Police water cannon and plastic bullets? After 50 years of the most lavish welfare state on earth?

The Daily Mail ^ | 14th August 2011 | Peter Hitchens

[Right Wing Assault]

Have they even used the water cannons and plastic bullets yet? I haven’t heard the weekend news from over there.

[Mitch86]

No, there’s been no need to as there has been no trouble since Wednesday

[Right Wing Assault]

No, there’s been no need to as there has been no trouble since Wednesday

Ah, I guess everything worth stealing is gone.

[Madame Dufarge]

After the article:

Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons

I wonder what those reasons are?

[Mitch86]

That is often the case on Daily Mail articles, for example one of the tabloid fluff pieces about a soap star in her bikini (which I was looking at purely for educational purposes...) has the same proviso underneath.

[Madame Dufarge]

which I was looking at purely for educational purposes

Ah, I see.

And bless you for your tireless devotion to self-improvement. :-)

[tdscpa]

I’ll second that tactic. Unfortunately the gun grabbers got there before the rioters.