England riots

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BBC has a video of the Mayor being heckled in Clapham here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14464139
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Edit: the main complaint - basically - is 'where the f*** were you all last night?'

"We want Labour!"

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McDonald's and the Town Centre about a 5 minute drive away from me got smashed up about an hour ago. In the next road to one of my friends.

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Gaddafi's deputy foreign minister has called for Cameron to quit: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/UK-riots-Cameron-must-go-says-Libya-20110810

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I'm sure the chancellor won't be too unhappy about the riots.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/08/09/bank-of-england-to-downgr_n_921991.html

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(smug)May be speaking too soon, but very interesting to notice what cities/areas didn't riot(/smug)

Our English problem, as the First Minister put it.

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Anyone who knows anything knows that any police officer anywhere in Europe isn't gonna be trigger happy,

How comes you are so sure about this?

Europe has a history of being too liberal for it's own good.

I was explaining to a coworker the other day about how different Britain is than what many Americans see it as. Instead of British people sipping tea and being friendly, the country is so radicalized and full of extremists that it has lost whatever culture it possessed in the decades following World War II. Americans look at Winston Churchill as a heroic figure. They booted him out after the war. Americans look at Margaret Thatcher as a heroic figure. Many in her own land loath her and her legacy. It's almost as if Barack Obama would make a better European leader and people like Churchill, Thatcher and Blair would make better American leaders. Indeed, I know many British people dislike the fact that Tony Blair acted more like a "President" than a Prime Minister. Maybe it's fear. After all, Europe has had a brutal history. Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, London...all of them and more were at one time or another, in ruins. Besides 1812, the Civil War, and September 11, 2001, Americans haven't had that kind of brutality in our own land, and perhaps this should give pause to criticism of Europeans.

What I can't grasp for the life of me is the hypocrisy of them to riot and cause disorder after a criminal was taken off the streets.

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/228461/underclass-dismissed/

It should have been universally condemned and not used, as the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, did, as an opportunity for cheap political point scoring. He described the riots as a ‘revolt’ against the government’s cuts in public services. This was baloney and mischief-making. If this was about cuts, why target local businesses, buses and services?

I wouldn't expect different from Ken. He was banging on about he has home so much quicker from his holiday on 7/7 too. This is exactly why he shouldn't have been re-selected as the nominee.

But, let's not forget that Boris did his own bit of politicking with his embarrassing broom photo-op, which backfired when he got heckled.

Both are horrendously shallow individuals.

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I don't disagree, but all of the credible alternatives ended up backing him for various reasons. Lammy would have been good.

I would've voted for Oona if I lived in London.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSY6QlNMf18