London Riots
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Just so we're not mistaking this - although the original protest may have had some political undercurrent - the current riots have none. The people doing all the looting and destroying couldn't give two monkeys about the politics - all they care about is that because there's so many of them, they can steal and destroy and have all their fun and the police can't do much to stop them.There's no motivation now other than greed and mindless, consequenceless destruction. And it makes me laugh how all the "posher" politicians and analysts are busy blaming recent government cuts and other such things as the main motivations - they're not. Growing up in South London for my whole life, this kind of culture with certain youths has been there far before all of that nonsense, and most of them are too ignorant to care about politics in the slightest. In all big events like carnivals and fairs you'll always see big throngs of hooded youths randomly all moving together - granted not doing much but certainly being loud, obnoxious and annoying.
And since the London student protests, they seem to have decided it's acceptable to hijack basically every protest to all meet up together and destroy, loot and cause mischief. And our police force are too soft because every time they do take a hard stance, they get absolutely slated for it.. Even now they're going to be criticised to hell for not being able to do anything for the last few days - but if they had taken out the water cannons and rubber bullets, they'd have been criticized for being too harsh by stupid moany politically correct activists.
Posted from another forum. Someone else also seemed to have the odd idea that this is all politically based.