Panic on the streets of London.......

[Seagulls over Lewes]

Panic on the streets of Birmingham...

I wonder to myself / Could life ever be sane again ?

 

[DTES]

I am talking purely about cuts to those areas - we should have stopped crap like overseas aid and funding for half of these "projects" the labour party run councils are so fond of.

I'd disagree that Labour are (were) in anyway left-wing, but that's a separate debate.

Personally I also disagree about the overseas aid (I think it's essential), but that's not to say I agree with the cuts to the police budget (I don't).

 

[drew]

You wont have any joy speaking out about DC on this forum mate. Country would need to grind to a halt and self combust before people got their heads out the sand. Different man / same tories though

I think you will find there is quite an even scattering of lab and cons on this board.

I totally agree. This "left-wing" excuse for a Tory Party are cutting the budgets of the two things that should have bigger budgets - defense and law and order. Their cuts in these areas are more like Labour's.

Exactly when did the labour government slash the police and military budgets over the last 10 years?

 

[pork pie]

I think you will find there is quite an even scattering of lab and cons on this board.



Exactly when did the labour government slash the police and military budgets over the last 10 years?

They are their normal target areas. IF the Country had been stupid enough to re-elect them, we can be sure they would have seen massive cuts compared to other areas. In recent years they spunked money we did not have on anything and everything.

 

[Hillian1]

Everyone can relax, Boris is coming back from his holiday, all will be well again.

 

[Rookie]

That is a lot of smoke at the moment on Sky News, shop next to Greggs and flats(?) above

 

[Falkor]

so cameron should be able to predict the future now, i mean not one person know this was coming

 

[pork pie]

Everyone can relax, Boris is coming back from his holiday, all will be well again.

I think his reaction will be interesting. I wonder if he can prove himself to be up to the challenge?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Have the Croydon yoof started liberating trainers yet?

 

[pork pie]

Have the Croydon yoof started liberating trainers yet?

Foot Locker have been stripped bare!

 

[Falkor]

f***ing hell see them shops in deptford huge huge fire

 

[paddy]

How on earth people can use these riots as an excuse for some cheap political mudslinging is beyond me. They have absolutely nothing to do with the current government and anyone who suggests otherwise ascribes to this bunch of low life opportunistic criminals a level of intelligence and reason which is wholly undeserved.

And on the subject of police cuts, as far as I'm aware they are taking fewer cuts than other parts of government. The fact is this country spends more than it takes in tax and we rely on the goodwill of China and others to buy our bonds. Those bonds only remain affordable if we demonstrate that we have a genuine plan to balance the budget. Thus, we have seen the US lose its AAA credit rating and interest on French government bonds has edged up today. We are swimming in debt and the emerging economies are, quite fairly, showing an increasing reluctance to fund our profligacy. It's time for people in the country to wake up to the reality, and severity, of the situation.

 

[Rookie]

That fire is ridiculous and they need to let the Fire Brigade in soon before is spreads

 

[Rich Suvner]

some people on here give these people too much credit, if you genuinely think these riots have anything to do with political statements or genuine social comment.

an incident in tottenham is now just been used as an excuse for theft and violence.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Things must be bad at the Met if Cameron is thinking about bringing in Bill Bratton who used to head up the NYPD and LAPD

 

[Art Vs Science]

My how much of London needs to be alight before we just need to do the right thing and just get the military in to pick these cowardly wankers off one by one.

 

[clapham_gull]

All very quiet round here and in Chiswick today. There was a bit of tension when the local Waitrose ran out of Houmous but it quickly calmed down.

 

[Bold Seagull]

They are their normal target areas. IF the Country had been stupid enough to re-elect them, we can be sure they would have seen massive cuts compared to other areas. In recent years they spunked money we did not have on anything and everything.

Spunked money on community projects that put members of a community at the forefront of projects as an essential link between the authorities and the communities themselves. Amazing how you cut those projects, and you get this kind of outcome. The most cost effective way to tackle crime is to prevent it.

Brixton Riots, 1981, let me think...are yes Tory government, Broadwater Farm Riot 1985, oh hang on...Tory government, Poll Tax Riot, erm, yep Tory government again...1995 Brixton Riots, oh yeah, Tories again...Anyone would think they only look after the middle classes and above!?

 

[smudge]

of course, this has happened every month for the past 10 years

Ok, I'm obviously way below your level of intelligence. Please justify the robbing of JD sports or Currys etc, or setting fire to cars & property. I'd really like to be enlightened. Only all I can see is gangs of thugs roaming around causing terror. So come on, f***ing explain.

 

[Rookie]

Peckham riots after a north london 'Gangsta' gets shot, hmmm