Saw this quote from David Cameron... "Slamming the behavior of rioters, Cameron told reporters, "There are pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick ... It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society, people allowed to feel that the world owes them something." Hah. Put those same people in Brooks Brothers suits and have them burn the world economy instead of the local market and Cameron wouldn't be calling them sick. He'd be giving them loans and tax breaks.
Your not here, you haven't seen first hand the level of destruction that I have over the past 48 hours in my town so if you don't mind I would ask that you keep your comments to yourself! These people are scum and they are rounding them up like the animals they are. There is a live twitter feed of all the people in Croydon Magistrates court today who were arrested overnight.
A lot of these people seem to be kids, they are issuing images of everyone they want to find online. I reckon they should ask school teachers to go in for a day (currently the summer holidays) and ask them to go through all the pictures of the kids from the relevant areas, that would get a few of them recognised. O and I saw last night a few firms (football hooligans) have been massing through facebook to go out in the community. I don't usually agree with the firms but I wouldn't want to get in their way if they appeared. From what I have read the Millwall lot were definitely out (sod annoying them) and possibly the Wolves fans.
It's a fair point though. The cost of bailing out the banks makes the costs involved here a drop in the ocean.
I'm not making light of the vandalism. I'm pointing out the hypocrisy in play. How many people lost their homes, savings, and jobs due to private sector financial vandalism? How many executives did you see in court on live feeds after 2008/2009?
The UK is trying its best to piss off the banks believe me, we now have a 50% tax rate for high earners and George Osbourne's banking reform ideas have pissed Barclays off to the point where they have now threatened to move their HQ out of the UK.
Eh, the white collar world of today is subject to very little real law enforcement, and the excuse always seems to be that it could be "bad for business". The problem is that if the business world is allowed to operate like criminals by the government, then the system starts to break down.
It would seem the people are now fed up and taking matters into their own hands. People are getting fed up with these kids thinking they can get away with it. The only bad news is that the EDF were involved in organising some of the gatherings in parts of the city. http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16046910
I think the part that is pissing them off is that the government wants to ban banks from using public/retail money to back up high risk investments so if it fails the investment bank can be allowed to fail.
This is my favourite one yet but it shows the police are going to get everyone they can! And I think she means Munch which is an arm of Coughlans.
Good! Love the fact that they are using magistrates to convict and then sentencing at crown court too, magistrates courts can only give 6 months for this but the crown court can give up to 10 years!
I was going to say, I thought London was supposed to have one of the best CCTV surveillance systems in the world, which would make catching a lot of these people much easier.
They have now arrested over 1000 people in London, a lot of them after the events. We have a lot of CCTV and a lot of images have been released to the public to name people involved.
I've read this whole thread tight up until the last post and I've also been checking out the news and stuff.....and well this is what I have to say on the matter: I grew up on a very rough housing estate (housing project) here in southampton and as far as I'm concerned every sentence uttered that contains anything about the youth of today having it hard/tough/lost generation/ because of austerity/unemployment/no future/ etc is total BULLSHIT. WHINY,LIBERAL BLEEDING HEART EXCUSES BULLSHIT. These riots are a well co-ordinated attack by criminal gangs who know that the police won't fight back anymore. It's so easy to get dipshit kids, desperate to look hard to do this - the coppers can't track bbm and if some twat is stupid enough to tweet/post about his new looted fone then great - keeps the heat off them whilst their moving drugs and fencing stolen jewellery. If all the coppers are chasing kids then who's chasing the criminals? No one. I say this - don't just jail the kids they catch rioting, jail the parents too - and whilst their in jail these Bastards can actually break rocks for 15hrs a day instead of sitting around in circles talking a bout how because daddy wasn't there they "became a gangsta innit...yuh get me Bruv". If people were made to do hard labour in jail and work for their handouts outside prison people would think twice a bout sitting on benefits and fucking rioting.
@superfuriouscorn Yeah, from what I've been reading and seeing in the news, this doesn't seem politically motivated the way some people initially thought. It just looks like a bunch of opportunistic thugs exploiting a bad situation. It's good to hear that the police are finally getting the situation under control.