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

Celly Smunt

gooch2k9 wrote: »

To arms!

a but they built nice cities the last time

Stinicker

gooch2k9 wrote: »

To arms!

They'll never take the Kingdom, they can do what they want with Cork though!

K-9

lila44 wrote: »

gosh, poor woman on Sky News right now! god love her!

Aye, shows you the reports that it's just looting are crap, her shop tobbed and another one close by in Birmingham.

ontheditch2

Stinicker wrote: »

They'll never take the Kingdom, they can do what they want with Cork though!

Well you can be sure that cork will at least pt up a fight

RobitTV

Jody McIntyre, the student activist was filmed being pulled from his wheelchair by police officers during the student demonstrations, tweets: "I would suggest young people hit the streets tomorrow with three central demands." His demands include Cameron and Clegg's resignation and the disbanding of the IPCC.

DominoDub

lila44 wrote: »

gosh, poor woman on Sky News right now! god love her!

The worst part is that she just gave away their end of day security procedure live on air..(the Keys for the safe in her friends handbang):o

Celly Smunt

RobitTV wrote: »

Jody McIntyre, the student activist was filmed being pulled from his wheelchair by police officers during the student demonstrations,

deserved it

cocoshovel

Do you think its possible this could turn into 1992 LA riot levels? I seriously hope not.

joseph brand

pmcmahon wrote: »

a but they built nice cities the last time

And the Aquaduct.
"But apart from the nice cities and the Aquaduct, what have the Romans ever done for US?" :D

SnowY32

MANCHESTER TO THE LIST! Jaysus

Stinicker

ontheditch2 wrote: »

Well you can be sure that cork will at least pt up a fight

I suppose if the Murphy's brewery was torched that would get a few rebels onto the streets!

gooch2k9

Big enda will be ordering a report on the likelihood of Dublin riots now:p

Redlion

The rioting will die down in the morning like it has the past few days. Riots are spontaneous and it's hard to keep the momentum going. Hopefully by that stage, the authorities will have had sufficient time to put solid plans in place to stop further outbreaks of rioting tomorrow night.

RobitTV

01.46 A Panasonic store in West Ealing is being looted. Reports on LBC Radio tonight of a lad being struck on the head by a brick thrown by a gang of boys approximately 15 years-old. Looting of shops by many dozens of youths continues in Woolwich.

Police car just went by with siren on, frightened crap out of me .

OPENROAD

joseph brand wrote: »

Any chance that this could be going nicely nicely for the Tories?

Proper order, they need to crack down on the people involved, do they not?

Frankie Lee

Just read elsewhere that there were 5000 police officers deployed for some wedding earlier in the year, tonight they can only deploy 1700.

My name is URL

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jWNhyMUpjSE/Sz528NJBSuI/AAAAAAAAFVM/iA1g9MmC0X4/s400/tumblr_kvicb2Audg1qzxzwwo1_400.jpg

.. pity it's not the swear filter

Celly Smunt

joseph brand wrote: »

And the Aquaduct.
"But apart from the nice cities and the Aquaduct, what have the Romans ever done for US?" :D

the similarities with republicanism and the life of brian is striking

argosy2006

Reports coming in, cant confirm or deny,
wait we have conformation, Riot has just started on mars, interstellar war has started

Latchy

Blisterman wrote: »

Living on the 10th floor in Elephant and Castle, one of the poorest parts of the city, with a mostly black population and as far as I can see it's completely calm, so you can't really stereotype these things.

Agreed and the it's ok to sterotype the people causing disturbances in other british citys tonight as long as you remember they dont represent the majority of the people who live there ,just as if it was hapenning in Dublin or elsewhere.

I find the claims that the police ignore the poor and make no effort with the communities hard to believe. I often pass police officers around London chatting and joking with local people and teenagers, even pretty rough looking ones. They show a lot more patience than I ever would

I always got the impression when down in London of a happy medium between the police and ethnic communities including the Irish while remembering that it has a huge population of every creed and culture so this is a set back byond measure

David086

You honestly think it could spread to Ireland? I think we have more sense.

Daemos

Does anyone else find it odd how it's spreading north? London, then Birmingham, then Liverpool, then Manchester?

It's times like this I'm happy to live in a small town

moco

That shop in west Ealing is beside me!

mickydoomsux

Gangsta mo-fos with their Basmati Rice!

amacachi

cocoshovel wrote: »

Do you think its possible this could turn into 1992 LA riot levels? I seriously hope not.

If the reports so far are accurate it may have done. Outside of London isn't really being mentioned and even within London there's little detail being confirmed away from the places where it first kicked off.

DominoDub

Very quite in town tonight I live in city centre everyone must be watching this unfold

Richard Hillman

The Asian community protecting their businesses

http://yfrog.com/z/kk9a0wkj :cool:

Celly Smunt

Frankie Lee wrote: »

Just read elsewhere that there were 5000 police officers deployed for some wedding earlier in the year, tonight they can only deploy 1700.

note months of planning for the wedding.

SnowY32

http://twitter.com/#!/search/manchester