Good morning,
Yesterday was a mixed bag then. The atmosphere inside The Lane was a marketing man’s dream. Smiling families, Mexican waves, fans cheering players and singing songs, and Spurs a’ winning. That’s what I like.
Sometime after the atmosphere outside The Lane resembled a bad night night in Belfast. So what happened? What happened to the vehicles that were torched, shops that were looted, the windows that were smashed, the houses destroyed is pretty well documented. I’ve included a short gallery from images I picked up from Twitter.
But what happened to precipitate this? There are actually three paths that took us to this civil disorder.The most obvious, at first glance appears to be some upside down gangster revenge for a policeman shooting dead one Mark Duggan. Duggan – street name ‘Starrish Mark’ – was supposedly a gangsta member of Tottenham Man Dem Gang, a street mob believed to be involved with the infamous Jamaica Yardies.
Apparently Starrish Mark was under observation by the fuzz as it was believed he was all set to take revenge for the killing of his cousin Kevin Easton a rapper – street name ‘Smegz’ – who was fatally stabbed outside a Mile End nightclub back in March.
Anyway, legend has it that Starrish Mark was in a taxi when he spotted an armed officer and it alleged took a pot shot at him from the back of the cab. The officer’s life was saved by his radio which took the bullet. The officer then returned fire and Duggan and was shot dead.
A march of people from Broadwater Farm to a local police station then took place last night in protest over Starrish Mark’s death. The march resulted in numerous acts of arson, criminal damage and looting.
The social back drop to this simply reveals how politicians using the phrase ‘Broken Britain’ is a joke. Not a very funny one. It was them that broke it.
You don’t need any GCSE’s in Neurology to work out that society needs looking after or it goes wrong. Haringey’s youth clubs were shut after the Youth Services budget was slashed by 75% after a cut of £41m to the council’s overall budget.
Now I’m not going to try and kid you that because there’s nowhere for teenagers to play ping pong Curry’s got robbed. But it’s all part of the bigger picture whereby people who are vulnerable are effectively abandoned by society.
Environments where these gang cultures are allowed to blossom need to be attacked. You break the cycle with education and tackling the abysmal places these disaffected people were sent to live.
I have no political affiliations. I think that they’re all bent. But the if you want to point a finger, point it at the last Labour government. In power for years and all they did was become as fat and corrupt as their so called old enemies the Tories. What was their legacy for the going nowhere people of Broadwater Farm? Policies so inept that the weak and the futureless are the first to get bitten as the inevitable cuts are implemented.
That said, whatever insane agenda of revenge the mob had, their social and economic plight doesn’t excuse trying to disguise a looting and vandalism trip as a protest. It’s highly unlikely there will be many arrests, but let’s hope there are. This lot aren’t freedom fighters they’re criminals.
When people are burning cars on their own streets the problem is bigger than looking for a youth in a hoody carrying matches.
Click on the image below to launch the gallery…
Respec Arry, but some of your bloggers seriously need to grow a few brain cells.
I don’t know why we are all surprised .Tottenham is a dump, it became a dump when the Jews got rich and moved out to hamsptead, golders green etc. The problem is that youth culture has embodied gangsterism , whereby once obtaining G.C.S.E would be the goal, now owning a gun, a pit bull and talking gibberish is seen as the way forward. Afro carabean men need to stop acting like the world owes them something , get off your backsides and get to school , for me it’s education education education and birth control, it’s funny how those I. Society that have failed have come from mothers who had them at a young age then have to bring them up rough It should be made illegal to have children out of wedlock until your 28…..The Muslims talk about sharia law, on days like these I don’t blame them, stoping drugs, loutish behaviour ,prostitution , crime, bringing back some form of control to society , i bet the rioters wouldn’t be laughing if they had Abdullah chasing them with a stick. Any way in summary the rioters didn’t give a toss about that guy that got shot, it was an excuse to go nicking DVD players. On that note may have a quick look at ebay and see what bargains there are to be had………………
Wow, it’s amazing how some mindless cowards, under the cover of anonymous userIDs, will come out and use the unfortunate incident at Tottenham, last night, as an excuse to have a go, based on prejudices they’ve always carried with them anyway. “Spurs to move away from N17”, only a racist pond-life, as you obviously are, will abandon restraint, to say the nonsense you just did. But, I bet being called racist will be like water off your back, because I bet it was a tradition that was handed to you by your father, and his father, and so on. Jigaboos!!!
I wonder what the caucasian for Jigaboo is, I would like to have used it to describe Anders Breivik. You are a disgrace to humanity.
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I think it’s “cracker-assed trailer trash”, although the fuckwit Breivik is from the nicest neighborhood in Norway. So RETARD will do.
(disclaimer: RETARDED has nothing to do with handicapped individuals. It is when people who should know better say and do RETARDED shit)
Harry I’m lost for words………..but I hope all the racial profiling that has crept into the last few blog responses manages to stop before it gets any worse………and we want Modric to stay………….wtf
I too am more than a little concerned by the level of racist lunacy that this blog seems to have attracted over the last few days.
theres no value in turning this into a race row, we all know that tottenham isnt somewhere you want to live, hence none of us live there anymore, but if you use this or any other blog to air your racist views you are only adding fuel to the already burning fire,this is a spurs blog not a bnp blog.