Flash Points Across the Continent

[cojak]

You're not supposed to take any interest!

[Fishface]

Some of the housing schemes in Scotland are in much worse condition, residents poorer and outlook bleaker than anything I have seen in London - the ones in london are middle class in comparison. Some schemes are now having 3 generations of full time unemployment. Yet haven't got to rioting yet, maybe its the rain that stops them.

[scooterscot]

Yet haven't got to rioting yet, maybe its the rain that stops them.

I think it is more 'Don't sheet where you eat' which prevents the rioting. It's not gonna happen besides the neds know they'd be run over of the pollis in a second.

[doodab]

Some of the housing schemes in Scotland are in much worse condition, residents poorer and outlook bleaker than anything I have seen in London - the ones in london are middle class in comparison. Some schemes are now having 3 generations of full time unemployment. Yet haven't got to rioting yet, maybe its the rain that stops them.

I reckon the fact that they don't get their noses rubbed in it constantly by a relentless parade of incredibly affluent people going about their business is a factor as well.

[minestrone]

I reckon the fact that they don't get their noses rubbed in it constantly by a relentless parade of incredibly affluent people going about their business is a factor as well.

If that were the case Edinburgh would have been turned over on day 1.

[darmstadt]

Ooh, you do like your selective postings, SS

Prosperous Germany is also feeling the pinch of cost-cutting measures. The German National Poverty Conference (NAK) warns that prospects for young people are only growing worse. As youth welfare services are cut, they say, other services, such as the charity missions run from train stations throughout the country, are seeing more young people in need. And to find proof that Germany is also home to a latent tendency toward violence, look no further than the yearly riots on May 1 -- International Workers' Day -- in Berlin's Kreuzberg district and Hamburg's Schanzenviertel.

There is a slight difference between what happens in Germany and what happened in the UK. For start most riots are political and are caused by left wing agitators normally when there is a facist march on. The 1st May riots happen every year and have done for many years and the police know what to do and are prepared and they're not afraid to go in with truncheons and water cannons. In fact most of the demonstrations on 1st May are very peaceful until the left wing (mainly students, unemployed hippies, left wing agitators and the like) decide to kick off. Funnily enough when the riot wing do have a march and there is no opposition there are no riots, no damage, no looting...