Violent Riots in England - Sky News now

Holybejaysus

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come over here to ireland and show us how its done. Although doubt riots will do anything. We need a war.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. Remember Landsdowne Road 1995? Your big heroes in action.

DB10

sagat2 wrote: »

Any coward who shows up to a peaceful protest in a hood and mask should be shot as a suspected terrorist.

easy talking behind a computer screen

Oh_Noes

Nevermind_ wrote: »

apparently the protestors just attacked a car carrying prince charles and his horse (camilla)

A car carrying a horse? Link?

bonerjams03

Would people get some cop on? So do you think mindlessly destroying
London City Centre, at taxpayers expense, and attacking innocent police who will be suffering pay cuts like others will really help or be worthwhile?

If people started doing that in Dublin I would think they were idiots.

bonerjams03

Oh_Noes wrote: »

A car carrying a horse? Link?

*sigh*

darrcow

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come over here to ireland and show us how its done. Although doubt riots will do anything. We need a war.

agree with this totally

Wagon

darrcow wrote: »

prehaps its time we took hold of some english passion and took to the streets. to protest against the recent budget aimed at the poorest in this country. but we wont cause we have little back bone and will only shout and swear at the tv. i think its time to do somthing

No point saying that to boards.ie. They hate students here.

dfx-

Holybejaysus wrote: »

If true, the protesters are lucky that a close protection officer didn't fire his weapon. A masked individual breaking the car windows and throwing something in could easily have been mistaken for a genuine terrorist threat.

Well the photograph of the car outside the Palladium is convincing..

BickNarry

The rioters are 100% right here.

They were promised no increases in education fees,they got them trebled.

If they went out and had a bit of a shout an a moan,that would have been it. Game over. No reaction,just sympathy.

The government listen to economics,not morals. If you hit them economically they''ll realise that its not in their interests to do this. Requesting debate etc. won't change their minds.I doubt they enjoy gettin hit with a batton in the freezing cold but they there is no other way. Peaceful protest won't work in this instance.Even if they fail,people will know they didn't just roll over.

Oh_Noes

IRcolm wrote: »

*sigh*

Oh sorry, I thought it was actually about a car carrying a horse. Your incredibly clever method of emoting the word sigh with asterisks in bold really put me in my stupid place.

Thank you.

darrcow

Wagon wrote: »

No point saying that to boards.ie. They hate students here.

they maybe students but atleast they have stood up for what they believe in

FlutterinBantam

And what is that?


Don't pay for anything, let the taxpayer fund you?


I believe in that too:rolleyes:

bonerjams03

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Oh sorry, I thought it was actually about a car carrying a horse. Your incredibly clever method of emoting the word sigh with asterisks in bold really put me in my stupid place.

Thank you.

Any time.

Wagon

darrcow wrote: »

they maybe students but atleast they have stood up for what they believe in

No i agree with you completely! They were spot on. £6000 - 9000 a year is ****in mental.

Sadly, most of the Irish public over the age of 30 aren't nice or understanding for students and see them as wasting their tax. Its pure bollocks. Try a reasonable argument and they'll just come out with "education is a privilege, not a right", which is also an argument that is now horseshít.

mikom

Oh_Noes wrote: »

A car carrying a horse? Link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHfyby_veU

TheSpecialOne

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

And what is that?


Don't pay for anything, let the taxpayer fund you?


I believe in that too:rolleyes:

Were have your formed this don't pay for anything attitude?...Students pay 1500 euro's of a reg fee now going up to 2000 euro, Student's have to pay vast amounts for Accommodation. Students have to take up part time jobs to help pay for such huge fee's and are doing their best to minimize cost to their ' Taxpaying' parents who begrudgingly hand out the remanded or so you suspect. Students get Jobs through their degrees and then they pay back society through taxes, consumer spending etc....your argument is simplistically naive.

Holybejaysus

BickNarry wrote: »

The rioters are 100% right here.

They were promised no increases in education fees,they got them trebled.

If they went out and had a bit of a shout an a moan,that would have been it. Game over. No reaction,just sympathy.

The government listen to economics,not morals. If you hit them economically they''ll realise that its not in their interests to do this. Requesting debate etc. won't change their minds.I doubt they enjoy gettin hit with a batton in the freezing cold but they there is no other way. Peaceful protest won't work in this instance.Even if they fail,people will know they didn't just roll over.

Most of the rioters are anarchists, and aren't students at all. The vast majority of the students are there to protest peacefully, as is their right.

ilovesleep

IRcolm wrote: »

Would people get some cop on? So do you think mindlessly destroying
London City Centre, at taxpayers expense, and attacking innocent police who will be suffering pay cuts like others will really help or be worthwhile?

If people started doing that in Dublin I would think they were idiots.

And look at what our very own government has done at the taxpayers expense.

Holybejaysus

Mardy Bum wrote: »

They 'kicked' the car containing them which sped off immediately. Sky News Propagandist ****.

It's showing the car on Sky News now, the rear of the car is covered in paint, and the left rear window is smashed. Camilla looked fairly shocked tbh.
I think the kid gloves might be taken off now, those anarchists are going to be cracked down on. Hard.

Oh_Noes

You really would think Prince Charles could afford a newer car. Those dole spongers are taking all the money!

Wolfe Tone

Poxy royal family.


Shame more damage was not done. They of course will never be affected by a budget.

Holybejaysus

Oh_Noes wrote: »

You really would think Prince Charles could afford a newer car. Those dole spongers are taking all the money!

It's a nice looking car, to give him credit. Very Bertie Wooster.

Holybejaysus

The anarchists are attacking shoppers on Oxford St now, according to Sky News. That's just pure thuggery, plain and simple.

Yakult

Lol so much for their peacefull protest :rolleyes:

DB10

Holybejaysus wrote: »

The anarchists are attacking shoppers on Oxford St now, according to Sky News. That's just pure thuggery, plain and simple.

fair game imo

Wolfe Tone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkActP-isE

hondasam

bunch of thugs really !

some there just to cause trouble.

cocoshovel

Just tuned in. Wow all those students packed on the bridge seems kind of dangerous. Id hate to be in the middle of that crowd.
I keep getting this vision of the cops just running away and then blowing up the bridge, problem solved

ilovesleep

Just watched it on the news - lumps of concrete - had to laugh. Wish someone would throw lumps of concrete at our two brians.

markesmith

Bloody hell, that was more hardcore than anything we Irish have done protest-wise. The Tory/LibDem government won't forget it for a while.

Shows how lazy and deferential us Irish...ah forget it

bonerjams03

ilovesleep wrote: »

And look at what our very own government has done at the taxpayers expense.

Yeah, but I'm not going to start bonfires all over Dublin benches.

Herb Powell

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

And none of them, apart from the 'hire-ins' ever paid a penny tax.

Tsk....tsk.....tsk

so what's this, values and opinions cost money now?

lord lucan

And tomorrow the gob****es will be on sky news claiming police brutality!:rolleyes:

BickNarry

Holybejaysus wrote: »

Most of the rioters are anarchists, and aren't students at all. The vast majority of the students are there to protest peacefully, as is there right.

Yeah I thought that alright-anarchist blocks target multi-national companies not local business.They targeted Topshop this time.Just because you don't agree with their politics doesn't discredit what they're doing.They're not looking to enforce a mindless dictator,they're usually hopeless utopians. Not an anarchist,but can certainly see their viewpoint. Direct action has its merits.

df1985

Sky News update: "a number of people have behaved very badly"


Understatement! their mammys and daddys will clatter them when they get home!

steve9859

darrcow wrote: »

they maybe students but atleast they have stood up for what they believe in

What the hell do they believe in?!?!?!? A right to go to university for free? give me a break. Someone has to pay! And its fairest that those who benefit from university pay. And I have yet to hear an interview with a protestor on the street who actually has the facts right and actually knows what they are talking about!!

I like the student anti-protest march at Cambridge, calling on the students occupying parts of the university to go home, and commenting that they actually dont know what they are talking about!

SemiMental

Absolutely crazy scenes over in London. There are some good videos of the protest up on the sky news website - students tearing down barriers and of a police man getting trampled by his own horse.
I am not surprised the students started rioting, £9,000 a year is some serious money to be paying in tuition fees. I would not like to be coming out of college with £21,000 in debt, that is some burden to have.

cocoshovel

Look at those scumbags busting the horses with sticks and rocks. Sickening to be honest.

Celly Smunt

cocoshovel wrote: »

Look at those scumbags busting the horses with sticks and rocks. Sickening to be honest.

welcome to clondalkin

Minstrel27

Oh_Noes wrote: »

A car carrying a horse? Link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gPJo25sb80

steve9859

steve9859 wrote: »

What the hell do they believe in?!?!?!? A right to go to university for free? give me a break. Someone has to pay! And its fairest that those who benefit from university pay. And I have yet to hear an interview with a protestor on the street who actually has the facts right and actually knows what they are talking about!!

I like the student anti-protest march at Cambridge, calling on the students occupying parts of the university to go home, and commenting that they actually dont know what they are talking about!

Students do pay already. They get better paid jobs and will pay far more tax than the average person who doesn't go to university. Or did you not get that memo?

Yo Buddy. You still alive?

Does sky news have a comment section? I thought it did Can't find it anywhere?

Captain_Generic

Live map of whats going down(featuring Godzilla):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113314616990789414427.000496f96fd6739e0982d&ll=51.506338,-0.126847&spn=0.003599,0.009645&z=17

Son Of A Vidic

Aiyana Black Cloverleaf wrote: »

I wonder why the British don't use plastic baton rounds on their own when they riot?.

Banned on the 'mainland' of course but the oul plastic bullet was always specially reserved for the Irish.

johnn

Police battering innocent young people for no reason at all on live television, i thought i was watching our own an Garda Siochana in action for a moment there :rolleyes:

dfx-

I wonder how the injury count will weigh up who was the more aggressive..

cocoshovel wrote: »

Look at those scumbags busting the horses with sticks and rocks. Sickening to be honest.

They charged into middle of the crowd, they're a massive target. I never understand why they are used.

LeixlipRed

cocoshovel wrote: »

Look at those scumbags busting the horses with sticks and rocks. Sickening to be honest.

Look at those scumbags busting the protesters with batons and shields. Sickening to be honest.

steve9859

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Look at those scumbags busting the protesters with batons and shields. Sickening to be honest.

You charge the police with a mask on you should get shot, not just tapped with a baton!

LeixlipRed

Yeh, too right. Like masks, that's seriously bad! That'd be akin to raping someone.

Mister men

cocoshovel wrote: »

Look at those scumbags busting the horses with sticks and rocks. Sickening to be honest.

There just horses ffs.