What's the Northern Irish reaction to the rioting in England?

A.L.D.A

get a grip on things !

eamon

Wait until the jail sentences get publicised. That will be the measure of how serious the state views looters. The aftermath of the 2001 Braford riots seen some very long prison terms issued, I wonder.....................

GlynD

eamon wrote: »

Wait until the jail sentences get publicised. That will be the measure of how serious the state views looters. The aftermath of the 2001 Braford riots seen some very long prison terms issued, I wonder.....................

Glad you mentioned the Bradford Riots. Some posters seem to think this sort of thing has never happened on GB soil before.

steveymp

First Londonder in court was a 31 year old, male, school employee :eek: who admitted to looting Ritcher Sounds:o Lets hope the 40" Telly was worth losing his job over. National service or the afore mentioned Glasshouse would sort a lot of the hoodie generation out these days:T

GlynD

steveymp wrote: »

First Londonder in court was a 31 year old, male, school employee :eek: who admitted to looting Ritcher Sounds:o Lets hope the 40" Telly was worth losing his job over. National service or the afore mentioned Glasshouse would sort a lot of the hoodie generation out these days:T

We should have a Labour Corps as National Service and as punishment for crime. We wouldn't want to ruin our fine army by putting these idiots in the uniforms of proud line regiments.

Pretani

police seem to be better at lifting the rioters in England than they do over here. If that happened here in that scale the police would be sitting in their landrovers worrying what type of grilling the policing board would give them if they arrest someone.....keyword "heavy-handed"

adouglasmhor

GlynD wrote: »

We should have a Labour Corps as National Service and as punishment for crime. We wouldn't want to ruin our fine army by putting these idiots in the uniforms of proud line regiments.

Don't know though, most of them would even be an insult to the MSO Mojos.

GlynD

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Don't know though, most of them would even be an insult to the MSO Mojos.

They certainly would. The Mojos were very proud men.

Golden_Anemone

I agree Pretani - and you have to admire the speed at which they are processing many of those arrested through the magistrates courts. I can't see that happening here either. I understand that sentencing will take longer but the justice system in England does seem much more flexible than ours. I wondered whether the special court sessions were necessitated by the recent ruling on police bail in England. I don't think police bail is much used here with defendants being brought in front of Magistrates for bail hearings instead. Is that the case?

GlynD

Pretani wrote: »

police seem to be better at lifting the rioters in England than they do over here. If that happened here in that scale the police would be sitting in their landrovers worrying what type of grilling the policing board would give them if they arrest someone.....keyword "heavy-handed"

That does seem to be the case. I'm not sure what the criteria is here but the PSNI are certainly more selective in who they lift. Perhaps they only want well dressed prisoners in NI gaols - no scruffy types?