much speculation as of why this is happening. They say it sparked from a unsolved murder and that they are sweeping things under the rug, which is possible for sparking this but this goes much deeper. I believe this is a deep seeded resentment and people are fed up with the hierarchy and unequality over there and all over the world. Meanwhile the queen is sitting on her throne laughing probably saying " these idiots are stealing TV's when they can be taking over the country" ... Really though some people are just taking advantage and robbing shit and don't care about anything... However, Rome burned down for good reason, so if the same is accomplished in London I know it is all for a good reason... Off with parliment's head...