So are there any garden centres in Tottenham then?

This aint funny.

 

Pete, I have colleagues and team mates living all over South East London and Kent.

Bromley is now kicking off. If I drive for 15 mins in any direction, I'll hit a police cordon.

Would you prefer me to cry? That's not me.

I got home yesterday. This stuff has apparently been happening for 3 days now.
The Prime Minister has only now considered it serious enough to cut short his vacation.
Boris is still away.
The top brass at the Met all resigned because of corruption.

Now London's youth have decided to nick everything they can carry.

If I cant laugh now, when can I?

 

I think when you look at the people that appear to be doing "most" of the looting /rioting you can totally understand why the police are not intervening.

Its a PC nightmare.

No pun intended.

 

Melinda, you can laugh as loud as you like, as soon as they have burnt YOUR house down.

 

There are apparently large numbers of young children out on the streets watching the older ones trash things. Basically the police are dealing with large numbers of ferals who have offspring with less thought than the rest of give to getting a hamster and then let their kids wander around like strays. I do hope we don't have too many well-meaning types going on about the need for more youth clubs etc.

 

If the police can't handle it-it's time to bring in the army!

 

Yes and them saying that those involved will be punished...... REEEEALYYY.... Total joke!

 

Panic on the streets of London, Panic on the streets of Birmingham...........

 

Birmingham is joining in now

 

Ive condemned the criminality Pete.

It may have started with black kids, but Enfield, Bromley and Croydon are mostly white.
Police dont usually hold off on black kids, so what's your point?

These arent race riots. Its recreational and opportunistic looting.

Police are doing a decent job considering they have been stretched so thin.
They've been using a snatch squad strategy most of the day.
Though I can see water cannons being top of the list in the next procurement round.

 

It'll be interesting to see if the government goes on cutting the number of police now. Apparently it is keen to see the book thrown at the louts who are are doing this. Slight problem, then: only a few months ago dear old Ken Clarke was blathering on about how we were locking up far too many nice misunderstood people who really should be back out in the jolly old community robbing and pillaging. He took to visiting drug pushers in prison and nodding sagely when they told him that, really, they shouldn't be inside because it was damaging their fragile psyches. Get out of this one, Ken, you daft old b***er.

 

That's the problem, people are seeing how busy the police are and then thinking- I might have a go myself.

Its got nothing to do with youth clubs or politics. The so called 'community leaders' who are certain to crawl out of the woodwork to put this on cuts or the economy are charlatans.

This is kids on holiday 'having a laugh' and getting one over on the police.

This isnt deprivation, its excitement and criminality.