Could you honestly say you would not have joined in?

[MarillionFan]

There was no typical rioter.

Some of them had decent jobs, some of them were students with parents with decent jobs and one was a 14 year old with no fixed abode.

I disagree. There will be a high percentage basis skewed one way. Of course there is a mixture, there has to be. The press of course have picked up on the ones with jobs or millionaire daughters. The greed / opportunistic culture is pervasive.

There was one thing I picked up from the news last night and press this morning. Of all of the parents who talked about their children who had been arrested all / bar none said 'Oh they were just walking by',' they got caught in the moment' or 'no - he's a good boy it must be a mistake'. Where was the 'The little bastard wait till I get him home!!!'

[EternalOptimist]

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[DodgyAgent]

Greedy, incompetant, rechless bankers, financial speculators, bond traders have bankrupted the world economy - you wont see that lot helping themselves to a looted shop - because the looted economy has far greater pickings.


Corrupt politicians have used tax payers money to bail them out and now seek to pass the cost onto ordinary working people by slashing our hard fought-for public services and welfare benefits. Our schools and hospitals are being left to rot.

Prices are going through the roof whilst wages are being cut.

Thousands face uneployment and eviction from their homes and yet the bankers are getting their massive bonuses again.


This is the real looting that is going on.

Our public services and pensions, our schools, hospitals, care homes and youth services are being looted by a millionaire Tory government to line the pockets of the "sick feral scum" in the City of London.

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The country is in debt because the left as usual borrow money and squander it. The feral underclass are products of the failure of socialism to use the money it steals from the hard working people of the UK effectively.

if there is a question about too few people having too much money then that is an entirely separate issue.

As far as hospitals, care homes, youth services (let us not forget that these only exist because the state schools have failed) and health services are concerned these fail not because of a lack of money but because of an absence of accountability. if these institutions actually worked then why do we not give the state ALL of our money and let them redistribute it "effectively"

The failure lies with the state and the "entitlement" culture of the left who after all control over 50% of the earnings of everyone.

[AlfredJPruffock]

The country is in debt because the left as usual borrow money and squander it. The feral underclass are products of the failure of socialism to use the money it steals from the hard working people of the UK effectively.

if there is a question about too few people having too much money then that is an entirely separate issue.

As far as hospitals, care homes, youth services (let us not forget that these only exist because the state schools have failed) and health services are concerned these fail not because of a lack of money but because of an absence of accountability. if these institutions actually worked then why do we not give the state ALL of our money and let them redistribute it "effectively"

The failure lies with the state and the "entitlement" culture of the left who after all control over 50% of the earnings of everyone.

What impact did the collapse and malpractice of the Banking Sector in 2008 and subsequent massive bailouts - funded by taxpayers money - have upon the wealth of the UK ?

Was that not the primary reason for the current troubles impacting the UK and Global economny ?

[Scrag Meister]

I wouldn't have joined in, and I believe that my children (between 20 and 26) would not have joined in either.

WTRS

I wouldn't have joined in, and I believe that my children (between 21 and 16) would not have joined in either.

[SueEllen]

There was one thing I picked up from the news last night and press this morning. Of all of the parents who talked about their children who had been arrested all / bar none said 'Oh they were just walking by',' they got caught in the moment' or 'no - he's a good boy it must be a mistake'. Where was the 'The little bastard wait till I get him home!!!'

Society is now too child centric.

Remember the thread where there was a discussion on children and restaurants where some posters indicated that it was appropriate that their healthy children should be allowed to disturb other diners and be a health and safety risk by running around?

[BlasterBates]

The problem is arty farty liberal types:

Arrty farty types cause of the problem

They should focus more on their wind farm projects.

[Mich the Tester]

The problem is arty farty liberal types:

Arrty farty types cause of the problem

They should focus more on their wind farm projects.

If there's one person I had hoped would keep their loud, crapulent gob shut, it's Melanie bloody Phillips.

[MarillionFan]

Society is now too child centric.

Remember the thread where there was a discussion on children and restaurants where some posters indicated that it was appropriate that their healthy children should be allowed to disturb other diners and be a health and safety risk by running around?

Oh jog on.

[Mich the Tester]

Oh jog on.

Yes, I've heard a number of Vicky Pollardesque chavettes using that phrase on TV lately, is it something new? Are fat chavs suddenly following physical fitness programmes?