The Olympic Torch 2012

Gotta nother quid Gov?

Yesterday I posted about an 89 year old man, called Aaron who had his barber shop destroyed by the looters.

It would seem that he’s not the only one who’s livelihood has been destroyed.

So if you feel you can donate a smidgeon more please pop over HERE.

Not a pretty sight is it?

Criminal justice system has failed.

Am I the only one that thinks that the criminal justice system has allowed these riots to happen?

In my dim and distant past, sentencing fit the crime.

There were no ASBOs', no “community sentencing”, and no “the poor man has come from a deprived neighbourhood”.

The law was absolute with no excuses.

In the eighties and nineties we saw a gradual change from natural justice to a view that the perpetrators of crime were just victims of their circumstances.  Ie  if you didn’t bother to learn anything at school , and hence were unemployable, then it was for some reason or other, not your fault.

What we saw was a change in the sentencing system that judged that those from sink estates were considered to be victims of an unjust society and had to be protected as it was not their fault that they had transgressed.

What we need to see is a profound sea change in the sentencing of those who transgress the laws of the land. Sentencing that fits the crime.

No more £80 fine for shoplifting. Six months for a first offence, rising to five years for the second.

Burglary, Six months for the first offence, ten years for the second.

let’s have no excuses that the prisons are full. Simple. Build more prisons..

The Feral of Manchester say it all on the clip below

I'll keep looting 'til I get caught'

Rioting fail

Apparently we had rioting in Kent as well last night according to BBC (Spits) South East, thirteen people were arrested.As reported by thisiskent

The first distrubance (Their spelling mistake, not mine) of the night happened yesterday at around 8.30pm in Hope Street, Gillingham, and saw confrontations between youths and the police.

Crews from Kent Fire and Rescue Service were called to a car fire in New Street, Chatham, at 12.56am, followed by another vehicle on fire in the Wickes car park in Maidstone Road at 1.07am and a third car alight in the Chatham Tesco multi-storey car park at Eldon Street at 1.29am.

Almost an hour later, at 2.20am, crews dealt with a small rubbish fire in a shelter on Rainham High Street before tackling a number of bin fires in Gillingham High Street at 2.34am. Officers also dealt with numerous incidents of criminal damage to cars in the area.

Well done Kent Police in tackling the 15,000  15 rioters.

Incidents of vandalism were reported in Chatham, Rainham and Gillingham overnight after a group of around 15 young men, understood to have travelled to the area by train, set several fires across the towns.

Seems that Kent can’t even home grow their own Mob. Shame on you, the underclass, in Kent.

Am I being to harsh on the Scumbags of Kent, or should it be Kentish Scumbags?

Riots spreading

It looks like the rioting is spreading.

A POLICE car has been attacked in Enfield Town amid clashes between rioters and police.

The vehicle in Church Street was pelted with bricks, while police have confirmed that two shops were targeted by gangs of people with hoods and scarves covering their face.

So that’s Tottenham, Wood Green, and now Enfield.

I’m disappointed. Could they not aim higher and decamp to Westminster?

Could it happen here?

Imagine the scene:

The Uk’s people’s movement has finally awoken, Trafalgar square in London is now the country’s Tahrir Square, and the ‘Arab Spring’ has been joined by what is now bracing to become a long ‘European Summer’. As people across the Arab world continue their popular struggle for justice, peace and democracy, The Uk’s disillusioned citizens have finally caught on with full force. Slow at first, hopeful that the Uk’s dire economic conditions would magically correct themselves, the UK street has finally understood that democratic and economic justice and peace will not come from the pulpits of the country’s corrupt political elite. [......] A failed European project, with its borders quickly being reinstated, a collapsing Euro currency, and the examples of Greece, Portugal and Ireland are the reminders to those on the streets of what it is they are fighting to disassociate themselves from, and of the freedoms they are working towards. The economic and political project of the country’s elite has destroyed the economic dreams of whole generations of naïve and apathetic British. [...] A silent revolution has begun in the UK, a nonviolent revolution which seeks democracy through democratic means, justice through just means, and peace through peaceful means has finally captivated the imagination of the British people, and now there is no turning back. Hopefully an articulate steering committee will flourish soon from amongst the crowds, which is capable of making clear and viable demands that grab the imagination of the country and force the political elite to comply."

I would like to think so. However the above paragraph has been adjusted to read “UK” instead of “Spain”.

I personally think that unless our political scum politicians start to listen to the people that matter in this country (You and Me), the scenario above will eventually happen. What happened to the upstanding business men of old who after working to build up a company then decided to enter politics to try and improve the condition of their constituents? All I see now is a political class that has no affinity with how the real world works.

Many thanks to Witterings from Witney