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8th August 2011
THIRD NIGHT OF RIOTS IN LONDON
[Click here to watch Sky News live for shocking sights of lawless London as kids break into shops and steal TV sets off walls]
Thought I’d better post on this in case the rags grab the title, as was suggested by -
awhita065Alex White@
Since I pasted the above into the draft post, we have been told that the Prime Minister IS coming home tonight after all. Wise move.
Tomorrow morning there will be a COBRA meeting. Wonder if they will sanction the use of water cannon in Emergency Measures legislation? If so fill the hoses with indelible dye.
Interestingly, this tweep says -
“Crisis? What crisis?’
And the originator of the infamous “What crisis” headline? The press. Who else?
It was The Sun, not James Callaghan the Labour PM in 1979 – just shortly before Labour was deposed and out of power for 18 years. (Article was written when Blair’s government was suffering from an earlier “crisis. The sort he took in his stride, remember.)
Is this a Summer of Discontent?
Excerpt from 1979 Winter of Discontent:
“Crisis? What crisis?”Three words that helped bring down the last Labour government in 1979, even though the man generally thought to have uttered them – Jim Callaghan – did not in fact do so.
I don’t think other people in the world would share the view [that] there is mounting chaos
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Jim Callaghan’s actual words
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But the Sun journalist who fashioned that headline caught the popular impression of a government unaware of a very serious state of affairs which had sneaked up on it.
Faced with the current fuel blockades, Education Secretary David Blunkett has admitted that people in general – and probably Labour politicians in particular – still remember the Winter of Discontent with a shiver up their spine.
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Welcome back to the Big Society, Dave. Time for a video?
This was The Clash – with London’s Burning (live) in April 1978
Or a more innocent/sinister version of the same title?
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UPDATES & RUNNING COMMENTARY
Sky News Live is usually ahead of the BBC for what’s- a-happening, and you can watch Sky outside of the UK.
The Telegraph has pictures and live updates of latest outbreaks of violence, arson and looting.
This looting, burning of cars, buses and buildings has nothing whatsoever to do with the man who was killed last Thursday during a Police encounter. It is symptomatic of other issues, poverty being one thrown in for the flavour, but not applicable, imho.
Unless, unless…
… these rioters, thieves, arsonists and anarchists have been told that the world OWES them, rather that that THEY owe the world.
Moral values have been lost in the selfish “me first-ness” of those who have been told by the moaning politically correst press that somehow or other THIS great country lets them down.
ALL, imho, the fault of the self-centred, left-wing literati and numerous liberal loony pressure groups. Human rights/civil rights/rights/rights/rights have brought us to this sorry state.
And it’s all – and always has been – so wrong.
Live Update of Areas of Rioting
Affected so far -
Tottenham – Hackney – Enfield – Croydon – Lewisham – Peckham – Clapham Junction – Deptford – Elephant & Castle - New Cross - East Ham - Brixton – Ealing – and now parts of Birmingham.
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Recent comments:
I am staggered by all the hate directed towards our former Prime Minister. I believe that Tony Blair made the Iraq decision in good faith and is most certainly NOT a war criminal. If anyone should be tried at the Hague it should be those in the media for totally misrepresenting the information and facts. The media are to blame for fuelling this hatred as it is purely driven by them. (UK)
Tags: anarchy, arson, James Callaghan, London, london's burning, looting, prime minister, where, Winter of Discontent
August 8, 2011 at 10:41 pm |
The police are taking backhanders
Oujr MPs are fiddling their expenses
The media break the law without compunction
The bankers have looted our economy
Our politicians are sunning themselves in luxury
How do you expect young people to behave?
August 8, 2011 at 10:54 pm |
Oh FGS, Peter. Get a grip!!!!
August 8, 2011 at 11:04 pm |
And guess who thinks like you, Peter. Idiot head who wants to try Blair for war crimes. Never thought you were from the loony left.
Twit with a tweet:
johnmcdonnellMP John McDonnell
by paul_trembath
Reaping what has been sown over 3 decades of creating grotesquely unequal society,with alienated young copying ethos of looting bankers.
August 8, 2011 at 11:12 pm |
Please ktbfpm, this isn’t time for petty tribalism. This is the product of corrupt government, much of which comes from you know who
August 9, 2011 at 1:15 pm |
[...] Crisis! What crisis? London burns as Cameron forced to change his holiday plans (keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com) [...]
August 9, 2011 at 1:26 pm |
Such a sad situation. There is no excuse for this; no excuse at all. What do they hope to achieve? I doubt they even know what they want.
August 10, 2011 at 9:39 pm |
@ little ole American –
It seems they want opportunities they think are being denied them. And the belongings & fame that the celebrity culture makes them aspire to. And… oh, I’m sure the opining press will have it all worked out. As suits their own varied and various agendas and views of history and politics.
August 9, 2011 at 7:51 pm |
I think we need ol’ Tone back. He’d deal with this better than any of these numpties.
http://peterreynolds.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/britain-needs-leadership/
August 9, 2011 at 9:57 pm |
What are you smoking toniight, Peter?
First “corrupt goverment” is the fault of you know who, THEN “we need ol’ Tone back” !
I agree with you on the second part, of course.
But do stop your “ol’” stuff, Peter. TB is about your age. Young and vibrant.
August 9, 2011 at 10:09 pm |
Well I’ll do you a deal. I’ll quit the “ol’” Tone and you quit the “what have you been smoking tonight” (it really is the oldest, tiredest jibe and way, way beneath you) – OK?
If a youngster who wants an iPhone thinks of Fred Goodwin or Lord Taylor or all those MPs in prison, why shouldn’t he smash in a shop window and take it?
We need to lead by example. We are reaping what the feral elite has sown – Blair, Brown, Cameron, bankers, editors, BBC execs, etc, etc
If you want to riot, riot in Chipping Norton where it will make a difference.
August 9, 2011 at 10:18 pm |
Peter, in all seriousness, smoking or not, you said one thing then you said the complete opposite. And now you’ve jumped back on the attacks on politicians & others, even Blair. I have plenty of questions about the banks and the power of the press, but when you lump Blair in with them you’re clearly on the heady stuff.
Surprised you didn’t blast the Police again, btw. Better not. One of my family is off in riot gear to help sort out the rioters.
Personally I am not in favour of encouraging feral youth to riot. I see we disagree on that.
August 9, 2011 at 10:40 pm |
What is this deliberate misinterpretation game? I thought you and I were way past that. I know you’ll react like a jealous lover at the mere mention of Tone’s name.
It’s a little more subtle than being about opposites as you well know.
The police? Useless. Obviously, many very brave, hard working individuals but no leadership. The sooner Sir Hugh Orde takes over the better. They’re all weak, corporate process manager civil servants.
FFS I’m not encouraging anyone to riot unless it involves a guillotine in Parliament square.
In which case, if I leave now I can be there in about two and a half hours, OK?
August 10, 2011 at 8:07 pm |
Peterr,
Didn’t think I had misinterpreted. Perhaps I had. Please point it out to me. I thought I was pointing out an inconsistency. That’s all.
So whose head would you remove? And mind who you name! – “jealous lover” watching you!
Btw, I will let you know when the aforementioned member of my family (police force) returns safe from riot containment. I KNOW you care.
August 10, 2011 at 9:00 pm |
I’m touring South Wales in the next few weeks with the CLEAR Cannabis Truth roadshow.
I pray that the Land of my Fathers stays free of the mayhem.
http://peterreynolds.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/whats-the-difference-between-a-looter-and-a-banker/
August 10, 2011 at 9:35 pm |
Yes, me too. Nothing in the land of my birth yet, either – Scotland.
Good quickie post, btw. I agree as regards proportinality.
But if only they WERE just random looters.
August 10, 2011 at 10:20 pm |
Och aye, the noo
August 11, 2011 at 1:21 pm |
Och, naw – no’ the noo. Hopefully.
August 10, 2011 at 3:14 pm |
World leaders should do everything to look for sustainable ways of responding to the needs of the weak and poor. These people have the propensity and ability to rise and riot!