As usual a minority of ill-mannered ill-educated anti social opportunistic thugs seized their chance to destroy 2 police cars, a double decker bus, a bingo hall, an Aldi's and some smaller shops whilst making off with all the alcohol and mobile phones they could grab! kids today could do with some direction I think, if only their efforts were being put into more constructive projects.
The police can't win, one minute they're labelled as heavy handed and brutal, the next they're not doing enough. Blame multiculturalism all you want the reason it doesn't work is the patchwork quilt model, allowing groups of one ethnic or religious persuassion to occupy one area as opposed to another. Yes I am aware that for many communities this was their choice, I'm just saying it shouldn't have been allowed. This and the fact that 'faith' schools further segregate our children into polarised groups leads directly to this over dramatic confrontational attitude (a bit like the hormonal imbalance that occurs in adolescants) oh wait most of the idiots on these films are teenagers...
I think the police reacted well, if not as quick as they could, but like I said they're a bit damned if they do, damned if they don't. Significant fact that
no rioters were reported injured. These events have absolutely zilch to do with events from two decades past, they are more indicative of a failing of education and government - the current one that is. Quite honestly, a bingo hall and Aldis - rebels without a cause or what?
