Tottenham north London.

[The Tekken]

I was finishing up at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone when this happened 30 or so years ago. The police in London turned and fled leaving the civilians at the mercy of the rioters for over 24 hours. There was some talk then of calling on the Royal Marines to get it sorted and I remember PRAYING they'd send us in. I was itching to blat the wankers who do this sort of thing.

Ya know what's weird? 30 years on and I still wish I could open fire on them.

 

[Pardini]

Luckily mum and dad are on holiday with Lynne and me, there's been gangs about just round the corner where they live. They won't go home until all this has stopped.
Robyn Lynne's daughter is in Worcester and we don't know if she can get home because she has to go through central London and change coaches.
Yea silly ain't it smashing up your own neighborhood.
Football has been called off. It's all just madness. They have to come down really hard on these people.
Anyway thanks for all the best wishes everyone.

What's really hard? They won't use tear gas, water cannons or rubber bullets, unless it's on the Irish.

 

[PocketRocket]

Sounds like they'd ( the police) would be blasting the song " who let the dogs out!)..
I was informed today that Mexico last week near Laredo , sent in the military and killed 60+ people, that was helping the drug dealers/ cartel . If they rode a bicycle and had a cell or radio they were shot.. AND left laying in the streets..... way to go Mexico !!

 

[2hip]

Mob mentality is not exclusive to any country. We've had many situations in America similar to this..remember the Rodney King riots? Paris had terrible riots recently. It always seems to be the disinfranchised who want to take any thing they can get away with once the poo hits the fan.

 

[Pardini]

Mob mentality is not exclusive to any country. We've had many situations in America similar to this..remember the Rodney King riots? Paris had terrible riots recently. It always seems to be the disinfranchised who want to take any thing they can get away with once the poo hits the fan.

The Police/Govt mentality of how to react and handle the mob is exclusive to the UK. They do little if anything to shut the rioters down.

 

[busa-bliss]

Well, I am English, and I used to live in London, I am not a racist, my son-in law is black, I have mixed race grandchildren, and nephews of mixed English/Indian parentage.

But.. for the last 15 years in England we had a left wing Labour government, who encouraged uncontrolled immigration (future labour voters). Children who became unmarried single mums have been rewarded with free social housing and cash benefits. These households have no male father figure, they are effectively being rewarded by the state for being feckless breeders. Because they have never developed properly in any economical, social or moral sense, they are not really grown up, so these child/women's children who are now young adults have never been taught any form of respect, work ethic, respect for authority or sense of self-worth. They look at the TV, with filled with famous, vacuous, talentless 'celebrities' or overpaid sporting celebrities, and aspire to the lifestyle they see, but make no connection with qualifications, hard work and effort being a route to a decent lifestyle.

So, when the riots start, all they have is animal instinct to join in, and become looters. I am commenting on scenes from England, but you can insert practically any City or Country in the so called 'civilised' world, and the above scenario is being enacted somewhere near you.
Whatever happened to England, in fact whatever happened to all of us?

 

[sixpack577]

Well, I am English, and I used to live in London, I am not a racist, my son-in law is black, I have mixed race grandchildren, and nephews of mixed English/Indian parentage.

But.. for the last 15 years in England we had a left wing Labour government, who encouraged uncontrolled immigration (future labour voters). Children who became unmarried single mums have been rewarded with free social housing and cash benefits. These households have no male father figure, they are effectively being rewarded by the state for being feckless breeders. Because they have never developed properly in any economical, social or moral sense, they are not really grown up, so these child/women's children who are now young adults have never been taught any form of respect, work ethic, respect for authority or sense of self-worth. They look at the TV, with filled with famous, vacuous, talentless 'celebrities' or overpaid sporting celebrities, and aspire to the lifestyle they see, but make no connection with qualifications, hard work and effort being a route to a decent lifestyle.

So, when the riots start, all they have is animal instinct to join in, and become looters. I am commenting on scenes from England, but you can insert practically any City or Country in the so called 'civilised' world, and the above scenario is being enacted somewhere near you.
Whatever happened to England, in fact whatever happened to all of us?

What happened was that GOD and morals were taken out of everything and replaced with political correctness bs. It's now ok to do whatever you like, because to tell you otherwise may hurt your feelings, and that would be wrong.