roctrevezel
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There are now many towns in Britain with practically no shops left to loot even if someone had the desire to do so.
Kicking Off In Tottenham
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There are now many towns in Britain with practically no shops left to loot even if someone had the desire to do so.
Luther Blissett
Nomadologist
That's fake Mel. This is real Mel. She's calling for a 'top American cop' to run the MET
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2023596/Tottenham-riot-Our-police-trusted-more.html#
Barking_Mad
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A block of 25 flats were set on fire and 'burnt down'.
London_Calling
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14 and 15-year olds are interested in games, trainers, phones, bikes and other electricals. Unless small shop-owners stock those....
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Sounds nasty. Where's the report from?
This is a Capitalist economy. Looters are sole traders taking the oppurtunity to increase their earnings. No different to any other business.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
No. They're kids on an adrenalin-fuelled beano.
You could see them yesterday afternoon. Oblivious to the crowds, moving around on their gansta buzz, waiting for the moment. Completely lost in their mid-teen world.
I'm not saying there isn't a wider (influencing) context but, for them, it's about the moment.
You could see them yesterday afternoon. Oblivious to the crowds, moving around on their gansta buzz, waiting for the moment. Completely lost in their mid-teen world.
I'm not saying there isn't a wider (influencing) context but, for them, it's about the moment.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
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Yes. But they still have their business heads on.
Normally, looting shops would be far too risky. But with large numbers on the street and the Police under attack it becomes a much more attractive risk.
roctrevezel
Member
Seemed to be plenty of small shopkeepers have had problems from the reporting on BBC News 24, and on Radio 5 live in whilst the looting was going on. A woman was trapped in a flat over a shop with looters in it, buildings on fire nearby and she had a sick baby on oxygen, she had phoned Radio5 live because she could get no response on 999.
(I have not heard an update about that.)
SpineyNorman
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Nothing like a bit of thinly veiled racism in first thing in the morning.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Who needs to get a job when you can loot stuff instead?
Tankus
Amused OAP
as well as a bit of PC idiocy......................... just for the sauce
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
I heard a report on the radio this morning, this was after a search, not sure it's the same building or not - it might well be that fire spread to the building and that it wasnt deliberately targetted, either way...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...eaceful-vigil-led-to-devastating-carnage.html
SpineyNorman
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I wish they'd fucking shoot you, you utter waste of electrons.
SpineyNorman
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It's PC gawn mad!!!! Never been accused of being in the PC brigade before, I'm bristling with pride
Agree with this bit. These kids have grown with the view that materialism and possessions are the most important things in life and that you can become famous and a celebrity for fucking a footballer. What they've also grown up with is the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq based on politicians lies and the death and destruction that caused, while Blair and his ilk shrugged and said 'oh well' when the reasons for invasion were revealed as a lie. They've seen the immorality of tax avoidance by the wealthy and the actions of the banks result in their youth clubs and services now being closed. They've seen politicians that benefitted from full student grants and free education end the EMA and raise tuition fees. Even more recently, they've watched how the the media have broken privacy laws with impunity with the alleged help of the police force resulting in the relatives of people who have died having their phones hacked.
These kids are a product of the environment that their 'betters' and political leaders have created and we shouldn't be shocked or dismayed that they choose to reflect their morality too.
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
The Beeb says there were shenanigans on Coldharbour Lane.. is there anything to loot there? It's been ten years since I lived there so perhaps it has Delis or maybe even Carpet Rights now??
SpineyNorman
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Yep, it's the kind of materialist selfishness his hero Maggie encouraged and made necessary - you reap what you sew Stoat Boy.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
The 'appeals' from politicos, priests and police aren't aimed at the rioters - they're aimed at calming an anxious populace. The rioters, so disenfranchised from the system, couldn't care less about press statements and vague threats. It's definitely showing how dangerous a situation can potentially become when people stop being afraid of police. In this country it means that people have got new tellys, phones and trainers - which highlights the lack of desire to change what's wrong, the fundamental reasons behind the disenfranchising of the young unemployed lost generation, abandoned by the government in the pursuit of dulling the claws of the financial big boys.
Billie Piper
Active Member
Is that the best you can do? They are animals for their actions, not their race.
Bollocks. Its just the subspecies out to grab more shit, while causing maximum destruction all round. Which is just what they do.
Giles..
SpineyNorman
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Given your posting history I find that a little... unconvincing.
subspecies?
SpineyNorman
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SpineyNorman
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If nothing else this thread has proved to be an incredibly effective cunt detector.
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