London riot victims tell of their terror

The Sunday Mail (Qld) ^ | August 14, 2011 | Angus Hohenboken & Lucy Carne

[Harley]

Get a clue elite liberal Londoners. Your 50 year lavish welfare system is coming down with a crash. The more stuff you give to lazy people the lazier they become and demanding of more free stuff. You’ve created a monster that you now have to live with it until it kills you or you figure out how to curtail it.

[Billthedrill]

"Can you blame them?" asked bike mechanic Julian Sabetian...

Now let me think about it for a moment...YES!

[PapaBear3625]

I hate the left. But they are not stupid. The _are_ evil. They also never back down and never quit, no matter how much they win. Do you also think they are unarmed and afraid? You’d be wrong. They posture about gun control while making sure they are protected.

Socialism is a scheme by which the productive class is enslaved for the benefit of the elite. To accomplish this, they need the threat of underclass violence in order to keep the middle-class in line. To intimidate the middle class, it's important that they are disarmed and vulnerable to underclass mob violence.

[Oatka]

Only when the mobs started to attack major government institutions such as Whitehall and demolish the prions did the royal government intervene with crushing force bringing in the regular army and embodying the Militia.

I suspect if the yobs did that today, the same response would happen. Depends upon whose ox is getting gored - or destroyed.

WIKI has a list of riots going back a ways. Sounds like a lively town.

[Balding_Eagle]

the looting was a by-product of Britain's unbalanced welfare and housing policies that placed severely poor households beside rich areas.

These riots are EXACTLY why Section 9 housing was invented here in the US.

[odds]

Sales assistant Matt Brown, 29, said the looting was a by-product of Britain's unbalanced welfare and housing policies that placed severely poor households beside rich areas. "Living in an area like this you are going to see a lot of people with a lot of money. These kids don't have a lot of money and they want that but there's no means for them to get it. "So there's only one way to get what they want, and that is by stealing."

Gated communities in Britain & shanty towns in London & Greater London?

"These kids" aren't short-sighted either. The quoted paragraph highlights a multitude of other problems & issues.

But, I agree that London is a mishmash of suburbs, depending on location, rent, safety, nightlife, and transport. Take a look