Geez guys, it's only a little civil disorder.
Would your attitudes have been the same at the Eureka Stockade?
These are very much isolated incidences.
The narrow television coverage, always after a good conflict, makes it look as though the whole city is out of control.
Only HUNDREDS are at it, not thousands or millions.
London is a
huuuge city with 8 million-odd people and if the Germans couldn't break it with the Blitz, I doubt a few hundred yobbos are going to do it.
I've talked with two friends, one in Islington the other in Tottenham.
Both said they could walk the streets in complete safety and the chap in Tottenham had to go through the riots to go anywhere.
He said unless you were actually
there, in an affected area, you wouldn't know that anything was happening and no-one hassled him!
As an adjunct to that, I saw footage today of a particularly run-down council estate where I used to live (Mare St. and Morning Lane in Hackney) it WAS having a bit of trouble, but the place is a ****hole and always was.
I sympathise with the victims of arson and looting and if some toe-rag tried to torch my house I'd 'ki' 'is ******* teef in', but worse is going on in Syria and Darfur so a little perspective is in order.