London and UK riots (started in Tottenham 10:30PM, 6th Aug)

oppenheimer1

Power cut in soho being reported now

foxinsox

Anyone else notice the sign on the Off Licence currently being looted?

The sign says:

OFF LICENCE OPEN :cool:

Jelle1880

KeithAFC wrote: »

David Cameron still on holiday lol. What on earth is he doing.

Can't believe that, any other leader would get his butt back ASAP if large scale rioting occured.

mickydoomsux

Shooting in Leeds according to the Beeb.

This has to be ended at once.

starviewadams

Seems to be calming down a bit in Hackney,lots of riot police and dog units there now.

Rioters will probably move on again to a quieter area again.

Latchy

It when darkness falls your going to have a lot of scared people in London ...especially in the areas concerned .God love anybody who's caught up in it all .

KeithAFC

What on earth was that with the bin. It wasn't even on fire.

Richard Hillman

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

WTF is the guy on the right doing?

The poor man probably owns the shop and making sure they dont light it on fire.

mikemac

Be no harm if there was some heavy rain

Cool some heads and get some off the streets

Mr. Denton

Biggins wrote: »

Its either Mare Street or Fromptom St probably.

It's Clarence Road , where Mare Street meets Dalston Lane.

kevmol88

starviewadams wrote: »

Seems to be calming down a bit in Hackney,lots of riot police and dog units there now.

Rioters will probably move on again to a quieter area again.

Dunno about that

https://twitter.com/#!/paullewis

oppenheimer1

The water cannon and the baton rounds need to come out immediately. A press photographer has been dragged to the ground and beaten in penbury

ctrl-alt-delete

God love them all when the Peckham Terminator hits the streets!

Wertz

Yahew wrote: »

In any case the real rioters should be the middle income groups. The idea that the eternal underclasses are oppressed by capitalism or work is nonsense. They are molly coddled by socialism. They dont touch work. If they make money it is criminal entrepreneurialism. Technically are petit-bourgreois criminals.

They should but we all know that the middle income groups are the law abiders, same as here....people that actually have some respect for the police and are afraid of the consequences of breaking the law.
IMO not so much molly coddled by socialism as allowed to fester for generations by it....it gets to a stage that no matter how many young males of working age there is, there won't be the work to occupy them. Criminality and drug dealing are perhaps the only way to make the money that everyone s told they need to achieve happiness and fulfillment.
Not defending it but it's a reality, like it or not.

Biggins

Sister in law reports that the cops are out with the dogs in her street so she has taken the chance of going to a shop nearby.
The kids are starving (and had been for a while) - otherwise she wouldn't be venturing out.
She had planned to go to Tesco's on her street earlier but the trouble started and put an end to that idea then.

Edit: She just got back - no surprise, the shop is closed.
She said nearly every car in the street is smashed.

the bolt

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I feel for the police out in Hackney right now there are hundreds of these teenagers and only about 30 police. I hope they get out of this unharmed. Feck the rioters.

This is what years of chav and gang culture has been leading up to. These kids are relentless and wont just go away. Its time to tackle the underclasses with force.

the underclasses,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and there lies the problem as long as some people think there is an underclass ,in otherwords your not as good as me or worth as much you will always have people that will buck the system.not saying i agree just putting it out there.

Kiera

kevmol88 wrote: »

Dunno about that

https://twitter.com/#!/paullewis

press photographer dragged to the ground by four youths and beaten

Jelle1880

That shop must be awesome, everyone's going there.

Mushy

http://www.balitapinoy.net/images/batman_only_fools.jpg

This is what'll happen soon.

RobitTV

Birmingham:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01967/Brummie_1967231a.jpg

mikemac

Some of these youth leaders are infuriating :mad:

While I'm not a UK taxpayer I wouldn't be happy if these people were working for the State

Complete apologists for what's happening and saying harsh police tactics caused it all

Thirty seconds later someone else saying the police are too soft
How do you win?

starviewadams

Youth 'enlightenment' worker on Sky News blaming the Met for the rioting of course.

amacachi

Wertz wrote: »

They should but we all know that the middle income groups are the law abiders, same as here....people that actually have some respect for the police and are afraid of the consequences of breaking the law.
IMO not so much molly coddled by socialism as allowed to fester for generations by it....it gets to a stage that no matter how many young males of working age there is, there won't be the work to occupy them. Criminality and drug dealing are perhaps the only way to make the money that everyone s told they need to achieve happiness and fulfillment.
Not defending it but it's a reality, like it or not.

It's funny though, as with here the type of people doing this crap are those who left school at 13 or 14 and whose solicitors and politicians will go on about a lack of opportunities etc. for them. **** 'em tbh.

Run_to_da_hills

RobitTV wrote: »

Choas in london, Police from southern england being called in

Overtime for them.

RoundyMooney

mikemac wrote: »

Some of these youth leaders are infuriating :mad:

While I'm not a UK taxpayer I wouldn't be happy if these people were working for the State

Complete apologists for what's happening and saying harsh police tactics caused it all

Thirty seconds later someone else saying the police are too soft
How do you win?

New Labour employed them in their thousands under the reign of Blair. It's plain that what we're looking at now is the result of years of too much carrot and not enough stick.

Richard Hillman

the bolt wrote: »

the underclasses,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and there lies the problem as long as some people think there is an underclass ,in otherwords your not as good as me or worth as much you will always have people that will buck the system.not saying i agree just putting it out there.

People who dont obey the laws and make ordinary people's lives a misery are a class below the good people of London and elsewhere.

Biggins

mikemac wrote: »

Some of these youth leaders are infuriating :mad:

While I'm not a UK taxpayer I wouldn't be happy if these people were working for the State

Complete apologists for what's happening and saying harsh police tactics caused it all

Thirty seconds later someone else saying the police are too soft
How do you win?

Ya can't with some idiots.
If the police pulled right out, can ya imagine the fires/trouble/lawlessness/stealing that would break out as the thugs confidence builds!

starviewadams

Trouble starting in Bethnal Green according to Twitter

foxinsox

Statement from acting Police Commissioner - MET POLICE

On now - SKY NEWS

Kiwi_knock

Hearing on Twitter that the Bullring Shopping Centre in Birmingham might have been petrol bombed. All shops in the area are being looted.