Good morning,
An excellent statement from the Chairman this morning in relation to the criminal blitzing of N17 by opportunist scum yesterday. The full message is on the official site of course but the jist is that practical measures need to be engaged to organise a physical clean up of the area and the regeneration plans are core to the well being of not only businesses but private citizens who live locally.
On yesterday’s blog we trod a tricky path where with I think one exception I didn’t censor the views of those that felt that this wasn’t a multicultural riot and that specifically only one or two ethnic types were to blame. Despite there being numerous images available of whitey, shoulder to shoulder with criminals of all creeds.
I’d like to thank the bulk of the rest of that blog’s contributors who understood what was happening and didn’t brand me a racist cohort or the entire blog a platform for neo Nazis. As I have commented before, I’d have the BNP on TV every night at 9pm until every whitey in the country had watched enough to understand these people are actually deranged.
You don’t do away with things by hiding them away. I’m a fine one to talk, but it’s very much like going to the dentist. Horrible little cavities don’t go away on their own, you ignore them they rot and eventually the entire tooth is lost.
What has emerged in the aftermath of all this is that London, if not Britain is in trouble. Too many people have slipped through society’s net. Some appear to have been forcibly squeezed through it. People have to understand that this isn’t because they are of any particular ethnicity, this is to do with how they live.
It’s very easy to say, ‘Society is going to the dogs’ and turn the page of your newspaper looking for another article that points out who to blame but these kids aren’t just in trouble, they’re doomed. We need to actively save the next generation from following this current lot of hopeless losers and habitual petty criminals over the same abyss.
Here’s a picture from Twitter of a looter with his spoils. It looks a legitimate enough snap to me. I’d like you to just look what he has spread upon his table and then at the guy’s face for a minute. He’s genuinely happy. Like a child on Christmas morning. You could find that expression on any of a hundred thousand Facebook Albums; as one of a group having a few drinks at a party, as a guy stood in front of the Eiffel Tower on his holidays. He’s happy.
How desperate is this poor gits life that charging into a shop in darkness with the bells peeling and flames raging grabbing ‘stuff’ in the half light makes him happy? He’s amassed a few DVDs or computer games there, some fragrance, a couple of things to help him make Skype calls and a barrel of that stuff that body builders eat. Not sure what’s in the yellow tubs, it might be hair wax at a guess.
This chap is actually in trouble and I’m not talking about having his boat race on my website.
He’s in trouble because black, white, yellow or purple people like him are growing in number because society has decided to actively ignore them. Government after government has ignored them. The schools can’t cope because they are underfunded and outdated. Did anyone watch Jamie Oliver’s Dream School? I know, I know, he’s a lisping gooner mockney but we mustn’t descrimnate.
Kids like the kids on that show are being groomed by a society that hasn’t so much failed them as totally disregarded them. I honestly wonder if someone in a smoke filled room at Number 1o doesn’t explain to every new PM that, ‘well who do you think is going to serve the fast food? We can’t give everyone a leg up, the country would fall to it’s knees, old boy.’
I came into possession very early this morning of a document produced by the Met last night in relation to this situation. Just in case anyone reading thinks this is a storm particular to the N17 tea cup. Here are some extracts as I’ve been asked not to link to the page itself.
Police are tonight responding to copycat criminal activity across London and are deploying officers to tackle it.
There has been looting in a number of boroughs in north, east and south London by small and mobile groups. Groups of youths continue to attack police officers and a number of police vehicles have been damaged.
Three officers have been taken to hospital after being hit by a fast moving vehicle at approx 00:45hrs. The officers were in the process of making arrests in Chingford Mount, Waltham Forest, in connection with youths looting a shop. Two officers are believed to have superficial injuries and the other has an injury to his knee.
Earlier tonight in Walthamstow Central more than 30 youths, many in masks, vandalised and looted a number shops including BHS. Officers attended the area and the situation is currently under control. Groups of youths are continuing to target shops in Waltham Forest and officers are on scene.
In Brixton there has been disorder and looting. LFB are dealing with a fire at Footlocker on Brixton High Road.
Rival gangs attended Kings College Hospital after two victims of minor stabbings were admitted resulting in a fight. The hospital has brought in additional security for the remainder of the night and officers remain on scene dealing with the initial stabbings.
In Enfield Town Centre and surrounding areas the disorder has been contained. Resources are in the area and the High Street remains cordoned off to contain the disorder.
Approximately 50 youths congregated in Oxford Circus. Officers attended the area and the situation is currently under control.
In Islington there were reports of a group causing a disturbance and a police vehicle windscreen was smashed.
A Tesco store in Ponders End was vandalised and items were stolen.
So look at the photo of the looter and don’t just say ‘he’s black’, that’s as useful as pointing out he’s wearing a green t shirt. You’re not looking properly. Look at the happiness. His life is so hopeless that his haul of distempered rubbish has actually made him happy.
If you care enough to berate him could I ask that you also care enough to ask the next fawning politician who knocks on your door to explain just how they are going to make kids like the boy in the photo as happy because he just had a good day at work. As happy because he got a pay rise. As happy because he could afford to take his Aunty up West to buy a new pair of glasses on his day off.
And that’s why I wrote this. To commend THFC as a large employer in the war zone for wanting to try at least to make a difference. Your job dear reader is not bitch about colour but bitch about why the schools are so bad, why the housing so meager.You’re right to be angry, just make sure you focus it on the right people, eh?
BIOYC!
david
that’s what they tried in egypt, tunisia, greece, libya, syria …. This is a globbal thing caused by the US tring to inflate their debt away. Stop blaming the victims. Greenspan, Bernanke, politicians, all the central bankers and lots of the top bank execs should be the ones facing bird
The victims are those who had their homes raised to the ground by these chancers, the people who no longer have jobs to go to because their business premises have been destroyed, not the idiots who caused this damage.
When they are caught and prosecuted how many of them do you think will have been living in the gutter ?
Which is pretty much where the residents of the flats located above Carpetright now find themselves.
just heard – exactly the same thing is happening in Philadelphia – what’s the connection? join the dots people and don’t be so quick to judge.
It’s a copy cat thing the same as is happening here. It affects people who want something for nothing and who are unable to distinguish wrong from right.
What, like pushing the country to the brink of bankruptcy and then claiming billions in bonuses? Knowing wrong from right doesn’t stop with nicking K Cider & TV’s.
I agree that on the surface of things, none of those jokers would know what the hell you were talking about – Even with regards bank bonues. They know one thing, they are held in place by force and by their lives being sold down the toilet while the TV is full of images of people living great bling lifestyles. They want them, they can’t have them… They don’t have the (And I paraphrase) the ‘Ejamacation’ to work out why and the don’t care.
The are angry, they have grown up in the kind of neighbourhoods that would have you and I sitting in the corner crying and peeing out little panties, and they are on the loose.
‘Beak’ giving them 6 months, two years, 5 years… It’s a badge of honour.
I am not condoning what the bankers/ politicans have done to this country and I don’t believe anyone else on here is either.
I just don’t get the sympathy given to a group of bored youngsters who are making people homeless and closing businesses.
As for the rough area quote, I was born in a council house on an estate in E15.
Spent the first 15 years of my life living there.
No bathroon, so we would bring a tin bath in from the garden, place it on the kitchen floor and then boil pans of hot water to fill it up.
Father worked in a factory, mother worked evenings on Lesneys production line.
They managed to save enough to buy a car when I was 14. Uptil then it was bus, train or walk.
I could go on but would only sound like a Monty Python sketch, so suffice to say that neither I, or any of the other kids in my area, most of whom had their arses hanging out of their trousers, found the urge to go torching and looting.
Incidentally, when some of these kids are brought before the courts how many do you think will have been living below the poverty line ?
My sympathy is with the victims of the rioters and not the rioters.
I take it from your posts that you are a Hackney lad, but you are not old enough to remember Hackney in the 50’s.
I also am not going to do a Monty Python sketch, but I was brought up in Dalston in those times, and we were a hell of a lot poorer, but we did not riot and loot. I don’t necessarily agree with you that, “…they have grown up in the kind of neighbourhoods that would have you and I sitting in the corner crying and peeing out little panties.
I am not trying to claim any moral superiority over today’s rioters, because although there were rich and poor in those days too, there wasn’t the inequality that we see today. I do not preach the politics of envy, but since the advent of the Thatcher gov in 1979, we have been subjected to the propaganda as to why the rich deserve to be paid a squillion per hour, and why the poor deserve to be poor. And if only we are prepared to let the rich get on with the process of making money, we will all benefit from “trickle down”. The reality is that the “rich” have always done their best to let the poor pick up the bill.
As an example, Joseph Kennedy was actively encouraging people to buy stock during the Wall St crash, while he was ecretly dumping his own portfolio. More recently we have seen the IMF lend to third world countries which are in crisis, only for the rich who have invested in these countries to claim “first dibs” and swallowing up the entire loans, leaving the impoverished citizens to repasy the IMF long after the money has gone. Today, that version of the three card trick is called a “Bank Bail-out”.
When we gamble and lose, we have to “take it on the chin”. When the rich gamble and lose, the Gov’s provide their own form of “Social Security” especially tailored to the needs of the rich using our money.
If it was purely about poverty, most of the third world would be in a state of permanent flux. THe real issue is inequality, especially when the poor are being told what a force for good the rich (and the bankers) are. Insult to injury? Hmmm…
Top post Harry.
It’s about time this country woke up, we keep making the rich richer & the poor poorer, something will always give eventually..
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