Innit doe? I was trying to get to Enfield that night, I gave up in the end as it was more dangerous that night than the night in Tottenham high road. A good few hundred of those involved at Enfield had travelled up from S Tottenham earlier in the day with the sole intention of looting. A lot of those involved in the looting are gangs, with the rest just opportunist scrotes.
On 10 Aug 2011, at 08:28, Leeds List wrote: > Damien > I live and work in Enfield and the "riots" took place about half a mile from > my front door. With regard to making things better for everyone our local > council spends more than two thirds of it's budget on one part of the > borough, there is massive investment by us , the mayor of London, central > government, the EU and anyone else you care to mention. > Despite that we still have a huge number of feral youth and ineffective > parents who happily sit on every benefit under the sun, demand "Respect" and > their "uman rights" at every turn and blame everything on everyone else > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 10 Aug 2011, at 01:26, Damian Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lots of responses to lots of points - its much easier down the pub ;) >> >> First of all, Steve - I hope your wife is OK and its nothing serious. >> >> Then the Met and the mayor: no leadership, who is handling these "riots" >> (looting without the rioting as far as we see from afar), Superindentants? >> Divisional comanders? No wonder there's copy cats springing uo all over the >> place. Who is in charge? And I hope it's not someone who has accepted bribes >> ("apparently substantiated") from any media group who quite frankly have a >> vested interest in selling papers during August. >> >> As for personal responsibility. Yes. But it works both ways. You have to >> realise that someone may well be better off looting a Dixons than not >> looting a Dixons. Where is that person's responsibility? Treat him as a >> scumbag and he'll always riot given the opportunity, bring him into the >> system and he won't. >> >> Thatcher's ultimate response to Brixton & Toxteth & BW Farm was to rein in >> the police (repeal of "Sus", racial profiling of Police action etc) and to >> throw money at those disaffected communities. It worked. The rolling back of >> those efforts under Blair & Brown (especially including many more police >> powers) has exposed the limits. The lack of current leadership has made the >> problem worse. >> >> What do you do? Try and make things better for everyone? Or not? >> >> Damian >> >> PS Mark - respect appreciated and returned whole heartedly - shame we're not >> down the pub ;) >> _______________________________________________ >> Leedslist mailing list >> Info and options: >> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> To unsubscribe, email [email protected] >> >> MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it) > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it) _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
