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Originally Posted by August
 I realized that after I posted. What I should have asked is what would make you revolt ala Kiev. |
I couldn't tell you to be perfectly serious and honest. No one could have predicted that the police shooting of Mark Duggan would spark off the 2011 riots. We've had our fair share of civil uprisings in the past, and even fairly recently, but nothing in the scope of what's taking place in Kiev for...well...centuries. The closest you could get to it, probably, would be the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916, but on the mainland, probably not since the Jacobites in the 1700s.
The last real big bust up before the 2011 riots was probably the Poll Tax Riots, if I'm honest the era of Maggie Thatcher is a good place to look if you want to see British unrest on full display.
Poll Tax Riots - 1990 - Economic/Social unrest:
Brixton and Toxteth Riots - 1981 Social/Race unrest:
Miners Strike - Orgreave Picket 'Battle for Orgreave' - 1984 Social unrest:
Jimbuna will probably get some memories from that footage, I know he was at Toxteth, and no doubt was roped in to deal with the miners.
More recently we had a fairly big scuffle over Tuition fees:
Which probably helped lead into the 2011 riots, it was all in the same year IIRC.
But a full on revolution and overthrow of the government would require something of a magnitude greater than what we've seen already, it would need the government to make a catastrophic screw up and the media to report on it fairly widely (which shouldn't take much, the rolling news loves a good riot) and for enough people to actually be affected by it in a big way. Or, it might take nothing at all...I honestly couldn't say, these things tend to come out of the field and catch us off guard.