London Riots

[apel]

Gordon White said:
"Whatever happens to the world happens to London. Terrorism, banking crises, racism, class battles, wealth, food trends, art, immigration concerns."

Look at British stamps. Notice anything? Anything missing? It doesn't say "United Kingdom." There's not even a little "GB" in the corner. The reason is that the British were first with

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[siliconshaman]

As it happens, I do remember them.

Riots are like the steam whistle on an old-fashioned engine... when it blew, you knew that the pressure in the boiler was too high. [seriously, they were designed that way] and you had to vent pressure or quit stoking the fire because it was going to blow sky-high otherwise.

There is always social tensions of one sort or another, it's pretty easy for some clumsy policing to set things off.. however, this time I suspect there was confluence of events

[cybermule]

I'm finding the riots really unsettling. Not in themselves, just in the attitudes they're bringing out. Riots? Obviously not good. Symptomatic of deep social problems, IMO. But even the liberal end of my friends' spectrum are baying on FB for rubber bullets, curfews and benefits withdrawal. I'm pretty uncomfortable with that.