Reply to: Cameron's response

[shaunbhoy]

Only been here a few months and it's like England of 'the good old days'. In my case, pissing down most days.

Not sure what that straw man they're building in the field next door is for though. I think it's straw, could be wicker.

Good Lord. You haven't put in for planning permission to extend have you?

[PAH]

Nah. You want SOUTH f*****g Devon for that.

Only been here a few months and it's like England of 'the good old days'. In my case, pissing down most days.

Not sure what that straw man they're building in the field next door is for though. I think it's straw, could be wicker.

[shaunbhoy]

Before anyone says "it's sunny where I am", it's not in north f*****g Devon, where it's supposed to be holiday home season all year round.

Nah. You want SOUTH f*****g Devon for that.




Actually, not all that great HERE at the moment either. I can barely see Thatcher Rock through the mist.

[PAH]

It's pretty quiet here, no riots at all

Rain stopped play. Looting (and maybe a spot of rioting as a diversionary tactic) will resume if the sun ever shines again this year.

Before anyone says "it's sunny where I am", it's not in north f*****g Devon, where it's supposed to be holiday home season all year round.

[PAH]

A man around 60 was arrested today. He is an ex-employee of NOTW.

He was arrested for looting.

Probably.

[SueEllen]

It's pretty quiet here, no riots at all - the food is good too.

HTH

sasguru
HMP Belmash

I heard he was in Wandsworth - Wandsworth jail attacked for catalogue of safety failures - Home News, UK - The Independent

I hope he's not got depressed and ....................

[AtW]

It's pretty quiet here, no riots at all - the food is good too.

HTH

sasguru
HMP Belmash

[SueEllen]

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[xoggoth]

It's all an inside job by the fuzz to get more funding

A commenter on the Sky News thinks all these riots have been deliberately fomented by the government, started by agent provacateurs where necessary, so that they can have the excuse to crack down on any dissent and impose a police state. Trouble is, I think he was being serious.

Riots: Teenagers Caught In The Violence Which Has Spread Throughout England Talk To Sky News | UK News | Sky News

[SueEllen]

It's all an inside job by the fuzz to get more funding. They have plain clothes coppers doing the rioting and telling the kids who join in where to run next for the best camera shots. Timed to perfection to sideline the investigation into corrupt police and journos.

A man around 60 was arrested today. He is an ex-employee of NOTW.

[PAH]

Cameron's latest response

Fitting in more ways than one:

David Cameron earlier today...He couldnt have stood in a bett... on Twitpic

[PAH]

Are pictures of lines of police not engaging going to get them a lot of sympathy re police cuts?

Maybe if they weren't there in the first place, or there was one copper on his own.

The images I saw had about half a dozen coppers in a line across the street.

In one scene a cop van is approaching some looters up a side street, with two riot cops at the top where the camera man is. As soon as the looters spot the van they leg it up the street towards the two riot cops, who step back into a door way out of sight!

Their argument (rightly in that scenario) is that two of them isn't enough to deal with the rushing crowd of about 20 people, but where were the other thousands of plod!?

It's all an inside job by the fuzz to get more funding. They have plain clothes coppers doing the rioting and telling the kids who join in where to run next for the best camera shots. Timed to perfection to sideline the investigation into corrupt police and journos.

[Doggy Styles]

Hopefully this will lead to a rebalancing of human rights so they protect the innocent as much as the guilty, without leading to a police state where rights are further eroded 'for the greater good'.

Maybe I'm too cynical for everyday life, but I get the feeling the initial poor response from the coppers in clamping down (e.g. last night in Manchester) is to further their cause against police cuts.

The bit of live news I caught last night showed the cops in central Manchester forming lines across streets but allowing the looters to run down back streets and onto other areas. It was like they didn't really want to get stuck in and box them off. They were chasing them around for hours.

Were they really so under-manned, or was it a strategy to get more sympathy from those now calling for a change in the decision to cut their numbers?

Are pictures of lines of police not engaging going to get them a lot of sympathy re police cuts?

Maybe if they weren't there in the first place, or there was one copper on his own.

[shaunbhoy]

Were they really so under-manned, or was it a strategy to get more sympathy from those now calling for a change in the decision to cut their numbers?

Say what you like about numbers being cut, but if you ever have cause (as I regularly do) to try and get parked anywhere within a Police HQ you will soon see that they are an extremely "fat" organisation. And as for their subsidised canteen queues, there were smaller ones for the lifeboats on the Titanic!

[PAH]

Hopefully this will lead to a rebalancing of human rights so they protect the innocent as much as the guilty, without leading to a police state where rights are further eroded 'for the greater good'.

Maybe I'm too cynical for everyday life, but I get the feeling the initial poor response from the coppers in clamping down (e.g. last night in Manchester) is to further their cause against police cuts.

The bit of live news I caught last night showed the cops in central Manchester forming lines across streets but allowing the looters to run down back streets and onto other areas. It was like they didn't really want to get stuck in and box them off. They were chasing them around for hours.

Were they really so under-manned, or was it a strategy to get more sympathy from those now calling for a change in the decision to cut their numbers?